14 Apr, 2025
About a month ago, I assumed that I suffered from food poisoning. I failed to understand its rather late timing. About week later, I ate my favourite cashew nuts - again. The next day, my bowel and stomach symptoms reappeared. Last weekend, I enjoyed an Indian lamb curry. The menu claimed it contained cashew nuts but I didn’t notice them (eg, crushed nuts). The next...
11 Feb, 2025
Intro LO: I suppose that the economic & financial crisis in China is much worse than we assume. I’m afraid that China is like an inflating balloon that will eventually burst. Donald Trump might become the needle pricking that balloon. Wall Street Journal: China’s Property Sector Retreats Into State Hands Wall Street Journal (WSJ) subtitle: As China’s housing...
19 Nov, 2024
Late May 2024, I published my Dutch language blog: Is radicalisation a consequence of feeling powerless? Today’s blog is an open rather than a closed question. The trigger for this blog was a discussion with a friend, who lives abroad for at least a decade. I suppose that “detail” is relevant. I have made a diagram that is - ultimately - based on the diagram as used...
30 Jul, 2024
In some European countries (eg, Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland), car speeding fines are much higher for rich people (eg, EUR, NBC). The reason is quite simple: rich people need to feel the legal punishment, like poor people always do. What if societies would extend the of the presumption of innocence principle towards an assumption of guilt??...
6 Mar, 2024
Intro LO: Apple’s decision (to cancel its autonomous electric car project) may well be far more important than it looks like. Probably, it will also imply that Tesla will never be able to deliver on its many (similar) promises. Once that thought sinks in, Tesla’s share price will sink further. Autonomous driving has five (or six) levels (source): Level 0: no Driving...
5 Feb, 2024
Before Covid-19, many articles assumed that the Chinese economy would soon surpass the American economy. Even before Covid-19, I never believed that. Nowadays, many articles assume that China may never become an economic Superpower. As long as the CCCP rules, that new belief is valid. Hence, my blog title: does a Superpower need pragmatism? In my view, ideology will...
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