Trump vows peace in Middle East 'one way or the other'
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US Financial Markets become positive before the truce is announced. Is it a sign of information leaks?
US Financial Markets become positive before the truce is announced. Is it a sign of information leaks? - Lemmy.World
US Financial Markets stop their losses and turn positive [https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/djia?mod=home_markets] before the truce in the conflicy with Iran is announced. The gain might seem small, but it is an average, it is interesting to note that at the same time shares of oil companies, like ExxonMobil [https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/xom?mod=search_symbol] stopped their progress and turned into red. Are, those, signs of some information leaking out from government sources before the official announcement?
How much money did the US waste in Reagan's Space Wars?
How much money did the US waste in Reagan's Space Wars? - Lemmy.World
Apologies to the supporters of Trump’s Golden Dome [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_system)], but the parallel with the old Star Wars [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative] of the Reagan’s era is hilariously strong, almost a perfect match. In some news I even saw exactly the same rhetoric. It is full of journalists claiming that it will trigger an arms race and lead to the militarisation of space, looks like nothing changed since then. The Wikipedia page I linked about the Star Wars is quite optimistic. It emphasises the benefits obtained by the research it funded, but I am a bit sceptical, I suspect that those benefit are a bit overstated in comparison to the costs. One thing that I note is that the government could shoulder the costs because it was not so indebted as it is today. So, since it seems that they are going long the same way I wonder if it is known exactly how much money they wasted back then.
Trump tariffs: is a retaliation against payment systems feasible?
Trump tariffs: is a retaliation against payment systems feasible? - Lemmy.World
After long debates [https://www.dw.com/en/eu-response-to-trumps-tariffs-a-delicate-balancing-act/a-72166642] the EU is deciding a very weak response [https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/04/09/eu-proposes-25-tariffs-on-us-goods-excludes-bourbon-to-protect-wine-exports/] to Trump’s tariff. Which show that the union is still behaving like a US colony. The obvious is that the actions still overlook the core of US exports and the base of their wealth, digital services. The most widespread money bleeding comes from the payment systems. Visa, Mastercard, Google pay, Apple pay and so on. They get a cut on the majority of financial transactions happening in Europe. It is like a Tobin tax that pays private corporations. Is it technically feasible to target those systems with any political action as a response to the tariffs levied by the US? Actually the same question applies to all the other countries targeted by the US where those payment systems are as much widespread, how much should the US be worried about such a possibility?
Is Trump planning the partition of Ukraine?
Is Trump planning the partition of Ukraine? - Lemmy.World
Suddenly after Trump took office he started talking about brokering a peace deal in Ukraine that would imply territorial concessions to Russia. On this line he also bypassed Zelensky and held direct talks with Putin [https://www.dw.com/en/trump-says-putin-agreed-to-ukraine-war-talks-immediately/a-71588707]. It is not clear what is in the peace plan, but it emerged several times that he asked Ukraine to sell off their mineral resources [https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-zelenskyy-plans-to-meet-trump-officials-in-germany/a-71573011]. So, in the end, part of the Ukrainian territories would go to Russia and the mineral resources of the rest would go to the US. Isn’t that a blatant partition?
Wikipedia rewrites the history of the Myanmar coup
Wikipedia rewrites the history of the Myanmar coup - Lemmy.World
In the November 2020 elections in Myanmar, the NLD, the party Aung San Suu Kyi belongs to, won 396 out of 476 seats in parliament. After the elction huge mass protests broke out. Millions of people took to the streets contesting the election results. The government tried to quell the protests, but was unable. After some time the military staged a coup and took control of the government. After that the only change was that the repression of the protests became a lot more violent. Here is how Wikipedia rewrites [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Myanmar_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat] that history.
Is the mere ability to support life enough to think that life might have existed on Mars or other objects?
Is the mere ability to support life enough to think that life might have existed on Mars or other objects? - Lemmy.World
An often repeated statement about any extraterrestrial object is: “if it has liquid water it might suport life”. On this assumption a lot of space probes, robots and rovers include the sensors and the instruments the search for traces of past life. This has and had high prioprity in many missions to Mars and it will have high priority also in future missions to the satellites of Jupiter. Now the thought came to my mind that the ability to support life might not be enough. Life on Earth exists in the most inhospitable places, even in lakes that formed below the polar caps. But the theory is that life evolved in the primordial soup, which was a very favourable environment, only later it spread to inhospitable environments. To repeat myself, what I am saying is that the ability to support life and the ability to support the birth of life might be two different things. How much different is the question. If the answer is that the difference is strong and life needs a cosy environment in order to arise the assumption it had liquid water therefore it might have had life is moot. So, how strong is the difference? Is just some liquid water in unknown conditions enough to let life arise, even if it might support existing life?