Bram Souffreau

@kapingamarangi.bsky.social

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Co-founder Apache.be. From Belgium, living in Manila, Philippines. Kapingamarangi.xyz

Compared to an average human driver over an equal distance, Waymo vehicles had less crashes.
Gross power generation by plant type. Coal is growing since 2010.
Orbân’s playbook has 10 parts, according to John: One: Take over your party and enforce internal party discipline by using political threats and intimidation to stamp out all party dissent. Two: Build your base by appealing to fear and hate, branding immigrants and cultural minorities as dangers to society, and demonizing your opponents as enemies of the people. Three: Use disinformation and lies to justify what you’re doing. Four: Use your election victory to claim a sweeping mandate — especially if you don’t win a majority. Five: Centralize your power by destroying the civil service. Six: Redefine the rule of law as rule by executive decree. Weaponize the state against all democratic opponents. Demonize anyone who doesn’t support the leader as an “enemy of the people.” Seven: Eliminate checks and balances and separation of powers by taking over the legislature, the courts, the media, and civil society. Target opponents with regulatory penalties like tax audits, educational penalties such as denials of accreditation, political penalties like harassment investigations, physical penalties like withdrawing police protection, and criminal penalties like prosecution. Eight: Rely on your oligarchs — hugely wealthy business and financial leaders — to supervise the economy and reward them with special access to state resources, tax cuts, and subsidies. Nine: Ally yourself with other authoritarians like Vladimir Putin and support his effort to undermine European democracies and attack sovereign countries like Ukraine. Ten: Get the public to believe that all this is necessary, and that resistance is futile.
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Basketball court, Balanga Wetland and Nature Park, Philippines.