China will not allow that. China is not as stupid as Germany and allows critical companies to be sold to the competitor. As an example, see

https://www.freshfields.com/en/our-thinking/case-studies/mid...

„The logic is clear: innovation is expensive and uncertain, whereas lobbying to keep current products on the road is cheap and reliable…. Following this logic, German firms will keep pushing for carveouts instead of innovating, and catching up will become impossible.“

Nostalgia is not a strategy!

Unlikely. Wars are good for the economy.

WWII devastated all of Europe's economies.

Your much-quoted claim is false.

I was speaking of wars in other countries of course. Not your own, that would be stupid. Only Russians do that.

It is 2026 now. So thats 56 - 36 years from 1970-90. So it is not really a lot earlier than expected.

Because there is no place for nuclear waste in Europe? Especially not on smaller islands like Ireland. Why do Americans hate the idea of cheap renewable energy?

If you really want a good markdown editor better have a look at https://www.zettlr.com/

Which Markdown dialect does it support?

It seem they only support Commonmark: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide...

So no tables, footnotes, table of content, math formulas, citations, …

So the better way to create markdown is still to use pandoc and convert your libre office documents into the much more powerful pandoc markdown dialect:

https://garrettgman.github.io/rmarkdown/authoring_pandoc_mar...

Your job will still exist, but your productivity will be 10-fold. Do you remember the times before we had automated tests, object oriented programming or even before compilers?

Let's bet: Will prediction markets be forbidden at the end of the year?

The leaked memo Anthropic is referring to:

"Anthropic CEO says company was punished for not giving "dictator-style praise" or donations to Trump"

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/anthropic-ceo-say...