"the material constraints lead us to decide to not to have a new masters program on the environment"

What could possibly be more material than the environment?

It seems that we will get a redo of that. The learning institutions, unfortunately, never learn.

to mean the economic bottom line and ultimately the latter wins out (doelmatigheid).

I remember that in the aftermath of the GFC students complained that the economics courses they took never addressed these issues that led to the crisis, that they didn't engage with the real world. 2/3

The escape pods on this space craft are located in the green area.

Even the Bitcoin rocketship to the moon runs on a monetary engine that is hybrid, whereby the green fuel does the main lifting; Bitcoin is just the distracting electric stuff on the console, essentially dead weight. The sailor knows this...

*wouldn't

After seeing how politicians and other elites outside the US(!) continued simping for Musk in his capacity as DOGE head, I have no hopes that politicians in Western countries would completely allow this technology to be deployed and then be happily extorted...

Of course, the solution is to double down on Exportism...

Remember how HWS was sitting in a talkshow and recommending to Greece to temporarily leave the Euro and/or export tomatoes.

The "innovation" might be merely for Klarna to find a way to circumnavigate the separation between its "investment bank" activities and retail bank activities, a separation that is periodically introduced after big financial crashes and then gets watered down again over time (until the next crash)

Klarna is a boring bank, that wants to juice customers through overdraft fees while at the same time squeezing margins of retailers (who then squeeze their workers and thus supply the customers who use BNPL).

Few seriously asked what big data, web3 or blockchain was, but everyone's business would benefit from it (somehow), it was inevitable, the future. Mindlessly repeating it. Then everybody forgot about it and moved on to the next buzzword.

At least brain-rot and 6-7 haven't incinerated billions.