<story><title>How Bad Europe’s Energy Crisis Is</title><url>https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/08/26/europe-energy-crisis-natural-gas-economy-winter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Maybe it&amp;#x27;s because I&amp;#x27;m not American, but having someone talking about how much worse it is in Europe compared to the US while saying things like what I quote below, doesn&amp;#x27;t really entice me to continue watching the video much further, no matter how much I agree that Europe is fucked at the moment.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; (31:36) You guys wanna see what the Chinese and the Europeans are bitching about, &amp;#x27;cause this is so much fun. (all laughing) Europe&amp;#x27;s already in recession.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We are looking at an energy induced depression that is affecting multiple continents probably already, but not here. This is a good problem.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This gives us a competitive advantage in everything.&lt;p&gt;Is it generally considered funny and&amp;#x2F;or OK to shit on others misfortune while laughing about it? Bragging about how much better it is for you that others feel pain about something?</text></item><item><author>jmoak3</author><text>Someone else posted this a few weeks ago, but it truly blew my mind.&lt;p&gt;Watch a few minutes of this, starting from the given timestamp:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;Wi_nFz1CJSI?t=1746&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;Wi_nFz1CJSI?t=1746&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Europe is in more trouble than I imagined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmoak3</author><text>&amp;gt;Is it generally considered funny and&amp;#x2F;or OK to shit on others misfortune while laughing about it? Bragging about how much better it is for you that others feel pain about something?&lt;p&gt;The video is from a talk at an Iowan Pork Producer Industry event, not an academic presentation. His audience (the Iowan Pork Industry) was likely very happy to hear this news, given that it is bad for their competitors.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Maybe it&amp;#x27;s because I&amp;#x27;m not American&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t extrapolate Iowan pig farmers to all United States citizens.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Bad Europe’s Energy Crisis Is</title><url>https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/08/26/europe-energy-crisis-natural-gas-economy-winter/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>Maybe it&amp;#x27;s because I&amp;#x27;m not American, but having someone talking about how much worse it is in Europe compared to the US while saying things like what I quote below, doesn&amp;#x27;t really entice me to continue watching the video much further, no matter how much I agree that Europe is fucked at the moment.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; (31:36) You guys wanna see what the Chinese and the Europeans are bitching about, &amp;#x27;cause this is so much fun. (all laughing) Europe&amp;#x27;s already in recession.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We are looking at an energy induced depression that is affecting multiple continents probably already, but not here. This is a good problem.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This gives us a competitive advantage in everything.&lt;p&gt;Is it generally considered funny and&amp;#x2F;or OK to shit on others misfortune while laughing about it? Bragging about how much better it is for you that others feel pain about something?</text></item><item><author>jmoak3</author><text>Someone else posted this a few weeks ago, but it truly blew my mind.&lt;p&gt;Watch a few minutes of this, starting from the given timestamp:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;Wi_nFz1CJSI?t=1746&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;Wi_nFz1CJSI?t=1746&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Europe is in more trouble than I imagined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scottLobster</author><text>Probably catering to his audience.  His books are much more even, and when he&amp;#x27;s gone on podcasts he points out how he&amp;#x27;d like to be wrong about what he sees.  That particular laugh also came off as rather forced.&lt;p&gt;Simple fact is though that America is the big winner in a European energy crisis.  We get to sell Europe all the excess energy we can pump out while simultaneously gaining all the European industry that can leave&amp;#x2F;requires cheap energy.</text></comment>