No. The river runs into the ocean anyway, and even if a new source of freshwater were to run into the ocean, the oceans are so massive there wouldn't be any measurable change in salinity. A canal like this probably won't have much flow anyway, as it's meant for shipping and transportation rather than water diversion or irrigation.

The article does note some concerns in terms of additional pollution and disruption of wildlife due to increased traffic and more industry.

The entire EU supply chain is subsidized.

Good that those things are taught in some places. I can only speak from my own experience in high school - we were required to have laptops for school but were never taught how to be safe online.

Some people put their whole lives on the internet and never once stop to think if it's a good idea. Then again, online safety and security are never taught or communicated, at least in the west, maybe by design.

The Silicon Valley thieves are just copying and stealing from over a century of US industrial strategy.

Full disclosure, I'm not a metalhead by any means, and Metallica isn't always considered pure metal, but this one hits just right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQvLsifMZIE

To be fair, it's not hard to beat expectations when the expectation of the western press is "imminent collapse!!!"

Forgejo is foss fork. Gitea, while being free and open source as well for the time being, is run by a for-profit corporation now.

"Forge-yo" difficult to say?

Private property.

Inb4 Deutsche Bahn blames their legions of unforced own goals on ,rUSsiaN hÄcKeRs.

Varoufakis is just one of many people who have come up with fancy new terms for capitalism and imperialism. It's not to say that he doesn't have an important perspective on some things, but coming up with new terms for things defined over a century ago only serves to distract.