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alvvayson

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  • Trump touts prison in El Salvador for Tesla attackers

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  • People don't realize how fucked Tesla is.

    If protestors burn just 0.1% of Tesla cars on the road every year, then that means insurance companies will need to charge an additional $200-$500 per year to insure a Tesla compared to a similar car of any other brand.

    If they burn 1%, then it's more like $2000 per year in extra insurance costs.

    They will become uninsurable.

  • Americans under 30 are so miserable that the U.S. just fell to a historically low ranking in the world happiness report

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  • You have no idea what they did or did not do.

    You have no idea what they went through in the USA.

    Look, I get you. I come from a family that actively resisted the Nazi occupation with guns, smuggling and at great risk.

    And if it ever came to it, I would stay to fight. That's just my nature.

    But it's not for everyone.

  • Americans under 30 are so miserable that the U.S. just fell to a historically low ranking in the world happiness report

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  • Dude, I understand your frustration.

    But these people just want to be safe and raise their kids without worrying that some neo-nazis are going to harm them or their kids for having the wrong race or creed.

    They aren't necessarily affluent, though not poor either. Just middle-class progressive people that need to have both parents working to afford a house, car, groceries.

    Yes, I am sorry you got f-d by the medical costs. I really wish it were different.

  • Americans under 30 are so miserable that the U.S. just fell to a historically low ranking in the world happiness report

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  • I'm European, and I get miserable reading about the USA.

    It's also quite telling that I see so many American expats here nowadays. It used to be quite rare, usually if you met an American living here they would be either working for an American company, or have a relationship with a local.

    Now, I'm just meeting a lot of super talented and smart Americans who took a major paycut just to not live in the US anymore.

  • Chief of Dutch Central Bank: US influence on payment systems is concerning, working on alternatives for Visa and Mastercard.

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  • I can support this.

    Brazil and Suriname back into the European world.

    🇧🇷🇸🇷

  • Chief of Dutch Central Bank: US influence on payment systems is concerning, working on alternatives for Visa and Mastercard.

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  • Canada shares a land border with Denmark and a maritime border with France.

    I think that is sufficient to include them in any extended EU schemes.

    (To the degree that they want it, of course)

  • What happened to networks like eMule, WinMX, DC++, and so on?

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  • To my knowledge, both eMule and DC++ are still active, but I think private trackers have become the more dominant technology for file sharing.

  • EU to exclude US, UK and Turkey from €150bn rearmament fund

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  • I don't know why the Brexiteers are pumping this narrative again.

    No, I don't for one minute believe that Macron would jeopardize European security just for fishing rights. There is no way that Poland, Germany and the Netherlands would accept that.

    I do believe that the politicians are working on a slightly grander deal that will restore trade between the UK and EU. Such a deal could be defended on both sides against critics as "a necessary compromise to secure Europe".

    And Labour will benefit from the economic growth, which they hope will let them keep a majority next elections.

  • Seven EU countries back Czech plan to fund Radio Free Europe

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  • Of course, I think that's implied.

    The US cut funding, so there will be no offices or personnel in the US to influence anything.

  • Trump and his allies in Congress are targeting the financial, digital and legal machinery that powers the Democratic Party and much of the progressive political world.

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  • Liberal world, not progressive world.

    And TBH, that's what they campaigned on.

    Drain the swamp and all that.

    It really is on their voters that can't distinguish fact from fiction.

  • Trump voter says he doesn't regret choice despite wife's ICE arrest

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  • Fair enough, maybe I was too harsh.

    Thanks for doing the research.

  • Trump voter says he doesn't regret choice despite wife's ICE arrest

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  • Or he just doesn't really love her and maybe he already has his sights set on some new lady.

    I wouldn't even rule out that he or a close family member might have been the one to call ICE.

  • EU to exclude US, UK and Turkey from €150bn rearmament fund

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  • "Unless their home countries sign defense pacts", which I kinda expect the UK and Turkey to sign.

  • New Open-Source Alternative to Google Docs and Notion Is Backed by France and Germany

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  • Really nice, I'm loving it!

    I can't wait until we can have a more independent EU IT landscape.

    Browsing a bit, I see the Netherlands will also contribute in the future. And they also have Visio as an alternative to Zoom/Teams.

  • I see these MFs on a daily basis

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  • I read that Ubuntu is trying to solve this with the Snap Store.

    But to be honest, I'm just not the target demographic for that.

    I honestly think if the EU had continued with rolling out Mandrake and SuSe to public sector employees 20 years ago, Linux would be dominant today. Microsoft lobbied hard to stop it.

    And I think the way forward will be to have a handful of big customers making the switch. Either China or the EU will probably drive this.

    Maybe Huawei might sell MacBook alternatives based on Linux. Or the EU might revisit that old SuSe/Mandrake strategy.

  • can European intelligence substitute the American one?

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  • I agree, except that I wouldn't classify Israel as a top intelligence power.

    Their dependence on the USA is immense.

    For European purposes, Egypt (Suez) and Turkey (both Bosporus and the land link to Asia) are the most important regional allies. Both or very populous and could become a new source of cheaper labour, now that Eastern EU countries are becoming more expensive.

    Iran, Iraq and the Gulf countries are important as long as we can't have Russian and/or American fossil fuels. But even then, Turkey and Egypt are the broker between us and them.

  • TIL LU is not French but part of Mondelez since 2012

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  • What you say isn't false, but totally irrelevant to the point I am making. To the point that it is either naive or purposefully misleading.

    Congratulations for understanding the basics of how mutual funds work.

    But you are not in a position to discuss how the EU can get better in control of our own capital assets.

  • TIL LU is not French but part of Mondelez since 2012

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  • We definitely can compete. But we don't really compete.

    We have always given the US first pickings in exchange for the security umbrella.

    Things like the Plaza and Louvre accords and supporting dollar supremacy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the obvious examples. But there are many, many smaller examples, such as not fully enforcing our tax codes on American multinationals.

    If we would actually compete, we would be significantly richer and more powerful.

    P.s. when comparing major economies, PPP makes more sense, because Americans paying $6 for a beer when we pay €3 doesn't actually make them any richer in any real sense.

    And the EU+UK is about 10% larger than the US.

    China is 39T, EU+UK is 33T, US is 30T.

  • TIL LU is not French but part of Mondelez since 2012

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  • Lol, you are not part of the American institutional investor class. You invest through an American fund.

    Those are not the same thing.

    But even granting you this fantasy, it would still be in Europe's best interest that European retail investors invest through European funds instead of American ones.