No, he can’t really go far with his political power he’ll just get entangled into more litigation… He needs to persuade countries to sell US bonds to bring down the value of the dollar in a significant enough way for project 25 to execute. He’s chosen the hard way so why would we satisfy him by doing exactly what he expects of us? Selling bonds isn’t cashing in on them, it’s just transfering the risk to someone else, a bonds market crash would dévalue the value of the dollar at the loss of the EU, china, japan, the UK etc… Let the dollar go on a softer landing (as it’s poised to do anyway, whatever happens on the bond market) let the country get back on tracks then resume activity on the bond market once the dollar has gained back some health. Accept some losses but have the overall financial losses much lighter for EU states and financial institutions on the long term. No need for the EU suffer for stuff done by america to itself.

Why fight with european consumer prices and get people to moan against the EU or their gouvernement about price hikes? Fight with states actively pushing alternative IT services and defense industry from the EU, through advertising, through hybrid commercial war, spread rumors amongst conspiracy nuts, offer tax cuts for venture capital into EU firms. Get closer to friendlies and just turn your back to the US. Don’t engage, don’t fight. Simply ignore all carrots and sticks until the US gets out of that tantrum. Don’t dump US bonds though, make it illegal if need be, dumping bonds is just helping Trump bring down the value of the dollar, that’s a price to pay to put out that bully but it’s a temporary cost that can be recooped when you dump them strategicaly when the US economy will have to get itself out of the economic hole they are digging.

Misinformed. And it’s good on you to recognise it. It happens to all of us.

It’s a reminder that some people spew stuff for political purposes (even if they don’t need to do it with the current US administration, it faceplants by itself 24/7 without any need for faked information) .

Have a great day.

I always find it amusing that we, in the west, have sent our mining, recycling and manufacturing to China and then clutch our pearls to gasp at how huge China’s CO2 output is.

The problem isn’t only China, the problem is us all.

It’s sandboxed as a user app, the goal being that you can plug it’s inputs so the outputs are less talkative to Google’s servers, it will still call home until you remove its network permissions, but then notifications don’t work.

I think he means that Germany is a very recent country and nation (way more than the US) and was built by one of the nations it now encompasses (Prussia) invading the others under Bismarck. Before that, like Italy, what we call Germany was a mixed bag of principalities, kingdoms and free cities. The problem ,once unified, is that they kept advancing with that mindset, even when the area was no longer German compatible but German similar (Alsace, Lorraine, eastern Belgium, western Poland, Austria…) and got kicked back regularly.

A army’s value is its deterrence. Not its capacity to invade the country’s neighbours (or else, the US would have a much smaller one and spend less of its debt money into it, its neighbours being Canada and Mexico). Deterrence is what keeps the peace to pursue diplomatic and commercial actions with other countries, invasive action brings such a load of costs that even the most powerful armies have to abandon those conquests sooner or later.

It’s not fdroid that doesn’t make it easy to insyall apps that are open source but not FOSS, it’s the licence of the non gpl open source softwarebthat usualy bans modifying, building and redistributing the code. It’s not foss, it’s just viewable source.

Because in the main repo of fdroid, the apps code is quickly eyed then packaged by the fdroid team from source (plus a quick virus scan. Google only does reputation check and use virus total (their android anti-virus and anti malware software), yes, the same virus total you can access as an app or webpage.

Can you imagine it! It was the Russian government all along! Who could have known? A strongly worded letter is warranted! And maybe even a relocation of the 2028 regional meeting in st petersburg… WHAT now! Russia is under sanctions? Why? By whom?

The UN: at the forefront of diplomacy.

Not very, a lot less than a regular gps app , but it’s not really made to be on in the background all day long ! I only switch it on whenever I am going places for which the map is incomplete (there is a map showing already scanned areas in the app)

While we’re at it, lets make our non google positioning more precise.

https://f-droid.org/packages/xyz.malkki.neostumbler.fdroid/

The saying remains: European rifles are amazing unless you’re left handed.

I’m a bus driver in Europe, so part of the General public, I don’t make much but I understood that if you don’t pay, you are the product and will pay more than the paid equivalent in another way (by buying shit you don’t need seen on ads). I’m not alone in this, the numbers are climbing.

So the air version of their border guard dancy thing where the challenge is who stomps the loudest wins, while random people around enjoy the ridiculous show while eating pop corn.

Surtout que ça va être un vote à propos des gouvernants plutôt qu’au sujet du budget proprement dit.

Le plus con dans cette histoire c’est que de mémoire, Bayrou, depuis plus de 20 ans faisait une fixette sur le déficit public parfois contre la droite et d’autres fois contre la gauche. À chaque fois il perdait, parce-que: “bon, il a raison mais c’est de la longue échéance, on a le temps de voir venir, allez: Qui veux une prime machin? Une aide aux entreprises bidule?”

Là, on est dans le gras du sujet, à deux doigts de se faire tomber dessus par les détenteurs de dette, et il va à nouveau perdre tout juste avant que le FMI débarque.

Ah mais non! Les serveurs azure et AWS pour les fromages qui puent sont dans des succursales bien séparées des entités américaines! Avec des serveurs sur le sol européen et avec un personnel européen. C’est bon? Y sont content? Ils signent les ch’ti contrats? ( Bon, le CLOUD act s’applique aussi sur ces filiales et serveurs, mais ça, les fromages qui puent ne le comprennent pas).

Bon, les chtites n’enfants! Qui veux des tablettes Surfaces pour l’école?

I’m talking about frequent vandalism of the car that amounts to extra costs to the owner of the car.

My European made T-shirts last about 3 years, thick, solid color, 100% coton (and it’s 100% french sourced, processed and made if you chose the linen ones but you can wash very hot linen yet can’t spin linen at high speed or it shorten) . But they cost a fortune (65€ a pop) and it’s a pain each time I get to buy some (I’m just a bus driver, not a tech mogul) but in the end, I think the cost levels out with cheaper shirts trashed regularly. ( If anyone’s curious: https://www.le-tshirt-propre.fr/ )

I saw that AWS also is pledging something similar.

Let all those responsible for IT in your company know that the CLOUD act, in the US, gives the government a prerogative access no matter where on earth the data is stored as long as the corporation is registered in the US, so European subsidiaries of US corporations do fall under the CLOUD act.

Don’t be surprised if you encounter recurrent tire changes and paint jobs…