These are the kind of opportunities that the US were masters at exploiting to push its soft power around the globe.

The world order really is changing quickly…

Sure they are, as long as foreign nationals pay their own taxes with them.

Depends. Do Mericuhns pay their taxes in Dollers?

If I can’t pay my taxes with it, it isn’t a real currency.

It’s heartbreaking, really.

The UK is like a kid who just got his face covered in mud by bullies, and goes “aren’t my friends wonderful for playing with me?”.

This is the important part.

The whole world suffered trump’s first term as a sort of scam that many confused, struggling Americans fell for.

But then y’all go and do it a second time? Fuck you.

Canada and the EU should definitely bait trump into escalating tariffs as quickly as possible, and reach agreements to increase trade between themselves.

If trump continues to escalate and retaliate, Mexico and even China need to be included in the agreement.

This will have huge consequences for America, effectively excluding it from worldwide trade, while diluting the impact for the remaining nations.

America has a huge production capacity though, and that’s why escalation needs to happen quickly, not giving it time to ramp up subsidized domestic production.

And chocolate. Lots of chocolate.

Hope you’re well now. * Hugs *

I’m an atheist and this is one of my favourite hobbies! I could usually find a few on Sundays close to vulnerable people hotspots - churches, hospitals - and all it took was a glance at their magazine stand for them to strike up a conversation.

So far, I’ve found they’re ill equipped at proving the existence of a god, let alone their specific brand. Some were actually impressed with a detailed theory of evolution, and may or may not have started to reassess their view of the world.

I really love some good faith arguing in the morning…

Thank you, I wouldn’t have known how to react to the child’s amusing statement without the emojis instructions.

Destroyed cars?

The damage included “deep scratches and punctured tires.”

From the article. A quick polish and a time swap and they’re as good as new.

The damage included “deep scratches and punctured tires.”

Probably about the same as any other car.

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a 2015 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) study found that the Tesla Model S had higher claim frequencies, severities and overall losses than comparable large luxury cars. The higher claim severity was thought to be attributed to the car’s battery replacement cost — a whopping $16,000.

So teslas insurance has always been more expensive, and this sure isn’t going to help.

Cybertrucks sure, fair game. Brand new Teslas, same. But I’m sure there’s decent folk that can’t sell their older Teslas today without taking a big loss…

If the EU comes out stronger, it will probably backfire big time.

Especially in a scenario where America survives trump and a new president then works to re-establish EU-US links, the block would have gotten much stronger as a whole.

Since when did travel to the US become worse than to Russia? This is shocking…

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As a software house, running our own infrastructure would be a nightmare in so many ways… Just thinking of all the hardware that needs to be deployed, and how many sites worldwide we’d need just to provide the same level of service we have now, and then being able to scale up massively during peak time but have all that capacity go to waste during low season, then dedicated teams on all sites to handle emergencies 24/7, the massive loses of revenue anytime the services are down…

“Just in-house it” is definitely not the answer, there’s a reason AWS makes so much money.

Thanks for the straight answer, brother.

Brother. I work in a company with 10k workers. The company loses thousands of dollars per second of downtime, if it’s something that affects the availability of the main page or the checkout process.

If that happens during the peak season, it could be hundreds of thousands per second.

With those kinds of stakes, you don’t just jerry rig your hosting, and very frequently, you don’t take your chances with in-housing.

You put it in one of the big 3, because they don’t fail, and if they do fail you, you sue their ass.

This is surprisingly myopic from someone who supposedly works in the field.

Where do your full stack applications run, my friend?

Because unless you’re in China or Russia, the answer is either AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

Nobody is looking to reinvent the wheel. The call is for the EU to invest heavily in infrastructure, like building its own chips, creating its own data centres, and yes, developing its software industry to provide alternatives to all the proprietary/closed stuff.