It’s probably part of the seat belt cutting into his leg at high G. I imagine it’s fine when he’s sat in the garage but if he goes through Spoon it’s starts hurting.

I imagine we’ll hear it in post.

Not saying Copenhagen was all in all a bad experience, had loads of good ones too. It’s just that in my limited frame of reference, Copenhagen was my least favorite. But it was still pretty good. I’ve had bad experiences in restaurants everywhere around Europe. But outside of general businesses, I found that I didn’t like the vibe in Copenhagen. Sure, in restaurants people are nice. In venues if any kind things are good. It’s a prosperous country. But in a way I found that just walking around the city it felt rushed, unkind. Even compared to a larger city like Lisbon.

That said, I didn’t really felt at ease in for instance Catania or Rotterdam either.

I’m European and never left the continent. I found Copenhagen (Denmark) to be one of the least inviting places I’ve ever been. That’s not to say Denmark is like this or even that I didn’t have a good time in Copenhagen. It’s just that pretty much everywhere, people seem to be in a hurry.

But my baseline in Europe is that everything is just amazing. People are nice, accomodating, helpful. Especially in the slightly smaller cities. I especially enjoyed Krákow and Gent.

No argument here

I’m not saying I do. But my stocks will skyrocket if people decide AI will be better than Trump. Since people seem to enjoy putting AI in everything.

It was meant to be an attempt at humour.

Oh yeah I lost big the last couple of days, tech stocks. Here’s hoping Trump’s term will be so bad, everyone will be like ‘AI can’t possibly do worse than this, let’s give it a go’. I’ll be rich. But most likely it’ll all be worth nothing. Speculating is fun.

Ya know, since there is pretty much nothing I can do about it anyway, I’ll just see where this shitwave is taking us and hope to the heavens all I know about economics is wrong.

It’s of course a delicate situation. Hungary has announced it’ll leave the ICC in order to receive Bibi. The EU is toothless in this because it cannot touch the sovereignty of Orbán and Hungary. Orbán has misused the EU for his personal gain more than once, like using sibsidies in order to build a barely used monorail line from nowhere to his home town. He’s been using his veto time and time again to appease Russia. For the EU this is like running in a direction while some jackass is pulling the handbrake.

There are two avenues to walk. One is reprimanding Orbán. The effect will be that he will become even more annoying. With far right emerging in Europe, it’ll be a matter of time before Orbán gets his way. Or, the EU could just let Orbán do whatever he wants. Picking their battles in order to win the ones that really matter.

This means that the EU doesn’t really want to convict Netanyahu in the ICC. Putting him on the list was a gesture but upsetting the status quo is not worth it.

The EU is looking further ahead. Detaining Netanyahu will tense up relationships with an already distancing United States. Trump is unpredictable. He already doesn’t like the EU, mostly because he has certain feelings that cannot be explained through fact. Russia is also unpredictable. The last thing Europe needs is to be in between the US and Russia on the same side. The EU also doesn’t want us to be the terrain of a proxy war.

The only way out of this is to arm ourselves to the teeth so that when global superpowers want to fuck with us, we will have them find out.

Do you see that happening? Yeah me neither.

On my server I do most things under a non-root account.

On my Windows machines I really don’t want it to tell me what I can and cannot do. If I break it I’ll fix it.

It’s pretty messed up that these days regular headlines read like The Onion headlines

Lemmy is more like reddit where you post to communities and Mastodon is more like Twitter where you can do microblogging to your followers

It has some gimmicks that I don’t think will stand the test of time, but mostly I think it’ll be like 8 with some tweaks. It’ll be fine, I think.

I don’t think you’re stupid. It’s a valid question.

So, tariffs will only affect the US domestic price of things. Importing stuff from overseas to the US will bump the price by the tariff amount. The goal of this is to stimulate Americans to buy American products. Or rather, deter them from buying something not American.

The Buy From EU movement is essentially the same thing, but rather than doing a deterrent, we will try to encourage Europeans to use European (or just non-US) products or services.

So no, Microsoft will not become more expensive outside the US, they will most likely not pull their services from the EU as they need us just as much as we need them.

The goal of this is to show Trump we don’t really care about him wanting the US to end up in economic isolation, whilst at the same time bolstering EU economics.

But to the be clear: there are exactly 0 winners in tariff based trade wars. You can reason all you want to find some positive examples, like:

• less overseas shipping (meaning less fossil fuels, less pollution),
• stronger domestic economy (because you can no longer import stuff, you’ll have to make it yourself), - or maybe better products (because you’ll still have to compete with overseas products).

But:

• because of the splintering you’ll have more production facilities and stuff still needs to be moved within the economic region
• because of the splintering, companies will have to sell at a higher price to cover cost of lower capital outlay
• because you’d have to reverse engineer stuff to produce it yourself, you’ll make an inferior product at the same, or higher, price.

But mainly: getting the tariffs to work will take a lot of time. It’s essentially a reboot of the system we have been building for a century. But the time the tariffs will have the desired effect, consumers will no longer have the money to even spend on these new domestic products.

It will be like the Great Depression which will be followed by a war. History will inspire our future.

That said I can’t wait to see 2070, sadly I’ll be old and grey by then. If not dead.

I wouldn’t say ‘meh’ because I enjoy the recorded music as well but I saw SYML live in a church last Friday and man, that guy can sing! It was absolutely enchanting.

Am currently playing Black Mesa after having only completed the original in Sven Co-op. It’s nice!

Borderlands?

Yeah saw the first season, didn’t bother with S2 yet

Utrecht, Nederland

I work in data and we are pretty much just a Microsoft implementation factory. That’s gonna be difficult to just swing around.

But besides Microsoft, I’m fine on products. We rarely have stuff from the US.

And now my source of this source opening is me reading a screen capture of some dude on Lemmy