Because they can.

I can’t read a single word of german but I’m glad to randomly stumble on a german post.

Makes the fediverse more pluralist.

Stories carry ideas and ideas is what moves humans.

We are not satisfied with what is. As a species, our survival at some point depended on changing the world around us, not just enduring it.

Be it an uplifting story or a cautionary tale, the ideas inside carry meaning and individuals will build a part of their worldview around it.

So, essentially, the guys visited an escort and got the rug pulled under their feet.

Could be worse. A lot, lot, worse.

Celibacy makes no sense.

That’s hilarious!

Turn the volume to max and play this track and watch how every thing in line of sight shakes and vibrates.

I’m getting NFSU2 flashbacks from that picture.

Does it have neons also? Or is it LEDs nowadays? And the pop-up LCD?

I followed the link of a video here on Lemmy just a few minutes ago and it opened in the browser.

Nothing shocking up to this point.

Then I get a prompt from the video saying “Ready to buy products advertised in the video? Log into the official app in order to.”

Direct purchase through the YT app is a novelty for me.

Newpipe all the way.

Practical example.

I know this winery that usually exports nearly 95% of their production to the US. The owner spent a few decades there and made some contacts.

Last year, they had some problem with the american market and were forced to search for other venues.

They dropped their prices, opted to sell to our national market and did pretty much the same revenue they would have done exporting.

Exporting to the US is often the thirst for easy profit. Products that sell here for cents can be sold at a premium in the US, as it is the de facto luxury hungry market. Doesn’t really matter if it good; if is it expensive, it means it’s good.

Portugal mostly exports food goods to the US. I think cork, some clothing and shoes and some other items make up the basket, but in way lower quantities.

I’ve seen cheese and wine that are considered run of the mill here sold for ten times more in the US market. Which I consider theft.

This entire situation gets uglier the deeper we dig.

France and Italy could export to other countries easily or transform their cheap wine into properly aged wines and liqcours, with actual market value and product quality. Downsizing the industry wouldn’t be a bad idea, also.

Germany is already dwindling in their car industry. Could serve as a call to innovation an review of business practices.

I’m not great on economics but the concept of a tariff is that the entity importing something has to pay an extra levy in order to place in a market a given product.

This follows that an american importer of any trade goods of european origin will have to pay an extra thirty cents for each dollar such goods cost.

That extra cost will then be passed along the commercial chain, down to the final client.

So, prices go up for general public.

Meanwhile, nothing is stopping the country of origin of such products to divert their business to other countries, thus maintaining their normal activities.

Am I wrong or this whole thing is disastrous for the USA?

The EU is very strange. Yes, there is a global unifying policy but countries still have a wide autonomy.

Portugal has specific trade and travel agreements with individual countries, outside the wide EU policy. Other countries do this.

In this specific situation, we already know it will be the bloc handling as a whole the issue. Spain has already stated that all commercial tariffs must be addressed to Brussels, as it is part of the common external relations policy. But individual countries can add their twist to end.

Formal addressment.

It is an archaic way to address “officials” in public office, which ends up sounding as a preservation of royal/nobility occupation of positions, regardless living in a democratic regime.

It is argued as being a way to show respect and maintain dignity of institutions.

If want to write a letter to my municipal office, there is a template to be followed which starts with “To his/her Excelency, The President of the Municipality, Mr./Mrs. Dr. XXXXXXX”. This is loosely translated, obvioulsy.

Democracy yet not equality nor accountability.

I don’t give two cents for the american auto brands but spare me the drama: try and make a proper car.

Looking at Ford: try importing a few models from the european line and offer it in the states. Small, economic, somewhat reliable, fuel efficient cars.

Stellantis has a slew of models that could be brought into the american market. They make good cars.

And I’m willing to bet GM as a few models they build and market overseas that would be guaranteed sucesses.

Can we collectively applaud this? Because I think it deserves it.

Yikes! That’s a stopper.

Considering the US penal system, I’d risk many are in for ridiculous things.

The Arch users being so vocal is more of a trope to me. Never fails to make me smile.

Ubuntu started as a great endeavour. They made Linux much more approachable to the less tech inclined user.

It is an achievement to get a distro capable of basically work out of the box that hides the hard/technical stuff under the hood and delivers a working machine, and they did it and popularized Linux in the process.

Unfortunately, they abused the good faith they garnered. The Amazon partnership, their desktop that nobody really enjoyed, the Snap push. These are the ones I was made aware of but I risk there were more issues.

I was a user of Ubuntu for less than six months. Strange as it may sound, after trying SUSE and Debian, when I actively searched for a more friendly distro, I rolled back to Debian exactly because Ubuntu felt awkward.

Ubuntu is still a strong contributor but unless they grow a spine and actually create a product people will want to pay for, with no unpopular or weird options on the direction the OS “must” take, they won’t get much support from the wide user community.

People will allow everything to achieve their 15 minutes of fame.

That’s a sub trope that makes me wonder: why animate a corpse when animating the skeleton alone achieves the same purposes? For visual impact?

And even in magic universes, physics still afects everything. Frost freezes the undead, heat cinzes their flesh, etc.

I like the zombie trope but you really can’t get only the good parts and leave out the bad ones.

If zombies are rotting corpses, every carrion eating insect is going to have a field day. Plus any other predator or even any animal feeling threaned.

Plus the weather. Heat accelerates decomposition. Cold burns tissues. Water logfing from rain would be a nuisance, at least. Too dry, you get mummies.

This is evil and yet I can not censor it.

Do it. Have some fun. Tease Darwin.