Why do you make it sound like showing up for half a day and casting a vote is some ultimate sacrifice. That is the minimum duty of a citizen.

It’s important to recognize an individual can not move a mountain, so it’s important not to get discouraged because you do not see tangible progress nationally. All politics is a grinding trench fight to wait for an opportunity to enact laws.

With that said, the very minimum thing any citizen should do is vote. Vote in local election, vote in federal election, vote in EU election.

Next is attend your local party meeting of your preference. Just showing up and listening shows that there is interest to the politicians. You have opportunity to meet like minded people which is important for networking.

Thank you American voters, who voted for Trump or sat out because the opposition wasn’t “good” enough.

Sincerely,

European resident

Just a wild guess, but he’s trying to have conservative government use this?

Because no self-respecting academia, money-hungry corporation, or nihilistic teenager is going to use Llama spewing out “both sides” garbage.

So there’s still a 10% tariff across the board. It’s not going to kill the economy like the previous tariff, but it will still increase inflation and slow growth. Let’s see what happens.

It’s a niche market, but if someone wants total control, then you get a mainframe even if it costs more and is an inferior service to the cloud providers.

Easier to do when you have a Chinese market as a captive to subsidize your product.

That being said, Chinese tech won’t be better, but they will certainly be cheaper and it will eat into US tech’s marketshare.

Also keep an eye out for RISC-V (open source) architecture. Chinese gov’t is pouring billions a year to get away from x86 and ARM.

Probably start with energy security for EU. I see that as the biggest vulnerability, and the greatest return on public investment.

Wind, solar, nuclear, energy storage, heat pumps, electric vehicles, etc. Anything to reduce import of foreign hydrocarbons that’s vulnerable to supply shock like what we witnessed after Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Might not be a bad idea to collaborate with China, while also not being dependent on them.

Go read what Russians have said about hybrid warfare stretching back 20 years. Anything to destabilize perceived enemies are seen as legitimate.

Apple is cooked. Not only are they going to get decimated in China, but they are going to see demand destruction in the US due to tariffs. And neither Trump nor Xi cares about Apple.

They’ve been spending tens of billions a year in their chip industry.

My Dutch bank hasn’t adpoted it yet. Still on iDEAL, which makes me sad.

All electronics are made in Asia. So there will be no higher prices for consumers in the EU.

US consumers will get hammered with anywhere from 25% to 55% price increase in electronics.

It’s hard to find any electronics that is EU, or for that matter non-Asian. The entire electronic supply chain is in Asia centered around China, so they will have a competitive edge.

https://european-alternatives.eu/

Good thing iDEAL payment system is part of EU payment initiative and has some of the lowest fees you’ll see in the world. Grocery stores for example will refuse Credit Cards from Visa and Mastercard, but they’ll take iDEAL payment in the Netherlands. Netherlands is not the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Payments_Initiative

https://www.ideal.nl/en/ideal-fees

I was on the newly opened Thessaloniki (Greece) subway line and it was autonomous.

And I know Germany won’t be able to resist cheaper gas.

Highly contentious question, but Germany should bring conscription for everyone (including women) with the option of doing volunteer/civil service.

iDEAL has been acquired by WERO which is an EU initiative for pan-European payment system. Wero is being rolled out by banks in France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxemburg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Payments_Initiative