You could be in the finest school in the world and the phone would still win.

Also, France started doing this a few years ago already and has seen improvement across every metric. Better grades, more socializing, 80% less bullying, less anxious kids. They only downside they found? Parents complaining they were unable to call the kids at any moment.

America was safest under Clinton with budget surpluses to boot.

My wife wanted a switch for her birthday since my son is getting older and wants to spend more time playing games. So we waited on the Switch 2 Direct announcement and it was clearly just a cash grab. Even the hardware demo “game” is a digital purchase. The Chat button only works with a subscription. €90,- for a Mario Kart game and expensive upgrades for games you already own.

So Steamdeck it is, the OLED model is a bit pricey, but i’ve only been hearing good things. And it wil run emulators which is an added boon.

Just hire your own crew, undo their work, send them the bill and the fine.

Starbucks coffee sucking is by design. Because more important than the coffee being any good is the coffee being consistent. But it’s very difficult to make really good coffee consistently with minimum wage chain store staff. So they use dark roasts and automation to make sure a Starbucks frappocino oatmilk shake tastes the same in Amsterdam as it does in New York.

This goes for almost any chain store. McDonalds is the same, food is not bad, but not good either. But it’s never awful because it’s always the same.

Long long time ago someone wrote on Reddit that the best post-apocalyptic place to stay would just be a small town. With a dentist, a doctor, farmers and builders. Where everybody knows each other. The interdependence of skill and need for cooperation would keep the peace.

None of the countries is going to back down. Because the all know the minute they do, the more shit Trump is going to pull. At this point it’s basically extortion.

English is too engrained. Even if the US falls down to some impoverished dictatorship. English will remain. The cost of switching now is just too great.

Wait, isn’t this just extortion? Smashing in a shop’s windows and telling the owner if he wants to put in new ones he needs to pay the guy with the bat first.

The cybertruck doesn’t pass a multitude of safety regulations. And is therefore not street legal in the EU. But there are ways around that by directly importing it from the US. The Dodge Ram is not street legal in the EU either but has been making use of an importing loophole to get on the streets.

Tesla stock was enormously overpriced anyway. The product is not that good or worth that much. In the very beginning there was a lot of disrupting the incumbents. For better or worse. Now it’s all worse.

Zelensky has the most to lose. And even he is not doing anything that could be construed as “ass kissing”.

So it’s a total fabrication, which is not odd coming from a guy who ordered a 4 mile military parade to celebrate his birthday.

They literally can’t. The US has only 1(!) rare earth refinery for instance. And only 3 copper smelters. China isn’t just cheaper, and that advantage is going away as well anyway, but it also developed enormous amounts of capabilities and expertise in the last 20 years that no once can match.

And even if that’s the goal, slapping giant tariffs across the board is not going to help. Some of these industries take years if not decades to develop, specifically educated staff and billions of dollars worth of investments.

Not anymore, but at the time it came out it was.

That’s why I think your being naïve. Backed by science, sure. But the link between autism and vaccines was also backed by science. Despite it being false. And who is funding the science? And who is deciding what get’s published? And who is peer reviewing it?

Science is a messy human process. And can be misappropriated by those in power.

That’s probly 1 million job vacancies that regular Americans don’t want to fill. What was the point of this again?

That’s very naïve. Right now even doctors in Texas are letting young women die, knowingly, because they’re not allowed to save them because it’s not a disease but a dead fetus that’s killing them. Which they are not allowed to remove.

To prevent those bad choices infringing on others is why Germany has those rules in place.

“I could make the “bad choice” to play bumper cars on the freeway” Sure, but with your logic the solution to that would be to force everyone to take the bus instead.

I agree with you for the most part. But seeing the current trend of right-wing governments and felons becoming presidents. I’m not sure if I’ll be alive to see that day.

The point is that forcing vaccines is also opening the gates to other things you might not want.

My bleach example was meant to illustrate that a government could decide substance X was safe, even if the science disagrees. And by law you would be forced to get it injected.

I mean the last time we tried tariffs it led to the Great Depression. So I’m going to go with yes.

What’s worse is that even if tariffs went away tomorrow. Even our closest allies are now looking to decouple their economies, which means in time the US will matter less in trade but also the US dollar will lose it’s value.