Nice to see that even American media start to report it. So far, it was only Europe reporting on this.

The French have some experience in dealing with absulotist leaders. They might lend you the necessary tools, if you ask nicely.

Does anyone think that Trump would care? If they bombed a kindergarden he would not care if people only thought he was “finally doing something”.

The most dangerous aspect for the Russian economy is probably the low oil price. They are operating with minimal profits at normal times, and low prices like now they have to put money into the business instead of getting profits out of it.

For some time I used Minecraft as a mindnumbing tool. I dug a huge underground structure with stone pickaxes. I had some chests of wood down there to make new pickaxes, chests, and torches, and dug an underground space of several square kilometers, 30ish layers high.

about officers’ stops, arrests and incident responses

Am I the only one who read this as “indecent responses” first?

That might be true. For party games or Animal Crossing, the Switch is still the top choice. For the non-casual gamer, though, it is way to limited.

We will see. The big advantage of the SD is the ginormus library of games that already exist, the advantage of the S2 is that they have the Nintendo exclusive titles that have a good and solid fan base. With the S1, it was a no-brainer, the other consoles were limited in their game selection with a small hand of exclusives, and they were more expensive than the S1. The S2 is not far from the SD in terms of price. So this time, there actually is competition.

I’m at Hetzner für 10-15 years now.

Good. Stay the shitface for people getting fired and social security and medical payments being withheld. May Teslas stock drop to zero.

Why should one trust the US with food safety from the start? Have you ever noticed how much artificial gunk they have on the ingredient lists that are illegal in half of the world, sometimes even in China, of all places?

The key problem for the Switch 2 will be to compete with the Steam Deck. While a good Steam Deck is still a bit pricier, there are a myriad of titles, and the vast majority of them are much cheaper than the 70-90 price point targeted by Nintendo.

Bonus: It might make some companies move to non-US hosters, making their data way safer.

Apart from the point that I’m not an American, I consider the issues you raised as part of “marketablility” – if it is so unsafe that it is illegal here, you can’t bring it on the market. But it also includes issues like American cars simply being to big for European roads (I recently had an issue with a US brand pickup truck driver noticing that the car is too big for the city’s underground car park. As he was in the queue in front of me, it took a while to sort this mess out).

That we Europeans have to stick closer together is something I preach for decades now, If Trumps tantrums finally helps some European politicians to see the light, so be it. And if this leads to taking down American market dominance at the same time, I’m not going to cry a river.

As long as American products are not competitive in international markets, be it because of price, quality, or marketability, there will always be a trade deficit.

Just take cars. The US produces cars basically for the American market only. No other country produces or uses cars like that. But they all produce cars they like, that other countries like, and even Americans like.

American car companies cannot expect to sell goods to other countries that simply have no markets in those countries.

We tariff the ads.

Of that I am not convinced. This will work with a lot of smaller countries that don’t have much of a copyright portfolio, but not with Europe.

Having Non-US platforms would be nice, yes, But leaving the US-based ones without ad revenue and a shit-ton of users would be nice, too.

The corporate sponsors are only needed for elections. No elections, no sponsors…

Amazingly smart for a Republican.