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- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 2 weeks ago:
I agree, but technically it needs to be 2 quarters in a row to be an official recession.
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 2 weeks ago:
If the US tariffs stand, I think the chance of recession during this year already is near 100%.
So my guess is that the financial analysts are betting that there is a good chance like 50% that these tariffs are removed very quickly. And by very quickly I really mean VERY quickly, like in a matter of a couple of weeks.The economy in many places around the world is already shifting away from USA. The obvious boycott by Canada and also in Europe by consumers, is only the surface.
To run a company you want stability, and companies all over the world are already seeking alternatives to USA, just as American companies are already seeking alternatives to imports.
This will stall economic progress, it will create jobs and take away jobs in USA, but the jobs created will be lower wage than the ones that are lost. American production will take over low wage jobs from abroad, and despite the tariffs making competition easier on those jobs, it will not make them high wage jobs.
It will make US trading partners poorer, so they can afford less US imports. And companies are already looking towards ways the highest profit US exports can be replaced. Those are all in services, something not even considered in the moronic US trade deficit calculation. But the area where USA actually has huge surplusses, and at profits often nearing 90%!! Those jobs are at risk now!
All in all it will make both USA and trading partners relatively poorer. But probably USA will be hit the hardest, as the outside world has a more than twice as big trading block than USA has with itself. If that scales linearly, USA will be hit twice as hard by their own tariffs than the rest of the world.
Personally we’ve stopped buying everything American that we can. And as the one who does most of the shopping, I was actually surprised by the amount of American things we used.
On a side note, USA has now forced EU to cooperate with China more on trade, something we held back on for security reasons.
But now that security balance has changed dramatically. USA is no longer a more secure partner than China is.
For instance USA is aligning more with Russia now than even China is!!I don’t see how this will not end with a recession for USA maybe already for 2nd and 3rd quarters, which I guess is the soonest possible actual recession (2 quarters of negative growth).
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 2 weeks ago:
If you consider Democrats left wing then yes, by far the most here are left wing, since by most European standards Democrats are clearly right wing.
Republicans are extreme right by most standards. Republican (MAGA) is basically an American version of AfD!
So by that standard I guess about 80% here is left wing. - Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 2 weeks ago:
I hate that kind of question, as if you are expected to live in the fast lane, and all sorts of things should have happened.
It’s probably not meant that way, but that’s how it feels. I’d probably answer something along the lines of: “Nothing dramatic. how about you?” - Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That you’d have to ask Audi about. I just know they do it.
www.theuth.co/…/11102/ - Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it didn’t have the limiter because it’s not specified to be able to go above anyway?
Congratulations on the upgrade, I haven’t tried it myself, but I’d imagine it was amazing. 😀 - Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t make sense an American standard would use km/h.
Article:
This limit at 250 km/h dates back decades and has origin in Germany.
You:
so vehicles weren’t faster than police vehicles
Article:
They reached a gentlemen’s agreement to electronically limit the maximum speed of its models to 250 km/h.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I find it weird that a rental wasn’t limited to 250 km/h. Which most factories do by default. In fact it should be limited to even lower than that IMO.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s way faster than most cars can drive. Even high end performance cars often have a limiter at 250 km/h.
Here in Denmark, the limit is 130 km/h, If you drive 200 or faster, your car is immediately confiscated, and you lose your drivers license.
Many electric cars are limited to 160 km/h.So in short 300 is about twice what most would consider responsible. The breaking distance is 550 meter or more than half a km, in ideal weather with no slopes, and a response time to push the brakes of only half a second. That’s almost 5 times the breaking distance compared to driving 130 km/h (113 m).
Just in the half second to respond, the car will have moved 42 meters at 300 km/h!! - Comment on Does not having a (mainstream) social media account make you look suspicious to the authorities? Is it a good idea to have an innocent looking social media account just to look "normal"? 3 weeks ago:
it really is just people being xenophobic everywhere isn’t it?
That’s what it looks like to me. Italy too AFAIK.
- Comment on Does not having a (mainstream) social media account make you look suspicious to the authorities? Is it a good idea to have an innocent looking social media account just to look "normal"? 3 weeks ago:
We had a similar party here in Denmark, that became second largest party of the country with 21% in 2015, When the government introduced tough restrictions on immigration, they almost vanished a few years later, only very narrowly managing the 2% minimum requirement to have seats in parlament.
The popularity of the party was highly based on limiting immigration, much like Brexit, Trump, AfD and AFAIK also RN of France.
- Comment on Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway? 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s more about the fraud rate
AFAIK there is less fraud on sex pages than on facebook.
- Comment on Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a Victorianism syndrome,
oxfordreference.com/…/acref-9780195176322-e-1665
Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834—were introduced for the moral reform of paupers
Where morality has nothing to do with actual morality like in whether it is doing harm. But everything to do with government making decisions over your private life and your body.
This mindset is disgusting, immoral and childish. And it so permeate everything about most English speaking countries culture for some reason.
It’s a kind of a thought police, that has no base in actual morality. But in bodily inhibitions and insecurities, supported by superstitions about an old man in the sky who disapprove.So anything having to do with naked skin and sex is a nono. Even if it’s not actually sex but only loosely related to it, like being gay or trans.
If they were really serious about this sex thing, stating to be CIS should be exactly as problematic, and pushing the thought of marriage on children would be extremely immoral, because that too indicates sex. Which has almost become the sole purpose of marriage under the moral standards of Christianity, as it’s the only allowed form of sex.
So in short, the answer to your question could be boiled down to “brainworm”.
There is no logic or moral explanation, that doesn’t boil down to inhibitions, control and religion. - Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 4 weeks ago:
OK I didn’t know that.
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 4 weeks ago:
Many things like shoes could easily be for both men and women, like for instance sneakers.
But with the different size standards, that can’t work.
The result being identical sneakers have a series for women and another for men! Although usually the colors are different. But what if we would rather have a choice of ALL the colors?
It’s not just stupid it’s moronic. - Comment on What does a week of groceries look like to you? 1 month ago:
1 kg of sliced Bacon, 2 dozen eggs, 4x 6 packs of beer.
I prefer a healthy diet with lots of vegetables, so I’ve decided beer is vegetables. - Comment on If any external factor made you create art, would your art be created by that factor? 1 month ago:
Are you really making an argument akin to, since it’s your hands that create art, it’s your hands that are creative, not you??
Can’t you see how the question you pose doesn’t even make sense?Depression is a state of mind, not inspiration for art. Depression is however a filter through which the art may be interpreted. But it’s a t most only part of a way more complex process.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If you are US citizen, you must still pay taxes to USA when you work and live in another country.
IDK if there are other things, but that’s pretty major for some people. - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Id guess renouncing your US citizenship.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 months ago:
You can’t get sufficient vitamin D from eating a normal healthy varied diet.
So if you want to be sure, and don’t live a place where the sun gets above 45° year round, you need to take it as a supplement.
It’s ridiculous to read labels to see if you get enough of all vitamins, minerals, fatty acids and amino acids. That’s insane. - Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 months ago:
It’s mandatory to label sweetened water as not containing Cholesterol or trans fat?
That’s outright moronic. Might as well demand labeling the amount of U35.
It’s moronic to require labeling what’s NOT in it, it ads noise and hides what’s actually in it.
I know American standards are sometimes stupid, but really? - Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 months ago:
It is a maximum. A recommended limit that you should not exceed.
Ah OK that makes better sense.
it’s percent of daily recommendation.
But that’s not the same as a “daily recommendation” which was what GBU_28 wrote, and I responded to.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 months ago:
Not a significant source of saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol…
Those are the ones that are illegal, not protein 0g.
The fat parts are illegal because those are not normal content for that kind of product, trans fats are also regulated, and advertising that something is within regulation is illegal. Because it implies other products are not.
The salt part is probably OK since salt is sometimes added to this type of drink.
It’s funny how some people can’t even spot the problematic parts when pointed out, because they are so used to them.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 months ago:
In reality there is no recommended sugar intake. We can do perfectly well with zero grams of sugar every single day for a whole life, without it causing a single health issue.
So the label remains nonsense. - Comment on Best way to turn off people and get lower tips 2 months ago:
Tips are legalized begging.
Accepting a job where your pay is partially based on tips, effectively makes you a beggar.
Offering a job that is partially based on tips, means you accept begging as part of your business model. - Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 months ago:
The only country I know of, that could have this shitty and misleading label and still be legal is USA, but I don’t know that for a fact.
I think if I saw these labels here in Denmark, I would call the police or health authorities immediately on the spot, which AFAIK are responsible for observation of declaration rules on items meant for consumption.Those labels are not merely mildly infuriating, they are attempts at scamming consumers.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 months ago:
erythritol
Shouldn’t that be on the label if it was in there too? How can you assume it is when it’s not labelled?
IDK what shitty country this is from, but it’s for sure an illegal label here.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 months ago:
This label is what’s called green-washing here, and is illegal unless what they are doing is a signifikant part of the price.
The labeling of what’s NOT in the drink is also under similar regulation, but I don’t recall what it’s called.Whatever country this is from has bullshit regulation.
The thing that is ABSOLUTELY NOT a problem is the Stevia which is clearly labeled!So the “mildly infuriating” part is completely misguided compared to the real problems of that product.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s despicable. I’d be absolutely disgusted by that behavior, and tell him in no uncertain terms.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 months ago:
Stellantis is fucking up so badly, they only have 1 car in top 20 here now!! (Denmark)
It’s really sad, because they now also have Opel, which used to be a brand known for good quality, and I’m still rolling with an 18 year old Opel Vectra that is still going strong, which is from BEFORE it became Stellantis.
We are considering buying an electric instead, and there is NOTHING from Stelantis we are considering, because we have lost trust in them.
There are lots of bad stories with Stellantis cars here, cars breaking down and dealers not honoring warranties!! And extremely expensive repairs.
The only car that is worse is Tesla. With 30% failure rate at the 4 year legally mandated safety check!!