alvvayson

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[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

It's mostly the other way around: Americans want products from the rest of the world.

But to answer your question directly: there are products which only the US makes, but more importantly, if American products become cheaper due to a weaker dollar, then people will buy them. That's what Trump is hoping for.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

That's a bit optimistic.

Trump is deliberately choosing chaos as a strategy, but his goal is quite clear.

Biden didn't roll back a lot of Trump's tariffs, so I am assuming these tariffs could easily extend beyond Trump.

Since the US economy will be paying the price on the short term, the situation next year and beyond will be that the US best interest would be to not rollback anything without trade partners offering concessions.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (5 children)

The countries with the lowest tariffs will become connector economies. Whether governments want it or not, there is just too much profit to be made.

This is why Trump is specifically targeting those countries, but then other countries will take their place.

And the end game is, Trump can succeed, but not without a global recession and much higher prices for Americans.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

Correct. Wero is basically iDeal and the main Dutch banks are part of the consortium pushing it.

The Wero consortium prioritized expanding towards the broader European market first.

Transitioning from iDeal to Wero in the Netherlands is a lesser priority.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

I've said it often before.

LLM's are really great for many use cases. Transcribing, translating, summarizing, editing, code generation, etc.

But the marginal difference between the cheap models like DeepSeek and the top-of-the-line is low.

So take transcribing, translating, summarizing and editing. Why would anyone spend top dollar when DeepSeek does it basically free?

The potential market for the state of the art models is very limited and will never recoup the 100s of billions being invested.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

Not if a trade war can destroy it first!

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

https://nos.nl/artikel/2561959-belgische-geneeskundestudent-die-schuldig-is-aan-verkrachting-wordt-geschorst

They changed it though. Now they are saying she wanted him to be ineligible to practice medicine.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 days ago

And an American Republican at that.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 4 days ago (7 children)

It is quite safe. What I heard about this case is that the victim was happy with the outcome.

They met at a party, she was drunk. He said he asked consent, she said he raped her. There was no evidence or allegation of force, just that she couldn't have consented in her drunken state.

He had a clean record.

He got convicted and ordered to pay €3500 and if he commits another crime, then this one will count too.

She was satisfied with the outcome. She especially wanted recognition that it was rape.

I think this is a good outcome. If he ever rapes someone again, he'll be a serial rapist and get the book thrown at him.

And on the flipside, I find it difficult to throw the book at people under the circumstances in these kind of cases.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Another reason to live in a blue state if you can.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 5 days ago

There is nobody more entitled on this planet than the Orange man and his followers.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 5 days ago

People really don't understand how much wealth is being siphoned off the middle class.

Our technology is advanced enough that we can provide everyone on the planet a very comfortable life. Basically a European middle class lifestyle, but with less meat and air travel than the average European has today.

The fact that we don't is because of greed.

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