Yes, but they don’t design or manufacture their own chips.

A full-European solution just doesn’t exist today, but I think an Exynos chip from Samsung is the best compromise.

Licensed from ARM (UK), designed and fabbed by Samsung (South Korea) with equipment from ASML (EU).

We will have to see.

Apple can charge $400 more, but if Samsung doesn’t, then they will lose market share.

And the EU is still one of the worlds three biggest markets.

So I am not really concerned.

And worst case, I switch to a Fairphone, which might not be bleeding edge, but it is still a better phone than my previous gen flagship Samsung or the flagship iPhone that came before it.

I see it as just running 2 years behind.

I agree, source please.

And also $150K is peanuts.

I don’t like Trump, but if any European Company finds it necessary to bribe Trump in order to make profits for their shareholders, then I am not morally opposed.

The American people democratically elected a corrupt official. These are the new rules.

Now Spotify signing Joe Rogan is a bigger slight, but even there, Joe was relatively OK when they signed him.

Edit: you guys are naive and, I would even say, anti-European.

Trump is selling American assets for pennies on the dollar. Saudi-Arabia, Russia and China have no qualms buying in.

For some European businesses, the American market is key to their survival. You can take a principled stance, while Saudi pays the bribe and forever takes over that market

Yes, and they just want to “own the libs”.

They will find excuses to cut funding for the liberal universities.

I hope so 😁

They really should get the domain we.ro

Imagine, you need a payment and just send a link like we.ro/john67

Economic mobility is usually determined by things like IQ, EQ and other marketable skills. So I don’t really know if your proposal is the right way to measure it. But such data would at least give some insight.

In the USA, most research I have seen says they have low economic mobility, because the rich have access to the best schools, etc.

But still, it’s not zero. Both JD Vance and AOC are examples of economic mobility.

One of them still fights (or appears to fight) for the class they came from, the other is successfully recruited to serve the interests of the ruling class.

Were they born in 1908 (and ignoring race and gender for the moment), then probably both of them would have been leaders for the working class.

True, but nowadays most people don’t work in factories.

The modern equivalent would be the cashiers of Walmart and the baristas of Starbucks.

Also, when it comes to Russia, Ukrainian intelligence is top notch due to historical ties.

But TBH, I do think Europe needs to find a way to make peace with Russia and with the Middle-East, specifically Turkey, Egypt and Iran.

They are our direct neighbours. The cold war idea that we could have a powerful friend across an ocean, while having strained relationships with our direct neighbours just isn’t going to be a good strategy going forward.

Correct, but there is a lot of nuance.

Indeed, when things get bad, the public is willing to take risks. When everything is good enough, they don’t revolt.

However, successful revolts do require intelligent and capable leaders.

What the rich have realized, is that if they ensure smart and skilled kids get picked out of the drudgery and get comfortable working for the rich, then the exploited class will not really have anyone to lead them.

Put another way, in 1908, every factory had a few leaders working at the lowest levels. And they are the ones who spearheaded strikes and such.

Nowadays, society is really stratified in terms of skill.

Anyone who grew up poor, but had talent to organize, probably ended up in some kind of middle management or professional job and makes 2x the average.

Convincing these people to have class solidarity is difficult. Only a few of them actually see the bigger. Those tend to become middle or upper management or politicians, making 3-5x the average workers salary. And of those, only a very select few are willing to fight for the common man.

So yeah, the rich engineered a system that they can control. To actually change anything is going to be very difficult.

Lmao, this is obviously a troll.

It’s not even satire, just straight up trolling.

When you use the cover, guess what gets blocked? The cameras.

So no more sentry mode.

This just makes the cybertruck an even more attractive target.

I agree.

Ideally, there are two types of profiles:

Archivalists who have a lot of storage and need pretty good uptime, but no need for high bandwidth. They should be rewarded for archiving, because they don’t really get a lot of upload credit.

Distributors who need low storage, high bandwidth, robust connections when online, but not necessarily high uptime. They just distribute the new and popular stuff.

I think the better private trackers recognize this and have systems in place to provide credit to people who seed rare torrents.

There really need to be financial incentives to get companies to switch to European IT solutions.

If just a few European enterprises would purchase these products, there would be enough funding to make them very competitive.

A hospital is just a building and the organization that owns the building.

The real question is, should hospitals be allowed to force or forbid doctors from providing medical care?

A doctor (Catholic or not) should never, and can never, be forced to perform a medical procedure, including abortions. And they also shouldn’t be forbidden from performing a medical procedure.

Hospitals just provide rooms and equipment so that doctors can provide the care that their patients need, within their ability to provide that care.