What about search engines? These provide links as well.

And what about this link from OP, should Lemmy world have to pay for OP posting a link to this news article.

Could you imagine if a telephone book had to pay you or your business to list your business phone number.

Just a FYI, Canadian news agencies wanted social platforms like Facebook to pay for linking to their news articles.

The argument from Canadian news agencies was that by social platforms sharing links on their social platforms, social platforms were directly increasing their sites user traffic and benefiting with increased ad revenue. News agencies argued this decreased their own ad revenue by decrease site traffic.

Most people know a link directs a individual to the original site of the content. Since Facebook and other social sites did not want to pay a link fee they simply had chosen to remove links to Canadian news sites (as requested)

By removing links to these sites on social platforms like Facebook, news agencies decreased their surface area of exposure. Thus news agencies decreased the amount of individuals being directed to their site and news articles.

Simply put, Canadian news agencies wanted their cake and eat it too.

Now search engine like Google search for example were exempt from this mandate because they only link to the article or external site. The irony in this is real.

Obviously sites like Facebook “condensing a news article automatically” and presenting it on their own site, without a user needing to navigate away from Facebook as a example is a different issue and a valid point.

Though please be aware, generally when a link shows up on Facebook and gets formatted with a picture and a paragraph underneath it. This feature is controlled directly by the external sites integration with Facebook or social platform, and they can choose how much of the link is condensed or shown.

Also please note, some of the “Canadian news agencies” that were lobbying for this to pass are actually USA owned, and masquerading as Canadian.

You just gave a detailed description of my life.

I have some duplicate consoles where they are modded different ways just for the fun of it. Some of these consoles I have never actually played a game on for more then 20min.

Maybe location tracking from Google maps giving a date when the car was driven and where, with a simple excel of distances calculated and tallied up for a given month or two.

If the owner had a photo of the dash with the distance reported a few months earlier start there to see if the report distance matches what the excel table totals up.

Quillpad might be of interest.

It also syncs with nextcloud

We can go faster, get a bike on Mercury!

You can integrate OwnTracks with NextCloud. OwnCloud app sends data to your NextCloud instance and you can see location of friends.

This ones a little more challenging to setup, be aware you need to selfhost with a public address. Or personal VPN to your home with Tailscale or Wireguard.

HomeAssistant, it has a “companion app” for android and ios. Once the app is installed on everyone’s phone you can see real time the device location.

More info on history and path tracking as well.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/location-sharing-and-record-the-track/747789/3

Depending on your selfhosting skills you can either choose to put your homeassistant behind your own website, or you can use the integrated cloud service provided by NabuCasa for a small monthly fee.

Serious question, are these emails going straight to peoples personal inboxes, or through a secure government mailbox? How would you know the email is not spam or phishing if it goes straight to your personal email.

Also, how easy would it be to mass email all politicians and government staff these same emails and see the shit hit the fan?

Yes, technically correct and I am not disputing your points.

But, we all know the cost of the tariff the local importer will need to pay the local government will be passed on to local consumers.

My distinction and argument is if the government said “we will increase taxes on all products at your local grocery store by 145℅” people would flip. But when the wording become we will tariff “other countries” people forget who actually pays that tariff.

Its insane that a tax is also charged on top of the already applied tariff.

Hopefully gamers get together and protest Trump out of office for artificially bumping up the costs of goods.

Tarrifs = Tax

A tax that working people pay, in the country that set the tarriff.

Thanks Trump for adding a 145% “tax” on my electronics. How am I supposed to afford anything now!?

Guess I may as well just go protest instead.

SkyNet is fully operational, operating at 60 teraflops.

How else could MAGA stay connected to the tweets if they could not afford the phone?

They would probably start thinking for themselves, if access to the media did not tell them what to think.

I definitely need to rewatch this movie again.

I feel it’s time for a remake, maybe turn the three sisters precogs into 3 AI computers?

We have reviewed our internal policies and found our employees do not share the same values as us.

Is Tom Cruise going to run the program?

Call it Minority Report

Yes, put it that way i agree it does not sound good.

A company in the EU for example will be forced to lower its volume of exports of goods and raw materials even further to the US as Americans won’t be able to “afford as much”. Especially with an export surcharge fee payed for by American importers.

Though we forget Americans will now be forced to pay more for raw materials imports. This means anything they sell or export will also now be more expensive. If not impossible to manufacture.

Why should we make things affordable for Americans and not our local population?

A export surcharge fee could mean that any EU companies still currently reliant on goods or raw material imports from the US for the time being have time to adjust without a blanket tax being applied.

My argument is that a “blanket tax” on imports affects the “working class” directly with increased prices of goods locally. If countries all unanimously “fire back” with surcharges on exports to the US, it affects the whole American supply chain with a increase in cost of goods.

On top of the Tarrifs the US government is already making its US citizens pay.