I have (idle) hopes that most of the losses will fall on the people that created this mess. I know that’s not what happened in 2008 but one can hope. I’m not into stocks myself so I hope I would be safe when it happens but you never know, I was too young in 2008 to see/feel the full effects of it happening. Maybe I’d be screwed too. But I’d honestly take a few years of things being shitty over the nonsense what’s happening now. I got through covid, I’m sure this would be manageable too, especially since I live in Europe.

I honestly can’t wait for the bubble to pop. There are some very niche use cases where AI can provide actual benefits but overall it’s been such a slopfest. And companies keep trying to force it into everything, even when it makes their product infinitely worse. So damn annoying.

Regardless of the practicality of enforcing this I think it’s a good idea. Most social media is very predatory and do not contribute in any positive way to a child that’s growing up. I’ve seen what especially TikTok does to a young kids brain, it’s almost like it’s reprogrammed to not have any focus and the addictive part of it makes them always want more TikTok.

I guess it might be about time to finally cancel my YouTube premium over this. I already was a bit on the fence after they bumped up the price, this might be the final straw. There’s already plenty of misinformation on the platform as is, no need to let even more proven spreaders on there.

As a Dutch person, I’m very glad we’ve made this decision. After reading about Ireland doing the same I didn’t think we would but I’m glad that we did and also that we’ve decided on this somewhat early instead of waiting to see what the “bigger” countries are doing like we usually do with these things.

I mean, three a night is more than you’d want of course but across an entire country it doesn’t seem that high? Dunno what it was like before this year (I hear the occasional one where I live but nothing too crazy) but I’m not sure how significant of an increase this is compared to last year or the year before.

I wish it was like that here in the Netherlands. Instead we get flights that stay more or less the same price due to heavy subsidies and constant bickering about the trains. They’ve already announced another 10% price hike on trains for the coming year, after already raising it by 5-10% every single year for the past few years. It’s insane. Add to that the extra inconvenience of having to cross borders with mediocre connections and I can understand that people don’t take the train.

I hope they do this in the whole country, we’re already getting bombarded enough with those commercials on TV. Don’t need constant reminders about cheap airline tickets on the street…

I agree but I think half is a low estimate, it feels like almost every single EU country is at the very least center right “liberal” at the moment.

While I partly agree with you, I wouldn’t thank that idiot for it. There’s a good chance that what he’s doing (even if it doesn’t fully impact Europe) will eventually drag us into it as well. If he keeps going after China he will at some point set Europe an ultimatum too: stay friends with us and stop everything you’re doing with China or be our enemy. If we choose the latter it might eventually even lead to some form of war…

Let’s hope that doesn’t happen (and most of the damage is contained within the US itself, for better or worse).

Good thing Trump gives zero fucks about the climate and environment then /s

They claim that the aliens are angels sent by God, pointing to various events in the Bible as clear evidence of their influence.

Lol wait, so the Ancient Aliens people are gonna influence nation wide decisions? Hell yeah, that’ll be fun.

I fully agree with you but I don’t think the orange wankstain is bluffing. I believe that he legitimately thinks he’s doing God’s work and “making America great again” by completely crashing the entire country.

Let’s be real, Israel was gonna do whatever the fuck it wanted anyway. The ceasefire was bullshit and now people are so focused on the orange clowns bullshit that soon there won’t be any Palestinians left.

Well that’s what the US has just done so let’s see if that happens.

I hope China claps back with an even higher percentage. See who folds first: the orange trash bag with a country full of people whining that they can’t get their cheap Shein and Teemu slop anymore or the country that trade in mass volumes with the entire world and can probably easily trade anything bound for the US to other countries instead.

Yes, but any country that counter tariffs the US makes Apple products more expensive while other (non us based) companies don’t have that problem.

I think there’s some things in place but there’s still a lot of reliance on American systems which is a bit risky. If Trump decides to start tariffing anything to do with Visa or Mastercard shit would hit the fan real quick.

Well if he does go through with that then I think the Americans will be way more hurt by it then China will be. China can keep trading with the rest of the world and I think their people are more resilient. If Karen from Missouri can’t get her cheap Teemu and Shein shit she’s gonna blow.

I’m very curious to see if the counter tariffs from China will lead to a complete escalation or if the orange clown will cry about it and back off. I hope it’s the second but I fear the worst, I think a total crash out is in the cards.