Someone like Rutte should whisper in his ear “Donald, our intelligence people are hearing rumors that they are moving to replace you soon with Vance and Miller. Just know that when that happens, we’ll grant you asylum in Europe.” And lean back and watch as he starts firing every one of his cronies.

A simple blind eye to copyright infringements so that people can use illegal streaming of movies and series will already go a long way.

Seriously Canada, Europe and South America should band together and draw a red line.

First of all, a joint statement calling out the US for all the Nazi shit they’re pulling. Diplomacy does nothing but embolden Trump. Then, economic, political and possibly military consequences for their actions.

Start with export restrictions, trade with eachother but no longer with the US. Retract from intellectual property legislation like Trump retracted from climate agreements. Tax big tech. Send troops to the southern border in Canada and the northern border in Mexico, continue sending extra European troops on Greenland. Restrict travel.

This will piss off the US population and just maybe they will then feel the need to start a civil war. It’s also the only course of action the Trump regime fears. Economic consequences and a show of military strength on all their borders.

As soon as Greenland is occupied by the US military, Canada is essentially surrounded.

Honest? I don’t know if politicians are adamant enough.

However, Trump (bullies in general) only respond to strength and violence.

Rolling over will only embolden them more. Hopefully pointing a few nukes at the US mainland will cause their government to rethink their strategy. But this will only work if we’re willing to execute when push comes to shove.

For some reason Russia causes Trump to roll out the red carpet, when Putin decides to grace Trump with a visit. This when he could easily force them to end the war in a few days. They are suffering terrible losses at the hand of a small country supported by NATO. I think it’s because he perceives Russia as “strong”, but in reality the only edge they have is nuclear power.

So in short - yes, honestly I think Europe should stop trying to be diplomatic and start drawing a red line and seeing that strategy through.

The united states’ government is now so obviously an enemy to Europe that diplomacy is clearly no longer an option.

I think as soon as Europe starts putting their big boy pants on, Canada will join. Because if the US controls both Alaska and Greenland, Canada is next. They will probably already realise that. Hopefully talks are already underway between Canada and European nations. I would be surprised if this isn’t already a scenario they take into account.

Mexico in the south, joined by a few other south American countries could also join in. As soon as the us is facing pressure from 3 sides, bringing the stakes to their physical borders, the tables might turn.

And then there’s like 80% of the us population that could rise up against this. The public opinion is heavily dependent on how close the fight is to their borders.

I believe if Europe starts reaching out NOW to Canada and south america, stop diplomacy with the US, call them out for every Nazi shit they’re pulling, and start economic, political and military pressure, we might avoid escalation.

I really hope they already have this scenario on the back burner.

Trump seems to forget Europe has nuclear missiles as well. It doesn’t take thousands for mutual assured destruction.

Honestly, just ditch Instagram already. And convince your friends and family to do the same. It’s better for your time, your privacy and mental health. The demise of these platforms starts with people like you and me never visiting these places all together.

Because he’s on a power trip and thinks he owns all of Venezuelas resources now.

A more fundamental question: what makes you believe you had a past life? Since when did you have this belief? When did Rafael live?

Coming from windows, Linux mint cinnamon will be very familiar to him. It also runs games well, being based on Ubuntu.

I ran an older Nvidia card an currently a new amd card on Linux mint without problems. I suggest you try it out first using a live install on a USB stick.

I’ve written thousands of lines of untyped python code for a system (still) used daily by hundreds of users, handling time critical as well as financial data. It made the company I worked for millions and it worked. Was it bug free? Nope, bugs would appear in production from time to time, but they were very easy to detect, and very quickly solved, especially because of the fact that python is an interpreted language. In 7 years of working on that application there was only one bug that caused data corruption and required us to reprocess some data that took a day or three. That was the worst thing to happen in the entire lifetime of that codebase. I totally agree that if you structure your code properly, log properly and give your developers the trust and permissions to actually solve stuff in production quickly, you might even get a competitive advantage.

How did you solve the problem that phone IP addresses are essentially all NATted? I was looking into this myself, but the fact that phones don’t have a public IP address stopped me.

LMDE does seem to have keyboard issues though it seems.

I’ve been to Russia (st. Petersburg) where entering a church would cost $10, but for Russians a couple of rubles.

It makes sense from the perspective that locals should be able to afford seeing their own art and architecture. If foreigners can afford it and are willing to pay the asked amount, I sort of understand.

Opinions differ I guess. I thought it was quite good.

What am I, a caveman?

This article makes it sound like Zhang was the victim here. Short story is that he took over a Dutch Tech company, mismanaged it and took its Intellectual property to transfer it to a Chinese company, essentially gutting nexperia. The board of the company and the Dutch Chamber of Commerce intervened. Note that the Dutch government didn’t do this for political reasons, but based on the findings of the Chamber of Commerce, who intervened because of intentional bad management.

Watch a horror movie

That is one side of the coin. But what if he gets into financial trouble later in life, when you’re no longer there, or otherwise able to support him? Addictions, accidents, bad business ownership, legal trouble - there are lots of ways people can inadvertently lose everything they have.

If you’ve never learned how to build stuff up from the ground up, it will be a lot harder to recover.

There are valuable lessons in earning your own house and working for your keep. If everything comes easy it’s going to be a problem when things get tough. You can only hope you set them up well enough that there’s never going to be financial woes.

The nicest people I know are nurses and teachers. Although I think there are genuinely nice people in all professions. I know nice people in HR and IT too.