It’s the EU making the purchase though. Voting with its wallet so to speak. Nobody forces anyone to do anything.

Me not buying McDonald’s is not a distortion of the free market either, just a healthy dietary and monetary decision.

Good workplaces are like the after-school extracurricular classes, you go because you’re interested, it’s fun to problem-solve with people.

I have to be regularly told to go home at the end of the day.

The EU does not oversee education, it’s usually a member state or even lower level responsibility.

Nah, cookie banners are a malicious compliance tactic adopted by the advertising industry after they got told they can’t surveil the whole of the internet without consent.

The bureaucrats are actually hard at work to get rid of cookie banners in the very near future, making it obligatory to follow an in browser setting. You click decline once on install, and that’s it is the plan.

That’s when you kill them with magnets /s

Nah, these aren’t assassinations, just plain domestic murders.

Yeah that shit is more common than people think.

A big part of the business of cloud providers is that most orgs have no idea how to do shit. Their enterprise consultants are also wildly variable in competence.

There was also a large amount of useless bullshit that I needed to cut down since being hired at my current spot, but the amount of containers is actually warranted. We do have that traffic, which is both happy and sad, since while business is booming, I have to deal with this.

I know using work as an example is cheating, but around 1400-1500 to 5000-6000 depending on load throughout the day.

At home it’s 12.

I mean if they are going to be doing model collapse, might as well go full throttle

Nixon fucked the world through the dollar.

In short, the world is paying the US to fuck around, since Bretton Woods replaced gold with the the USD, meaning that the US gets unlimited money while they get to spread their inflationary pressure around the world.

Charles de Gaulle, president of France at the time wasn’t as stupid as most world leaders, and ended up preserving at least some semblance of fiscal independence by smuggling the French gold back from the US.

The people who would be okay with this already don’t own computers, they go with a phone.

EU is closer than NATO.

NATO says that if someone gets attacked, everyone else responds in a way they think is appropriate.

EU says that if someone gets attacked, everyone goes all out without consideration.

Thanks, it is, in fact.

I haven’t really read into this because the whole thing is so insane that if it happens all bets are off.

The thing that is a huge wildcard is how Denmark and the rest of the EU react.

In the sense that the EU is an obligatory military alliance closer than even NATO, so in essence if Denmark considers itself at war, so is France and her nuclear submarine fleet.

There are options. Dumping US bonds would collapse the US, and the only thing that makes it hard is the US economy collapsing would be a bad thing for the EU right now.

Also, protracted resistance. Greenland is harsh territory, and Nordic weekend soldiers regularly beat US marines in exercises in cold weather warfare.

The USSR lost half a million in Afghanistan, 50k to fighting, 450k to the environment. And they didn’t need to resupply via the Atlantic.

Also, the Nordics probs have the world’s best submarine interdiction fleet, and most of the Cold War era US anti-sub stuff is actually reliant on Greenland, Iceland and the UK cooperating.

Nordic subs regularly score hits on US carriers in exercises.

Which one do you miss?

Not really. If the USD loses value, your neighbour will sell their goods to me for EUR because it will be worth more.

It will be like everyone in the US got a pay cut. It’s a demand side effect, not like a tariff, and it’s uniform, not like a tariff.

It’s inflation after all.

This would make all goods more expensive, as it would directly devalue the USD. It wouldn’t make people buy local, it would just make them buy less.

It’s not what a tariff does, because that only applies to foreign imports.

Not cancelling, selling.

A dollar bill is debt that the govt owes to you. A bond is similar, just a bit different.

The US will still owe, just to different entities, but its figurative credit score will plummet at the same time it’s in a debt spiral.

But let’s make it simpler. Most of the world’s USD is not in the US, but in cash reserves abroad. They hold it like gold.

What happens if the big players sell? It’s already happening a bit, look at EURUSD and gold prices.

An IBCM is hard to hide. And they don’t need to.

And also hurt rich people with bunkers as well.