It doesn’t matter what they offer the EU, it shouldn’t change the move away from MS products. Corporate giants and their influence is what turned America into the fascist hellscape it is right now. We should resist any efforts from those same companies to make nice and maintain their hold over our economy and lifestyles.
Y’know, I’m surprised it took him this long to start directly targeting the Dems with his BS. Step one of removing any opposition: starve them out.
I shudder to think what damage he can do in the 3 and a half years remaining in his term. :/
I had already gotten rid of my account because they were exploiting local taxi drivers pretty horribly in a similar way to delivery apps vs local restaurants.
But now I might be able to convince friends to delete their accounts.
Not exactly what I was looking for, but a much better alternative! And the linked article even mentions Ireland specifically as having legislation for this kind of balcony solar. Thank you!
Last time Trump was elected, the world (particularly America’s allies) said a lot about how awful he was but didn’t do anything to hurt him seriously.
When he won again, knowing he had the Project 2025 folks as part of his new regime, I feared the same would happen. That as he ground down the American people, the rest of the world would talk big but do nothing. Nations the world over have a bad habit of only intervening when you hurt people outside your own borders. So long as he hurt only people inside the US, nobody would want to turn off the US money printer.
But this time he stepped outside US borders, too quickly and too rashly with his tariffs. Nationstates may be slow to act, but the people of those Nations are acting faster. Boycotts, rally around the flag effects, backlash against right leaning groups previously aligned with Trump.
It’s not much, it won’t break the American empire by itself. But it’s more than I expected to happen, so I’m hoping it is just the start.
I think it’s a self-selecting issue. Entrepreneurs who are content to start a business that pays for a comfortable life dont reach out to endless investors. They’ll take loans, not stake in their company. They won’t constantly reach for attention to justify higher valuations, and therefore higher investments. They’re more likely to stay private and not go public for the same reason, which lessens awareness of them outside of direct customers.
Nobody would be talking about Tesla as much if it wasn’t an investment device (and its CEO would likely be a less loudly evil person too). It’d just be a car manufacturer, and the only relevant thing about it would be the quality of its cars and the happiness of its customers. No investors to wonder about “growth potential”.
I don’t wanna risk getting hopeful before the empire and tyrant are properly toppled…but I am feeling more hopeful now than when he was first elected.
Walking through Dublin is so depressing. Our (few) pedestrianised streets see tons of footfall, people enjoying themselves. The other 98% is just car choked streets where people rush as fast as they can to their destination.
We’re an old city, with cramped streets. Bikes would be so much more sensible than trying to squeeze another lane of traffic in at the expense of a walkable, clean, healthy city. But car owners, and car park owners get loud whenever they try.
Yeah, it’s a shame. I have the website set up as a shortcut on my homescreen which works just fine, but it’d be easier if they had a proper Android app.
It does also recommend InteractiveBrokers as an alternative for…Degiro? Not sure what lead to that decision being made.
I don’t know how we’ve been getting record corporate taxes year after year (to say nothing of our income taxes on the higher salaries tech companies pay thousands of Irish employees), and yet:
I maintain that low corporate taxes are, unfortunately, crucial for underdeveloped nations to have any hope of investment coming to their shores. It sucks, but it massively contributed to Ireland crawling out of desperate poverty. And we never did anything sustainable with that good fortune, to say nothing of being too scared of them leaving to not reset the tax rate to something fairer now that we have other benefits for MNCs beyond low taxes (eg: we’re one of the most well educated countries in the world now). If US giants leave Ireland, there’s gonna be a shitton of unemployed people and we don’t have anywhere internally for them to take their expertise.
Edit: None of this, BTW, says the EU shouldn’t smack them hard as a counter. Out government has fucked us with decades of “ah sure it’ll be grand”. No reason the whole EU should be held back just for us.
The EU will be held back in this because those same corps have immense political weight more than anything tbh.