>the tariffs are half of what the other country is charging
And that figure is questionable. Read "including currency manipulation and trade barriers". This is the same presidency that believes the "EU was made to screw USA over", and accused them, Japan and practically every other major economy of manipulating their own currency to harm US. It's improbable that rate has any basis in reality, but surely a detailed breakdown of how they came to that number will be published.. not.
Exactly. Calculation for actual figures is based on trade deficit, everything else is just a fat lie. "White House officials said its levies were reciprocal to countries, such as China, which it said charge higher tariffs on US goods, impose "non-tariff" barriers to US trade or have otherwise acted in ways the government feels undermine American economic goals" (from BBC)
Non-tariff barrier usually means regulation US exporters don't like, including data protection, EU not wanting to buy junk food from the US, most of which apply to EU companies the same way anyway... There is no point in asking for a reduction of these tariffs, and will probably never happen.
Inheriting a strong economy beating all expectations that was just about to end its fight with inflation and burning it all away in a pump and dump crypto scheme fashion, while doing nothing (or even working to expand) unprecedented wealth inequality. Good luck, going to need it. The world reserve currency status is faltering, and so will the benefits it allowed US economy.
The economy has not been 'strong' since at least 2019.
CPI is a joke that just subs out everything when it gets more expensive. Oh food is only up 3%, let's ignore we were pricing beef and eggs and now we're subbing in chicken and tofu.
Inflation has been borderline runaway from 2019-2024. Just ask anyone who isn't rich.
That's the part where "unprecedented wealth inequality" comes in. By most metrics, 2024 was an excellent year and the US was far ahead other developed countries [0] in growth, labor market, consumer spending, net household wealth, and much more; the fundamentals were solid and no figures could point to a major economic downturn at that point, certainly not in a predictable manner. In 2025 the 90th percentile accounts for over half all consumer spending, the median household hasn't reaped the same benefits high-income, high-spending ones have. There is no indication this will change, and may get worse with the current and proposed policies.
If there is a deficit at all. Looking at the monetary flows it seems most of the deficit outflows where just flowing back into the US through the stock market.
> If American consumers or the American government borrow to consume, what you say is right
Consumer borrowing is paid back, so it does not contribute to inflation. Government just issues more debt to pay off the debt, and that leads to collapse.
> US monetary policy for decades now that the deficit doesn't really matter
AKA kicking the can down the road. The bill will come due.
The US economy was not strong in 2024. Cost of living was literally the most important election issue, and it is what decided the election undoubtedly.
It's partially because elites said 'the economy is great! look at my stocks!' while consumer goods had increased in price by 100% or more in only 4 years.
This is a thing already. "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This helps protect our community.", needless to say it applies to people and not bots, and does nothing to protect the "community". It's only going to get worse until people stop giving money to Google.
This is going to become nearly impossible in Europe, it may already be in some places due to regulations restricting old vehicles due to emissions. ADAS requirements and other laws forcing manufacturers to implement all sorts of restrictions: just as an example, from 2024 on all new vehicles must implement ISA (Intelligent Speed Assist) that limits speed based on GPS and signs recognition. Anecdotal, but many cars built since mid 00s are ticking timebombs due to their endless electronics faults that will cost drivers a massive bill at some point if not multiple times over their lifespan, good luck finding those proprietary boards that have dozens different variants incompatible with each other for one single car model and have not been produced for years or decades. And if most car manufacturers are utterly incompetent at engineering lasting electronics, let's not get into software that they dedicate the least paid and most desperate SwEngs to work on. Coming to an abrupt halt from cruising speed on an highway is a common failure mode I've seen more than once dictated by insane ECUs programming, for example. I'd like to believe miniaturization and just maturity in the industry will make those sort of issues less prevalent for newer cars, but I'm not hopeful about it.
Original title (too long): Microsoft’s Sneaky Forced-Upsell to 365 Users; If You Don’t Need/Want Copilot, Don’t Pay for It
The video explains how Personal/Family 365 users can "downgrade" to a new plan (365 Classic) that has the same conditions as their previous one, minus Copilot, following its addition along with a significant price hike.
Signals intelligence is an interesting topic, doubly so from orbit. The article covers some Cold War hardware, meanwhile today the largest antennas deployed that we know of are from the Orion satellites, with an estimated 100m diameter primary dish, nearly as long as a football field, and its predecessor Magnum with one of approximately 77m, both with a very unique "unfurling" mechanism given their size.
CTRL+F "rust", 24 matches, I had a feeling that would be the case. What does Golang, for the most part, have to do with Rust? I also find the following bit somewhat funny:
>The success of Rust is due in large part to it being easy to adopt piecemeal and playing nice with others.
And as if Rust itself didn't suffer from the same kind of imperfections one can find in Golang. So much for that "nothing new under the sun" back in 2012! But then it starts talking about the "rust shills" boogeyman, and one has to wonder if it's not trying to justify one's choices. (which is fine, anyway) And I agree wholeheartedly to each and every single one of the "lies" listed in the article, that you could very easily rewrite half of which to fit Rust, and the other half requires no changes to apply.
"Piracy Shield" is an unmitigated disaster, a terrible idea everyone knew would be useless and harmful, but Serie A bribes make up for it. The next step has already been announced, going after VPNs. Yeah, you read that right, because of a stupid football league there's attempts undergoing to block commercial VPNs and managers instigating against them without even knowing what they are.
Italy is diving into the Internet dark ages, the past few years have been a disaster after another. Another recent ruling will attempt to limit access to adult-content and unrestricted social media usage only by using the government-mandated, privately-owned identification system (SPID) and sites not complying will be blocked. Europe as a whole is heading in this direction with other things such as ChatControl too.
I love how the largest IT innovation coming from Italy is internet gambling and sports betting. It's a lost case, let the payday loan predators and mafia rule their digital infrastructure as an anti example for everyone else.
>let the payday loan predators and mafia rule their digital infrastructure as an anti example for everyone else
Why would you assume it would be an anti-example for everyone else? If other see this works in Italy with no backlash what's gonna stop them implementing it in other places?
Italy might be indeed the pilot project in implementing the vision of Idiocracy. Looking at popularity of lotteries and sport betting in other countries like e.g. Spain or Poland, I'm not joking at all.
And that figure is questionable. Read "including currency manipulation and trade barriers". This is the same presidency that believes the "EU was made to screw USA over", and accused them, Japan and practically every other major economy of manipulating their own currency to harm US. It's improbable that rate has any basis in reality, but surely a detailed breakdown of how they came to that number will be published.. not.