Who would have thought medieval thinking and isolationist policy would hurt trade?

I wish China would just allow Taiwan and Hong Kong to have their independence , free the ughuirs and then just focus on being an economic powerhouse and they could be a very solid world power to replace the void the US is leaving behind.

Generally China is not expansionist and imperialist, except for these scenarios so they would be a good friend. I’m not totally opposed to their government style as long as it’s executed fairly, but needs to be a bit more civilian empowerment.

Given where China was and where they are now, they are doing fantastic and better than they could have ever imagined.

Don’t do it UK, stand up to the bully , don’t capitulate.

The right-wing tactic of dismantling a program or getting a discount by offering lump sum cash up front, instead of better value in programs and services.

They prey on desperate, uneducated people who see the money in front of them.

AI is wrong so often this is extremely scary.

They can also do evil things and “blame” it on AI.

The mask is off now.

Do it! Canada will come play too.

We just call it bullying.

JD Vance is posting on Lemmy early today 😂

I believe this is how we can cripple the US.

I just switched my services over and there are some great alternatives, we have just been pre-programmed to use the American default brands.

Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon all easy to replace.

The only challenging one so far is YouTube, content is just lacking elsewhere, but atleast with adblockers YouTube isn’t getting my money.

Yet none to Russia, curious?

An explanation implies some thought was put in to these tariffs, but instead it was just based on Trump’s emotions that day.

Hopefully once Trump crashes economy we will see some bankruptcies and markets flooded with commercial GPUs as AI companies go under.

And people wonder why there are vigilantes.

Unlawful arrests lead to people fighting back, and officers getting hurt. Not a good direction to be going.

So much for the commonwealth standing strong, thats what bullies do though, try and break the weak one by one.

This was such a favorable deal for Russia thst if they did infact want peace it would have been an easy decision.

But they want to conquer Europe, so this doesn’t work.

Well this is terrifying.

They are on high alert for Pete Hesgeth message.

This might have the opposite effect he wants, xAI investors no longer have a clean AI investment and are now linked to a failing social media platform.

xAI is already losing bigtime vs other AI companies, this just makes it even less attractive.