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Doing business with the US is just impossible these days. If this trend continues any further the US is gonna end up a piranha state with no allies and no busin
by amarant 3mo ago
Doing business with the US is just impossible these days. If this trend continues any further the US is gonna end up a piranha state with no allies and no business partners.
I'm really not sure what consequences that'll have for the rest of the world, but it looks like we're about to find out
- recursive-call 3mo agopariah: outcast, disliked piranha: carnivorous fish
- Etheryte 3mo agoAlso piranha: Brazilian Portugese slang for hooker.
- roysting 3mo agoAccidental accuracy
- rapidaneurism 3mo agoDo they mob potential Johns?
- rusk 3mo agoSounds right
- mistersquid 3mo ago> piranha: carnivorous fish Nice callout. Neither here nor there, but many (most?) fish are carnivorous.
- coderbants 3mo agoName checks out.
- nicoburns 3mo agoI think the key difference with piranhas is that they eat humans. Most carnivorous fish eat other fish or water-dwelling creatures.
- 21asdffdsa12 3mo agoPesca pescatarian - would be a cuisine made entirely of fish that eat other fish?
- Timon3 3mo agoApparently not piranhas, they seem to be omnivorous!
- IncreasePosts 3mo agoparaná: a state/river in southern Brazil
- amarant 3mo agoParanaueee!
- Lucasoato 3mo agoPearà: very peppery cream from Verona, served best with boiled meat
- bryanrasmussen 3mo agoeverybody loves piranha!
- drstewart 3mo ago[flagged]
- amarant 3mo agoI mean, if you saw the Canadian PMs speech at davos, you'd know "the west" is already distancing itself from the US. This is not a hypothetical, it has begun. It's not like trade deals are ripped up over night, it's gonna take a while to have noticeable effect, but it is happening, and has been happening for over a year.
- drstewart 3mo agoA speech is the definition of a hypothetical. I can show you a million Trump speeches that "show" the opposite. Something tells me you wont take those as gospel for some reason. >It's not like trade deals are ripped up over night Oh really? I thought we're ABOUT to find out what it's like to have no allies or business partners? Weird! >it's gonna take a while to have noticeable effect Ah, the magic "it's happening but I can't prove it, so trust me bro". Meanwhile, I can point you to tangible metrics showing the world is moving away from the EU to China, meaning the EU will have zero trade with anyone else in short order (trust me it's really happening).
- 2muchcoffeeman 3mo agoFalse equivalency. Trump constantly says whatever he wants in plain contradiction to verifiable facts: The strait is open! We win the war! I’m not in the Epstein files!
- drstewart 3mo agoThose may be the facts now, but not forever. It's gonna take a while to have noticeable effect. That doesn't mean what he's saying is not about to come true.
- 2muchcoffeeman 3mo ago
- rusk 3mo agoThe concern is not so much that the US will lose friends moreso that other business partners will become more prominent. The US has a lot of social capital to burn. I’m not certain that somebody hasn’t calculated how much they can get away with…
- coffe2mug 3mo agoSadly nothing will change. - Pretty sure a large number of politicians are using claude, chatGPT etc. - Majority of researchers in EU are dependent of all of US SV companies. There are nothing equivalent. EVen if there is mistral or other open source llms - every damn Uni/company is uploading everything to claude or open AI or gemini. - Majority see these but just move on - 99% of EU politicians either dont care or show apathy or worse live in a moat - Ideally EU could have forced iphone, Google to openup. They did not. - Same with taxation. Ireland fights EU to give tax breaks - Its f*king broken system
- vlian2088 3mo ago[flagged]
- roysting 3mo ago[flagged]
- soco 3mo agoAnd the installed system is, let me guess, the reptilians from their base in the inner Earth?
- roysting 3mo agoWhy would you guess something like that? You seem rather confused and clearly are far more confident than informed. Most Americans don’t even understand basic things like what NATO actually is, let alone Europeans. The peasants have never understood the palace intrigue. Some you’re guessing; want to guess whether you are a peasant? Or do you want to explain how supreme allied command functions and what role it plays in the geopolitical harness over the world? So many clowns, not enough circuses, kid.
- hparadiz 3mo ago[flagged]
- 0xy 3mo agoThe EU will rely on US tech forever because it is literally not possible to create an EU alternative in that business climate. There are no major EU clouds, nor are there any major EU software services and there never will be because the EU is the worst place in the entire world for startups (try starting a company in Germany or France).
- buzer 3mo ago> nor are there any major EU software services and there never will be SAP and Spotify come to my mind first. Some ex-EU services include Skype and Booking.com (latter might still be counted as EU service depending on definition).
- penguin_booze 3mo agoAs long as US dollar remains the reserve currency, others will have to suck up to the US. This is why moving away from the USD is critical. Beyond that, people should pull their investments away from the US. This is difficult, however: US is the market that offers most returns (as to for how long, that remains to be seen), but it takes only a initial dominos falling.