The supply chain of clothing is very international.

Most European brands have their clothes manufactured in Europe. It does not matter if the specific brand is French, British or Scandinavian etc. They all use the same factories, roughly speaking. Parts of this might involve outsourcing to China and who knows where else the salary is cheap, but generally the sewing is mostly done in EU still.

However. The textiles used for manufacturing almost always come from various parts of Asia depending on the material. For instance, silk and synthetic fabrics are from China, denim/cotton from India, wool from Turkey etc. It’s very difficult to find textile elsewhere in any meaningful quantity. It might be possible to find a few tiny brands doing something local, but overall, Europe is in no way self-sufficient in textiles. An outlier is Italy. Italian fabrics are known for good quality, but they cost more, so it’s mostly used by luxury brands all over Europe.

Unpredictable things happen at that speed.

Forget about braking distance. The reaction time is the difference between life and dying before you even know it.

I know of one example where a motorcyclist killed himself that way. Nobody knows how fast he was going but it’s assumed above 250 km/h, on a regular highway. Down the road is a cross section. A lorry was fully stopped at the crossing and preparing to turn right onto the highway in the same direction as the motorcycle. The lorry driver checked both directions and saw that the road was completely clear as far as the eye could see, hundreds of meters.

A split second later he heard a bump and pulled over to check if he had hit an animal or something. He found a massive hole in the back and the debris from a motorcycle. There was no brake marks or anything indicating that the motorcycle had even attempted to brake or steer around. The theory is that the motorcyclist might have glimpsed at the speedometer or something for long enough that he drove the entire visible distance before being able to even react.

Obviously he was a fault himself, but the point is that at speeds like this, you no longer have any capability to predict what happens next.

If your friend thinks that cool, he might as well play Russian roulette. At least that doesn’t put innocent people in danger.

Dark Water?

Maybe Americans should consider not paying taxes in the first place.

Never mind the money. Think about this: Is the American lifestyle self-sustainable?

No? Why not?

Because they use more than they produce? Yes, and where do those things come from?

Imports? Yes.

Trump litteraly put a stop to the American lifestyle.

!lemmysilver

It’s Nicole, isn’t it?

It would be nice to know if he’s even alive.

Just to suggest something else, I will recommend: A midnight clear (1992)

I would advice you not to read the plot summary, because it’s best if you don’t know in advance.

CS:GO is the best we can do. It’s a EU decision. Can’t change it now.

This was a topic in 2016, where Trump was all over keeping the coal workers in jobs. How many coal workers does actually USA have? Go ahead, look it up. Also look up how many he saved.

When I last did, I found that there were about 40 000 people employed in coal related jobs in USA, and he didn’t save a single one of them. The coal employment decreased during his term and ever since.

Every year, there are more than 3 million people born in USA. All of those will need a job in 18-25 years or so. Every year, 3 million people will be looking for a job. If the unemployment queue is increased by all the 40k coal employees being laid off at once, you would hardly notice it in the statistics.

I also looked up the Finnish companies. They gradually laid off 400 people from 2022 until today based on the decision to stop the coal power plants. It’s completely neligable. They can easily do other jobs. Even in the same industry, just not coal.

The whole talking point is a nothing-burger.

Economic sanctions is one alternative. See North Korea. It doesn’t work very well against Russia because they do have a lot of resources and their population is used to scarcity. This tactic would be more efficient against, say USA, because quite frankly, the western lifestyle is not self-sufficient.

Another alternative is to use Putin’s own “special military operations” where instead of fighting a war front to front, they attack specific targets or throw people out of windows.

This is difficult for Europe to do, because we like to align with each other before doing anything serious. That way, actual democracies are not fit to do this kind of stuff in comparison to a dictatorship, but it’s possible if anyone feels it’s necessary. However it rarely has a positive outcome. It’s like flipping the table and hoping something better comes up.

Overall, all agressive behavior leads to a losing position. Nobody has ever won a war or even a street fight. Both sides lose. The victory goes to those who wins the peace. So that’s what Europe is constantly trying to do by diplomacy.

Even if I dislike spending ressources on military, it might make sense to armour up, just to keep a seat at the table of peace negotiation.

VAT is (almost) the same idea as American sales tax.

The difference is only how it is managed in wholesale, how it is displayed to consumers in retail and obviously the rates. Otherwise it’s the exact same thing.

European stores show the price including the tax, whereas American stores show it without taxes. The VAT rates are generally higher in Europe than the sales tax in states, but this is not the explanation for the car prices.

Cars are more expensive in Europe due to other kinds of taxes. Germany is actually one of the cheaper countries for vehicles, because they don’t have vehicle registration taxes, but they do have an import toll of 10% on cars. The same price increases happens the other way too. A European car will be more expensive in USA than in Europe for the same reasons.

Jeg ved ikke om det er strengt nødvendigt til en opvasker, men det koster ikke alverden at lave et jordspyd, og det kan være nyttigt til flere ting.

Det hjælper også mod stød fra vaskemaskinen som ellers kan have en tendens til at ophobe statisk elektricitet og give rap over nallerne. Her skal man så lige tjekke om der faktisk sidder et stik med jord på maskinen. De leveres desværre ofte uden, men det kan nemt fixes med en adapter, eller man kan skifte proppen helt.

Hvis du på et tidspunkt vil installere en lader til elbil, så er det også nødvendigt med en god jordforbindelse. Nogle biler nægter at lade hvis ikke jordforbindelsen har ekstremt lille modstand.

Endelig kan der være nogle typer elektronik som f.eks. musik udstyr, som laver brumme lyde hvis ikke jorden er i orden.

Alt i alt er det en god investering for din sikkerhed og for dit grej.

It’s almost funny how the right wing in every country is both claiming to make very popular politics while also being the minority against the “elite”, which is supposedly a secret coalition of everyone else.

At the same time they are themselves swindling EU funds to go to secret meetings where they coordinate by the same playbook. They’re using the same words and strategy in all of Europe. It’s always projection.

They’re very loud, but it’s time for the citizens in all of Europe to show them that facism is in fact not popular. I have had it with politely ignoring them - we all need to speak up and call out the bullshit as it happens.

Jeg er enig i at det er en glidebane. Der vil garanteret komme flere krav om særaftaler og ekslusivitet.

Virksomhederne bør sige fra fra starten. Det er da ærgerligt at miste eksport, men de kan meget nemt ende i modvind og boycotts hvis de agerer feltmadrasser for USA.

Two. The last part of centaur is tau-or.

Similarly, “dinosaur” is pronounced dino-sour, and not as dino-saw.

Hard C and noticeable U: Ken-tower.

By temporary and quiet, I think the previous poster means: The reason why there has not been more resistance or assassination attempts is that everone expects Trump to die from uninflicted causes soon enough. It’s not worth sacrificing your own life to see it happen sooner than later.

The entire world is a powder keg where everyone is hoping that the fuse goes out before it explodes. That is why nobody is stopping Trump. This includes the people in GOP who know fully well that they’re on the wrong path. You can tell because they’ve stopped blowing air on the fuse. Except for Vance and Elon. Those idiots want the world to explode.

Waiting it out is still a bad solution, because it will enable more to follow his example.