WanderingThoughts

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 points 2 minutes ago

Anybody tried a steam deck with dock? Gaming and casual desktop should be doable with that.

They've got some wicked "Off with their heads" vibe going there.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 15 points 2 hours ago

Where is the tech?

In China.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Not that historica, so far it seems to imitate the 2008 financial crisis crash. But yeah, the financial system almost died then. With Trump, the whole global economic system could very well end in the wood chipper.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 4 hours ago

To be fair, tariffs can be implemented in a clean surgical way or start tiny and slowly ramp up so everybody can adjust and anticipate. Tariffs can be used like a feather to tickle the market. Trump is using the whole chicken coup and throwing them in other people's faces.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, it's always ideology first. No argument or evidence can convince them otherwise.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 points 7 hours ago

What do you mean US? There's a country left after this?

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 6 points 16 hours ago

Nah, the big ones have their generous bailouts already guaranteed by Trump and the small fry doesn't have much influence to stop anything.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 7 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

They'll keep saying it's still a good idea butt just barely executed for years. That's what happened with Brexit in the UK.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 19 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

And they have been trained to hate government, science and experts.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 points 20 hours ago

"When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will"

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 20 points 22 hours ago

A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."

The man below says: "Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees N. latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees W. longitude."

"You must be an engineer," says the balloonist.

"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"

"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost.

"The man below says, "You must be a manager."

"I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

"Well," says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault."

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