Back in my kid days, SMS was too expensive to just text around. If you had a prepaid card, the provider would offer to send one asking for a callback if you ran out of balance. We would use these to communicate, like after school one callback SMS was “yeah I’m coming to hang out” two was “no time today, sorry”.

The upside is that when 3rd party messengers and wifi became a thing, everyone ditched SMS, so the green bubble / blue bubble Apple insanity is a non-starter since nobody uses iMessage anyway. Also no peer pressure to buy iPhones from it.

We also used to send memes to each other by infra port, we would hide the phones in someone’s desk next to each other, one meme transfer took a whole class.

An Ikarus 256 was used as a train replacement bus in normal traffic in Hungary yesterday

That’s just an airline with sensible leadership at that point

No, it wouldn’t be okay. It will still happen.

And money only wins if people follow the rules, or it becomes meaningless.Very rich people fall out off Russian windows or disappear in China.

And “money” as in the “wealth” of someone priced out of the US, is meaningless in every way.

I would guess it’s not windows but gringos those people will start breaking. And even the Mexican rich don’t want an unstable society, so they might just let them.

You should buy more tanks for the police. Or fighter jets, you can bomb murderers from fighter jets, right?

Or just buy a bunch of D9s and demolish the lives of all the people you don’t like like the IDF does.

Being priced out of the life you had before and finding another cheaper place to live is an experience only found in the USA.

Yes, most people don’t have the option to “just move to another cheaper country”, they just become homeless. OP could at least be gracious about it instead of being dismissive.

Complaining about life being unfair is something only people from the USA do.

Not really, but the “they can cry all they want” attitude while OP got priced out of their own country is entitled as fuck.

No, but USAmericans living in Mexico can be deported back to the US, especially if the local voting population “cry all they want” about it.

Like what?

But “Europe” is not increasing military funding, the EU is.

I wonder if the author is alright

You realise Mexicans screaming upwards will result in you getting deported back to the US, right?

Yeah but on the other hand the dumping business model where you sell stuff below cost to kill competition has been a staple of Silicon Valley.

Amd I’d rather the studio earn more money than the publisher in any case.

But that’s my point, if the US went full fascist, it would not stop and think only about its internal politics. Trump’s stated goal is to pull the US out of all its entanglements and responsibilities and turn its full attention towards China and mess with it.

And I don’t think Trump is good for portfolios either. It might be good for the portfolio of Trump and some other people, but even the average Wall Street guy is losing out. See TACO.

While that is true, academic wages are still laughably low in Europe, even compared to wages here.

You can earn more after 5 years in the industry than as a full professor in academia. We should pay academics more.

They probably want a stable and declining US rather than a bunch of fascists crashing the world economy.

It might get the EU to make a law.

This is not just a random petition, it has legal force to compel the EU to officially hear the issue.

I’d say it’s more of a fact that there is no single axis political spectrum, and communists are not “further to the left” from democratic socialists, but just more towards authoritarianism.

These countries have publicly stated that they have a territorial claim on European countries, and have armies that can reasonably assert those claims.