Its not an excuse, its the whole point. The EU exists to serve the public interest, in Europe, and when foreign companies trade in Europe then they follow europes laws.

And who gives a fuck if Apple are successful or not. Thats Apples concern, its not Europes concern. Europes concern is that foreign monopolists, or duopolists do not use their monopolie to leverage themselves into new markets. And to be clear they 100% have a monopoly. Can Epic create their own iPhone store if Apple chooses not to? No? Then its a monopoly. They have a complete monopoly on Software, Hardware and any other component (I'm not clear what other sort of component there is other than Software, or Hardware, but I'm humoring your wierd argument here out of respect) , on iphones . That isn't controversial, its a simple statement of reality. Unless you think other companies also make iPhones? Which would be an odd claim.

If I were going to trust someone not to leak my ID, it would be Google.

But no.

How is it for folks more atuned to Gnome? Back in the ancient days I used to use KDE but came to find it bloated and a little too expensive on the machines I'd run it on. Nowdays though, I'm finding gnome a little too sparse and it seems like even baseline laptops have caught up, power wise.

The gnarl toothed beast is still lurking around, but its mostly just used for hosting wordpress and throwing together templates and plugins for it. Theres still a bit of use of Laravel, but its paradoxically very much in the "burger flipper" category of least sought after and lowest paid jobs out there. Congrats for those graduating college with a coding qualification, you get to work on nonsense!

Honestly, I wish JS would go the same way. I hate working with the language, and web dev in general.

The replacement for us-east-1 is us-east-2. Amazon has been pushing companies to use it for quite a while. They even have discounted traffic between us-east-1 and us-east-2, it costs exactly the same as traffic within the us-east-1.

Well, you can't be sure. Possibly they're just now being more protective against lawsuits.

You're confusing distant sides of transatlantic politics and confused about what defunfing the police entails.

The police don't need money to buy military surplus toys so they can lob flash band grenades at babies heads. That money is better spent on social programmes to reduce the causes of crime. It's much better value for money. But also that's largely an American thing. London you may have noticed is in Ontario, er I mean the other London. In the UK.

What you said was idiotic and no one owes you anything for being an idiot.

wait a week or two and the details will change completely.

Trump is nothing if not mercurial. His fans will tell you he's playing 11 dimensional chess... I have my doubts, but let's say that's true. The problem is that when it comes to the economy it's not chess. It's more like basketball, and the President is the point guard calling plays, except the play being called keeps changing before the players can execute the last call. It's a tough time to be running a business, you can't plan out more than a couple of weeks.

No. Robots will eventually be excellent for those who remain. Most of us won't be here by then, and this is by design.

It's worse than that, they're intolerant even of mixed Japanese. They had a couple of big repatriation pushes a while back but a lot of those people left again when they found out they were discriminated against.

How about as a non-compromise they go ahead and bring on the EVs but also ban all EU nations from buying Russian gas? Mercedes can then comply with the mandate or fuck off. They don't deserve any special treatment for being diesel cheaters and lazy pricks.

Yeah, and North Korea is a Democracy. Fuck off, Nazi.

so this should be fixed ricky ticky, no?

The Tories slashed spending, and eviscerated investment at a time of record low interest rates, shat on the economy with Brexit, then did it again with Truss then made a bunch of unfunded legislation as their last "fuck you" act in parliament before losing the election. It's going to take decades to fix a mess that was decades in the making. It might not really be fixable. Not all Tory messes are.

Not that Starmer is up to fixing it, but that's another problem entirely. He's still better than Badenoch or Farage. Low praise.

"So because someone happens to be winning life's lottery for the moment, they deserve to be killed..."

They volunteered to die in an experiment in stupidity, no one killed them. Suck billionaire cock if you like but don't expect to be rewarded.