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Ironically, planes are one of the biggest export from the EU to the US. Maybe you've heard of AirBus. They make bigger planes than 747s too.

You seem to underestimate how many companies and government organizations rely on American hyperscalers

No. That's the point. Those are exactly the institutions you want to target. We want them to switch away from American companies.

Yes, which is why he's been told to make Canada and Greenland US territories.

There's no reason for the world to put reciprocal tariffs in place that are actually reciprocal? The US President started this.

To get a sense of scale on how important US imports are to the EU. Total imports to the EU were $6.5T in 2024. The US was (as you said) about $300B. It's 18% of US Exports. It's 4.5% of EU imports. Significant, but trimming it down is probably fine.

What we do import from the US is fossil fuels. Oil & gas, and processed variants of that make up around ⅓ of all US exports to the EU. The short term need for US O&G went up with Russia invading Ukraine, and the has made the US supply more important. Thing is, that's looking temporary. We're also regearing to need far less of it. EV sales continue to rise (except Tesla's). Renewable electricity generation gets bigger every year. In 2024 the EU spent 16% less on energy imports than 2023.

The US's leverage over the EU is not economic. Sadly, right now it's military. The EU doesn't want to piss Trump off because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. We'd like the US to stand resolutely beside us in the defence against Russian aggression. Unfortunately Trump sees Putin as a role model, not an enemy and can't bring himself to act against him.

Also, I appreciate that every picture I see of Trump, even on official news sources, is an unflattering one.

Err... that's Ursula von der Leyen

How can they sell your details if you don't register for an account?

I'd personally much rather sync was done with no account. More like synching where clients connect directly to each other with a QR code (or cut&paste code)

I'll tag people when they've got into big arguments about something I find important. I might agree or disagree, but I'll tag them with whatever it was they felt strongly about.

I find it interesting to see if I caught them on a good or a bad day. Do I always dis/agree with them on all topics, or was it just that one? Did I judge them unfairly?

For example I have one person labelled "Too Angry". I can't remember what they were angry about that first time, but it's amazing how often they're still angry when I see them.

Now tagged "Definitely has ten toes".

Air and wind are inexpensive insofar as they have a low LCOE, but are intermittent, so require being coupled with energy storage, and that is not inexpensive.

First, AIR and wind?

Second, yes they are intermittent but that's not an argument in favour of nuclear. Pairing intermittent sources and sources that need to run at full power 24/7 to be economic isn't a good match.

This is the key question. Eventually reactors wear out and need substantial refitting to live longer, and you're then working on a highly irradiated structure.

The UK hit this point with a number of reactors. Even though they had licenses to continue, reality struck and they had to be decommissioned. Of course, the reason for the extension of service was because no replacement plan was in effect. End result is the UK nuclear generation is slowly dying.

..and that chart is missing 9 years. It's now 5.9GWe.

Yes there's lots of ceremonial aspects to parliament and if they wanted to include more maori tradition into it, I'd be all in favour.

This is akin to randomly bellowing out the national anthem in the middle of a voting session but with more bite. I'd expect somebody doing that to be sanctioned too.