Y'know, I'm surprised it took him this long to start directly targeting the Dems with his BS. Step one of removing any opposition: starve them out.

I shudder to think what damage he can do in the 3 and a half years remaining in his term. :/

I do love the sound of billion dollar MNCs crying that the law applies to them.

It doesn't matter what they offer the EU, it shouldn't change the move away from MS products. Corporate giants and their influence is what turned America into the fascist hellscape it is right now. We should resist any efforts from those same companies to make nice and maintain their hold over our economy and lifestyles.

Yeah, because fighting a war on drugs has worked so well for every other country that's tried it.

Why would we buy their energy? To prop up their dying coal/oil industry at the expense of our planet? Even if we did as he asked, to our own great harm, he'd find some other demand to make so long as we're reliant on their military industry and tech stack.

I had already gotten rid of my account because they were exploiting local taxi drivers pretty horribly in a similar way to delivery apps vs local restaurants.

But now I might be able to convince friends to delete their accounts.

Yeah, it's a shame. I have the website set up as a shortcut on my homescreen which works just fine, but it'd be easier if they had a proper Android app.

He really is just the most pathetic person. "Empathy is a weakness." -> "Feel bad for me, people won't buy my cars.".

"I'm a top gamer." -> Dies in the tutorial mission.

"Europe is weak and liberal." -> We should join Schengen and drop all tariffs.

It'd be funny if he wasn't disgustingly wealthy and powerful.

Walking through Dublin is so depressing. Our (few) pedestrianised streets see tons of footfall, people enjoying themselves. The other 98% is just car choked streets where people rush as fast as they can to their destination.

We're an old city, with cramped streets. Bikes would be so much more sensible than trying to squeeze another lane of traffic in at the expense of a walkable, clean, healthy city. But car owners, and car park owners get loud whenever they try.

I think it's a self-selecting issue. Entrepreneurs who are content to start a business that pays for a comfortable life dont reach out to endless investors. They'll take loans, not stake in their company. They won't constantly reach for attention to justify higher valuations, and therefore higher investments. They're more likely to stay private and not go public for the same reason, which lessens awareness of them outside of direct customers.

Nobody would be talking about Tesla as much if it wasn't an investment device (and its CEO would likely be a less loudly evil person too). It'd just be a car manufacturer, and the only relevant thing about it would be the quality of its cars and the happiness of its customers. No investors to wonder about "growth potential".

Yeah, I think having multiple of this type of site or list can't hurt. Different people are going to prefer to get their info in different ways. There's a github list (which the maker needs to move to codeberg :p ) which is my preferred way of identifying replacements - it's easier to handle on mobile.

They're all being run by different people, it's not like work on one distracts from another.

Is Obsidian not free? I haven't used it for a while, but I don't remember paying for it at any point. <_<

Yeah, that's what I thought they worked as. I used to host my files for on my own cloud drive and that had no issues. They do have one off 'support payments' you could get if you wanna support them but not get a subscription.

Not exactly what I was looking for, but a much better alternative! And the linked article even mentions Ireland specifically as having legislation for this kind of balcony solar. Thank you!

I don't wanna risk getting hopeful before the empire and tyrant are properly toppled...but I am feeling more hopeful now than when he was first elected.

Apple, Mac OS, Windows, and Web. Android is coming, but I don't see any timeline anywhere about how long it'll take. I have it working on my phone by turning the web version into a shortcut on my home screen, which is working fine, but a dedicated app would be much appreciated.

It does also recommend InteractiveBrokers as an alternative for...Degiro? Not sure what lead to that decision being made.

I don't know how we've been getting record corporate taxes year after year (to say nothing of our income taxes on the higher salaries tech companies pay thousands of Irish employees), and yet:

• Infrastructure remains shit and underdeveloped
• Inequality of development, amenities, and pay between Dublin and everywhere else gets worse every year.
• We've failed to build a solid bedrock of homegrown companies to replace the fragile reliance on MNC employment and corporate taxes.
• Pension age bomb is still ticking

I maintain that low corporate taxes are, unfortunately, crucial for underdeveloped nations to have any hope of investment coming to their shores. It sucks, but it massively contributed to Ireland crawling out of desperate poverty. And we never did anything sustainable with that good fortune, to say nothing of being too scared of them leaving to not reset the tax rate to something fairer now that we have other benefits for MNCs beyond low taxes (eg: we're one of the most well educated countries in the world now). If US giants leave Ireland, there's gonna be a shitton of unemployed people and we don't have anywhere internally for them to take their expertise.

Edit: None of this, BTW, says the EU shouldn't smack them hard as a counter. Out government has fucked us with decades of "ah sure it'll be grand". No reason the whole EU should be held back just for us.

The EU will be held back in this because those same corps have immense political weight more than anything tbh.