keyboardpithecus

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Vietnam turns a blind eye to China's bullying in the face of Trump's Bullying in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] keyboardpithecus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The last three articles linked.

They all refer to the same news,

China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] keyboardpithecus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Western industries like to cry foul. But if they did not do anything since these bans started about 20 years ago it means that they are happy with it.

Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] keyboardpithecus@lemmy.world 93 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I find absurd that many political groups including the Pirate Party moved to Discord. People who that claim to be fighting for the rights of user privacy then invite you to join Discord. Looks like they have been assimilated by big tech.

Trump tariffs: is a retaliation against payment systems feasible? in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] keyboardpithecus@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

When was the last time you used cash?

Yesterday evening when I bought some groceries. I didn't buy anything else since.

Now imagine you must use cash, because Visa, MasterCard, Google Pay, and Apple Pay refuse to work inside of the EU

Giving up suddenly 50% of their revenues? I doubt so.

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Trump tariffs: is a retaliation against payment systems feasible? (lemmy.world)
 

After long debates the EU is deciding a very weak response to Trump's tariff. Which show that the union is still behaving like a US colony.

The obvious is that the actions still overlook the core of US exports and the base of their wealth, digital services. The most widespread money bleeding comes from the payment systems. Visa, Mastercard, Google pay, Apple pay and so on. They get a cut on the majority of financial transactions happening in Europe. It is like a Tobin tax that pays private corporations.

Is it technically feasible to target those systems with any political action as a response to the tariffs levied by the US?

Actually the same question applies to all the other countries targeted by the US where those payment systems are as much widespread, how much should the US be worried about such a possibility?

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Is Trump planning the partition of Ukraine? (lemmy.world)
 

Suddenly after Trump took office he started talking about brokering a peace deal in Ukraine that would imply territorial concessions to Russia. On this line he also bypassed Zelensky and held direct talks with Putin.

It is not clear what is in the peace plan, but it emerged several times that he asked Ukraine to sell off their mineral resources.

So, in the end, part of the Ukrainian territories would go to Russia and the mineral resources of the rest would go to the US. Isn't that a blatant partition?