Comment by reactordev

3 days ago

Have you seen our President? Minor conveniences are what trigger him into launching full blown DOJ investigations, wars, and economic disaster. If he realizes he can just "turn off" the EU, oh, he will threaten that on Truth Social tonight in a rant about how they should make a deal or else.

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like_any_other  3 days ago

An open threat like that would be the best case scenario, as it would (hopefully) cause a reaction in EU countries trying to get rid of this yoke. Instead usually it happens through backroom dealings, or just the services being a nuisance to competitors while being helpful to friendly companies, and thus the target country is drained of its resources and economic independence, slow enough to not provoke retaliation.

With the exception of the current US administration, hostile countries and corporations try to appear non-hostile when possible.

userbinator  3 days ago

I'd like to see if he can be convinced into going after Google and effectively stopping remote attestation. One can certainly dream...

nickburns  3 days ago

Friendly advice: please don't capitalize random common nouns like the president does. It's a marker of one's affinity toward precision (among other things).

  • danaw  3 days ago

    you're being this pedantic about someone capitalizing "President"?

    • altairprime  3 days ago

      It’s not a proper noun, and this is HN: pedantry is par. “The president of Xyz” capitalizes the X in Xyz(pn) but not the P in president(n). However, the P in President(pn) is capitalized when it’s a Title suffixed to a Name - but that varies per country by what they title their president-equivalent locally and isn’t always translated, while the concept-slash-role label of ‘president’ in English generally does not (and is often used interchangeably, albeit somewhat wrongly, for ‘monarch’ and other such single-person executive-leader roles). (That we use the same spelling for both title and concept is annoying, as usual :)

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    • nickburns  3 days ago

      Yes. But mostly just because it's in reference to this particular president who's a dullard and displays it regularly in this particular way.