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@TerribleMaps Why is Malta often not included? Is that why this is terrible?

How people in Europe say the number 92

@BillyORiordan @NewstalkFM I've just experienced just that. Luckily I got off after just 4 stops. Still the headache I already had was multiplied by 4.

@NewstalkFM A bug bear of mine are parents who stick a phone in front of their child with cartoon noises. It's torture for the rest of us.

🇫🇷 📞 In France, a man was recently fined €200 for making a call on loudspeaker while he was on a train. 🇮🇪 💶 Should Ireland start doing the same? newstalk.com/news/the-numbe…

@NewstalkFM Yes!

@Ryanair You don't get blinded by the sun. That's an advantage I guess.

surprise 🤗

@virtaava Actually I've just remembered that I pretty much always have a white zinfandel in my wine collection. That's from California.

@virtaava Seeing "made in the USA" on a food product doesn't exactly speak of good quality.

If you live in Europe, do you actually buy any American goods at the grocery store? I just took a look around my kitchen—nothing. Not a single product that's truly from the U.S. Maybe the occasional Coca-Cola, but even that's bottled in the EU under licence. Nothing regular. What about you?

@kit_imran @notesfrompoland @trzaskowski_ It's the kind of news we need these days.

@notesfrompoland @trzaskowski_ Is this kind of a national news that pickled cucumbers are Polish or German? 😏

The opposition accused the presidential candidate of Poland's main ruling party of promoting pickled cucumbers that he said are Polish but are in fact German The producer has now confirmed the pickles are Polish, leading @trzaskowski_ to demand an apology notesfrompoland.com/2025/04/10/pol…

@Meurer_T_ @MikeSunder19333 @Lo0warrior @jonfavs It's 25% on cars not 10%.

@MikeSunder19333 @agius_sam @Lo0warrior @jonfavs To be fair, with the US energy prices being around 40% of the prices in the Eu those 10% tarrifs aren't that bad.

Never leaving this place

@Lo0warrior @jonfavs There's nothing stopping American car companies from making smaller cars for the European market. European countries tax all big cars the same, regardless of where they're made. So the European SUVs are also pretty expensive in Europe.

@jonfavs There is nuance to this. Yes, giant trucks and suv are impractical to drive in EU. On the other hand, small fuel efficient american cars are also priced out from their markets due to many barriers, including taxes and fees. Even among themselves, trade is full of friction.

@Akston_Capital @B10HAZRDX @RichardHanania It's up to the seller to decide where to deliver to. It's not about swiss protectionism. Probably there's less demand from Switzerland so they couldn't be bothered with making different arrangements for a country that's not in the EU.

Switzerland has no tariffs on American goods. Trump decided to hit them with either a 31% or 32% tariff (no one knows which), just because. Pay attention to who defends this, and remember to never take them seriously again.

@SpencerHakimian Of course not. What we're also forgetting here is that she and her family may be buying products or services from businesses that you offer financial services to. That's how the wheel goes round.

I have a 100% trade deficit with the lady that irons my suits. She offers something way more efficiently and at a much better price than I can do myself. And in exchange, I spend the time I would otherwise be wasting on pressing my suits offering financial services at 1,000x the hourly GDP rate as I paid her to afford me this time. Am I getting ripped off by her? Should I start steaming my own suits instead of offering financial services? Would that make me better off? Would I be richer because of it?

@PiltdownMan2 @ChrisRugaber What can they do? But more shite that they can't afford from the US in order to reduce the trade deficit?

@ChrisRugaber If only there was a way for Madagascar to avoid this

Overheard in the newsroom: "I just got something from a vanilla company. I guess 70% of the world's supply comes from Madagascar. We are going to have months and months worth of stories out of this. Hard to even know where to begin." (Magagascar now facing 47% tariffs).

@JamesSurowiecki What's weird is that they still applied a minimum of 10% even on countries with a trade surplus. What is that meant to achieve? An even bigger surplus?

This is truly amazing. The Deputy White House Press Secretary is claiming that I'm wrong, and that the "tariff rates" on Trump's chart were calculated by "literally" measuring every country's tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers. To prove it, he screenshots the formula the USTR says was used to calculate the reciprocal tariffs we imposed on other countries. And when you back out the Greek symbols, what is that formula? Trade deficit/imports - exactly what I said it was. I don't know if the Deputy Press Secretary was misinformed, or is just being misleading. Either way, the Trump administration did not "literally calculate tariff and non tariff barriers" to determine the tariff rates it's imposing on other countries. As I said, it divided our trade deficit with a country by our imports with that country, and then multiplied by 0.5 (because Trump was being "lenient"). Oh, and if our trade deficit/imports with a country is less than 10%, or we have a trade surplus with a country, Trump slapped a flat 10% tariff on that country.

@ArnoldCassola Gozo could become a pilot project for a better public transport system. It's ideal, especially since traffic jams are mostly caused by people visiting. So what you need to do is make it easier and cheaper for people to leave their car behind, but public transport needs to work.

Gozo: getting cars off the road

@Izemthinks @dieworkwear Have you spoken to most people who have left their country?

read some long, rambling post by some dude who said he left england bc there are too many immigrants. so he's ... become an immigrant ... to live in ... countries with fewer english people

@Ryanair That's what I do. What else is the window seat for? Looking at clouds?

they not like us

@dieworkwear @McFaul Does he have water in the basement by any chance?

@McFaul Vance was born in 1984, so he would have seen full cut pants for his first 20 years. This changed in early 2000s when Euro designers like Raf Simons and Hedi Slimane shrank men's clothes as a reaction to the 90s. This culminated in a humiliating experience for him last month.

Why does Vance loathe Europeans so much? I honestly don’t understood it. Explanations?

@freyhk @SenSanders It's the price to pay if you don't want medical bills to bankrupt you. It's an insurance policy that you don't have to worry about not accepting your claim. You simply like to gamble with your future, thinking that it's never gonna happen to you, & you may be lucky but who knows?

@SenSanders None of that is free. It is paid for by residents in the form of sky high taxes, among the highest tax rates in the world. And not just for billionaires.

Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies. In Denmark: - Health care and college are free.   - The starting wage is $22/hr. - Paid parental leave is 1 year. - Paid vacation is 6 weeks.   - All workers get pensions.

@Pilotwife0360 @JasonPYYC He literally wants to take over their whole country.

@JasonPYYC He didn’t go hat in hand begging for handouts. See the difference?

He went to Greenland and didn’t even have the decency to wear a suit and say thank you.

@AlanRMacLeod Could skip dinner and save even more.

Poor? Have you tried starving?