The gist is that you shouldn’t try to argue with them, they don’t care about reality.

That may be true on a face to face level. In public, like on social media, it’s essential to keep arguing. Not to convince the person you’re arguing with, but to show other people reading that theirs is not the only perspective, nor is it the majority.

Tariffs and minimum prices are both paid by the European consumers. Tariffs would go to the EU, minimum prices go to China.

I was under the impression that this had stopped

Nope.

If services are included, we’re almost even.

I mean we do still import Russian oil and gas that could be replaced this way. Still, this is not about what the EU needs, it’s a proactive offering of protection money. They forgot that Trump needs it to have been his pressure that made us bend the knee, not our own initiative, otherwise he won’t look strong.

Never was.

Basically, yes. They wanted to keep the free trade but get rid of all the other pesky rules, like freedom of residence, common regulations and so on.

I did not know that and I think it’s wild that the largest economy in the world still operates on such prehistoric methods.

It was a bigger deal in the US than elsewhere due to how hard it is to do bank transfers there,

Is it? Now I’m curious. Care to elaborate?

It gets better. We have 50% far right votes, but at the same time 69% are in favor of a wealth tax.

Well … We want you to put the orange turd in jail and quit being dicks to everybody. You can’t always get what you want, can you?

All this nvidia stuff is so complicated on Linux,

I installed mint, opened the driver manager, picked the latest NVIDIA driver and it just worked. No idea what everybody is talking about …

Granted I’m on an old 1080ti, so maybe that’s it …

I wonder if the amount of media coverage per topic might have something to do with that…

Biometrics are not more secure than a good password.

You also would not have access to your password manager when logging into your OS, would you?