I'm rather anti-Apple but even I enjoy John's site from time to time. Hell, I had to vouch for this post just to see it. I can't think of any legitimate reason for his content to get flagged as often as it does and it's been happening for years.

> initiated by the US

While I don't approve, didn't the EU charge the US tariffs that were twice as high as what the US charged the EU?

You can take a look at the slightly out-of-date import duties here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tariff_ra...

To summarize, EU countries levied 1.49 % on average on imports in 2021, the US levied 1.48 % on average. Probably there are singular items that diverge from this average.

> While I don't approve, didn't the EU charge the US tariffs that were twice as high as what the US charged the EU?

I'm afraid i'll need the exact sections of the trade agreement document that stipulates these tariffs so that I can compare myself. Otherwise this is hearsay for me.

I am not aware of such. My intuition is that it was relatively balanced (taking services into account, where the US is big due to Google, MS, and friends).

But I stand corrected if there are some good sources.

I don't usually reply to replies but I was asking because I'm not sure. About a decade ago I was looking into the 'Chicken tax' and went down a tariff rabbit hole. A cursory search now is quite difficult due to all of the recent news and changes. And also millionshort seems to require an account now to do advanced searches. So about the best I could do is ask ChatGPT for a chart comparing average tariff rates by sector for the US and EU before 2016. But I'd rather not.

> For the average European

Depends how old you are, I guess:

- The Palmer Raids (1919-20) - WW2 internment and deportation (1942-45) - McCarthy era (all of the 50s) - Present day

Each one seems to have deported random people. Many of whom did nothing wrong.

And honorable mention:

- Fallout from the Iranian hostage crisis (1979-81)

That last one didn't involve Europeans, per se, but it did deport a lot of innocent people. And for a bonus, here's the ~30yr pattern of anti-immigration:

- Immigration Act of 1924 - Operation Wetback of 1954 - Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 - Present day

These things have _always_ happened here. And some of them even follow a pattern.

Edit: Sorry for the formatting.

They were never stranded, that's why anyone with half a brain isn't outraged.

Or maybe the astronauts, who themselves stated they weren't stranded, are big fat liars. Personally, I'll take them at their word.

Okay stranded might be the wrong phrase but not being able to get home for 9 months doesn’t seem like the right outcome for a 10 day itinerary to me. I’m glad everything is working out the end though.

They were able to get home, NASA just decided to move them into a standard rotation which the Astronauts were obviously okay with.

"not being able" is just another way of saying "stranded" again.

Please read up on the details of this adventure and you'll come to realize that whoever is putting this phrasing into the media is trying to lie to you!

It's a "holy shit, two cakes" situation. I don't think anyone who's devoted enough to being an astronaut to go through all it takes is going to mind more time in space doing space stuff.

I'm sure they appreciate the extra time in space, but remember they live human lives as well. They're both married, and Butch has two kids.

How was the situation dangerous. Please explain.

bone density loss ? Permanent osteopenia ?

You could try reading the linked paper. If I am reading it correctly, basically, we have atmospheric models for brown dwarfs and the presence of C2H2 and compounds cannot be explained by those models. So they think there are more complex atmospheric processes like aurora or lightning behind it.

Yeah I definitely attempted but stellar chemistry isn’t something I’d say I’m comfortable with particularly at the level required to comprehend a paper. That said, the subject is very interesting to me.

It's still an additional 'tax' on individuals.

Anything can be a "tax", if we want it to be.

Is the requirement of wearing clothes in public a tax? Maybe.

But today definitely someone can still live without owning a phone, if they have access to a computer nearby (e.g. A library or friend).

You can use anything you want as long as you are consistent and don't mix units.

You really should be encrypting things before uploading to a cloud provider.

As an enthusiast I of course make encrypted on-site backups, which I then protect by syncing to a cloud provider, and I protect the encryption secrets with a password manager, and protect the password manager and cloud accounts with a U2F key, and protect the U2F key with two spare U2F keys in off-site secure locations.

I can understand, though, that most of the population doesn't want such complexity, and prefers to be able to reset forgotten passwords without losing their data.

Treating your cloud provider as an hostile adversary is a useful security advice, through I would personally prefer to not give a hostile adversary my data in the first place.

It's slightly annoying that they placed it in my sidebar since I'm unable to use it with my Plus account. Can't even remove it.