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Doing business with the US is just impossible these days. If this trend continues any further the US is gonna end up a piranha state with no allies and no business partners.

I'm really not sure what consequences that'll have for the rest of the world, but it looks like we're about to find out

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pariah: outcast, disliked

piranha: carnivorous fish

Also piranha: Brazilian Portugese slang for hooker.

Accidental accuracy

Do they mob potential Johns?

Sounds right

> piranha: carnivorous fish

Nice callout.

Neither here nor there, but many (most?) fish are carnivorous.

Name checks out.

I think the key difference with piranhas is that they eat humans. Most carnivorous fish eat other fish or water-dwelling creatures.

Pesca pescatarian - would be a cuisine made entirely of fish that eat other fish?

Apparently not piranhas, they seem to be omnivorous!

paraná: a state/river in southern Brazil

Paranaueee!

Pearà: very peppery cream from Verona, served best with boiled meat

everybody loves piranha!

As long as US dollar remains the reserve currency, others will have to suck up to the US. This is why moving away from the USD is critical. Beyond that, people should pull their investments away from the US. This is difficult, however: US is the market that offers most returns (as to for how long, that remains to be seen), but it takes only a initial dominos falling.

The concern is not so much that the US will lose friends moreso that other business partners will become more prominent. The US has a lot of social capital to burn. I’m not certain that somebody hasn’t calculated how much they can get away with…

The EU will rely on US tech forever because it is literally not possible to create an EU alternative in that business climate. There are no major EU clouds, nor are there any major EU software services and there never will be because the EU is the worst place in the entire world for startups (try starting a company in Germany or France).

> nor are there any major EU software services and there never will be

SAP and Spotify come to my mind first. Some ex-EU services include Skype and Booking.com (latter might still be counted as EU service depending on definition).

Sadly nothing will change.

- Pretty sure a large number of politicians are using claude, chatGPT etc.

- Majority of researchers in EU are dependent of all of US SV companies. There are nothing equivalent. EVen if there is mistral or other open source llms - every damn Uni/company is uploading everything to claude or open AI or gemini.

- Majority see these but just move on

- 99% of EU politicians either dont care or show apathy or worse live in a moat

- Ideally EU could have forced iphone, Google to openup. They did not.

- Same with taxation. Ireland fights EU to give tax breaks

- Its f*king broken system

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