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Donald Trump has announced plans to impose 25% tariffs on the European Union, claiming the bloc was “formed to screw the United States.”

While details are pending, he suggested the levies would target cars and other imports. The EU, a major U.S. trading partner, has vowed immediate retaliation, with potential tariffs impacting $29.3 billion in exports.

French President Emmanuel Macron had attempted to dissuade Trump, urging focus on China instead.

Critics, including economists and conservative media, warn the tariffs could harm the U.S. economy.

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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago

Brussels effects haters be like: "I really fucking hate USB type-C cables being on every device where it makes sense! I want to bo back to expensive and crappy proprietary cables only the original manufacturer is allowed to make!"

[-] HappyStarDiaz@real.lemmy.fan 3 points 1 day ago

I mean USB is so so so bad and what a lie that USB-C is some universal thing (besides the physical connector)

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

If you think Intel fucking with the USB naming scheme (just keep 3.0 and 3.1 for the lower speed devices instead of renaming everything 3.2 gen 892034856 for fuck's sake!) was bad, or you had trouble with keeping track of charger standards, then you forgot the time when most manufacturers had their own crappy proprietary connection standard, that didn't really done much more than could have been with pre-existing standards, except to force you to buy an expensive and crappy cable, and some (especially those by Apple) often broke by just looking at them in the wrong way and had those crappy and impossible to solder enamel-coated wires inside them.

[-] macdude22@real.lemmy.fan 2 points 11 hours ago

I remember when a time when plugged in a connector and if it fit it just worked yeah.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

macdude

There you have it! If you want to cry for your proprietary Apple cables (Lightning, etc.) then do it, you have the right to be a complete moron. Now please post me an image of an iPhone with a floppy drive, because people were crying about the "obsolete headphone jack", and didn't want a "paper-thin phone", nor those epic sci-fi airpods!

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