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  • ‘We will not survive’: Toyota, Honda and Ford CEOs issue chilling warning about China — and it could hit your portfolio

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  • They would probably not have managed to slash the price in half with one generation.

    The original Honda E was € 35.330 in 2020, which was a difficult sell given the small 170km range.Half price would mean an electric car for ~€ 18.000

    Looking at other Western manufacturers (e.g. Peugeot, Citroen, Volkswagen, Dacia) for a fair comparison, that is a stretch even today. Most EVs don't really go below 20k, and 25k seems to be the current range for affordable EVs.

    The issue is largely the cost of the battery. That cost has come down over the years, but not to the extent that Honda could have suddenly slashed the price of their EV in half.

    Edit: That is not to say Honda shouldn't have kept releasing more EVs.

    I'm just pointing out that they probably would follow the same path as the other Western automakers that have pretty consistently been releasing EVs over the past decade orso.

  • I thought I'd retire from Intel. Then I got laid off in my 60s — and I'm still struggling to find a job.

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  • Losing your job that late in life can be quite a problem. Not many employers want to put in the time and effort of hiring someone and getting them up to speed for their new role, only to see them retire a few years later.

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    Shocking scenes from LA’s homeless apocalypse — as filthy camps overrun kids’ playgrounds

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  • Happy Liberation Day from Italy!

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  • In the Netherlands we have two such holidays:

    On the 4th of May we have the "Dodenherdenking" (Remembrance of the Dead) when we remember the victims of war, both soldier and civilian, as well as the victims of the Holocaust.

    On the 5th of May we celebrate our "Bevrijdingsdag" (Liberation Day) to remember the end of the Nazi occupation.

  • 1 million bees make for bumper-to-buzzer traffic on a Tennessee highway ramp

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  • Trump Humiliated as Epstein Video Projected on DC Hotel Before His Big Night

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  • Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn’t drop digital services tax

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  • We have a saying in Dutch: "If you give him a finger, he will take your whole hand."Appeasing Trump doesn't work, because he will just demand more.

  • Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn’t drop digital services tax

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  • No problem. We all misinterpret things from time to time.

    I believe it is important that we don't blindly accept Trump's framing that this is a tariff, because that is exactly the framing Trump used to justify his "retaliatory" tariffs from last year.

  • Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn’t drop digital services tax

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  • Taxation is not a tariff.

    If Germany wants to tax digital services (meaning all digital services and not just American digital services) that is not a tariff. Germany is free to tax digital services as long at it doesn't directly target US digital services.

    Edit: This comment is a response to the initial text before being edited.

  • Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn’t drop digital services tax

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  • Even if at some point the EU will be given the power of taxation (which I'm not yet seeing as an inevitability at this point), that doesn't automatically mean that that power will be stripped from the individual member states.

    We only need to look at the US as an example of a federation where both the federal government and the states have the power of taxation. It wouldn't be unprecedented.

  • 77 percent blame Trump for gas prices: Survey

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  • The remaining 23 percent do not understand basic cause and effect.

  • Trump says he will ‘probably put a big tariff on the UK’ if it doesn’t drop digital services tax

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  • Taxation is done by the individual member states, not the EU. Germany could impose a digital services tax if they wanted to, without needing permission from the EU to do so.

  • Amazon Just Rug-Pulled People's Game Libraries [paid games gone away, no refund]

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  • I would argue that the games you purchased (and thus own), and the cloud service Luna offered are two separate things. It is much more difficult to argue that you somehow "own" the hardware of a cloud gaming service than you do the licence of a game you bought.

    Amazon is under no real obligation to perpetually offer their cloud service. You are effectively renting server space, and they can stop offering that at any time as long as it is in line with the service agreement.

    This is also why I prefer to own my own hardware, and not rely on cloud services. After you purchase hardware it will always be yours.

  • Best european-made sex toys?

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  • The promotional videos for that one are quite something too..

  • Best european-made sex toys?

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  • What about Weredog? I'm decently certain they are a British company

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    Germany unveils strategy for becoming Europe’s strongest military by 2039

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  • Some people like to joke that Germany growing their military strength should be a worrying sign for other European countries.

    It's not accurate to reality though. Germany today is nothing like Germany in 1914 and 1939.

  • Amazon Just Rug-Pulled People's Game Libraries [paid games gone away, no refund]

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  • After June 10, 2026, previously purchased a-la-carte titles will no longer be playable on Luna. However, you can continue to access them directly through the third-party platform account you had linked when you made the purchase on Luna:

    Judging by that, it doesn't look like people will be losing access to the games they purchased. However they will have to access them via a different launcher from June 10th onward.

  • Keyboard and Coffee Mug

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  • The Q in LGBTQ stands for QWERTZ

  • Number of immigrants in EU reaches record high of 64.2 million in 2025, study shows

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  • What percentage of that is migrants moving between EU member states?

    The article leaves this unmentioned entirely, which makes me suspicious of dishonest reporting or number fudging. It is not immigration to the EU if they are moving within the EU.

    They mention Germany has a migrant population of 18 million.When I Google it, I get a total figure of 17.4 million as of 2024 being a first-generation immigrant. But then about one third of yearly immigration into Germany in recent years seems to be from migration within the EU.

    You need to account for this, or at least specify which kind of immigration you are talking about when you mention a figure for the EU as a whole, seemingly based on data from individual member states.

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    Eindhoven in the Evening

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    Kölner Dom

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    Snow in the City

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    Having a Beer at the Pub

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    Dutch Payment service iDeal becomes Wero: "Do not fall for scams, nothing is changing"

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    Why London’s tax on driving works—and NYC’s might fail

  • Cities: Skylines (1 & 2) @lemmy.world
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    New Patch with Smaller Service Buildings (amongst others) Released

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    Communist Netherlands vs Freedom-Loving USA

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