That’s when you kill them with magnets /s

Nah, these aren’t assassinations, just plain domestic murders.

Nixon fucked the world through the dollar.

In short, the world is paying the US to fuck around, since Bretton Woods replaced gold with the the USD, meaning that the US gets unlimited money while they get to spread their inflationary pressure around the world.

Charles de Gaulle, president of France at the time wasn’t as stupid as most world leaders, and ended up preserving at least some semblance of fiscal independence by smuggling the French gold back from the US.

Okay, but Google uses it in a way where directly going to the server they host F-Droid.apk, downloading and installing it counts as sideloading.

If anything, using Google Play is sideloading by that definition, since I can’t just download a release from the originators’ server, they need to first transfer it into a secondary location, Google’s servers, and I can only install it from there.

EU is closer than NATO.

NATO says that if someone gets attacked, everyone else responds in a way they think is appropriate.

EU says that if someone gets attacked, everyone goes all out without consideration.

IMO it’s great but it is a departure from earlier titles in more than just going to 3D, and the sides are a 90s caricature of the US/China/Middle-Eastern people, so it’s something that you definitely couldn’t make today.

Like the “terrorist” side gets suicide bombers and a unit called “angry mob” to which Chinese flamethrowers or American snipers are a good counter, while China gets two soldiers for the price of one and propaganda loudspeakers everywhere that makes units fight harder.

The story is barely there as well, which was a strong point of the RA2 and Tiberium universes.

Thanks, it is, in fact.

I haven’t really read into this because the whole thing is so insane that if it happens all bets are off.

The thing that is a huge wildcard is how Denmark and the rest of the EU react.

In the sense that the EU is an obligatory military alliance closer than even NATO, so in essence if Denmark considers itself at war, so is France and her nuclear submarine fleet.

This day is to be remembered.

There are options. Dumping US bonds would collapse the US, and the only thing that makes it hard is the US economy collapsing would be a bad thing for the EU right now.

Also, protracted resistance. Greenland is harsh territory, and Nordic weekend soldiers regularly beat US marines in exercises in cold weather warfare.

The USSR lost half a million in Afghanistan, 50k to fighting, 450k to the environment. And they didn’t need to resupply via the Atlantic.

Also, the Nordics probs have the world’s best submarine interdiction fleet, and most of the Cold War era US anti-sub stuff is actually reliant on Greenland, Iceland and the UK cooperating.

Nordic subs regularly score hits on US carriers in exercises.

Is it only me that had the C&C Generals Nuke Cannon tagline going off in their heads saying BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN in a deliberate voice and a heavy Chinese accent?

Solar is technically fusion though

Which one do you miss?

Not really. If the USD loses value, your neighbour will sell their goods to me for EUR because it will be worth more.

It will be like everyone in the US got a pay cut. It’s a demand side effect, not like a tariff, and it’s uniform, not like a tariff.

It’s inflation after all.

This would make all goods more expensive, as it would directly devalue the USD. It wouldn’t make people buy local, it would just make them buy less.

It’s not what a tariff does, because that only applies to foreign imports.

Not cancelling, selling.

A dollar bill is debt that the govt owes to you. A bond is similar, just a bit different.

The US will still owe, just to different entities, but its figurative credit score will plummet at the same time it’s in a debt spiral.

But let’s make it simpler. Most of the world’s USD is not in the US, but in cash reserves abroad. They hold it like gold.

What happens if the big players sell? It’s already happening a bit, look at EURUSD and gold prices.

I can already imagine articles of Americans dying of thirst because all their water has been taken to cool datacenters that use terribly inefficient algorithms to solve Candy Crush levels for me.

An IBCM is hard to hide. And they don’t need to.

And a lot of ESL speakers will write in a mishmash, since they read off of the Internet with mixed sources.

How do you know they honour your decision to deny them the footage, instead of taking it without your knowledge or consent?

Except your GPU fans will start screaming when you press skip.