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He's doing something to it, but I would honestly like to understand better ~~what the plan is~~ if there is a plan behind it

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-order-aimed-attracting-corporate-investments-more-than-1-bln-2025-03-31/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-told-tsmc-it-would-pay-100-tax-if-it-doesnt-build-us-2025-04-09/

There are two methods:

• You can use caps lock for the capitalized umlauts and caps lock and shift for the capitalized French accented vowels
• You can use the accent buttons and combine with a normal capitalized vowel. For example, the button between ü and enter is the two dots button ¨, so you press two dots, then shift-o and get a capital Ö. Same for the French accented vowels the two buttons on the left of backspace have ´ and ` (with alt-gr and shift respectively) and you can combine those with shift-e for É È.

The second method sounds convoluted, but you get used to combining keys anyway. For example for the circumflex ^ because â ê î ô û don't exist pre-combined on this keyboard layout. The same goes for some rarer combinations like ï, which despite the dots isn't a German umlaut, it's an i with trema for use in French for example in haïr, to hate.

German only really introduced capitalized umlauts for printing around 1900, so people used to use the combinations of the vowel with e for capitalized umlauts in print. Then the first mechanical typewriters again didn't all have umlauts, or sometimes had only small umlauts. The combinations with e is also used for systems that have technical limitations. If they are ASCII based for example. Therefore even today people are somewhat used to it, so if you were to write Oeffnungszeit instead of Öffnungszeit nobody would bat an eye.

Also QWERTZ, but the Swiss version that has these guys on the umlauts with shift äöü -> àéè

Maybe they should have used some of that very profane UV light on their holy water, to make it safe, not just holy.

Easy, just ship it to all the American refineries that must have sprung up by now thanks to the tariffs.

Of course I realise they haven't, and they wont. It's no wonder because the trade policy this republican administration is enacting is neither thoughtful, now well planned, nor precise, nor trustworthy, nor supported by subsidies or other circumstances that make the establishment of local production likely.

Yeah, definitely Mussolini's propaganda

On Monday he said there wouldn't be a pause. He's always lying. Which means an investor can't trust him.

If there is a tariff this gives the edge in pricing to the manufacturer who produces in the US. If you think the tariff is here to stay it makes economical sense to invest money to move your manufacturing to the US, because then you can get better margins or better market share.

If you do that, and then the tariff is cancelled your competition who can produce more cheaply and reach the same market has the edge again. You just lost the investment, and you might be forced to invest even more to move back.

The more Trump uses tariffs for short term power plays like here the less they will work for long term industry movement, as investors doubts piles up. His ridiculous promises of a new industrial age for the US are only becoming more ridiculous.

DHS claimed Monday that "the Biden administration abused the parole authority to allow millions of illegal aliens into the U.S. which further fueled the worst border crisis in U.S. history."

How are they "illegal aliens" (ignoring for the moment the dehumanization inherent to the phrase), if they were officially allowed to enter and then did?

Yeah baby, two more months until our next one.

Disposable income is awesome. Don't care for the rum, but: Only the proper name brand snacks and drinks, good pizza, proper blow up mattresses, transportation is easy, people either have cars or can trivially rent some, and our computers are also way better these days.

Koalitionsregierung, schonmal gehört? Man kann nicht Amimemes einfach übernehmen wenns keinen Sinn macht.

Probably some middle manager of the security team who thinks it's his job to keep an eye on things. No real concrete goal, just something that feels like what he should be doing.

Why do the REAL ID standards and national passport cards exist? Don't they fundamentally perform the same function?