No, I was talking about protectionist policy in general, you are correct.

Ah ok yea, then yes it would be an impact to you more broadly with those.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/foreign-made-wi-fi-routers-ban/

My bad, I was assuming you were also in Europe/talking about Europe. The US is a whole different set of “fun” in that way.

I don’t think the socialist global industrial powerhouse is having an issue with batteries.

Correct, I should have been more explicit in calling it a localized supply and demand issue as the local retailers of the Chinese batteries are who I was meaning were having issues keeping supply on hand not that the actual producers couldn’t keep up

Guns Routers and e-bike batteries

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but none of those were part of this article which was discussing solar inverters in large scale projects.

Guns are a regulatory thing, which over here in Europe they are a lot harder to get than when I lived in the US, but it is just a matter of joining a club and some paperwork at least in the country I’m in.

Routers could be related to the chip shortages with AI, and e-bike batteries would almost more seem like a supply and demand issue with their increased popularity these days.

They probably can’t for what would be needed for a true green change over here, but for all the talk of de-industrialization in Europe this would seem like a lukewarm attempt to fix that by forcing out Chinese tech in large contracts as there are local players in the inverter space.

Again I agree that the Chinese tech is better and cheaper and could actually provide what is needed. Just more looking at what the reasons behind this could be. I’d love to see more Europe and China cooperation on things, especially tech. A lot of Europeans seem to not trust it while at the same time trusting US tech.

This policy wouldn’t impact you as an individual consumer, this was for projects funded by the banks. Which government banks favoring locally manufactured products isn’t a terrible policy, keeping their constituents employed and whatnot.

A slightly different take here as I just had solar put in. This is a protectionist policy to support some local businesses. While the batteries that were installed were Chinese, the inverter was from a German company.

While a good practice, I don’t think this policy is applied as consistently as you might think/hope

I think you might be misreading who comes to that realization. I read it as the vassals(Japan & EU) will realize the US can’t take on China. The US won’t come to that conclusion any time soon.

I imagine part of this is just availability.

To use ChatGPT you have to go to their site log in and then use it.

A lot of people already have google stuff and are logged it already. You can integrate it with email and your google drive pretty easily. Plus they are really pushy with it if you use google for work. So it is quicker to access. Though can confirm it is pretty shit as I’ve seen the summary of a meeting I was in and it was not correct.

While it does show a lack of action, I’m not too unhappy about them failing to agree to plunge into a war with Russia

Now available: https://www.aolifo.de/en/xi-jinping-the-governance-of-china-v-hardcover-english-edition-isbn-9787119143378.html

https://www.aolifo.de/ is where I picked up the previous volumes. I plan to contact them to see if they have an estimate on this volume

Edit: reply from them, they’ve ordered and are expecting the books in 4-6 weeks. I asked specifically about the English version

My assumption goes more towards installing malware of some sort.

https://nitter.net/CBP/status/1937651325354795444#m

Seems like the actual name, and some searching points to both Mads and Mikkelsen being commonish names for the area

Looks like a legit name. CBP tweeted about him

https://nitter.net/CBP/status/1937651325354795444#m

K-9 is a great app but doesn’t provide email service itself

Well both have free options as well, but they have a bit lower limits in that case and a few less features. So I guess maybe sign up on both for a free account and see which you like more?

What feature set are you looking for and are you wanting something free or open to paid?

I use both Mailfence and Protonmail different experiences with each but no real complaints. For Mailfence I pay them since I have a domain and I am still degoogling so forward my gmail to an alias there

President nominates people and congress has a hearing and either confirms or rejects them.

So, yea essentially except usually it isn’t their kids but rather people that have written enough legal opinions that they like and can bribe