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US car companies list their prices with the subsidies included too.

so..... its a news article in 2025?

Trump is against medicine.

Did a little reading on don bacon, the representative mentioned.

He represents nebraska's 2nd district, a district where the majority voted for biden and harris. He is known for being a moderate republican who is noted for working bipartisanly. He retained his seat by a narrow 50.9%:49.1% margain.

Basically he's one of the most likely republicans to support something like this. And if viewed purely cynically, with the slim margin of victory, he has an incentive to introduce bills to nowhere like this use for the upcoming 2026 reelection campaign.

Until this bill gets cosponsors or goes for a floor vote, it doesn't indicate a breaking of ranks. He's the kind of republican who often goes against the party line.

3% It dropped 3%.

Probably for the same reason they're against medicine

Honda has 16 factories in the us. Your next honda probably won't be affected.

The Signal Foundation is a non-profit. The non-profit owns an LLC under the same name which publishes and develops the apps.

The software itself is open source, and licensed under AGPLv3, the same permissive license as lemmy and mastodon.

Calling them a private company with no motivation to disclose any failures in their security is pretty clearly untrue in whole.

so... how much did does the us government give its auto industry?

They gave us auto companies 81 billion between 2008 and 2014, and continue to subsidize the industry to this day.

pot meet kettle

I was about to write a criticism of this infographic then I rechecked and its been updated and fixed my concerns since I last saw it. Good job!

Edit: Okay found some issues.

Thunderbird is american. Its run by mozilla, which is a california based non-profit. So still american not EU. But also its an email client, whereas gmail is an online email service provider. There are EU based email services that should be listed instead.

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biden basically did that already. ever noticed there are no byds on the road in the us?

i seem to recall it wasn't an outright ban, but unreasonable tariffs on chinese evs specifically. a soft ban, but enough to be as effective.

Free and open source software are made collaboratively by communities on the internet, its difficult to determine any nationality for many projects. Trying to run a fully EU linux system is impossible. But as most free software itself is not a revenue generating business, so largely use what you want.

But if your goal is a more European system I do have a few reccomendations.

OpenSuse: Its a free to use version of an enterprise distro, similar in business model to red hat/fedora but it is based in Germany.

Linux Mint: This is generally my pick for a beginner friendly distro. The project lead and founder is French.

KDE: Is my choice of desktop environment. It is German. The lead developer is German, and the nonprofit that funds the development is headquartered in Berlin. There are many pieces of software under the KDE umbrella including the Calligra office suite, and the Krita image editor.

I also recommend Blender, the 3D animation package. It is primarily Dutch, as the founder and nonprofit foundation behind it are based in the Amsterdam.

But really use what you want and works best for you. Nearly all free software projects, including all I've listed are some sort of international amalgam.

The best way to make free software more European is to be European and contribute. Volunteer, write code, write documentation, help users in community, report bugs, donate, fork, maintain or release something you made freely.