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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uktoTechnology@lemmy.world•Will big tech be caught in the crossfire of trade war?English
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    3 days ago

    No they won’t. Because the EU is not stupid and neither is the US (despite recent events)

    That is something that would have major implications for Ireland where big tech means big employment and big corporate tax receipts for the Government.

    They’ll want to protect as much tax evasion as possible. Trump is a transactional president. Give him some stuff, he gives you some stuff. Let US mega corporations funnel tax through the EU, be more sympathetic to trade. Or in other words “put on the green jersey”.

  • mannycalavera@feddit.uktoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Impulse buys are bad, we all know, but what was an impulse buy that proven to be a really good decision to you?
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    4 days ago

    I was in Hong Kong and after a glorious day sightseeing and walking around it suddenly started to thunder. Rain everywhere. No shelter in sight. People slipping down the stairs running through the streets. Cars splashing puddles everywhere. Bus and tram stops full of people trying to avoid the rain. I quickly ducked into a department store before I was fully soaked but thought, “fuck I have another twenty minutes walk to get back to the hotel”. So I looked around the store for a few minutes and found the accessory section where they keep the umbrellas. Perfect! This was going to be the best impulse buy of my life.

    I picked up a designer leather belt that I had been searching years for online. There it was, right in front of me, at a decent price. So I bought it.