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[–] K4mpfie@feddit.org 47 points 6 days ago

Denmark is blue but Greenland isn't. The comedy basically writes itself

[–] agitated_judge@sh.itjust.works 45 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Either that map is wrong, or the US doesn't understand how the EU works.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

Both them and China try very hard not to.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

Ah, the cracker index

[–] andrewth09@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Wake up babe, new first/second/third world definitions just dropped.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 days ago

I guess the US feels threatened by Greenland's prospering chip industry

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What's up with Switzerland and Austria?

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Politically unreliable

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago
[–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 13 points 6 days ago

"The worldwide interest in accelerated computing for everyday applications is a tremendous opportunity for ~~the US to cultivate, promoting the economy and adding US jobs~~ imperialism."

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Regarding your Peter Griffin meme: Us Swiss and our Austrian neighbors are pretty white on average, but even beyond that, the Czech, the Polish, Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are very white on average.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Also Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in the blue tier... Don't know what OP is on about.

Edit: lol didn't realize i was on .ml

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago

The ROK is essentially a US colony, their military is subservient to the US' military "in wartime." Guess what? They have always been in "wartime."

Taiwan is similar, the US maintains a large military presence there and in Japan to try to keep China in check as a geopolitical adversary.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

East asian countries after WW2 (minus China) are essentially subsidaries of Western/US imperialism.

Occupied Palestine is tier 2? Doesnt he love their genocide?

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

I'm not sure what tier 2 loses in terms of access.

This obviously continues the Chinese need to "delete America" and capitalize competition to Nvidia, where they are not horribly behind H100 if that is the tier 2 standard. Tier 2 is now automatically motivated to help China to help themselves. Nvidia buying Trump is an easy path to get their oligarchy prioritized over bad arguments against capturing smaller global market that reduces innovation.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

The more you buy, the more you save!

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are those chips actually made in US? Or just designed?

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago

Designed in the US, fabbed at TSMC in Taiwan. TSMC is opening some n-1 fabs in Arizona soon so some could be fabbed in the US in the future.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The stuff in yellow on EU's Eastern border is the stuff Trump plans to give to Putin.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] tb_@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Didn't you know? Portugal is part of Eastern Europe.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

Probably a side deal with Morroco or something.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 89 points 1 week ago (9 children)
[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Also Mexico? The Phillipines? Greenland?

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Greenland, even though Denmark is blue.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It makes sense for all of Eastern Europe to be the same level.

[–] Koen967@feddit.nl 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't realize Portugal was Eastern European

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 week ago
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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 week ago

Oh, it's the map they always use

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Excluding some EU countries is a great move toward accelerating the Union’s fracturing.

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 13 points 6 days ago

I'm not sure I get that part. Movement of goods within the EU is tax free, so why wouldn't another country just import it, and move it to, say, Portugal?

[–] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I really doubt any sort of US action could lead to the EU fracturing.

If anything, having to deal with the US has brought us closer together. On one side there's Trump making a fool of himself and of the US. On the other side there's Musk, thinking he can take on European unions and actually win, because he thinks he's still in the US, and in the middle there's what i like to call the sheep pen of tech companies. We shear their wool for fines on privacy violations every couple of months to fund our regulatory organs.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 week ago

I guess letting a handful of white-collar racist IP lawyers draft your foreign policy isn't such a good idea after all.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

Meh. CTU means stuff comes into e.g. Rotterdam and then easily wherever it needs to go from there, and complaining about "evading sanctions" seems to me like an exercise in futility.

[–] nom_nom@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago

Geopolitics. Whoever isn't on board with USA (or is suspected not to be) is getting sanctions. Austria and Swiss are neutral (on paper), that's not really going to fly with "you're with us or you're against us" attitude of the US.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My guess is they are not a member of the EU. I don't understand Portugal tho.

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh c'mon! It's not just Portugal, there's half of the EU missing...

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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Biden didn't want to provoke the Turks and so Greece is also a tier 2 country

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

whole east Europe is tier 2. What an influence Turkey has!

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The world seriously needs an alternative to US technology.

Also what does Biden have against Iceland and Greenland?

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