Nah, EU likes them avocados and fruit too, especially in winter.

Looking forward to cheaper maple syrup!

Must be an interesting corner of Lemmy you found to have seen people who had enthusiasm for Kamala.

Most here we’re as enthused as a kid taking that old school bitter liquid antibiotic.

Imagine thinking healthcare workers didn’t have enough money in 2020 of all years.

What they didn’t have was rest if anything.

Maybe you should do like RFK Jr and check for brain worms, since you forgot the damn pandemic.

But you’re literally propping up a much farther right republican party, and the dissolution of any democracy.

That is, by definition, hypocrisy. That’s not me calling you a name, that’s pointing out a fact in your actions.

Your actions and stated desired ultimate outcome simply don’t match.

Your argument doesn’t follow logic.

1. you say voting for Dems would destroy it, but letting literal fascists get absolute power would also destroy it, permanently, while also destroying why change for actual leftists to gain power.

2. for some reason you think it’s better to let the fascists win to destroy the center right, but not destroy the fascists by not allowing them to gain power continuously???

3. you stated it’s not ethical to allow the Democrats to continue existing as they are because they’re not as a whole left wing and are also causing harm, but it’s ethical to have many more suffer? That’s just hypocrisy.

4. you assume the DNC is dumb rather than corrupt

5. you assume you’ll still have a legitimate democracy after Trump.

Actual leftists KNEW that already. Kamala, Biden, the majority of the DNC - they’re all corrupt corporatists.

But the situation the USA was in was one of minimizing overall damage. And with the corporatists, there was still a small chance of gaining some control from them peacefully via elections, if simply because more left leaning people can at least run under the Democrat moniker.

With the fascists, that opportunity is gone. By allowing them to win, not only do you worsen the genocide occuring in Israel (if not ensured Israel from achieving it entirely), but also just got killed a bunch of other people and hurt a huge amount of minorities in the USA as well.

Not voting didn’t stop the genocide and never would have, but it did guarantee that it gets worse while hurting other innocents outside of Palestine as well. If you didn’t vote for Kamala (which literally means “horrible” in Finnish), you’re a dumbass, because you allowed a greater evil to prevail. Especially since I know many of y’all abstainers are still paying taxes anyway and funding the genocides either way.

She voted against the railroad workers strike, so nah. She sold out to the DNC for a chance at power only for Pelosi to go assist her anyway.

She’s still one of the best politicians y’all have though. But that bar is so low it’s underground, so…

I should have elaborated.

In the EU, if buying from another EU country, you just put in your VAT# to exclude VAT. But your country’s tax administration can then ask to justify a business expense. You can only claim VAT paid on foreign (non -EU) imports once doing taxes for reimbursement if it was paid.

I have a feeling Estonia’s tax administration doesn’t ask as many questions as the Finnish one.

That said, there’s usually an actual exception for luxury cars, if it’s for your sales people (or if you do the sales, yourself). Luxury branding can be used as a “marketing tactic” due to “presentation”. Basically, if you’re meeting with a potential customer, looking like you’re successful technically makes you look more reliable. Essentially business attire for your personal transportation.

Not saying it’s necessarily true, but it’s actually a really old thing done in many countries.

I don’t know about other tech companies, but if you run a local AI you at least won’t have to worry about that. You don’t need a high end computer if you only use it sparingly anyway.

Otherwise, stick to open source or privacy friendly tech as much as possible and you’ll avoid him pretty well. Linux software alternatives are definitely not supported by him I’m sure (like Krita, GIMP, and Libre Office).

Email is a bit tricker with the news about Proton, but I think Tuta and Posteo are alright. Again, this could also be something that can be run on a local mini server if you’re interested.

If it’s about the phone, I suggest either a used Pixel with Graphene, used Samsung with /e/ if you have the tech know how, or a Murena’s new phone (if it’s available yet where you are - if not let me know), or if you have the money, a Fairphone 5.

I can also help you out with setting up non-cloud stuff if you want, like security cams if you’re interested.

For smart home automation you can do Home Assistant , which now also has pre-made hardware available (could be useful if you need to control/ automate grow lights, sprinklers, or chicken coop heaters).

In the last decade (not counting fish & hunting) I’ve known the name of every animal I’ve eaten and I or my partner slaughtered it.

I misread that at first and thought it included wild animals.

Which made me think of a moose eating your turnips and you glaring at him and saying “uuuu, Ricky, when I catch you Ricky…”

Not really. You have to provide your own business ID in order to not be charged VAT, and they gets noticed and registered.

You’ll have to then explain why the Ferrari, specifically, was a business expense. If the tax administration doesn’t think it’s a good reason, you then have to pay the VAT anyway.

And don’t even get me started on the fucking bureaucratic stupidity that is importation or I’ll have to take my blood pressure medication.

Source: starting up my own business in Finland. Rip 25.5%VAT. Fuck NCP.

How many be bots tho

Nah, they just made the triangle bigger with AI (/s)

That you still say he’s not publicly a Nazi says everything.

Nah, but I can live with knowing I at least tried to stop literal Nazis from gaining absolute power.

Can you say the same?

Email alias?

Yes we get it, you just made sure the literal Nazis got power and gave Israel the means to 100% Speedrun the genocide.

It’s funny you think there will be legitimate elections in 4 years. I mean Republicans are already pushing ways to give Trump a third term. So like, congrats on having Gaza screwed even harder while simultaneously throwing away any semblance of democracy?

At least the corporate corrupt Dems gave a small window for changing things democratically while not screwing over Trans people in the USA as well.

By abstaining you allowed the greater evil to prevail, not prevented any evil from occuring.

I had rediscovered they still existed (just not where I lived) when it was being discontinued in 2019. I ordered a pallet box before they were. My neighbor/babysitter gave me that for breakfast as a kid.

Sarsaparilla was outlawed?