The world does buy a lot of intangibles from the US. Music, software, and service subscriptions come to mind.

There’s no explanation. They achieved their results and moved on to new accounts and new messages.

yes, we do, I need that lumber to build my deck!

I work with some Ukrainian and Israeli contractors. They are much more direct than the typical American, and there was some cultural calibration that had to happen on both sides of the relationship.

Of course any competent international businessman or seasoned politician would already know this and navigate those cultural differences as a matter of course.

hmm https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21011986

Both my Google and At&t gigabit fiber plans have been symmetric and post about 850-900mbit both ways.

Cable (DOCSIS) customers will always have lower UL because of the limited shared upload channel compared to multiple bonded download channels.

ADSL customers are in a similar situation, with the modems configured to allocate 90% of the channel to downstream (which makes sense for the vast majority of users).

Cellular customers will always have lower UL because of handset power/antenna limitations and transmit power ranging.

there’s this bizarre contingent of very vocal users who go nuts, pushing back against any actually achievable non right wing stance, and go on and on about how “liberals“ are evil and not “left”. I believe they are plants who’ve been given the job of dividing the left.

Usenet or Fidonet would be a more apt comparison

Trump only signed the bill sent to him by the legislature

The US President can’t change tax law though - weird that Newsweek doesn’t even mention that.