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The problem with the Euro and why it’s so stable is that its supply is tightly controlled. If there is to be any Euro vs USD to be widely used in world markets for trade, more Euros have to be made available worldwide for countries to use. Such an increase of supply will have destabilizing effects in the economy and will be more challenging to keep stable, as now the ECB must consider the trade happening with Euros wordwide and not just eurozone trade in its currency supply control.

Additionally, the EU would face less competitive exports, which is one issue currently faced by the US that Trump is trying to fix because he doesn’t understand economics, but can’t.

Overall the EU would require a much more robust financial asset trading and regulation infrastructure to handle being a world reserve currency.

It’s not just whoever currency is the top dog, a world reserve currency requires a finely adjusted economic policy that the ECB must be prepared for.

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Here’s a copy paste from superuser that will hopefully show you that what you said is incorrect in a way i find expresses my thoughts exactly

Magnetic Field Breakdown

Most sources state that permanent magnets lose their magnetic field strength at a rate of 1% per year. Assuming this is valid, after ~69 years, we can assume that half of the sectors in a hard drive would be corrupted (since they all lost half of their strength by this time). Obviously, this is quite a long time, but this risk is easily mitigated - simply re-write the data to the drive. How frequently you need to do this depends on the following two issues (I also go over this in my conclusion).

https://superuser.com/questions/284427/how-much-time-until-an-unused-hard-drive-loses-its-data

Tape storage is the gold standard but it’s just not realistically applicable to low scale operations or personal data storage usage. Proper long term storage HDDs do exist and are perfectly adequate to the job as i specified above and i can attest this from personal experience.

I did not meant to come across as saying that HDDs don’t suffer bit rot. However, there are specific long term storage HDDs that are built specifically to be powered up sporadically and resist external magnetic influences on the track. In a proper storage environment they will last over 5 years without being powered up and still retain all information. I know it because i use them in this exact scenario for over 2 decades. Conversely there are no such long term storage SSDs.

SSDs store information through trapped charges which most certainly lose charge through quantuum tunneling as well as generalized charge leakage. As insulation loses effectiveness, the potential barrier for the charge allows for what is normally a manageable effect, much like in the CPU like you said, to become out of the scope of error correction techniques. This is a physical limitation that cannot be overcome.

I doubt it. SSDs are subject to quantuum tunneling. This means if you don’t power up an SSD once in 2-5 years, your data is gone. HDDs have no such qualms. So long as they still spin, there’s your data and when they no longer do, you still have the heads inside.

So you have a use case that SSDs will never replace, cold data storage. I use them for my cold offsite back ups.

Only with guerrilla tactics against the US army, like Vietnam or the Taliban. They would still be occupied. No army in the world can stop a US offensive. They invested a lot in order to make it so. Fighting the US on a conventional war style is suicide.

The real pain to the US would come in the form of trade sanctions and loss of military allies in the EU and elsewhere in the democratic world. It would take a few years, because the EU and the US are pretty interconnected. Nato would probably be dead in the water.

After that it’s speculation that US enemies would seize the opportunity of their isolation. The lack of trade would severely impact revenues and Americans would be in for the wildest depression of US history, with a likely forecast of IRA style civil war between Democrats and Republicans. If Greenlanders kept at it, they would eventually take the region back.

The US isn’t a dictatorship, it’s a democracy. Democracies don’t usually fare well on offensive land grab wars for very long. So the US would either let go of Greenland with a new, sane president or become a dictatorship eventually. Lots of ifs in this scenario but taking Greenland would cause a lot of hurt for the US undoubtedly.

Plenty of communitites inside .ml are also filled with people who don’t participate in that, as .ml was a major reddit refugee hub. I can tell you of using .ml daily and obviously not being of the opinion China/Russia are great, the average user of .ml is not what you think it is. You just don’t see them cause they’re not out here commenting on politics.

Criticizing admins, moderators and instances or specific user behavior is also perfectly reasonable.

This right here is what i hate the most about Lemmy. The federated nature of Lemmy makes it evident that instances are varied in opinions, regardless of what opinions instance admins or the larger groups in the instances have.

You wanna shit on the Russia bots or China bots, I’m right there with you. You wanna call out tankie rethoric, I’m all for it. But this generalized instance tribalism that’s cropping up on Lemmy is just the worst. Just indiscriminate broad stroke criticizing people of a specific instance because you hate the political opinions of a subsection of that instance. Can’t go a single day reading the news without someone going like “but yeah fuck .ml users cause they’re all super communist tankies, amirite everyone?”

You’re making Lemmy less enjoyable you know. It’s exhausting.

Can they do that inside the EU though? Wouldn’t that violate the free travel of trade ? I don’t think they can. Italians are free to use Swedish VPNs, which legally have no logs they can give to Italian police anyway, among which there’s Mullvad. Italy can’t stop italians from buying swedish things. Unless it’s alcohol or tobacco, those things usually have exceptions.

But also, Mullvad accepts cryptocurrencies too. So it’s not like they have to use banks. They even take mailed in cash.