It’s typically called notarization but in North America it is often supplemented by a witness depending on the class of document. Many documents don’t even require that.
Had an acquaintance that worked in strategy have to explain something similar for the Netherlands. They thought they could just cut everyone and be off the books no repercussions.
DOGE probably didn’t help matters but the problem started to rise in 2023. My gut reaction was “damn that DOGE!” too but they didn’t start with cuts until 2025. So it likely just exasperated an already growing concern. This is the same kind of stuff anti-vaxers don’t get. We left South America out of the equation so when the circumstances of migration and feeding changed so did the status quo of a “screwworm free” line in the sand. Other peoples problems can quickly become everyone’s problem if left unchecked.
That's worse though. Cutting a program that had been successful for decades is short sighted, but people tend to begin focusing on the cost of prevention after so long. Memories fade and the question starts to become, "Why are we still spending so much?"
That's not what happened. DOGE carelessly cut a program in the middle of fighting a crisis.
I'm not saying it was DOGE--the article introduces a host of other causes--but I think both DOGE and those other causes deserved a lot more airtime than they got; what caused the problem is relatively briefly handled, but what actually went wrong is a key part of the story.
The article is comparing 2 scenarios that have other explanations: a fire sale of a large fleet and Tesla which has an image problem because of its leadership.
I’m not saying the article is wrong I’d just like to see broader representation (Chevy bolt, lucid air, etc).
Worse than that, the main vehicle it compares everything to is the Model Y. There may have been one or two things related to Tesla this year, and not other EVs, that might have hurt resale values for some reason...
A vocal minority are freedom loving. A significant number are hooked on consumer debt. I feel like any sweeping generalization is going to be wrong… especially when referencing the USA which is basically 50 countries and has a population exceeding all of Western Europe.
> especially when referencing the USA which is basically 50 countries and has a population exceeding all of Western Europe.
Germany is basically 16 countries (federal states [Bundesländer]). Europe is a whole countinent - here a suitable American analogue miht be USA+Canada+Middle America. Or if we talk about the EU, a suitable analogue would be NAFTA (the EU also started as a set of free trade agreements).
And they counted an even lower percentage of Eurasia. It might matter for a given conversation. It might not. What's your point (i.e., what are you actually trying to ask)?
> I am a backend developer using Spring Boot and Java.
If your goal is speed to market use what you know which is Spring Boot and Java.
If your aim is to learn something new then go with Django or sprinkle in some Kotlin incrementally (eg tests). I don’t think it’ll matter in the long run which you choose.
Conflating I want to learn something new with I want to deliver quickly will give you a suboptimal outcome for both.
Feels like a bad point in the curve to try and sell them. “Oh our internal hypecycle is done… we’ll put them in the market now that they’re all worn out.
