Rui Machado

Landscape Ecology & GIS.
Karate.
Techno Music.
Hive Blockchain.
Bolas de Berlim sem creme.

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As someone who lives in Portugal which already stops every single package you get from outside EU with no exceptions for a decade or more:

I can tell you how this will go

From now on if you receive a package from outside EU, it'll first go missing for weeks and nobody will know where it is, then you'll receive an email from your country's customs agency

They'll make you login to some extremely unusable and outdated web portal which breaks half the time and where you have to classify your shipment in one of 10,000 confusing category codes

Depending on the category code you'll pay a different tax rate, sometimes it's 5% sometimes it's 60%

Then you have to pay the customs duty in some archaic way that will also be broken half the time

And then you'll finally receive your package from outside EU after months

Experiencing this for a few times you'll realize you will never ever try to order or receive anything from outside EU ever because the ordeal is too painful and expensive

I get asked a lot here by people from US to test out new products (like the guy who made the Minimal Phone) and it's just literally impossible for me to receive it even for testing. I tried to classify it as samples for testing but you need to go through a bureaucratic process of insane lengths to get that through so I just gave up

Realistically all this does is make Europeans live even more in the stone ages, as now they can't use modern AI, nor get modern products from outside EU because it'll be too much hassle to order

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@vonderleyen How do exactly those products that fail to meet EU safety standards and put consumers at risk, suddenly become safe after applying a tariff (that is ultimately paid by the consumer)?

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@B24PT Ainda vão cantar o hino nacional ou vão substituir pelo "atirei ao pau ao gato"?

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@BilbiaOfissial A malta que tatuou o logo antigo a pensar que era a bandeira de Portugal, agora fica sem nada a que se agarrar.

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@nunop Há gente nas conferências de imprensa com capacidade de manter o nível de toxicidade. Ainda algum se lembra de criticar o Martinez porque não deu uma folga para irem à praia depois do bom desempenho neste jogo.

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

Se calculamos indicadores per capita sem saber o número de capitas porque é que não havemos de comparar os golos em mundiais sem contar o número de mundiais?!
Haja saúde. 💪

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@guganoid O Fernando Santos cometeu esse erro e nunca mais teve paz.

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@TheRuiJorge Aguentei 5min e fui ver o resto no YouTube.

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@WolfgangRichtEU "If we confiscated..."
Loser mindset all over.

[Philip Johnston @PhilipJohnston]

So inspiring 🫡

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

🚀

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

Never. Give. Up.

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@VazHenriqueVaz1 E ainda temos de sobra para um hotel.

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@SLBMilGrau Pôr-lhe um preço à entrada do mundial é uma ideiazinha triste. Espero que seja mentira. Ou faz um mundial bom e 40M parece barato, ou corre mal e ainda acabam a vender por metade. De qq forma, fica o clube mal visto.

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@UTDIMole Could it be Fletcher?

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@claudiaaict Historiador de formação, estoriador de coração.

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@_abochie Figo

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@Fr4ncisco94 @jota_snchez Não é falha tua. O sistema está montado assim e um gajo até se esquece.

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@Fr4ncisco94 @jota_snchez 920€ x 14 salários = 12880€
/ 12 meses = 1073€

[Rui Machado @Rui_Mach7]

@FCB_Argentine A regular wednesday, as we call it in Portugal.

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