SkoomaDentist
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SkoomaDentist
1d ago
while trying to have a flamewar with a heathen mac user
You're doing God's work.
SkoomaDentist
3d ago
There's a difference between "Makeup used to conceal blemishes revealed by HDTV" and "Making a 60 year old look like a 30 year old" (which is what's seen here).
SkoomaDentist
4d ago
I hope this helps reshore domestic light manufacturing. Not sure that it will, but that could be good.
The problem is that applies to any goods or parts that are imported. Need a $2 component to fix something? That’ll he $100 in one week and $200 starting in June. Ordering a batch of prototype pcbs (something no US manufacturer has capacity / interest in providing)? That’ll be $200 extra. The biggest freakout about the tariffs is in communities dealing with or closely associated with small manufacturing businesses as their materials costs are suddenly doubling or more.
This demonstrates possibly the largest single difference between Chinese and Western manufacturers / vendors. China is chock full of manufacturers who are perfectly happy to handle small quantity orders while Western manufacturers by and large are only willing to deal with major customers.
SkoomaDentist
4d ago
Have they actually gotten implemented though?
Many communities are freaking out right now as either goods or parts used by US manufacturers have now more than doubled in cost. For individuals there's the additional insanity of a flat minimum of $100 / $200 fee for individual packages where the tariff would fall below that amount, starting in one week from now.
SkoomaDentist
5d ago
So you agree that having western troops in Ukraine is irrelevant for Russia’s actual safety because if they attack in force, ”Nukes fall, everyone dies”?
SkoomaDentist
6d ago
Because nukes.
And how is that any different between attack from Ukraine vs attack from eg. Latvia?
SkoomaDentist
8d ago
Well, we already had Palpatine as the pope 15 years ago.
SkoomaDentist
10d ago
What do you mean unfortunately?
All he has to do is start a black metal band and become a true legend.
SkoomaDentist
14d ago
STOP RIGHT THERE YOU CRIMINAL SCUM!
Them’s fighting words!
SkoomaDentist
14d ago
One can't require merit-based admissions and hiring while also requiring viewpoint-diversity admissions and hiring
Once again I'm glad that over here university admissions are based purely on matriculation exam / entrance exam scores (barring a few small arts institutes) and the universities couldn't favor some groups even if they wanted to.
SkoomaDentist
15d ago
It could prevent someone from doing something stupid because they got a form in the mail that they assumed they'd just fill out and mail back, only to find out later that they totally fucked something up.
Which it should be noted is an extremely common attack vector in all sorts of phishing and credit card fraud scams so we know for a fact that a lot of people absolutely will react to an email that looks threatening enough without using enough caution.
SkoomaDentist
16d ago
.5. Fuck up many US manufacturers who rely on parts / subassemblies / materials that don't have alternative sources outside China.
I'm sure this is all just some 6D chess...
SkoomaDentist
17d ago
Just by imposing and exempting he promotes the desired diversification from China
But he isn’t doing that. What he’s doing is making it (even) more expensive to manufacture a phone in US instead of doing the whole thing in China because all the subassemblies and components still get tariffed to death.
SkoomaDentist
18d ago
Thanks!
SkoomaDentist
18d ago
Is there a collated list of all of these shortcuts somewhere?
SkoomaDentist
18d ago
ASML.
SkoomaDentist
20d ago
whether one party thinks regulation X is pointless isn't really material, the question is are they willing to endanger a trade deal to ditch the bendy bananas regulation
Considering what said bendy bananas regulation actually says, it's a good example of something the EU should insist on having as it's all about labeling standards, ie. not trying to pass subpar produce as prime quality.
SkoomaDentist
21d ago
I think she was a member of a board of the local Mensa subchapter.
SkoomaDentist
21d ago
I’m getting flashbacks to a brief fling I had two decades ago with a Mensa activist. A not insignificant reason for it being so brief was that I very quickly got fed up with having to spell out so much trivial stuff.
SkoomaDentist
23d ago
So unless the politician or his aides copypasted slop into the policy document
A certain recent tariff policy does come to mind.
SkoomaDentist
25d ago
Fucking hell. I knew there was something suspicious about
SkoomaDentist
26d ago
Make Men Great Again?
SkoomaDentist
26d ago
You know how depressions and such almost always have multiple factors with any one causative event just being the last straw? It’ll be something new for historians to point to one that was caused by a single person’s obsession with mercantilism.
SkoomaDentist
30d ago
What would you prefer? That updates and announcements are given only in a Whatsapp group chat?
That's the alternative I see millennials going for.
Why not guillotine?
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