jkf
16d ago
What he’s doing is making it (even) more expensive to manufacture a phone in US
Good thing nobody manufactures phones in the US then, eh?
jkf
16d ago
Our closest and friendliest neighbor economically and geographically has been pushed away
Please don't mistake politicking for reality -- we are right here and not going anywhere. (not least, but not only -- because we can't)
jkf
16d ago
solar panels etc from Chinese sanctions
That would be kind of a big deal -- solar panels in particular from China have been heavily tarifFed for years and years, despite that there's really no domestic industry in that area.
Are you saying that Trump is now reducing those tariffs? I don't think that's true.
jkf
17d ago
Certainly that's what the people that hate him say -- I don't know myself though; it's entirely possible that his position is more nuanced than "all vaccines are bad".
jkf
19d ago
Did you get a chance to do any ski mountaineering yet? You'll find that nothing is 'good' on the flats if you are breaking trail.
As for crampons, the ones I know about attach more to the binding than the ski, and I'm sure I've seen ones fat enough to go on those skis -- but if you are climbing anything too steep for the skins on a solo trip like that, you have made some bad choices. (like, untenably bad -- as distinct from the background level of bad choices involved in the whole project)
jkf
21d ago
Nissan is a great value for the money and Kia is the cheapest on the American market, after all.
No problems there:
https://www.kiageorgia.com/about-kia-georgia/the-plant/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Smyrna_Assembly_Plant
Cars have been tariffed for a long time of course -- if anything it's a POC that tariffs can produce the desired effect. (onshoring manufacturing)
jkf
22d ago
I found this too -- I don't normally put cream in my coffee anyways, so a bit of Jameson's seems like a strictly superior experience.
jkf
23d ago
And in the rat-o-sphere there were all the effortposts about "sixties-era MAD/nuclear winter stuff was based on false premises, sure we'd get our hair mussed a little, but check out this fallout map..." -- truly nowhere is beyond their reach.
jkf
24d ago
This is such a weird argument, and yet people keep making it -- you don't really need to go anywhere near Greenland for even the wildest possible zero-icecap routes, but do you know where you do need to go?
Spitting distance of Alaska is where -- I guess Johnson was ahead of the game on the whole AGW thing.
jkf
24d ago
Doesn't seem to be playing out that way in Canada -- I keep waiting for the egregoire to notice that we are locked in a cage with an 800lb gorilla and are responding to his shitflinging by poking him with a (slim) stick, but even normally levelheaded folks are so wrapped in the flag (the one they were spitting on a couple of years ago when it was being flown by truckers) that I can't see it happening no matter how bad things get.
jkf
24d ago
Southern Comfort Collins
If I were a bartender I'd probably assume that the customer wants a Tom Collins with Southern Comfort instead of gin?
jkf
26d ago
Sweden and Canada both cut headline spending in the 1990's - again the cuts were small on a headline basis, but large after adjusting for inflation.
Dunno how Sweden did it, but in Canada it was more or less an accounting trick -- health care costs were downloaded from the feds to the provinces, which was great for the federal budget but resulted in commensurate impacts on both service levels (down) and provincial budgets (up).
Probably some amount of true cutting obtained through the device of scapegoating the provinces when the health care system became underfunded, but provinces also increased taxes/deficits to make up some of the gap -- it's nowhere near as impactful as the headline numbers might imply.
jkf
28d ago
jkf
29d ago
don't pot smoke(tell tale tribal marker- blue tribe loves its party drugs, red tribe has a big double standard)
You are saying that Toby Keith, Steve Earle, Hank Jr, Kris Kristofferson, etc -- are/were not Red Tribe?
I'll grant there's a bit of a schism going on with older school law&order types, but modern (meaning post-1970ish) Red Tribe certainly has room for the wacky tabbacy.
jkf
29d ago
My opinion (which I think I shared at the time) was that he got banned for a combination of "breaking with the HBD consensus" in the form of wrangling with many/most of the actual neo-Nazis around here, and being a bit of a cantankerous fuck who posts a lot -- which (the latter) provided lots of opportunity for said Nazis to report him for technically correct but minor rule violations which would have otherwise flown under the radar.
The reports-volume-based moderation strategy is fundamentally flawed when it comes to high-volume cantankerous posters, and I say this as somebody who was banned more than once by Hlynka for cantankerous wrangling, and kind of pissed off about it in the moment.
jkf
29d ago
"Driving around the country" is just Tuesday man -- he reminds me of myself when I was his age in some ways, but if he wants to be badass he needs to do better than "I crashed my bike" (also "Tuesday" for a lot of guys I used to know) in my books.
Name three.
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