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SaltSong
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It was too late on November 6th.
Agreed. With the added bonus that we have too live in the system while we burn it down. I'm not a huge fan of the idea, but then, I'm a maintainer by nature.
I have nifty tech, yes, but I also have vaccination deniers, Nazis, and my fourth "once in a lifetime" economic crises. I'm never going to buy a house. I'm never going to retire. I'll probably never even pay off my student loans.
I personally think that, largely speaking, if imports are cheaper than local production, that’s a good thing!
I'm hardly an economist, right? But I agree with you, broadly speaking. But first covid, and now Trump round two is showing is the weakness of global integration. As long as everything goes smoothly, it's jam for everyone. But let something screw up the logistics, or someone duck up the balance of trade, and everything can go to shit really fast. There are lots of things we can't make here, but we rely on them. That is less than ideal.
I don't know that tariffs are the way to address that issue, or even if it needs to be addressed at all. O do know that the way Trump is doing it is all wrong.
I'd go with "deshittification," myself. It's not important how or why they are shit, just that they are, and the laws in question prevent us from fixing it.
The airport tried that shit on me today. I was able to make it print me a boarding pass, though.
I'm becoming a luddite in my middle age.
I think that's a feature, not a bug.
I'm old enough to remember them promising, repeatedly, that the nude scanners didn't, couldn't save images.
Joke's on them though. They can't delete my pictures fast enough to avoid the trauma.
Most of us are not getting richer, nor working shorter hours, nor living better than our parents. We're past "services" and on into "parasites."
In principal, tariffs can prop up domestic industry that is having trouble competing with cheaper imported products. In practice, this winds up being really complicated, because the world is a lot more interdependent than it was 80 years ago.
And explained that he was using AI to do a part of the job that needs to be done by humans, because it helps them figure is the solution.
In happier times, we call the process "diplomacy," and mostly limit it to things that affect us, directly or indirectly.
But pressuring other countries to, for example, clean up their corruption so we can reliably do business with them is common. (Also hilariously hypocritical) Pressuring other countries to enact civil rights laws is fairly common, too.
I have to admit, seeing pressure to remove civil rights is unusual, at least from countries not named UAE.