SaltSong

joined 1 year ago
[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 20 points 10 months ago

This collapse didn't start in January.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 14 points 11 months ago

Well, that's customer satisfaction.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Are there any Russian workplace comedy?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In this example, the child is living, and has needs.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 41 points 1 year ago

As a pure act, I can't see that it causes any harm.

However, it will very likely lead to frustration, anger, and poor treatment of the person in question. Those things are bad.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 111 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very nice.

How about those Epstein files?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Do your iPhones usually take oil?

What do you think plastic is made from?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Packaging, no. But manufacturing it into something else, yes.

Do you think a tariff on copper would apply to an iPhone? Or a tariff on oil?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's generally how tariffs work. A tariff on grain is not a tariff on bread. A tariff on steel is not a tariff on knives. A tariff on cotton is not a tariff on clothing.

It can be, of course. A tariff can be on steel and items made with steel. But that's not usually the case, and it's usually called out as such. Of course, Trump is not what you'd call the most precise communicator in the world, but all we can do is work with what he says.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Right, but this tariff, at least as I understand it, is on chips imported as chips, not on products that contain chips. An iPhone will, of course, be subject to some other damn fool tariff, but not this specific one.

Of course, my understanding of this specific tariff may be wrong.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (24 children)

What he means is, if I buy an iPhone built in China, this tariff won't affect the price I pay.

But if I buy a phone built in America, with an imported processer, this tariff will make that phone more expensive.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the way.

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