I agree, but something has to give. It behooves the world to treat current version of Repubs as the 2nd 3rd Reich. Appeasement concessions is what they’re looking for. As such, it’s on Canada & Mexico to establish robust trade partnerships that don’t include the putrid carcass of Uncle Sam that’s being marionetted by that orange psychopath.
You don’t avoid tariffs per se. When the good enters the country, the tariff is paid to customs. It’s just an import tax. Now to recoup the loss from that tariff, it will be sold to you at a markup. You can still pay Canadian and Mexican goods, but the best thing you can do is optimize shit where you live.
My recommendation to you would be to buy less if you can help it. Don’t use Amazon if you can help it. Legumes, grains, dairy, produce, water, cheap protein, all bought locally. If you can purchase from illegals even better. I got this guy that sells me honey on my way back from work. It’s fire. Look at it as a little challenge you impose on yourself. You don’t need to do it perfectly. If enough people do it imperfectly, the corporate concerns that got you all into this mess will feel the hurt.
The worst case scenario here was complete capitulation. Chamberlain’s appeasement policies didn’t work and neither would bending the knee to Herr Drumpf.
Now double down. Tariffs on Teslas and ban X (the everything app (f.k.a. Twitter)).
He’s only losing if you consider him to be playing for Team America.
He sure could. Did you know that USPS is technically a government-granted monopoly by way of the Private Express Statutes?
Drumpf could grant X (The everything App (Formerly Known As Twitter)) the same privileges. Maybe not directly, but ultimately it’d have the same result, if they created a service that routed payments through it, and forced citizens to use said service and then grant said service a monopoly.
OK if you say so. How would one ascertain whether these comments had an effect?
As far as I know, when state of affairs becomes uncertain, stocks go down. That’s the extent of my knowledge as pertaining to stocks. I figure that announcements of tariffs bring uncertainty in the long-term.
I’m just gonna shove the list here, cuz archive.is doesn’t play well with the fancy frontend that MIT has cooked up:
A powerful new telescope will come online this year in a remote region of Chile and begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky. Inside is the largest digital camera ever made for astronomy, which will snap photos continuously for years to help astronomers study dark matter, explore the Milky Way, and untangle other cosmic unknowns.
Generative search promises to make finding what you’re looking for simple and quick. When you type in a query, an AI model summarizes information from many online sources to return a unique answer. On your device, it can comb through documents, photos, and videos, recognizing objects and people to help you find them faster. This may signal the end of traditional search engines and the rise of personal AI assistants.
Large language models can do amazing things because they’re crammed with hundreds of billions—even trillions—of parameters (the values that determine their behavior) and were trained on most of the internet’s data. But cheaper and less power-hungry small language models can now stand with the heavyweights across a range of specific tasks. Move over dinosaurs. The future belongs to smaller, nimbler beasts.
Cow burps are one of the largest sources of agricultural emissions—and one of the trickiest ones to solve. A food supplement that significantly reduces the amount of methane that cattle belch is now available in dozens of countries. Other products, which might prove even more effective, are likely on the way.
Robotaxis have completed years of beta testing, and they are now finally becoming available to the public. In more than a dozen cities worldwide, riders can summon one whenever they want. Now, the biggest players are ramping up for intense competition as they expand into new cities under regulators’ watchful eyes.
New fuels made from used cooking oil, industrial waste, or even gasses in the air could help power planes without fossil fuels. These alternative jet fuels have been in development for years, but now they’re becoming a big business, with factories springing up to produce them and new government mandates requiring their use. Why it matters
Thanks to today’s generative AI boom, robots are now learning new tasks faster than ever. Today’s automatons are not one-trick ponies—we’re getting closer to general-purpose robots that could be dropped into new environments and tackle a variety of tasks on our behalf, almost instantly.
A trial of a new HIV prevention medicine found that 100% of treated women and girls were protected from acquiring HIV infections. And it only needs to be injected once every six months. The drug could help us end AIDS once and for all—if we can ensure access for those who need it.
Making steel is one of the largest industrial sources of carbon dioxide, emitting more carbon than all of India (the world’s third largest emitter) and far more than air travel. The first industrial green-steel plant, which uses hydrogen made with renewable power, is being built by Stegra, a $7 billion startup that is scheduled to begin operations next year in northern Sweden.
Stem cells from human embryos will cure disease. That’s the big promise scientists made decades ago. And now it’s finally coming true. Experimental transplants of lab-made cells seem to be helping treat two very different conditions—epilepsy and type 1 diabetes. Why it matters
I never said I was. Trump promised tariffs on EU countries and stocks went down. I’ll grant you they didn’t go down by a lot, but I don’t think the article was being disingenuous.
Right, absolutely. I’m not saying that Herr Drumpf just kickstarted a recession and neither do I think that’s the claim that the article is trying to make. The market, however, had a very clear reaction to just the MENTION of tariffs. What happens when the details to these tariffs are released? What happens when they are actually implemented?
OK but they did fall rapidly, and one can only surmise it’s because of the announcement of more tariffs.
Ye ye fair enough. My point is that LLMs can double bluff if need be and in the end the only thing we’ll have to identify them by is trying to like stress-test their tokenization.
I see through your ruse BrundleFly, if that even is your god-given Christian name. You clearly wrote written by ChatGPT at the end so that I may think that you are, in fact, an organism. The ol’ double-bluff eh? Get the fuck outta here! Do you know who you’re talking to? Do you know how many captchas I’ve passed? I’m a real god damn human being and that’s final!
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Obviously I don’t know what Reddit is. Sounds like a Lemmy alternative. But if anyone here finds out what Reddit is, go check out any subreddit where you’re supposed to just write stuff. r/AITAH, r/stories, r/AmIOverreacting. More bots than a TF2 practice match. Every post follows the exact same narrative structure. Dumb shit like “My dad killed my chihuahua, cooked it and fed it to my other chihuahua, so I’m not going to the family get-together. AITAH?” It’s genuinely shocking to me how comments don’t realize it. Maybe they’re LLMs as well, hence why they don’t say anything. Some of the mods might be LLMs too, considering they don’t do anything about it. Am I the only one who’s not an LLM? Am I just talking to myself at this point? Wait, am I also an LLM? What’s happening? Why have we made robots whose only job is to dilute reality?
Heartbreaking. I’d listen to this guy’s readings of H.P. Lovecraft while I was working. RIP.
Dude was a massive piece of shit. No one simped harder for Marine Le Pen.
I love how the “only good nazi is a dead nazi” folks are suddenly nowhere to be seen when the nazi is made dead by a Muslim (allegedly). If he actually was killed in the name of religious extremism, I see it as a nazi being murdered by a nazi-adjacent, so kind of a win win. Yet I’m seeing people mourn this guy for some reason and I can only attribute this phenomenon to either internalized islamophobia in the entire political spectrum or Israeli astroturfing.
The bad guys did a sufficient job of dismantling your joke of a democracy while the good guys had the presidency. I’m not saying that they’re the exact same, hence why I’m differentiating between good and bad. Obviously the good guys give more of a shit about the lives of the populus. I’m just making the observation that the good guys don’t seem all that broken up about losing.
I keep seeing people say stuff like this, but are you seeing the good guys do anything? The article itself said that they’re now getting together to discuss how they can start stopping the bad guys. So one begs to ask the question, what have they been doing thus far?
Mmmhm, Republicans are more likely to tackle Big Tech issues by funding them with a cold hard 500 billion smackaroos for AI research, right? /s
Gimme a fuckin’ break. D being trash doesn’t excuse this blatant endorsement of R. Never entertain the whims of the far right, no matter how sweetly they sing to you. History has taught us better.
Indeed. It’s a lot to put on Canada and Mexico, but such is the situation. You’re the world’s first line of defense against the McReich.
I’ll do my part by buying your exports the most I can, especially if the other option is to buy from America. If there’s anything else you think we can do to help even on an individual level, please share.