adarza @ adarza @lemmy.ca

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did you see the bit where the diaper-in-chief recognized Taiwan as a separate country?

many already are--it's not enforced and prosecuted now because it's political and career suicide to 'go after churches' (who violate these rules).

there is a wikipedia article. they are a 'territory'. they took a list of countries and territories, added basic trade data for each, and then they copy/pasted simple formulas down a couple of columns. the whole thing was probably concocted in notepad and excel in half an hour.

you think companies will just use a flat amount to cover the 'tariff'? fat chance. this is america, they're gonna keep their percent-based margins, probably add to them, besides, to offset lower sales volumes.. and those profit margins get added at every link in the distribution chain. retail prices will be closer to double than 'only' 54% more.

capitalism and corporate greed says that the cost of domestic goods will go up, too, to be just less than the now higher-priced imports.

penguins like cheetos. i remember that uh.. 'documentary'. we should send 'em a big giant fat one. no charge. just to say 'sorry' for imposing the unfair tariffs on their trade.

ok, then...

i have a huge trade deficit with walmart.

i buy way more from them than they do from me ($1200-1500 a year vs $0); just like the u.s. buys more from many countries than those countries buy from the u.s.

like the leaky diaper's new tariffsimport tax, i should charge myself a ridiculously high extra tax on purchases from walmart until they buy $1200-1500 a year of some mythical product from me to even out the 'unfair' imbalance?

yea. that'll work.

ain't gonna cost me $5k more a year..

i don't have that $5k extra to spend, so i'll just keep on 'making do' with less and less each year. i'm already near the absolute minimum and close to scoping out a spot under a bridge by the river.

"career" workers are more likely to be dedicated to their job, and less 'loyal' to whoever the current resident of 1600 penn ave is. gotta get rid of any potential 'problems' before the revolt starts from within.

the giant hemorrhoid-in-chief has already cultivated a whole new generation of american-hating terrorists.. that was last time. this time around, it's just reinforcement for them to expand their numbers and sustain that hate for generations-yet-to-come.

the exporter need not be based in the origin ('tariffed') country to have their goods taxed on import.

funneling profits to overseas subsidiaries to lower a corporation's overall tax burden is a different issue.

maximum extent consistent with applicable law

so, not at all, then? because this shit has to get through congress first?

how about not buying russian oil in the first place.

set up your own vpn server on a 'low end box' (small and cheap vps) for your own exclusive use.

this but much, much worse.

‘I Expected Better’

this is what you voted for.

if you want 'better', make better choices--inside and outside the voting booth.

as long as some of 'those people' get hurt along the way, the magats don't care.

mickey is gonna take on both muskrat and the diaper, but it won't be to fight--it will be capitulation sealed with a three-way and a shower of money from the disney vault.

or be the first to add fluoride to bottled water, or 'import' tap water from elsewhere, for sale in the state.

i remember seeing bottled city of houston water on shelves in san antonio grocery stores back in the 1990s. san antionio was then, and until ~2002, the largest u.s. city without fluoridated water.

it's probably gonna be plasma6 by a hair over cinnamon on a rolling distribution. as much as people shit on manjaro here and on that other site, it has never broke on me--whether i update constantly or let it go 2-3 months between them.

but if the de and the underlying os are magically compatible, and those and programs kept up to date, never obsolete, and new ones appear for it as needed or desired... then sorry, it won't be linux... i'm going back to something like 95osr2, 98se or w2k.