merc @ merc @sh.itjust.works

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So, in your view, it's a dystopia when people are prevented from lying to the court?

What's a utiopia then?

Not only has this not worked, but I can't understand how anybody ever thought it could work.

"You know what our justice system needs?! A way to prevent judges from using their judgment!"

What's an example of them getting it wrong?

What do you mean by "wrong"? I can't remember the last time a poll was wrong.

I still don't get it. I'm aware that there's a constant hate-fest against Trudeau, but whenever anybody mentions specifics it's mostly stuff that's outside a PM's control, if it's even true.

This is exactly why CBC is so important. It's available everywhere. It's not controlled by a billionaire. Unfortunately, it has ads. But, it's not so dependent on ads that it has to avoid certain topics.

They might choose not to watch it, but it's there. It doesn't prevent people from living in a bubble, but it's right there, right outside the bubble. I think it makes the bubble problem much smaller than it is in the US.

People seem to be missing the one positive piece of news here: She's literate!

The only person who would make this mistake is someone who read "AI" in an ambiguous font. I know it's a low bar, but this means that the secretary of education is able to read.

What's wild is that they can't even plan for this. If they'd had 5 years of lead time maybe they could have transitioned to an American-made alternative. Maybe your company could have opened an American manufacturing plant or something.

The way things are now, the tariff is likely to change between the time they place the order with you and the time the item arrives. If they could somehow delay delivery for another week, maybe they could avoid being charged the tariff. Or, maybe the tariff will double.

Even if tariffs were a good idea (and for the most part, they're not), the chaotic vibes-based way they're being implemented is so incredibly destructive.

I completely agree. It's like one of those supposedly uplifting news items about a kid selling their rare stamp collection to pay for their bus driver's surgery. Sure, it's nice the kid did that, but what kind of dystopia are we in where someone with a steady job can't get the health care they need.

There's a reason I didn't say "hairs". I believe he has one and it gets wrapped around and around and around and around and around...

Bold of you to think there's going to be a "back up".

Can you imagine being a company, or even just a small business owner trying to make long-term plans in this environment?

Say you run a pest-control business in Texas. Things are going well, so you're thinking about hiring your neighbour's fat son to do some work during the summer. Then the tariff chaos starts. Do the chemicals you need for your business get more expensive? You buy them from DuPont, a good American company, but where does DuPont get the raw materials? The tariffs change week to week, sometimes day to day, so it's really hard to know what your costs are going to be, and what you'll have to charge. One of your other neighbours, Americans, but originally from Laos, have been good customers over the years, but what if ICE deports them? Your wife's massage therapist has been snatched twice by ICE now because he "looks Mexican" even though everybody knows he's Native American.

And there's your best buddy who works in propane. You'd think that that would be safe from tariffs, but it turns out a lot of the accessories he sells are manufactured in China. If he loses his job, his wife's salary as a teacher isn't going to be enough to keep them afloat.

Yeah, that's the BBC's headline. I didn't like it either, I guess it seems like "soaring" if you're looking at the 1 day view. If you're looking at the 1 week view it looks like "recovering". If you're looking at the 3 month view it's more "recovered slightly".

Most real online brokers let you buy and sell currency.

But at least we can be 100% certain those tariffs will still be in place in a few years when the factories are finished.

It's going to take a while to weed all the competent people out of the secret service.

Exactly.

And if investors think the future is extremely bleak they will cancel plans to expand, "right-size" their workforce, and so-on, which will smash the economy. The future looks incredibly bleak right now. Many businesses have stopped ordering at all from China because they have no idea what the tariffs will be once the goods arrive.

The tariff on goods from China is more than 100% now. Why do you think the price would only go up by 10-20%?