the lobby group for JM Smucker and other big food manufacturers warned against "overly broad and sweeping tariffs" that might end up making it more expensive to import ingredients like cocoa, which are not made in the US.
"I don't necessarily want the current administration to say, well, we'll impose a tariff," Tom Madrecki, the group's vice president of supply chain resiliency, said at a recent forum about tariffs, hosted by Farmers for Free Trade.
"It's this careful balance between yes, I want you to take an America First trade policy and action to counter unfair trade policies abroad... but maybe not quite in that way."
If you're going to demand tariffs that increase prices to harm competition but not yourself, go fuck yourselves. The only thing that benefits is the company's profit margins, while consumers are forced to pay more because you raise your own prices to match.
In general, I agree with your conclusion. In this specific case with DOGE, I would argue otherwise.
Elon is overconfident about things he shouldn't be (which is everything) and not cautious about anything. With a LLM being dumb as hell and confidently wrong, that's actually not any worse than what we have now. If it somehow manages to be cautious about anything at all, it's an honest to goodness improvement.
I fully expect them to celebrate launch day by taking a sledgehammer to the old machine like that scene from Office Space. All I can say is that I really hope the SSA has been virtualizing their old COBOL applications and not running them on an ancient mainframe.
Between this and the other instances of Elon's AI correctly calling a duck a duck (or rather, a Nazi a Nazi and a disinformation spreader a disinformation spreader), Elon might be able to replace himself with Grok as the head of DOGE and see significant improvements almost overnight.
Uh... what? They only thing they have in common is following the POSIX standard. The moment you step outside of that POSIX lowest common denominator, it becomes abundantly clear just how different they are.
I get that, but I also really don't think it's a good idea to underestimate the importance of having a leader who strongly pushes back against Trump.
America is going downhill fast, and the current administration is highly imperial, expansionist, and corrupt. The "51st state" shit isn't a joke. The government here said "if" they were to take Canada, it would be by economic force instead of military force, and then proceeded to leverage tariffs to create economic pressure on the rest of the continent. They undermine and belittle the Canadian government at almost every opportunity while riling up the conservatives down here by claiming yall are taking advantage of us and being welfare queens who are completely reliant on our handouts and protection. It's an obvious attempt to tire people out and destroy national sympathy for you guys.
Trust me, whatever shit you have going on there right now, it's still a lot better than what's happening down here. And as bad as we have it, you would get it even worse as a country compromising itself to appease America. By all means, vote for whoever you want, but at least wait until after the US has played its hand and made its intentions to extract wealth and resources from Canadians undeniably clear. Voting in an American-friendly candidate right now is a guarantee to have American corporations come in and destroy your country like they did ours.
From my understanding, you have three viable parties. I understand saying "fuck the neoliberals," but then why not pick the third party that isn't endorsed by the insane fascist down here?
I forget which chucklefuck said it, but our administration said your conservative party leader's values align with Trump's, and Trump is threatening your entire country's sovereignty on a near daily basis. If the expansionist "deal maker" who likes to demand mineral rights in exchange for empty promises likes him, I would expect that to be a very good indicator of someone willing to bend the knee and kiss the ring.
Try crack house brothel of conservatism run by a megalomanical toddler, filled to the brim with weapons of mass destruction, and looking to expand into new territories. Then you're right.
A friendly reminder for my neighbours up north: it's not just the people down here who are bombarded by misinformation and conservatism. A friend linked me to a video equivalent of this news, and the comments were a complete cesspool:
I wish I could say that I cherry-picked a small sample of the comments, but that was 70% of them at the time screenshot. For the sake of all that is democracy, please keep doing your best to educate fellow voters. Don't let Trump get the politician he wants.
I read this entire thread and you sound almost like a MAGA from down here. Are you sure you didn't take a wrong turn on the way to r/conservative?
My bingo card:
✅️ The guvment is too far left and censoring us
✅️ My guns are being taken away by the libs
✅️ Drill baby, drill
✅️ Forced vaccinations are real and against my rights
❌️ A red MAGA hat
✅️ The other guy will fix "the economy"
✅️ Bring manufacturing back here
❌️ Illegal immigrants are the problem
✅️ "I like him because he tells it as it is"
❌️ The incumbent rigged the election
Being against providing a safe space for drug addicts is a new one, though. If they're going to shoot up regardless, isn't it better that their biohazardous needles are disposed of safely and not in a park?
In my experience, half the time it's a bloody YouTube video. Nothing says "fun" like having to seek back around in a video to find the next step without waiting 20 extra seconds because you already had to seek back and pause the video after it breezed past an overcomplicated and poorly explained step.
You think that's bad? For as much as I love seeing a well-configured Nix system, it's beginner-unfriendly learning curve is almost as bad as "compile everything yourself" distros.
As a beginner, do you have a question about Nix? RTFM. You did? Well, wrong Nix. You wanted to learn something about Nix the language, but those docs were about Nix the OS and Nix the package manager.
You just read a guide for using the nix command and wanted to install a program with nix-env? That's an outdated guide. You should be using flakes and nix profile. You tried that, but it said the nix command is experimental so you didn't do it? No, you were supposed to edit /etc/nix/nix.conf to enable them first.
Don't get me wrong here though, I like Nix. It just desperately needs an actual beginner-friendly beginner guide for flakes and nix command commands that doesn't assume everyone is a software developer. 80% of the Nix documentation tutorials aren't even relevant to regular users, only package maintainers and NixOS users.
Not at all surprizing. Spez thinks he's an upcoming Elon-like genius and wants to surround himself with like-minded techbros, but he's actually a massive Musk bootlicker.
I absolutely believe at least half of them are just deplorable humans.
YouTube is a cesspool on a good day. If you know where to look (such as "anti-woke" "content" creators' videos), you can easily find an overwhelming number of shitheads in the comments cheering for overt bigotry or violence against others. A recent news topic and barely-moderated videos of a non-white woman getting disappeared? They're coming out of the woodwork for that, guaranteed.
I think you are wrong, but only in the you're not thinking about the big picture.
Elon "I traced the DDOS to Ukrainian terrorists" Musk is in charge of this. Someone on Twitter (probably his alt) is going to post a conspiracy on Twitter about Ukrainian or Canadian hackers being behind it, and he's going to retweet it with some plausibly deniable bullshit like "not far off," and rally up his cult of reactionary prokaryots to demand a economic or military response. It's yet another golden opportunity for the crony collective to sweep their own incompetence under the rug while simultaneously scapegoating another country to push their unspoken-but-obvious agenda.
I also wish it didn't say that, but for entirely different reasons.
It's an ad. Paid for by a foreign government. MAGA morons aren't going to do much other than interpret it as Canada being scared and spreading lies, which obviously means it's working and Trump is doing a tremendous bigly job making Canada "pay" the tariffs.
It might get some Republican Trump voters to actually attempt to understand the consequences of tariffs, but it's going to empower the vocal cultists that live in disinformation la-la land.
If you're going to demand tariffs that increase prices to harm competition but not yourself, go fuck yourselves. The only thing that benefits is the company's profit margins, while consumers are forced to pay more because you raise your own prices to match.