It’s not that the stated goal is wrong, it’s that the Republican Administration’s methods are so terrible that they can’t achieve it. Indeed the methods are so wrong that it’s not even clear that the stated goal is the real goal they are pursuing.

I like how their release announcements always kind of read like press releases. Even when it’s just the third maintenance release for some normal release train.

Worth to mention that all the babies had to be born alive.

As in, only the alive ones counted, or a single stillbirth would invalidate your entire record?

If you’re not informed and take Trump at his word, I can see how you might end up thinking the tariffs were a country-to-country transaction, like literally China paying the USA.

In that case you wouldn’t necessarily arrive at the conclusion that the cost has to be passed on, along the value chain.

But on the other hand I don’t have a good track record of estimating what uninformed people who don’t care to seek information think…

I guess the treat vector would be that they’d be Magicking Her Into A Lesbian

Job well done lads.

Hahaha the rest was funny, but somehow that tipped me over the edge, the image of the cabal of lesbians referring to each other as lads.

Who are you even replying to? What is this comment about?

It looks like you’re both laughing at @[email protected] but also quoting a different comment supporting his stance.

Yes, then you only pay tariff for the powder, for the big jar, and the transpacific shipping of the big jar. That’s what I meant by “as far as it was packaged in China”.

I hope these CEO’s get their reckoning some way some day.

They seem to think it’s all just business and cruelly wielding power is no issue, but I think they overestimate how isolated they are.

No need to do them next: “Altdeutscher Mops” is a thing already. I guess you’d call them “Old German Pugs” in English?

I feel like it’s a CEO’s job to care about all aspects of the company he is supposed to lead.

Well not “just”. It’s also philanthropy. Could be worse, like buying media influence, or advertising.

At the border you pay tariffs on all the costs up to that point, because they are all considered to be part of the value of the shipment as it crosses the border. So the price of good, plus the price of packaging (as far as it was packaged in China), plus the price of the freight shipping are tariffed together, which makes the result of the calculation a little worse, but fundamentally you’re right.

No I haven’t but I bought a Tamagotchi this week, lol.

Weird map. The non-Union Balkan states and Norway are cut out, but Switzerland is filled in.

You just reminded me of one of the Life is Strange fanfics I read once. Where Max and Chloe have these time and space warping powers and just go the opposite way, they determine the status quo is fucked and needs to be rectified globally and then start doing it in an actually thoughtful sensible way. (There was some shadowy confusing adversity but I can’t recall its nature)

Can confirm they don’t do that any more in Switzerland. They separate solids and liquids and have integrated bioreactors to clear the fluids. Only the cleaned liquids get dumped these days, the solids are stored and emptied every few weeks.

The new-ish Bombardier Twindexx Express have an issue with their bioreactors so unfortunately whatever they dump still stinks. The main train company SBB claimed to fix it in Summer 2024, but it was still stinky in Autumn.

We just recently discussed this project:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/23083174

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/23833792

I don’t think anything substantial changed since then.

The only real news are that it’s been inaugurated. If you want a new picture check here

It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through “Banking” or “Secondary Sanctions?”

People were trying that last year already, together with the arms deliveries. Until you came along and fucked with everything. You claimed to have such a great plan that you could end the war in 24h. Now, after 2307h in office you realise what everyone knew years ago? Truly a genius.

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