I don’t get the joke. They are building research reactors not reactors designed to handle high demand. Start small, scale up then start building full scale reactors. Isn’t that kinda normal with new tech? They are starting the scaling up phase…

That’s why I like the individual toilets as standard. The only thing you out yourself as is someone who needs the toilet. Unfortunately though they require more space so they aren’t common .

I am a fan of those toilets that have a symbol that is half ‘male’ on the left side half ‘female’ on the right and are individual rooms that can be used by anyone. Those symbols are essentially defining ‘sex’ by clothing anyway and making them half and half carries the implication that it doesn’t matter where you are on the gender spectrum because both extremes merge into one symbol. They also sidestep the issue of normal people having to share with those nasty bigots. Everyone can shit where they want without consequence and no one needs to be exposed to my farts echoing in the toilet, which for some reason seems to have been designed to amplify the noise of struggle.

Will it stimulate the downturn in shipping demand by making it harder to get work as the USA pushes itself and the rest of the world into recession.

They can’t admit it because it’s an echo chamber. Trump tells them what they want to hear. They feel smarter for being validated by the president so they ignore the nagging voice that things aren’t going to plan because the only possible explanation is NOT that they were wrong and don’t understand these complex issues, but that even though they can’t see the full picture, they were right. Then all the other people in the same position agree that 4D chess is being played and they all voted a smart vote and the endorphins flood their brain again

I have to take him at his word. If he thinks it is going well, that means the chaos is what he wants.

He is either gaming the stock market for profit, or trying to harm the world economy.

The very slim possibility is that he is being told by others with an agenda that things are working as planned.

Aside from privacy issues I’m sure running out of storage space on my work laptop all the time will get loads better when I have to find space for all this extra data that has nothing to do with actually getting my job done. I am constantly fighting running out of HD space due to the need to generate a lot of data, video, images etc. Adobe software takes up more than it needs to and complains if you don’t have tons of spare space for it whenever you use it.

I can count on one amputated hand the number of times I would have needed this feature.

I only hope my company’s IT see the security risk and disable it by default.

This is the question.

How improbable is it that he could have made a connection to airport scanners if somebody else told him they were having confusing feelings.

I’m not seeking to defend FPTP, butf the two party system is inevitable, how come the UK has 393 political parties? It’s true that one of two parties usually wins, but against that backdrop, the SNP was able to flourish in Scotland. In America you literally have Republican, Democratic parties and Independents. It is not inevitable but it certainly isn’t a good system for the modern age.

The relevance is, when you visit Norway now, you’ll have to buy their tourism through the tax, so there won’t be any point in buying imported tourism from another country as you’ll already have more than enough. Pretty clever really.

Anyway imported tourism is never quite the same as getting it locally. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Profit like a motherfucker day.

You think he doesn’t have someone buying the stocks he tanked just before his announcement.

Trump has said that other countries are ripping off the USA which creates the impression that foreign companies are selling goods far higher than they are worth. That means that people who believe Trump likely think that the foreign companies have enough margin to soak up the tariff, I.e. Pay it themselves, in order to keep doing business. Then the ripping off stops and those foreign countries just grumble that their gravy train is over.

In reality, they are not and never were ripping off the USA in the way that is being suggested. Republicans seem to have forgotten that the market forces they used to talk about being so important have put a downward pressure on prices to some extent have prevented price gouging wherever there is competition and no collusion. Even when the goods come from overseas.

Now due to the tariffs, the cost of doing business with the USA went up. So if they want to keep selling products in the USA, they need to cover the cost of the tariff, and the only way to do that and stay in business is to pass the tariff on by increasing their price to the customer. They can still sell that product outside the USA at its original price but they may choose to increase those due to reduced volume sold over all since the USA will likely buy less.

By labelling the surcharge for the tariff they are simply highlighting the reason for the increase in price. As they should. I fear though that posts like this show that even when the reason for increased pricing is made clear, people will still choose their reality and not believe or understand the causes and motivations.

That is the attitude that proves the point. I’m not as sure as you are about the profit.

It does not cost much to make a/an _______

We tend to oversimpliy and ignore other things that need to be paid for. A short list of things that the markup has to cover that I can think of if the top of my head… IT infrastructure and support for ~80,000 employees worldwide. Rent for stores, salaries and benefits for the staff that work in them. Furnishings, signage and maintenance of stores. Shipping of product to stores. Distribution warehouses. Logistics planning and execution staff and software. Corporate level sales management staff and software. Marketing including sponsorships, TV spots, billboards, etc etc.

Each pair of shoes has to contribute to each of these things and all the others I can’t think of right now or don’t even know are needed.

I don’t mean to say that they don’t make (good) profit, but it’s probably no where near as big as you imagine.

You can argue whether or not a all of that corporate machinery is needed as well, but Nike clearly thinks it is right now or they wouldn’t spend money there for no reason because that doesn’t make the line go up unless there is a payback for that spending.

So we oversimplify and say the markup is huge, they can afford to pay more to make their product and still be profitable… But it probably means job losses in other parts of the company a good number of which are probably American jobs that Nike currently does offer.

That’s not what they think. They think that employees in the US would get good wages and the cost of goods wouldn’t change. They don’t understand the simple economics behind moving a factory to a country with a low manufacturing overhead.

They would be the first to complain that Nike wages are too low and/or Nike trainers now cost too much. Nike would be accused of price gouging even when they would probably struggle a lot more to be profitable.

Is a have your cake and eat it situation. Oh and it’s also worth noting that I expect almost all of the people who complain about manufacturing being overseas and not in the USA would not consider the jobs they want to bring home.

“There are plenty of other Americans who would do them, but i am destined for greater things than that”

“The US separation of powers, a cornerstone of the Constitution, divides governmental authority into three distinct branches – legislative, executive, and judicial – with each branch having specific powers and responsibilities, preventing any one branch from becoming too powerful”

If the president is responsible for appointing judges, then the judiciary is not and never was a separate power. While it required a rather unlikely series of deaths and retirements, in close proximity, the judiciary is under trump’s control because he has control of the supreme Court having appointed several.

They should have told him if it’s about principles not money, if he is “retiring” then he’ll no longer need his “salary” so he can choose between his allowance and royal accommodation and the pension.

Of course it’s about money. It always is. He is just another entitled wanker who thinks he “deserves” while others “take”.

So I guess it’s another precipitous drop on the stock market when it opens again.

Taking great care to avoid the rod that goes through from the north pole to the south that the globe spins around.

It seems, sadly, that Blackadder is too niche, but I appreciated the reference. Can you at least tell me what a robber button is?

Shouldn’t he be called Grampa Country?