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This is to stop the practice of shipping things to a place, making a small change, then re-exporting from there to avoid tariffs.
by asah 2y ago
This is to stop the practice of shipping things to a place, making a small change, then re-exporting from there to avoid tariffs.
- brookst 2y agoIs that commonly done on uninhabited islands? Wouldn’t the shipping cost offset any gains? Where do you even make these small changes if there’s nobody there? And what does the export paperwork look like?
- addicted 2y agoThe problem is that the truth, that this was some haphazard nonsense thrown together at the last second using some ChatGPT prompts, is hard to believe, so people try to insert rationality where it doesn’t exist.
- brookst 2y agoIt probably already exists and I just can’t find it, but there’s some kind of law here about how some actions are so insane that they compel people to invent elaborate explanations to avoid the discomfort of recognizing insanity.
- lostmsu 2y agoFunny thing is the assumption that having ChatGPT run a country is worse than elected politician is not as obvious as you might think.
- mateus1 2y agoThat doesn’t hold water if you’re talking about uninhabited Antarctica territories.