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721.
by thfuran 2y ago
Trump has been spouting the same shit about trade deficits and the US getting ripped off for several decades. I think he legitimately believes high tariffs are a good idea to "fix" trade deficits.
722.
by thfuran 2y ago
It's almost but not quite exactly two teaspoons, which is certainly a plausibly achievable amount, but as you say, likely not by splatter.
723.
by thfuran 2y ago
Perhaps that depends on your position on the you of Theseus.
724.
by thfuran 2y ago
Elon Musk had been an endless stream of false advertising for years.
725.
by thfuran 2y ago
For who?
726.
by thfuran 2y ago
If they were cheap, I might have one. As is, I never will.
727.
by thfuran 2y ago
Maybe then the GPUs could finally reach the ray counts needed to avoid all the temporal smearing and AI interpolation hacks.
728.
by thfuran 2y ago
That doesn't pass muster. If they had much interest in balancing the books, they wouldn't be ripping huge holes in revenue collection.
729.
by thfuran 2y ago
He is pathologically incapable of operating in good faith.
730.
by thfuran 2y ago
Unless you're getting goretex or leather (and even then, shoes are small), there's not really anything in a shoe besides a bit of rubber, some EVA foam, and probably some plastic mesh. The materials cost is very low.
731.
by thfuran 2y ago
Do Crocs bought today match up to those old ones?
732.
by thfuran 2y ago
I don't. I'm saying all prior bets are off, though I do think US is going to be in the center of the nexus of pain, even if China is also hurt.
733.
by thfuran 2y ago
That was before the US decided to shoot itself in the face with economic policy.
734.
by thfuran 2y ago
Educating a few hundred million former peasant farmers is how you get things invented.
735.
by thfuran 2y ago
They clearly meant should/must not.
736.
by thfuran 2y ago
A cursory googling says average software dev salary is €22k in Portugal and €30k in Romania, for example.
737.
by thfuran 2y ago
Gaining power probably generally does more revealing than corrupting, but I think being born into it tends to serious messes up people's perspective.
738.
by thfuran 2y ago
>Europe (50k - 90k Euro) Northern and western Europe, maybe.
739.
by thfuran 2y ago
Pretty much just being in the US.
740.
by thfuran 2y ago
Emoji also caught on, I'm told.
741.
by thfuran 2y ago
>Confidence in US government is destroyed. That has long been a Republican goal. They want to tear it apart and sell the pieces.
742.
by thfuran 2y ago
The smaller the polity, the less practical it is to produce everything. Most towns aren't going to be growing wine grapes or olives at all, so tariffs would just raise local prices and lower imports rather than shifting local productio
743.
by thfuran 2y ago
>not many people want ads A whole lot of money wants ads though.
744.
by thfuran 2y ago
>What about a waiter asking you "would you like to try a rosé with that dish? It pairs very well together. Is that "advertising" that would need to be outlawed? Were they paid by a vintner to say that? >What about givin
745.
by thfuran 2y ago
Ad revenue is not the only kind of revenue. Traditionally, people would pay purveyors for goods or services they deemed valuable enough to acquire/use.
746.
by thfuran 2y ago
It would be better to expand the public domain. Whole generations of works were stolen by extensions of copyright.
747.
by thfuran 2y ago
I see. Well, same as they always have from the consumer point of view, maybe with less extortion behind the curtain.
748.
by thfuran 2y ago
Corporate personhood exists so that you can be hired by a company instead of a specific person in HR or have a cellphone contract with Verizon instead of a particular sales associate and companies can buy real estate and so on without requi
749.
by thfuran 2y ago
>What about just restrict it to advertising on the internet? Why? I don't see the difference between a webpage and the magazine here, except that I guess you're assuming the webpage must be showing an unrelated ad.
750.
by thfuran 2y ago
No. Why would they?

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