I mean, I don’t know if I can necessarily rank one of those as being worse that the other. Telling Europe that it needs to deny its own racist legacy of colonialism in order to continue dealing with the U.S. is pretty damn bad. Maybe HIV is a more modern problem, but colonialism killed a lot more Africans.

U.S. factories in most cases cannot produce goods that are competitive in a global market. Our labor costs are too high.

This idea that we can revive American traditional manufacturing of basic goods is a complete fantasy. The factories in Vietnam aren’t going anywhere, because they will still be selling to the other 95% of the globe outside the U.S. Even if factories are stood up in the U.S., they will be constrained to producing higher-priced goods exclusively for the domestic market, with all the attendant inflationary impacts from start-up costs and higher labor costs.

Meanwhile, retaliatory tariffs from other countries will cause the collapse of U.S. exports. We’ll lose markets for the sectors where the U.S. is still competitive, like agriculture, advanced manufacturing, and even services.

Trump’s approach is similar to the failed development strategy of import substitution industrialization, except in this case he thinks it will cause the U.S. to reindustrialize. In any case, it will fail for the same reasons ISI failed in Latin America.

Don’t forget peppers! Hot peppers are my favorite nightshade.

It’s possibly the most stupid basis for tariffs. The penalty is directly proportional to U.S. reliance on a country’s imports. The countries that are the most important suppliers to the U.S. are penalized the most. It’s a policy designed to cause maximum reshuffling of production, which maximizes the start-up costs of developing new factories and so on. And those factories are not going to be in the U.S. Import substitution industrialization is a failed policy and it won’t work for reindustrialization either.

It’s really easy for the starter pots to dry out at this stage. Make sure you keep them damp, but not wet, and you’ll probably get a bunch more seedlings. Using a spray bottle a couple times a day or placing a humidity dome on top can help!

Yeah, but they’re not being paid to uncover that particular truth. Watch them somehow lock up the journalist over this.

Based Tesla makes a car that vandalizes itself

I’ve got a system that removes the watermark and adds two or three bonus fingers, free of charge! Silicon Valley VC is gonna be all over this.

Absolutely. Hyundai and Kia have the best EVs by a long shot. Charge way faster than a Tesla, too.

They’re already killing civilians in Lebanon and Syria, so I’m pretty sure they’ve already identified their next steps.

It starts in the middle. It’s smaller and indented because it’s then being quoted by the Polish minister on top. Then Elon, fuckwit that he is, responds at the bottom.

From the U.S., please keep it up. Maybe the only damn thing that will put any brakes on this buffoon is blowback from businesses. Hit them in the pocketbook as much as you can!

Colorado and New Mexico deserve better. They get to come too.

Somehow, it cantilevers the whole second floor.

By “creating something,” do you mean replacing the work that a human creative would normally do? (That is, replacing an artist/writer/musician who would otherwise have the job?)

That’s where I’d draw the line. I think personal use is fine but if you’re affecting people’s employment by using an AI that’s clearly a no-go for me.

Except that the boom-and-bust cycle is inherent to markets and there’s an entire cottage industry around encouraging those fluctuations in order to benefit from the arbitrage. It’s a classic pump-and-dump.

Not everyone wants market stability. If you’re in a position to affect the market, or react quickly to it, there is more money to be made in volatility.

Literally called my bank right after seeing this post and they waived it on the spot. The official contract provision was not until 80% LTV but this was excellent advice!

Thanks, OP. I’ll raise a glass to you when I spend my extra $75/mo!

Obligatory John Malkovich

The Onion has its work cut out for it when there’s a literal bill in Congress to annex Greenland and change its name to Red, White and Blueland.

He was playing an antagonist character (way toned down but think of his character in Django) so they might have agreed with his take.

Sam kept urging Kendrick not to make a scene, not to make a fuss, just to stay nice and quiet. Clearly meant to be a baddie but likely lost on a lot of viewers.