It still hides a good amount of the extra cost.
If an importer orders 10,000 units instead of 30,000 in anticipation of fewer sales, the production cost per unit will probably be higher, so they probably also have to increase the retail price beyond the exact tariff cost.
Trump: “We’re increasing foreign prices because we want consumers to prefer buying American.”
Retailers: “These foreign goods are more expensive than American-made ones.”
Trump: “How dare you tell them that!”
Incredibly hard to source that data from the outside. Even if you can identify the suppliers, different parts of an assembly may be classified differently, even between different importers who may have partial exemptions.
I was thinking more like:
My toddler insisted on putting pepper on her strawberries the other day.
I laughed and said she was welcome to try, but “start on just a couple slices so you don’t ruin all of them”.
She said it was great, but I didn’t believe her, so I tried it. And then we put pepper on all of them.
Oh boy. If you really wanna understand this, there are like 80 episodes of the podcast You Are Not So Smart that look at this from different angles.
There’s not really a single reason. It’s a lot of inter-related ones.
“Yesturday”
Sure, but if you’re specifically trying to go South, Spain is about the same latitude as most Canadian cities.
Time for Mexico?
I used to have the same issue. Electric toothbrush helped. But I still wait anyway.
I look forward to the documentary.
“Mastodon: Victory Through Technical Superiority”, available soon on Laserdisc and Betamax
So you’re saying they didn’t even have enough resources before the slaughter began. Cool cool cool. Very nice and good.
Reminds me of how virologists were warning that we were underprepared for a pandemic even before Trump cut that funding in his first term.
Seems like the debate is always whether we can afford 10% or 30% of what a normal first-world country would have, and we act relieved when the 10% guys leave office and the 30% guys make a compromise to bring us up to 20%.
IP law does 3 things that are incredibly important… but have been basically irrelevant between roughly 1995-2023.
Digital technology made these irrelevant for a while, because search engines could easily answer #1, digital copies are usually exact copies so #2 was not an issue, and digital distribution made #3 (scale) much more balanced.
But then came AI. And suddenly all 3 of these concerns are valid again. And we’ve got a population who just spent the past 30 years living in a world where IP law had zero upsides and massive downsides.
There’s no question that IP law is due for an overhaul. The question is: will we remember that it ever did anything useful, or will we exchange one regime of fatcats fucking over culture for another one?
upower -d can provide some useful info on-demand. I think there’s a daemon component to it too, which may have variable log levels.
Fourth week of getting NixOS running on an aarch64 laptop here… If I could get the adsp running by the time I get to userspace, you better believe I’d play a tada.
(In all seriousness, it’s not that bad. But it does make you very aware of just how delicate the whole stack of software is.)
toxic men
Kinda sad and ironic, that the term “toxic masculinity” began as a way to describe how culture manufactures a harmful concept of what it means to be a man, and it seeps into men and damages them like a toxin… but now we use it to mean that the man himself is toxic, undermining the whole notion of thinking of the problem as systemic rather than one of individuals.
Anyway, patriarchy is absolutely demolishing men right now, and the political right is saying “women’s fault” while the left is saying “lmao skill issue”. If we don’t get our shit together and start treating this seriously, we’re gonna have big problems.
Judge Rules
She sure does.
Exhibit A:
So scylly