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Trump says Canada and Mexico to be hit with 25% tariffs on Saturday
  • You're saying "there's a reason reputable economists say", as if there aren't reputable economists also saying something else, like "tariffs are a tool and predicting impact is difficult if not impossible due to complexity". So, whats the point in mentioning that "reputable economists say" unless you're pandering to an appeal to authority. Economists are just people and can make mistakes, entire groups of people like "reputable economists" can have the wrong ideas at the same time, or collectively jump to conclusions. I don't care what economists say, I care about why they say it and if it makes sense. Your point is "there's a reason why" and you load this with "reputable". How do you qualify reputable and what is the reason they say? Could they be wrong and if not, why is there an economy at all?

    Engineers make mistakes all the time too. The idea that an engineer can't be wrong about engineering and a layman can't comprehend even intuitively understand engineering concepts is exactly what an appeal to authority is about.

  • Trump says Canada and Mexico to be hit with 25% tariffs on Saturday
  • I'm having a hard time connecting what you're saying and my point. I also don't really care what economists are saying, I don't automatically assume economists are correct because they are economists. I understand tariffs are not good, which is why I said "ultimately", and nothing that you have said yet has changed that opinion, but I am open. I didn't even disagree with many of your statements I just didn't see how they connect.

  • Trump says Canada and Mexico to be hit with 25% tariffs on Saturday
  • Google "byd china car sell at a loss" and "chicken tax".

    You will see price wars or the race to the bottom in the auto industry and you will see how tariffs on imported cars are one way we have protected domestic manufacturing.

  • Trump says Canada and Mexico to be hit with 25% tariffs on Saturday
  • Well the console example demonstrates long term payout strategies. Another example is in free to play games with microtransactions. You develop a game at a cost, you give it away for free, and you hope that it's good enough to hook people and get them to spend on "hats". It's a lot of money up front to make more later.

  • Trump says Canada and Mexico to be hit with 25% tariffs on Saturday
  • This assumes the local product wasn't already cost competitive. If they are close and you slap a tariff on the import that adds further incentive to pick local. Assuming local would capitalize on the added revenue via reinvestment/expansion, it would create jobs and more demand, may even make the product or services even more affordable.

  • Trump says Canada and Mexico to be hit with 25% tariffs on Saturday
  • I thought it was targetted but again in California its all items sold are taxed and some at a higher rate.

  • Trump says Canada and Mexico to be hit with 25% tariffs on Saturday
  • I'm glad you started your dissertation with "the way you x is via y" because it immediately informed me that I was reading the work of an expert genius and as a smooth brain, when a genius writes, I read.

    One question, wouldn't higher prices on imported cements sort of make local cements automatically cheaper, giving them an advantage without asking them to cut corners? In a free market you will often see a "race to the bottom" on goods, whereby manufactures and producers will cut costs so low that they lose money, so long as there is some other incentives that would lead to profit. Video game consoles are a common example. The console is sold at a loss with the expectation that they will make up the difference on the consumables, games and related services.

    If local competitors can produce for lower cost than competitors it may drive more people, who generally just want to save money, to local businesses, creating demand, driving growth.

  • Trump says Canada and Mexico to be hit with 25% tariffs on Saturday
  • I do ultimately think tariffs will be good for the US. I feel bad for other countries I guess, but I think the US needs to be more productive.

    California, seen as a relatively "progressive" state, has a sales tax on everything, and pretty extreme sin taxes. A tariff is like a sales tax, and a sin tax on specific imports.

  • Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010
  • I was around /g/ during all of this and i thought about mining, did the math and decided not to. I was pretty broke at the time tbf.

  • PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel?
  • It's strange to me how quickly I get +/- feedback on lemmy compared to actual comments and the replies that I get are almost always zero effort compared to what I get on reddit.

    I get the feeling its normal for lemmy users to create multiple accounts and use them to sort of multiply their votes. What's worse is mods can see who is voting and so should be able to do something about it... so are they as guilty?

  • So much for the tolerant left
  • Normally when I hear this, good things follow.

  • So much for the tolerant left
  • So bigots can't tolerate their own perspectives? White supremacists are therefor very tolerant people.

  • So much for the tolerant left
  • If you can only tolerate your own perspective that makes you a bigot though.

  • Make MTV relevant again
  • In addition to music vidoes, I liked Beavis and Butthead, Daria, TRL, and Celebrity Deathmatch. Shows about bands, artists, and music.

  • Help with Home Server Architecture and Hardware Selection?
  • I'm running 70b on two used 3090 and an a6000 nvlink. I think i got these for $900ea, and maybe $200 for the nvlink. Also works great.

  • Help with Home Server Architecture and Hardware Selection?
  • This could also be caused by a bad connection or poor contact between the wire and the receptacle. Notice the side is melted, where the terminal screws would be, thats where the heat would be generated. When you put a load on it and electrons have to jump the gap it arcs and generates heat. Load is also a factor, on this receptacle or any downstream, but the melting on the side might be caused by arcing.

  • Trump imposes tariffs, sanctions on Colombia after it refuses deportation flights
  • Persons, groups of people, governments, territories, borders, citizens, immigrants. I'm pretty sure Nazi Germany had every one of these and now that Trump is president, I'm supposed to believe that we have all of these coincidentally? Next stop: Auschwitz.

  • What is a service you host you never knew you needed?
  • IIRC immich is like a google photos replacement. I use nextcloud for that on android but it's not so simple on ios. How's immich for ios, do uploads work automatically in the background? How's performance?

  • Did you know the world was protesting against Trump on inauguration day? Or was this news hidden from you?
  • Why would you respect someone, and does that respect require them to care how you feel?

    Respect has nothing to do with friendship and you can hate someone and respect them at the same time. In the adult world I suppose.