It’s kind of like an older sibling that picks on you but loses their shit if someone else tries to.

Willful negligence is still as bad if not worse than Ignorance

Japan’s long-standing efforts to protect domestic farmers from outside competition, including limiting imports of foreign rice

Here’s the why in case anyone is wondering. It’s not a global issue.

Seriously? Look up Uvalde and see what they (didn’t) do

Are we sure the bill is tanked?

At this point I’d be pushing my immigration lawyer to let me appear remotely so I can’t get picked up like that.

So in most cases the place would be immediately shut down. Any bets on that not happening.

And I thought the American right was bad about “it doesn’t matter until it affects us”

Because taxes can be traced to services that should be provided to people. No one knows where the money from tariffs are going. (The rich)

Is that a 12-incher you’re packing in there?

There’s no good answer. There was just a story where a company paid the ransom and the hackers still released the data anyway.

Airplane designs are constantly being updated just because the shape doesn’t have to be. Case in point, though developed in 1963, the latest generation of 747 (the 747-8i) started being delivered in 2012, with the last one in 2023, which is still relatively recent in airplane years.

For another example the B-52 was first introduced in 1955, but is on its 10th generation (B-52J) with updates to avionics as of 2020. So it doesn’t take much to find a good design and then just keep iterating and updating it.

I’m waiting to see what Hong Kong does and if they’ll switch to the Yuan. Right now the HKD is locked to the US Dollar in a small range, so they’re getting fucked too.

I read the names backwards and I was sad. Then I read it forwards and was happy.

The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.

Russia probably does too

It’s also not in Airbus’s best interest to try and quickly ramp up production as you can get the “Walmart gambit” where you sink in a lot of money, then the tariffs get removed, people crawling back to Boeing and you’re out a shitload of cost.

I mean, cheese is one thing. But if shit is your thing, who am I to judge.

Right now they’re more expensive in Europe due to tariffs (not the Trump ones), however there were some talks about the EU reducing or removing the tariff on them in which case I can see demand exploding because of their price.

Why do I have a feeling he meant to say “If Tesla goes down, America will go with it”