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Technobabble. As if this bullshit needs all the Greek letters and the confusing looking subscripts.
"Consider an environment" my arse.
if you unpick the formula above it boils down to simple maths: take the trade deficit for the US in goods with a particular country, divide that by the total goods imports from that country and then divide that number by two.
It's nice to see this level of professionalism in the corridors of power. Personally, I think it may have been The Rolling Stones behind this.
Link to videoOh yeah, that's 5D chess right there.
@Horace said in Trumpenomics:
Manufacturing jobs are nobody's American dream. If they are part of a story of an achieved American dream, they'll be the story of a successful person's parents, to illustrate how in touch the successful person is, with struggle.
The fathers of many politicians were toolmakers.
@Horace said in Trumpenomics:
You have to be hoping to someday land a manufacturing job to be the target audience for these tariffs.
How many people actually want that? And can we really go back to labour-intensive manufacturing, rather than a couple of blokes and a whole shit-ton of robots?
You know what they say about generals preparing to fight the last war....
For years, they've been telling us not to rely on Social Security, and invest in 401K's. Now they're fucking the market up for the greater good and yet somehow we're the fools.
@Jolly said in So many tariffs:
Yeah, when Dems do that, y'all say their positions have "evolved".
With Republicans it's more by 'Intelligent Design'?
@jon-nyc said in Trumpenomics:
Someone once said that Maga analysis comes in two forms: ‘Trump is DESTROYING his enemies’ and ‘Mr Trump is being treated very unfairly’. Nothing in between.
I imagine the MAGA people are very disappointed in how disloyal Wall Street is currently being.
@Renauda said in Trumpenomics:
. I will say that I was counting on Congress to shelter us a little from his more self/destructive impulses.
Rand Paul is a lonely voice in the current GOP echo chamber.
He's been accused of having TDS, predictably
@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
We'll never know.
We might if 20 years from now somebody figures out how to install us on a hard drive.
@89th said in The dancing clown Bill Burr:
I said stop at 1:20!
I've never been good at following instructions. Just ask my wife.
I really liked Bill Burr's response. This is what everybody should do.
So Bill Burr refuses to answer, which seems like a good move, and then whoever is making the video, who incidentally sounds considerably more clueless than Bill Burr, feels the need to add his 10 cents and explain it to us.
Why?
@LuFins-Dad said in Mildly interesting:
Yeah, that one’s easy to see. It’s because of the perspective with the angled lines.
OK smart guy, what about this one?
@LuFins-Dad said in Trumpenomics:
This is idiocy. The whole trans thing is a blend of insanity and evil. So yeah, still better than the alternative. I will say that I was counting on Congress to shelter us a little from his more self/destructive impulses.
In my analogy congress are throwing electrically conductive chum in the water.
@LuFins-Dad said in Trumpenomics:
And yet, amazingly, still better than the other option.
After the ships sinks, as you are being raped by a dolphin, you find yourself thinking 'well, at least I didn't get electrocuted by the ship's battery or eaten by the shark'!
@LuFins-Dad said in 21 random but fascinating scientific facts:
So… Did anybody actually try the honey in the pyramids?
They did, and expired shortly afterwards due to The Curse of King Tut. Or possibly food poisoning.
