Oh, to be clear, I don’t think the US has been dethroned on the world stage in terms of being the largest single elephant in the room. It’s just that the weight between the US elephant and all the other elephants (combined) has evened out quite a lot.
These tariffs might well do a lot to swing that even further.
They will if the conservative media machine falls apart and they start actually seeing reality.
It’s possible…someday…maybe…
Yeah, the US has a lot of economic weight to swing around, but the world has also spend the decade (!) since Trump was first elected finding other business outlets and generally needing the US less, meaning that the relative weight of the US and the rest of the world has normalized significantly. The EU is stronger, China is stronger, Canada is stronger. The US withdrawing from the world economy would hurt everyone, but it would hurt the US a whole lot more than everyone else.
Ok. The bottom line is, either it “won’t do all that much”-- meaning it won’t affect prices, it won’t affect the economy, it’ll be basically useless–or it will be disastrously expensive for ordinary people. There is no other option. The “disastrously expensive for ordinary people” is the only thing that will cause any amount of the change Trump promises: it’s the mechanism by which the plan operates.
There is no option where companies just eat the tariff costs, or countries pay them. Maybe a few scattered companies and countries do, but by and large, not a chance.
Every country in the world needs all the other countries more than all of the other countries need it. There’s just no real leverage, because we’re all interconnected; you can snip one country out, and it’ll slightly hurt everyone, but it’ll wreck the country that was snipped out.
Pebbleyeet on Lemmy?
My parents are generally pretty good with tech. But where I end up pulling my hair out is when I look at my mom’s notifications. She lets any app notify her, and she has lots of apps. The other day when I looked she had two different weather apps reporting the temperature as a non-dismissable notification, and neither one of them was right.
I honestly don’t know how we’re related.
The other thing is when my mom says “but you told me to use this!” I got her to switch to Chrome from Internet Explorer, a dozen years ago. Now when I want to switch her over to Firefox (not even Waterfox!) she says, “but you told me this was the one to use!” Yeah, it was, during the Obama Administration. Same story with LastPass and Bitwarden. Sometimes the best tool changes, mom.
100%. I can’t decide whether I think the organization being dissolved completely is a good idea or not, but I’m at least open to it.
Sorry, I realized I’m using my personal jargon in public again. When I said “AI,” I meant this overhyped put-it-in-your-mouse garbage. When I’m talking about the actually useful stuff, I usually call it “ML.”
Of course you have no reason to know that or care. My apologies.
Overhyped AI is going to fail, and it can’t happen soon enough. The Mozilla leadership really needs to pay attention to that reality.
Anything can cause people to step up. Hatred, spite, murderous intent. That doesn’t make it a virtue.
The “deadly sin” of pride is arrogance, haughtiness, thinking of yourself as more important than others. It’s not, like, being satisfied in your identity or accomplishments; that’s contentment and it’s definitely a virtue.
1,600 years of translation and linguistic drift (and probably not a little bit of puritanical nonsense) crossed some wires.
Also all of the “deadly sins” are made up bullcrap. Some of them are in the Bible, but some of them are just, like…some guy’s opinion. Seriously, sadness was one at one point, so clearly he had never read the book of Lamentations.
It’s not exactly 0%. Their ineptitude is still fully on display, and that’s always been our greatest hope. But it is pretty bleak, and pinning our future on the hopes that the other side makes a mistake only makes it bleaker.
Save game twice, but then don’t actually exit game just in case it didn’t actually save
This is such a dangerous stereotype. Yes honkwiching used to use trombones, but now most musicians use specially-designed, food-safe disposable honkers. Trombone players aren’t savages.
If they really wanted me to whitelist them in my adblocker, they’d make the ads less onerous.
Why are the capitalists so complainy?
“Pull yourself up by your bootstraps 😤, facts don’t care about your feelings 😤, Apple is mean make them stop it 😭”
I’m also an American. And I am frankly livid about the tariffs.