Oh boy, another distraction
Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics
Submitted 12 hours ago by Mereo@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://apnews.com/article/apple-trump-computer-tariff-c01b5ce0265b0d294dd10b8966be4436
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daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 51 minutes ago
Still about the Epstein list? Or is it now about the child abuse pastor?
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
What’s interesting about this is that Ghislaine Maxwell just got a transfer to a cushy facility in exchange for what is likely to be heavily coached testimony about how Donald Trump totally didn’t rape children.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
My hope is that he signs the pardon before she testifies, and then she burns him down on the stand.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
As if she would… She will just do what she do best, just not for Epstein, but for mr president himself, I fear…
shalafi@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Why would he pardon her? Prison is sheer hell and she got a huge upgrade. Fuck around and they can take that back. They got all the leverage they need without the screams of outrage a pardon would bring.
viking@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
I read those news in a way that she’s now in a low risk facility with plenty of other people around who might casually remove a witness, rather than stuck in isolation in a max security prison where every ‘suicide’ would be met with public outrage.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Where are the Trump-Epstein files?
Laser@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Can’t have files of you don’t have a computer to store them tips forehead
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
All the dangers they tell us about being over weight and eating like shit, and this mother fucker is still clinging to life like an 80s action hero clings to the underside of a helicopter at the climax of the movie. Come on clogged arteries, do something!
Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The truth is most human maladies are combination of environment and viruses. The two thing our current administration refuses to do anything about.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
anything to not discuss the epstein files, it seems like the effectiveness of tariffs isnt have as much effect as distraction as it should.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Americans won‘t own anything and they‘ll be happy.
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s fucking tariff roulette again. And so it will be for the next 3.5 years. Stupid cunts. Remember to kick a republican in the nuts.
voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
Next 3.5 years if we are lucky.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The last 6 months have been the longest decade of my life.
flandish@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
*capitalist
they ALL do this. they just market it differently. profits are at record highs and have been for YEARS. while working class people suffer and die.
0ndead@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
Narrator: He won’t
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Wouldn’t this only affect goods manufactured in the USA? If a finished product containing chips from say, Europe, were to land on USA shores it would only have a 15% tariff right?
Why does trump hate American manufacturing?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
It’s a tax of 100% on chips being imported to the USA, having been manufactured elsewhere. The idea is that it should force companies to set up their own chip manufacturing in the USA. But that’s expensive and slow to do, and requires a lot of specialized engineering talent, so US-based electronics companies will somehow have to survive through years of paying twice as much for the chips they build into their products.
MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 9 hours ago
Expecting companies to build their own chip foundries and manufacture their own chips to avoid tariffs is as unrealistic as expecting poor people to singlehandedly use nuclear fission to create atoms from nothing to materialize into existence all the food they can’t afford. Even if these American “use AI for everything” megacorp regimes that can’t even write a mouse driver that’s under 1gb actually put their big swingin’ dicks back into their pants long enough to actually figure out how they could be efficient enough use the more achievable 90nm and 65nm chips, even that is so unachievable they’d never find a way to mass produce them affordably. Russia supposedly managed to diy their own 350nm chips which is barely even mid 90s Pentium 1 era bullshit and even that’s probably fake propaganda that, best case, followed some half successful low volume experiments in a lab.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
He’s been trying to prevent the US from manufacturing their own chips, so that can’t be the real goal…
artyom@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Huh? No, it's the opposite. You should really look up how tariffs work. They drive up prices for foreign products. Local products are unaffected, giving them a competitive advantage.
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I honestly can’t tell if you’re serious. You do know that the vast majority of the chips in all the devices you use are not manufactured in the US? Doubling the prices of the chips imported to manufacture devices here will obviously jack up the prices of those devices
SaltSong@startrek.website 7 hours ago
What he means is, if I buy an iPhone built in China, this tariff won’t affect the price I pay.
But if I buy a phone built in America, with an imported processer, this tariff will make that phone more expensive.
candyman337@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
So you’re an AI right? Like no real person would believe this
bigfondue@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
They increase demand for domestic goods and therefor raise the price of goods that were already more expensive than the imported goods.
DrFistington@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
What about situations where there are no alternative us made products
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I’m guessing the chip in the finished product would be taxed separately, otherwise it would be trivial to dodge the tariff (just package the chip in a different “finished product” and move it to a US-made product).
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
The existing tariffs somehow exclude chips or phones/computers with chips in them. This would be a separate category, like metals.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
In lighter news he’s 78 with congestive heart failure, obvious mental decline, incontinence and obesity
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Yea, but he’s also aware of his limited time left. Hence he’s rushing this. Fuck him
Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
From the bleachers, we watch the Trump shitshow daily. The topic of the show is: “What can Donald Trump still do today to appear even dumber than the day before?”
And he is not disappointing. What’s next? Tariffs for interstate trading? One must admit, this would be a really dumb idea, but it is not outside Trumps grasp.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Looks like we just found our new interstate secretary! Tell us more about these tariffs against California.
MyOpinion@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
What a piece of human shit Trump is.
rikudou@lemmings.world 12 hours ago
I like that! It always sucked that everything is more expensive here in EU, Trump’s trying to help us by making it even more expensive in the US.
Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
1000%, 2500%, 600%, 1500%
Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The cover image looks like he’s trying to make farting noises with his mouth. Not that that’s much different than anything else he that comes out of it.
db2@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Just tell him computer chips are made of McDonalds and diet coke, several problems will solve themselves shortly after.
compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Just wait until he has a conversation with the AI freaks in his admin. He changes policy based on the last person he talks to. What an idiot.
simplejack@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
But, everything is computer.
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Good it’ll slow down the atrocious e-waste I hope. Fucking everything doesn’t need wifi and blue tooth and bullshit.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
okey dokey den
goatinspace@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Fuck computers. They suck anyway
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Then why are you here?
figjam@midwest.social 5 minutes ago
get that AI bubble a-poppin