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Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics

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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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  • figjam@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    get that AI bubble a-poppin

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh boy, another distraction

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Still about the Epstein list? Or is it now about the child abuse pastor?

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • 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…

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      • 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.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        She would not survive that.

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    • 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.

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  • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Where are the Trump-Epstein files?

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    • Laser@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can’t have files of you don’t have a computer to store them tips forehead

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  • 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!

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    • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Americans won‘t own anything and they‘ll be happy.

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  • 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.

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    • voytrekk@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Next 3.5 years if we are lucky.

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The last 6 months have been the longest decade of my life.

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    • 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.

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  • 0ndead@infosec.pub ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Narrator: He won’t

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      🐓🌮

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      • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        🍊⬆️⬇️⬅️➡️🐥📤

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  • 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?

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    • 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.

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      • 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.

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      • 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…

        reuters.com/…/trump-wants-kill-527-billion-semico…

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    • 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.

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      • 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

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      • 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.

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      • candyman337@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So you’re an AI right? Like no real person would believe this

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      • 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.

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      • DrFistington@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What about situations where there are no alternative us made products

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    • 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).

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    • 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.

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  • Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In lighter news he’s 78 with congestive heart failure, obvious mental decline, incontinence and obesity

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    • 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

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  • 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.

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    • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Looks like we just found our new interstate secretary! Tell us more about these tariffs against California.

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  • MyOpinion@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What a piece of human shit Trump is.

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  • 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.

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  • Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1000%, 2500%, 600%, 1500%

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But, everything is computer.

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  • 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.

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      okey dokey den

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  • goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fuck computers. They suck anyway

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then why are you here?

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