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!
Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics
Submitted 8 months ago by Mereo@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://apnews.com/article/apple-trump-computer-tariff-c01b5ce0265b0d294dd10b8966be4436
Comments
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 8 months ago
cardfire@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Unrelated, welcome to Lemmy.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The truth is most human maladies are combination of environment and viruses. The two thing our current administration refuses to do anything about.
MyOpinion@lemmy.today 8 months ago
What a piece of human shit Trump is.
db2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just tell him computer chips are made of McDonalds and diet coke, several problems will solve themselves shortly after.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In lighter news he’s 78 with congestive heart failure, obvious mental decline, incontinence and obesity
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yea, but he’s also aware of his limited time left. Hence he’s rushing this. Fuck him
compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months 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 8 months ago
But, everything is computer.
goatinspace@feddit.org 8 months ago
Fuck computers. They suck anyway
daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Then why are you here?
goatinspace@feddit.org 8 months ago
To express my anger about this tariff idiocracy.
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
viking@infosec.pub 8 months 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.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
My hope is that he signs the pardon before she testifies, and then she burns him down on the stand.
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
As if she would… She will just do what she do best, just not for Epstein, but for mr president himself, I fear…
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
flandish@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Next 3.5 years if we are lucky.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You won’t ever need to vote again
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Luck is also a component in how long Trump lives ; though he’s not that old.
OK, I’ll say it differently - luck is also a component in how long Putin lives, and that’s likely less. When he dies, there’s gonna be change. In USA too. In Russia - maybe not for the better immediately, but that will be a power transfer, which hasn’t happened since 1999. Even if to someone of his daughters.
I don’t subscribe to any of stupid theories of “Kremlin towers’ balance”, “businessmen vs patriots” and such, but the point stands, and the previous power transfer, from Yeltsin to Putin, despite them being the same faction, changed a lot and fast.
Which could mean some of the blackmail material leaking, or the direction of blackmail changing, or other ties being restructured. Which would pull the rug from many of Russia-aligned parties in the west, and it would be interesting to see whether Democrats or Republicans are affected more, in case of US, and whether local alt-right parties or the orderly centrists in EU are affected more. The common belief is that it’s the latter in the US and the former in the EU, but I think we’ll be surprised.
Now, Russia is small compared to other parties, but big enough to make waves in case of such an event.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The last 6 months have been the longest decade of my life.
0ndead@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Narrator: He won’t
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 months 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?
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
The existing tariffs somehow exclude chips or phones/computers with chips in them. This would be a separate category, like metals.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months 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).
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 months 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).
You’d guess wrong. Welcome to the wonderful world of tariffs and import/export controls!
I wouldn’t call it a trivial dodge because the act of building the tariffed good into another product takes time and resources at the origin side, then again at the destination side to undo the manufacturing steps. However, sometimes its worth it to a company. There are lots of examples of companies doing exactly this.
Ford Transit Connect cargo vans were made in Turkey. Ford wanted to import them to the USA. However, there was a tariff placed on vehicles for commercial use, so Ford installed cheap passengers seats in the back and imported them as passenger vehicles. As soon as the vehicles would arrive onshore in the USA, Ford would rip the cheap seats out, and sell them as commercial vehicles.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 months 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.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He’s been trying to prevent the US from manufacturing their own chips, so that can’t be the real goal…
MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 8 months 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.
artyom@piefed.social 8 months 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.
SaltSong@startrek.website 8 months 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.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They increase demand for domestic goods and therefor raise the price of goods that were already more expensive than the imported goods.
candyman337@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So you’re an AI right? Like no real person would believe this
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 8 months 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
DrFistington@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What about situations where there are no alternative us made products
Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months ago
Looks like we just found our new interstate secretary! Tell us more about these tariffs against California.
rikudou@lemmings.world 8 months 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 8 months ago
1000%, 2500%, 600%, 1500%
Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 8 months 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.