SouthFresh
@SouthFresh@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 2 days ago:
Not as weird as at a funeral
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 3 days ago:
Did Fraudcom hire Prenda Law or something?
- Comment on Reddit Plans Extra Verification Steps To Detect The Human-Like AI Bots 4 days ago:
Add as many as you want, I’m still not going back.
- Comment on The FBI launched a special task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’ 5 days ago:
Property Police
- Comment on Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia Times 1 week ago:
I’m so angry I have to upvote this.
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 1 week ago:
Compared to
We’re in agreement. My “nope” was directed at your question. The rest of my comment was illustrating why I’m shocked at how racist things have become. Because the trend was to improve until recently.
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 1 week ago:
Nope. The 1970s were better than the 60s, and worse than the 80s. And the 90s were better still. The early 2000s were even better… but here we are certainly backtracking from where things had been going.
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 1 week ago:
Yes it absolutely was. And while we seemed for a while to have been on a trajectory where it was decreasing steadily, that sure changed quickly.
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 1 week ago:
I’m absolutely shocked at how racist the future got.
- Comment on Researchers Tattooed Tardigrades. They Promise It Will Be Useful 2 weeks ago:
At least we can identify if it was an HP, Xerox, or Brother printer that printed these tardigrades
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on With Tim Pool in the White House Press Pool, will we ever find out what's under that beanie? 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t brains.
- Comment on What is this called? 2 weeks ago:
It is a picture.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 weeks ago:
Factory Floor is in China.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Visits Beijing for Business Meetings with Chinese Officials - <FrontBackGeek/> 3 weeks ago:
What I really want to know is, how sparkly was the jacket?
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 3 weeks ago:
“Don’t Tread on Mesothelioma”
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 5 weeks ago:
I feel like the details are important. What a country considered necessary for national security is a moving target that changes with technology.
Just as an example, 1930’s U.S. didn’t have any need for national security regarding the transistor or integrated circuit fab materials and manufacturing. That certainly is on the list now. While the U.S. has resources domestically and manufacturing facilities for this, the resources are finite.
The U.S. still has the Guano Islands Act available to “enforce” in the case that a suitable island supply was found AND desired. This was considered such a point of national security that the government legalized imperialism for bird shit.
If a specific resource becomes nationalized in the way you are suggesting, it seems to me that similar acts for rare earth metals might appear and still lead to imperialism.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 5 weeks ago:
I asked for specifics because I am unaware of any country that can satisfy all of its security and/or survival needs from only domestic sources. If the necessary resource is not found in enough abundance domestically, what choice is left under your proposal, other than to nationalize another country’s resources through imperialism?
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 5 weeks ago:
What are the industries you’re concerned about? I’m unclear on how a country would actually accomplish your goals without becoming imperialist. No country has every resource it needs in the abundance it needs.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 5 weeks ago:
I think you missed where we’re in agreement about it being more profitable outside of the country. I was only suggesting that a better way to combat that would be incentives that are designed to maintain a status where the process of manufacturing remains profitable within the U.S.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree with that, but it assumes the incentives are intended to expire. If the aim is to bring manufacturing back to the U.S., then one has to ensure manufacturing in the U.S. is profitable.
Tariffs do nothing for that.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 5 weeks ago:
Tariffs aren’t the way either.
The problem with incentives isn’t that they “can’t” work, it’s that they need to be at a level that makes using foreign manufacturing unattractive.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 5 weeks ago:
Manufacturing is costly in the United States because enforced minimum wages, enforced safety protocols (enshrined in the blood of lost workers), and regulations brought about as a reaction to violations of those safety protocols by management of the local companies have necessarily increased the cost of manufacturing locally.
In a totally free market, the owners of the businesses would be “free” to abuse their workers how they see fit. Thankfully, most of the people in the U.S. have recognized that safety of workers is an important factor. The ability to enforce safety is likewise necessary when some company managers/executives have shown disdain for safety routinely.
The infrastructure required to implement the wages and safety has increased the cost to the companies in question. No business will last very long if increased costs aren’t passed on to their customers in some way. This leads to manufacturers having to face the choice of increasing the passed on cost of working within the U.S.'s regulations and requirements, or moving their manufacturing process to countries with lower standards of wages and regulation. Most companies have chosen the latter. If the purpose of owning and running a business is to increase the profit it makes, then additional costs to the business are necessarily not absorbed by the company and allowed to eat into profit
A tariff is likewise only seen as a regulation for which the cost will be passed on to the consumer by increasing the retail price of a product, and is typically seen as a regressive action.
If one wants to increase manufacturing in the U.S., one has to provide incentives for manufacturers to do so. margin, they are simply built into the final price of the service/product provided by the business. These incentives could take many forms, from tax breaks in some ways, to more favorable interest rates for specific loans (given criteria relevant to the specific market).
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 5 weeks ago:
Yay, now the world’s worst profiling service can show the same completely irrelevant add twice!
If you’re a business and using Google to serve targeted ads, think twice. Their targeting is absolutely horse-shit mumbojumbo. They’re wasting your money, their money, and my time by consistently serving the least-relevant, no-fucking-chance-I’d-click-on-that ads.
You’d be better off paying local pigeons for investing advice.
- Comment on Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns. 1 month ago:
“Sternlink”
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach | Pre-Order Trailer 2 months ago:
No preorders
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 2 months ago:
And comply with contracts
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Thankfully, I’ve already blocked Bluesky from my Mastodon feed. :D
- Comment on Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails 2 months ago:
Deserved
- Comment on Kagi Introducing Fair Pricing 2 months ago:
“This is to replace our previous unfair pricing.”
