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  • As a pure act, I can't see that it causes any harm.

    However, it will very likely lead to frustration, anger, and poor treatment of the person in question. Those things are bad.

  • Do your iPhones usually take oil?

    What do you think plastic is made from?

  • Packaging, no. But manufacturing it into something else, yes.

    Do you think a tariff on copper would apply to an iPhone? Or a tariff on oil?

  • That's generally how tariffs work. A tariff on grain is not a tariff on bread. A tariff on steel is not a tariff on knives. A tariff on cotton is not a tariff on clothing.

    It can be, of course. A tariff can be on steel and items made with steel. But that's not usually the case, and it's usually called out as such. Of course, Trump is not what you'd call the most precise communicator in the world, but all we can do is work with what he says.

  • Right, but this tariff, at least as I understand it, is on chips imported as chips, not on products that contain chips. An iPhone will, of course, be subject to some other damn fool tariff, but not this specific one.

    Of course, my understanding of this specific tariff may be wrong.

  • 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.

  • Unlike the Left, we don’t believe in erasing American history — we honor it.”

    Really? Because your guys spent the first few months of this year erasing as much history of women and minorities as you could get your hands on.

    Oh and you guys are trying to erase about half the history of impeachment in the country.

  • Everything does happen for a reason. In many cases, it happens because some evil prick has not been properly dealt with.

  • Interesting. They only works in a few cases, but It's good to have the options.

  • No sunlight for 10 days at a time.

  • Remember, tortillas make every kind of meat better.

  • Can't imagine you'd want to put your mouth on a pig or cow either, but properly butchered and prepared, they are quite palatable.

    I imagine it's the same principle.

  • One reason might be shipping. A car probably takes up the same space in a shipping container as four cars worth of steel.

    I don't know where the break even point is. But it's likely to be more complex than you describe.

  • Good on them.

    Rich assholes need to either play fair, or be removed.

  • I can see that, but I've always expected tidal waves to be far more destructive. This is, as you say, an astonishing amount of movement, but nothing like I was expecting to see.

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