SaltSong @ SaltSong @startrek.website

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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.

This is the way.

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.

Am I missing a joke?

Sure they can write laws making it illegal to claim the king of Thailand is a doddering old fool anywhere in the world. Good for them.

They have no legal right to enforce it on me, though. If I visit their country, of course, I will be subject to their laws. But they can't apply it to me until then.

They can write whatever they like, but in practical terms, they can only enforce their laws inside their borders.

No European law applies outside Europe. That's kind of the nature of laws.

You mean we may have seen this meme a dozen times already?

Except once they seven years when they become the most sexual beings in the trek universe.

Myself, I'd go for an Orion mistress, but not everyone is into the green.

I suspect that the reaction to the edited video spooked them. They were expecting to get away with that, and when it was so easily called pot as a fraud, they had to reconsider.