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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 hours ago

I don't think it's that, so much as that the other countries (and uninhabited islands) didn't have much in the way of tariffs, and there wasn't any reason to impose an import tax, so they came up with a nonsense calculation.

 

The rates were supposedly based on the US Trade Representative’s calculations of “tariffs imposed against US products”. But they didn’t come from any obvious rates that were actually imposed, as Paul Krugman pointed out.

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Here’s what the White House and its crack team of trade investigators seems to have done: Take the US’s goods trade deficit with any particular country, and divide it by the total amount of goods imported from that country. Cut that percentage in half, and there’s the US’s “reciprocal” tariff rate.

This is how they ended up doing things like imposing a tax on imports from uninhabited islands full of penguins.

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For context, cement (and concrete) are ~8% of global emissions.

 

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 29 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

It doesn't really matter; the damage is being done by a bunch of teens and early-20s folks whom Musk recruited off the nazi group chat, and whose career prospects depend on his patronage. Whether he's officially involved or not, Musk’s whim determines what this group actually does.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

A lot of these accusations are a confession of intent to commit a crime.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sadly not. Same people pushing the same thing again, but lying about it being a cancer cure as well now

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Definitely, but Schumer pushed enough Democrats to side with the Republicans on a vote to end debate that they had the 60-vote supermajority needed to do so.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah. There are some gangs (eg: Police gangs in Los Angeles) which do use tattoos to identify themselves, but not all gangs do so, and most tattoos are not gang-related.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 73 points 2 days ago (4 children)

And the excuses were really thin. Among other things:

  • Tattoos of crowns and clocks
  • “I love you” symbol in sign language,
  • being in the same area as a law enforcement target
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes, though animal agriculture is big enough that we need to address it in addition to fossil fuels.

Took down the misleading comment.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

So long as people aren't all identical, they'll have plenty of ability to engage in needless hate

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

Try the short version of the gift link: https://share.inquirer.com/4ayTXy

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I had the impression that college deferment ended about a year before the draft did.

I don't expect college draft deferment to be a thing again until the boomers die.

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