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President Reagan decided Friday to impose punitive 100% tariffs on a wide variety of goods produced by Japanese electronic giants in retaliation for Tokyo’s failure to abide by the semiconductor trade agreement between the two nations.

In approving a recommendation Thursday by the Administration’s top economic officials, the White House decided to put the tariffs into effect about April 17, less than two weeks before Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone is scheduled to begin a visit to the United States aimed at easing trade frictions.

The tariffs will be targeted to bring in as much as $300 million and designed to punish such firms as NEC Corp., Hitachi Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Oki Corp. by either pricing some of their goods out of the American market or by forcing them to accept substantial losses on U.S. sales.

I've owned 15 of the consoles listed. Doesn't seem like I've been through that many of them!

I feel like part of it was that the console revisions past 2008 aren't as big of a deal as they were before. You also had publishers start producing games for multiple generations of consoles at the same time.

jokes on you if you thought this was about this term, it's about his first term.

Then why did so many other countries get an increase first?

Other countries got their price increase months ago. Ours was probably delayed so that they could tell how bad the damages of our idiot president would be.

Damn shame, Trump. I'm lowering my buy tax by $5.

You're right. I can't forget to factor him in.

It's $100 less now. I'm taking a tariff on it. Final offer.

Say thank you.

"When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy-shmancy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoon - and we had to share the rock!"

— Sgt Johnson, Halo 2

I'm my day that wasn't far from the truth. We don't need quality games machines but they're a very nice luxury.

Getting into that case also gets into pedagogical theory, because giving kids primarily analog entertainment compared to digital seems to be beneficial. I was talking about those of us adults who are already doomed. We have computers. We already have machines. We don't need the new one.

A cheap SSD upgradeand a PS4 plays PS4 games the same way a PS5 does.

My PC is not a "gaming" PC. I play games on it. I have access to a nearly 50-year library of games. Just because I don't have the newest and shiniest doesn't mean I don't have tons of fun games available. And I said 'if you need a console at all'. If you are determined to play video games and you don't want them on a PC, phone, or tablet, then fine. There are thrift stores, there's eBay (though that's loaded with scalpers and scum even more than the thrift grifters), there are many ways to buy a used console. But I also stand by the thought that if what you have is working and being fun, keep using it. If the corporations have made it not fun, either go to older hardware they can't do that to, or get homebrew set up.

Don't just keep it on a shelf "in case". Don't store it. And for the love of anything good, don't just discard it.

Reduce. If you think you've reduced "enough", find something else to reduce.

Both? Probably both.