SaltSong

joined 7 months ago
[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Would you care to expand upon this point? I know that a VPN is not going to protect me from everything, but "almost nothing" seems harsh.

I would like to know more.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In this example, the child is living, and has needs.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Wish I could vote for him.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Well, that's not gonna win him any votes.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 41 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 111 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Very nice.

How about those Epstein files?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Do your iPhones usually take oil?

What do you think plastic is made from?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 60 points 2 months ago

Congratulations on getting what you voted for.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago (24 children)

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.

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