There’s a middle ground: NSA/Palantir identify a nearly harmless threat that a dude is googling what hotel it’s at and buys a 22 handgun with no firearm experience. If you’re Trump, do you arrest him at the airport or let him make a scene?
Wouldn’t those companies track us down and pass the refund on to us??
What are 7-11s like in Hawaii? In Japan, they’re amazing - in mainland they’re meh. Are Hawaii’s closer in character to Japan’s?
Liability is going to be the death knell for broad scale reliance on any of these llms. Removing liability is the only path towards profitability
“chocolate” in mainstream candy is such garbage now. I couldn’t bring myself to get the kiddos Reese’s peanut butter eggs this year and I used to love those
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-businesses-consumers-shoulder-bulk-tariff-cost-burden-goldman-sachs-finds If you don’t want.to give fox a click, “Goldman Sachs economists estimated that as of August, U.S. businesses were absorbing a net 51% of tariff costs, while American consumers were shouldering 37% of the burden. They also estimated that 9% of the cost was paid by foreign exporters, and about 3% was attributed to potential tariff evasion.”
Companies that had stock saved up rather than JITing their domestic production, didn’t want to scAre customers, so in first 6months or so of tariffs, only 37% of the increase was paid by American consumers, if it was all passed through, that number would be around 90%. I think moog made noise about not raising prices for awhile? A lot of companies split the difference. My point is that Trump has no credibility so there’s a lag for all this nonsense and things will get worse
For a while, quite a few companies didn’t want to lose customers so just ate the tariffs, hoping they’d go away quickly. The longer tariffs go on, the more companies will universally pass costs to consumers - so inflation from tariffs actually lag the tariffs a bit
I think the touted tax benefits have been wholly eaten by national debt servicing, core inflation of goods, and unchecked corporations jacking up prices. Each individually, so we’ll need 3-4 times more “savings.”
Or a competent government who understands the economy and cares about people
Banned in 1996 in USA. If you were born in 76 or earlier, you breathed a ton of it during brain development
The language of all these stories bothers me. Executive orders don’t “grant” any power at all. They Claim power but are not a law. States run elections. States with fascist governments can point to an EO and play pretend that it has some force and weight and then choose to do what Trump wants.
Media is framing this like if Trump signs this BS EO, that it will give him control over anything - and it feels like their framing is designed to soften the ground, trying to get people to go along with it
I get it, we don’t deserve trust. What would you look for to decide we can be trusted again though? I’m worried we’d need to rewrite the constitution to put in serious guardrails of some sort. Congress and Judiciary were supposed to be the guardrail, and they’re failing pretty hard. What system can truly protect against bad actors with power?
I was thinking unexploded ordnance
And that same SS didn’t insist on metal detectors at the hotel? Or fully vet all the people staying at the hotel?