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Cut the man some slack y'all, will you, he's a stable genius who saw that trade and economic relations no longer guarantee peace when Putin's Russia invaded the Ukraine and how COVID affected global supply chains. He's also seen how little materiel the West can really produce when needed, and rightly attempts to bring back manufacturing to the US. In case of an all out war against the Chinese, the industrial base and all the resources need to be at home to win a protracted war of attrition. Which is actually be a sensible position to have, and the Biden administration had that on the agenda, at least in some ways. It's just that the US has an deranged idiot at the helm who surrounded himself with lickspittles and yes-men, and now nobody's left to tell him that the emperor is naked. Trying to make sure that any eventualities in a potential conflict with China are planned for is a good thing. Alienating all your allies and trade partners in a block of equal economic and purchasing power or on those who whold a monopoly in certain goods is not. Taiwan, IIRC, as already stated that they are not going to react to the tariffs. Sitting on a de-facto monopoly, they can afford to. What are the US companies going to do, stop buying from TSMC? Now, if only there'd been some incentives act aimed at breaking that monopoly. Can't quite put my finger on it. Must be something that the libtards wasted money on. Just because Trump thinks this should have been done decades ago, does not mean it will work now. The world's a much different place, and while the United States is still a large chunk of the global trading volume and GDP, it is no longer as relevant or consequential as they used to be. That could backfire very hard, very quickly. Plus it just proves that the word of the president of the United States is worth nothing, and no treaty with the US is worth the paper it is written on. Which has always been the case in some ways (ask the Kurds), but never like this, and never that much and directly against the inner circle. I mean they even pissed off the otherwise nice Canadians, and that takes some doing.

Just like actors in real life, they're all reptilians. Game is a psy-op.

Serious headphones warning for this one. Christ, the audio is bad.

Indeed, they just added two greek letters and cancelled them out so it looks more sophisticated than what they actually did. Trump and his voters will look at the formula and go "Woah, this is complicatid stuff. Liek nucular science! Covfefe!", while in reality it just expresses the trade deficit in relation to the imports. Take times 100 for the percentage value and fiddle a little to the numbers to make them look nice (the trade deficit between the US and the EU was more like 37% in 2024, but who knows which year they took their numbers from) and put them on the giant tariff sheet Trump read from to show how mean everyone else is to the United States, and you're done. I'm somewhat surprised that the more fringe MAGA elements (the conspiracy kind) is so cool with a Jew running US commerce. Weren't they the ones behind the forest fires with their space lasers and trying to the establish the New World Order? Or is Lutnick a good Jew fighting the good fight against his people? Questions, questions...

Observe, if you will, the reason why Alfred Nobel ignored economics when founding the Nobel prize: it is voodoo and crystal ball gazing. It also doesn't explain why there's a 10% minimum tariff on nations with balanced trade - or no trade at all, due to being populated by penguins. Although that's probably becuase they look better in a suit than Trump.

So, is he, like, trying to get stuffed in a box by his tech-bro handlers? 32% tariff on Taiwan. Woof.

Yeah, no, it's real. Split into several parts though, so maybe the joke will be that he'll release one part per year, for a decade.

Hey. Surprise of the decade. If you ever wondered if the world's really going to end, here's proof that it will: I don't even...

I've found something new for @bugarup:

I thought about posting this in the funny thread, but it's probably only funny to a maximum of three people in this one.

Have you tried watching the above video and looking at the animations? That just makes it so much worse. Killing it with fire might not be enough.

Woke up, checked my mail, Amazon tells me I am now subscribed to Luna+'s free trial. I certainly did not sign up, I also did not get any notifications that a new login happened or a new device was registered, which Amazon normally sends my way, plus I have 2FA active. Killed the subscription, deleted the app from my catalogue, checked my device list (everything in order) and changed my password, just to make sure. Did read that it is possible to sub to Luna+ even when you have a security PIN set up, so I guess it's technically possible that my wife clicked something on the Fire TV stick. Would be strange, but not impossible. Nothing else was ordered, so that speaks against a hacked account. I mean, out of all things, why'd anyone hijack an Amazon account just to sub to the cloud gaming service, not change the e-mail address or buy stuff that cannot be returned or cancelled (like Microsoft licence keys)? Bizarre.

There's two ways Strange New Worlds can go for someone: either you're like me and end up hating every character except Pike, that by default makes the episodes bad, and you start nitpicking, or you don't, and can enjoy the series for what it probably is, the best of the nuTrek shows. Personally, I'd rather be forced to watch A Night in Sickbay on a loop than subjecting myself to any more nuTrek TV or film dreck.

No, they're talking about the manga.

I have very fond memories of playing Raptor: Call of the Shadows, but it's been 30 years, how has the gameplay nodaways? Guess there's not overly much you can do with shoot-em-ups, controls-wise, so it probably still plays well enough. Not sure I want to replay it, it was pretty tough to beat even before 30 years of reflex and response time degredation.

Korean apparently. Anyway, dunno, what's like, your problem, man? Look at these characters, they're great.

I like coming back from making coffee or the lunchbreak to a plethora of Teams calls. If only the software would give people an indicator when someone is AFK... dunno, it could set the status to away or something. That would be something.

Eh, they also killed the G, I mean, why else would the Enola Gay entries have disappeared.

Hey, look everyone, it's the other AI bot's lost sibling. Guess they learned writing game names in italics in the meantime.

Uh, nah, never mind. No point.

Fake news!

Oh, and by the way, before anyone remarks on it: I meant no value judgement of Kingdom Come: Deliverance with my post. As I said, I never played it, and I probably never will, because everything that made the game stand out are things that I am glad modern games left behind*, and any sort of realism is not what I am looking for in a combat system. It is probably a good game that deserved its success in the same way Pretty Woman was great (presumably, at least) and wildly successful romantic comedy. I just don't like romantic comedies. *Hilariously enough, you just need to look at @Sven_'s posts about what he likes in games (sue me, I just assumed gender based on the user name being male ) to find out what I don't enjoy at all. There are things made to make a game more immersive that are dealbreakers for me. Like not having a map that properly helps with navigation. In real life, ever since the advent of affordable GPS navigation systems, I have never once thought back to the good old days of having to buy ginormous maps to plan routes well ahead of leaving home and thought: "Man, that used to be great, I should do that again." Finding places in the game world based on descriptions by characters is just something I don't care for, and in the worst case, is frustrating. The first thing I installed when playing World of Warcraft Classic was a UI mod to tell me where to go for questing. There's enough in this game to waste my time, avoiding them whenever possible is good for the experience. There's a whole bunch more that I don't like, that many players consider good game design, like NPC schedules and timed quests - basically anything that makes a game feel less like a game, and more like a simulation. I already deal with NPC schedules and timed quests almost every day in my life: it's called work. Somehow, I don't care for it in my break from reality, and I cannot understand why people would want that in their games. But that's okay. I don't really have to. De gustibus non disputandum est, after all.

I am confused. Since when is Sky News a globalist media mouthpiece? Since Murdoch stepped back at Fox News? I thought the globalist elites are the leftists. Can someone please tell me who I am supposed to dislike now. If Sky News is party of the libruhl woke agenda now, do I also need to stop watching Fox News? I... A little help? Anyone?

So, like, Waltzhisface from Groper Cleveland's entourage said that he thought Jeffrey Goldberg would be someone else when he added him. Do you guys think that might really be the case? Maybe he wanted to add Jonah and simply picked the wrong Goldberg. All them joo names be so confusingly similar. Also, Trigger warning: completely dumb, even by MTG's low standards.