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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by brookst on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:34AM (#43568130)
Is that commonly done on uninhabited islands? Wouldn’t the shipping cost offset any gains? Where do you even make these small changes if there’s nobody there? And what does the export paperwork look like?
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by addicted on Thursday April 03, 2025 @08:05AM (#43568437)
The problem is that the truth, that this was some haphazard nonsense thrown together at the last second using some ChatGPT prompts, is hard to believe, so people try to insert rationality where it doesn’t exist.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by brookst on Thursday April 03, 2025 @08:13AM (#43568510)
It probably already exists and I just can’t find it, but there’s some kind of law here about how some actions are so insane that they compel people to invent elaborate explanations to avoid the discomfort of recognizing insanity.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by lostmsu on Thursday April 03, 2025 @10:23AM (#43570139)
Funny thing is the assumption that having ChatGPT run a country is worse than elected politician is not as obvious as you might think.
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