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So why institute a tariff that makes it harder for US companies to compete, by excusing finished products in order not to piss off consumers?

You have no shame.

> NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance said the Government did not support what Mr Meow-Meow had done. "It's really crazy cat stuff to go and insert a chip inside your arm," he said. "It's not recommended for health reasons but we've got to be guided by the courts."

Normal cat stuff, surely.

There is massive cognitive dissonance in trying to explain a lot of current events because they are so beyond what you expect to make sense.

Yesterday I was trying to explain to a friend about the children separated at the border and how the parents are then being deported alone and have to apply afterwards to try and find their children, and it took about seven attempts. She didn't understand what I was saying at first because she assumed I must have misspoke, as doing that doesn't compute.

>They all know the game is up and they're all desperately looking to hold onto their advantages.

Don't knock it, that game made the US the richest country in the world.

And yes, that game does look just about done right now.

I'd say this view comes from massively underestimating the complexity of the effects on the economy that result from the externalities of instituting tariffs.

Sorry to hijack the thread slightly, but is only to introduce some visibility to the fact that this particular issue is nothing to do with the EU, or content ID, or anything like that.

Google is blackmailing the Blender foundation to try and get them to enable adverts.

https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blende...

edit - and Blender have now got https://video.blender.org/ in testing already. I didn't think they'd be the ideal people to issue ultimatums to on video hosting, given their technical specialities.

A situation like this triggered the development of git, (after the licence to use bitkeeper was withdrawn from the linux kernel team) so I will be watching the fallout with interest.

So, is google going to start dropping some pages from searches if they don't carry advertising? And are they already?