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Anti-fascist science, physics, and finance dweeb who views tariffs the way an MD views bloodletting or phrenology. Low Brass player & general fact knower. I build things and I write things. Reclaim Woke, and Slava Ukraini!
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I have this conversation in my head about fifty times a day.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I was the guy at my company who heard inventor pitches as part of our patent committee. I had a Keurig pod of “Candy-Cane” flavored coffee. I would hear the pitch and sometimes hand them the pod: “…some things just shouldn’t be invented. Just because you can do a thing, doesn’t mean you should.”

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This court has had its say, but the regime has other tools, starting with an already-filed appeal to “his” Supreme Court. So - the madness isn’t quite over. People have no idea how disruptive tariffs have been for businesses of all sizes… trying to keep jobs in the US despite the chaos.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Once we all realize that there’s no bottom to these people’s awfulness, and that there’s no line they won’t cross, then we might stop giving them deference and benefit of the doubt.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I used to naively think that people were stronger-minded than to fall for Trumpian infection; now I realize that cruelty is contagious, as the lessons of history confirm… not every Nazi was a sociopath, but they all fell in line anyway to became party to the destruction.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

@carbage.online : you’ll enjoy this.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I spend all day, every day, trying to stay in business fighting both domestic tariffs (“just” 30% on China?) and retaliatory tariffs in key markets (25% imposed by Canada): for many businesses, EBITDA is taking a fcking beating if they even make it to the next quarter. So far, zero trade “deals”.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Professor Wolfers has a good, simplistic explanation of why tariffs are bad; and it’s at the level that an 8 year old can understand it. Well done, Professor!

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

At no point in the history of tariffs-as-mercantilist policy did anyone think it was a great idea to tariff raw materials. That’s the only clue you need that these regime guys have their heads firmly up their asses. I have spoken.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I know Great Barrington well and it is extremely hard to imagine any scenario on this earth in this small town that would require cops to roll out like they're going to war.

submitted 28 days ago • 451 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 29 days ago • 631 comments