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"Musk is transforming key government functions into high-speed error-generating machines whose human minders are only the payroll to take the fall for the coming tsunami of robot fuckups." pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/a...
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little stabs
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... to the extent even that it reduces competitiveness even more than losing export markets due to US tariffs? Which is not what I'd have guessed? www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/models/curre...
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Yeah, and it didn't really explain why except "it's in the model" - it looks like it's saying Canada & Mexico are very upstream-dependent on US suppliers for imported inputs that are hard to substitute ...
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Setting aside the impacts on the US - why do retaliatory tariffs on US exports reduce Canada's and Mexico's GDP more than tariffs on Canada's and Mexico's exports?
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My leetle grey artillery shells
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Hi, I think we decided we couldn't do that for some reason - but let me check with Polina just in case
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Thank you! As usual Polina did most of the hard bits ☺️
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Our report gets into some of the gnarly details, in case it's of interest sussexhumanitieslab.wordpress.com/2024/09/29/t...
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I lean 2
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Hehe
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Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Eggs aren’t affordable;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.