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funniest thing I've read this week. But don't have any friends with whom I can share
Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!
Only male or female shipping allowed.
Whose writing this shit for him?
AI.
This is just a list of "but I'm not winning so it's not fairrrrrrrrrr" whining (whinging?)
I feel like if AI would’ve written this, it would make more sense. This reads more like a fever dream.
who's
Does he think that pirates would turn around and buy $1 Trillion worth of media if pirating stopped? Lmao.
Does he think
No.
The fuck is "non-tariff cheating" supposed to mean?
Good question.
Nobody knows what it is, folks. People are asking, “What is it?”—nobody knows. Experts, politicians, the fake news—nobody has a clue. Maybe it’s something, maybe it’s nothing. Could be the biggest thing ever, could be nothing at all. Nobody knows, believe me. Total mystery.
Bigly if true
My hard drives cost 20% more. IDK what he's on about "cheating".
How dare other companies cheat by having more stringent food standards than the USA? Everyone should be forced to buy and ingest real American salmonella.
Just off the top of my head:
- Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar's value
- Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
- Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
- OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world's entire content.
Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.
OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world's entire content.
Rules for thee, not for me!
So now he's angry that we've fucked up our agricultural exports badly enough that the rest of the world doesn't think our trash goods are food grade?
I would love some of the diseased chlorinated freedom chicken from the U.S.
Bowling ball test?
Trump has claimed a few times that, in order for cars to be approved for import in Japan, they must be able to withstand an impact from a bowling ball without denting. It's not a real thing. When the White House press secretary was asked why Trump made up such a weird lie, she said it was "obviously a joke".
throws bowling ball at Cybertruck
Its ironic to be complaining (or rather bullshitting) about japan restricting vehicle imports while the US is restricting imports of kei trucks for reasons.
Because kei trucks are obviously death traps
sideeyes motorcycles
Reminds me of the mind-blowing video from Channel 5 news of them interviewing Trump supporters about him posting a pic of himself as king and they say "Oh it means he's the King of Presidents, like Elvis Presley is the King of rock and roll" and I just couldn't possibly facepalm any harder.
my concern over IP Theft goes from the ground up, can't help it. I'll worry about what corps think they're missing out on right after I've acknowledged each and every person who has ever written anything on the internet, or shared an original work in any way. the damage done by tech bros pillaging the collective imagination is way higher than $1T
Only when you pirate over $1 trillion in a calendar year, so we're fine. Facebook, maybe not so much...
When Trump says piracy, I understand he's referring to classic piracy (with little boats and all), and when he says IP Theft, I assume he's referring to the piracy that concerns us. Good luck adding a tax to my $0 rate.
When he says transshipping, he probably thinks of a container ship flying the trans flag.
I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be if asked off-the-cuff without his advisors around.
I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be
I think that's when a fishing boat puts on some guns and radar and starts calling itself a battleship ?
lmao, I would believe that he believes it. He could play Ron Burgundy really well.
Govt subsidies? Really?
I'm guessing that one is toward the EU?
Or Canada with the dairy subsidies.
Also it's not like the US has subsidised corn for decades or anything like that.
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I'm not interested in giving rich humans access to another trillion dollars.
That works against the best interests of hu-fucking-manity.
So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.
I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now
I can’t imagine their software and bookkeeping would be significantly different from any other international logistics company?
Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.
It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.
Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!
You heard him folks, shine up your Somali and take to the seas, this man wants to see if we can cost him more money as traditionalists.
I was wondering when piracy is going to join the game. Awkwardly absent so far.
One useful thing about the absolute stupid chaos is that there is hopefully too much absolute stupid chaos for anyone worth a damn to care too much about piracy.
(Though I don't think we should be resting on laurels either.)
The likes of RIAA and MPAA are probably still lobbying as always. Also don't forget the Internet Archive is being sued by record labels over copyright.
More than anything, people might be too distracted to defend IP related freedoms right now with all the other issues.
Hm, yeah, that's a fair concern.
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