Don’t forget that Brazil is one of the few countries that the US has a positive trade imbalance with. The stated goal of the tariffs was always balancing trade, this is explicitly political strong-arming.

Deep breath

Mmm. Smells like the 2010s.

At least its mostly timed exclusives these days.

Had a conversation about this the other day with a coworker, albeit about ICE cars but still applicable I think. Car manufacturers made tremendous progress in effeciency and negated all of that by justifying making their cars 2x bigger than they were 20 years ago. It’s ridiculous. A modern Subaru Outback is about the same size as a mid-90s Suburban. Gets about the same mileage as my 2001 Outback, even with all the effeciency tech

No lol.

How i learned to stop worrying and love the biggest load

They are literally building doomsday bunkers while knowing we’re pretty much heading unavoidably towards cooking the earth alive. The 1% has concentrated more wealth than ever in modern history. They dont care about squeezing a little more money out of us at this point, they’re in their endgame. All that’s left to do is to finish training the AI that’ll be their staff once they seal themselves off and that’s it.

NTA but can you elaborate on this a bit? Never heard someone put this argument before I’m just curious exactly what you mean

Definitely longer than 3 years but yeah. I saw the writing on the wall when I chose a major and realized they’d been pushing “learn to code!” For about 10 years at that point.

Not that deciding to study humanities was any better financially lol, but at least it didn’t pigeonhole me with a hard-skills education

Portal 2 imo. Stephen Marchant makes everything better

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Convergent evolution through CAFE laws and UAW protectionist lobbying.

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