Very familiar but much more from university than from high school.

Please keep in mind Jack Dorsey is just some guy who’s had the same shit idea twice.

yeah, it is not newsworthy when CBP does their normal, admittedly rather annoying job

Nobody wanted Trudeau, that much is true, but I think Poilievre mistook that to mean that people wanted him, that is not as true.

Good thing AI can’t fail.

but what does that mean for the future of my made-in-russia imported glavprodukts? I don’t know what I’ll do without them

Check the notes.

I could see a gorilla choking a bear out though, the bear isn’t going to be able to strangle the gorilla from behind.

it doesn’t really take a super big brain to stay away from a phrase like “You’ll never pay a tariff in your life” when tariffs will directly cause the price of imported goods to rise by the exact cost of the tariff or more to the end consumer.

It also doesn’t take a super big brain to know that the cost of things like traversing the suez canal (or not, when things like oil tankers can’t) IS ALREADY FACTORED INTO THE PRICE OF GOODS. You’re making my point already. Stop arguing with me.

“You’ll never pay a tarrif in your life” is like saying Johnny Knoxville has never been kicked in the dick in his life because technically his pants have been shoved into his dick by the clown shoe. Please.

Yeah ok that doesn’t make any sense. It’s not a hypothetical, you’re just not capable of seeing literally a foot in front of you. Your one boat of wine you’re going to eat the costs on is your answer for how it’s going to be. Got it. Thanks for the great insight. Problem solved.

“If you make everything more expensive for suppliers, don’t you think the costs will get passed on directly to consumers?”

“Whoa bro quit hitting me with random hypotheticals.”

And what will you do when there is no boat coming that doesn’t offer a tariff-ridden bottle of wine? Like, maybe a month or two from now? Will you never carry international wine or will you add a markup to it? If anyone carries an international product do you expect they will eat the extra cost or add a markup to it? If they add a markup to it, who is paying for it? YOU.

If I want to buy wine from you it will now cost $15-17 if I wanted to get that wine and if you wanted to supply it. How is that cost not being passed directly to the consumer and ultimately being paid by the consumer? If you paid the tariff price and kept the retail price the same then that would be a whole different situation, but that isn’t going to happen. The end customer will pay the excess.

Yeah on second hand goods, I’m not disputing the point. “You will never pay a tariff in your life” is not qualified by this discussion.

You will never pay a tariff, but you will pay more (about exactly the cost of the tariff if not a little more for a bit of extra profiteering) is a distinction without a difference. It’s not even meaningfully pedantic.

We require more minerals for the expansion of the creep!

Cool so 9 minutes later when he’s back to shitting on the walls, what then?

The fact that he works in the federal government but doesn’t do anything productive but oppose things is not a point in Pollievre’s favor. He could oppose things but also work to pass meaningful legislation that helps the people he represents. The reason he can do that is because he’s an MP and not a talk radio host, despite how he comports himself.

What? That’s insane. He’s only ever worked in the federal government. He’s not a reporter or an outside agitator. You’re eating the brand. You just nouned the verb.

I mean, yes, there are AI companies, but if you want to be creative with AI these days, it’s actually not owned by the same few people. There are thousands of open source models that can be run on a midrange consumer GPU at home.

But most people who weren’t making art/music/code before weren’t making art/music/code because they weren’t interested in it. Having a tool that magically makes a bunch of shit you already didn’t have any interest in that barely rises above a vague novelty isn’t going to ever suddenly make someone interested in it.

The problem with AI is that every large company is using it to make search, information, and every product and tool worse because they are out of ideas, they actually believe(d?) that the AI was or could be sentient at some point, and, of course, promising AI would do X was a really good way to get through Q1 in 2024. And Q2, and Q3.

Can’t tell if this is new timey advice from a rich person or old timey advice from a gentleman.