Robbity

joined 2 weeks ago
[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago
[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

I mean we just vote on Sundays it's a pretty simple fix.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They'll make iPhones in India. Which is actually what they are doing right now. Or in Vietnam. Or Ethiopia. You can't tariff everyone 140% if you want your economy to work.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes. This is called lying. This is what these people have been doing for a while now. I don't think this will change soon.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Didn't it ? Russia started imposing tariffs on Ukraine in 2012.

Trade breakdown is a clear precursor to armed conflict.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 33 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Nations that trade extensively with each other don't go to war. Trade wars are an accelerator of armed conflict.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 33 points 5 days ago

People talk about tech giants, but Facebook and Google are actually advertising giants. They pour much more money into their advertising than they do into r&d.

Many brands have a cost structure where, for each product sold, more money goes to advertising than to the person who actually made the product. Sometimes 2 or 3 times more. That's where the battle for attention is taking us, a place where attention from customers is worth much more than the effort of the worker.

None of this is inevitable, advertising should be heavily taxed and regulated.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 14 points 5 days ago

Because opinion is more important than fact, and choice is more important than logic.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah interestingly I watched a video where a robotics specialist said they believed AI would take jobs long before the new generation of robots do. Robots are hard.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

So that's because the tariff was so high it reached 99% then reset to 0% because the system was coded by Elon.

Or you know, US are in the axis of evil now apparently.

Turntables and all that.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

5 years ineligibility means she can't run for president in 2027 or for another MP seat. It means others will take over and gain visibility over her.

And 2 years in prison is going to cook her career prospects too.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Funnily enough, when the law was introduced a few years ago, her party wanted the penalty to be lifelong ineligibility. They are probably happy it's 5 years, now.

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