humanspiral

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[–] humanspiral 3 points 5 hours ago

$102B trade surplus in March. $279B in first quarter. 1/4 of exports to US. Less than each of ASEAN and EU.

42% growth in solar over last march. Many other key sectors high growth too. https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202504/10/content_WS67f7315cc6d0868f4e8f192b.html

[–] humanspiral 1 points 7 hours ago
[–] humanspiral 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

There was the low 5 slap back, my man.

[–] humanspiral 2 points 8 hours ago

TO WHO? ~~Aqua~~ Dustman????

[–] humanspiral 7 points 9 hours ago

1930 tariffs made dust bowl worse, because there was less planting from less exports.

[–] humanspiral 2 points 10 hours ago

wasn't exclusive. But they got a lot of extra ones from "schemes".

[–] humanspiral 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

OTOH, they should be able to improve yield over time. Certainly will get free money to throw at yield improvement.

They are reporting 40% yield for 910C chip, and profitability, on feb 25. Enough to increase production capacity if national importance.

https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250225PD224/huawei-ascend-ai-chip-yield-rate.html#%3A%7E%3Atext=Yield+improvement+and+profitability+milestone%2Cprofitable+for+the+first+time.

improvement from 20% yield in just 6 months.

[–] humanspiral 1 points 11 hours ago

This is a tiny (insuficient without more) step towards that. Declaring ICE and other Federal agents to be outlaws (No penalties for murder, theft, rape) would reduce their presence. South Carolina declared that it should not collect/submit to 1828 tariffs, and were the seeds of secession 30 years later. That Californians should be forced to buy cars from Detroit made $20k more than Chinese EVs, or Pensylvania steel 50% more than Chinese, requires a desire for unity, and conditions of harmony.

[–] humanspiral 2 points 12 hours ago

Lance and a sword? Is lance for throwing or anti-cavalry or impaling the defenseless on horseback?

[–] humanspiral 1 points 13 hours ago

Apparently there was no new announcement. Just that some tariffs were already at 100% before the 145% of additional ones.

[–] humanspiral 5 points 15 hours ago

Even if unjustified tariffs are removed, the for profit detention system is dangerous for everyone in US, never mind non citizens.

[–] humanspiral 6 points 1 day ago

Clean coal is a technology that has only been implemented once in North America. In Saskatchewan. It costs an additional $10/watt, and so as uneconomical as on budget nuclear, and only captures 65% of emissions (but pollution included). Far more emission reductions is possible with solar and 2 hours of battery, at around $1/watt, and simply running the coal plant less than 35% of the year. But at any rate, that is the very narrow definition of clean coal.

Coal power is dirty. Mining is a health hazard, pollution is too. Global warming not going to help.

 

US evil projection in world depends on its aircraft carriers.

 

Minimum prices protect EU's major auto nations from too much Chinese EV plants in new EU countries. There are still likely to be some, especially if they can sell below minimum price at least in home country.

Higher Chinese profits can be deployed into charging infrastructure, services, and more model imports. More EVs.

While tariffs in EU weren't meant to be prohibitive (no EU models are at full tariff rate), the new policy would be friendlier, likely for purposes of having China make friendly EU business policies.

 

There is a contrast between reddit/lemmy reactions to Trump and X. Where X has many repeats the affirmation of unconditional primacy that is beyond attack. This is a major test of the delusion, but the walkbacks are signs that the US will decline, and world will pounce on the failed delusion.

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US troops headed to Panama (responsiblestatecraft.org)
submitted 2 days ago by humanspiral to c/endlesswar
 

doesn't include announcement that electronics/smartphones/computers are now exempt from "reciprocal" tariffs from all nations.

 

Proof that cruelty is the point. They know, and have been told, they made a mistake. Fixing it is right thing to do, but cruelty seems more important to them.

 

Panama, afaik doesn't get paid. Just gets continued invasion threats no matter how much they bend over.

El Salvador could double its GDP if they can just keep 1.75M prisoners alive. ($35B/year)

 

One of the bigger problems of relying on Urkainian nazi propaganda for how successful the war has been for its anti-Russia sponsors is that people internalize their (manufactured) hatred as successful when it is not, and self-collapsing.

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