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It's already back on the brink.

And the tent is collapsing right now.

You’ve got bigger problems to worry about right now if you’re a US citizen.

For fuck sake, stop trying to find a 4d chess angle. There isn’t one! Trump likes tariffs on an instinctual level going back to the 80s! He’s just dumb!

That won’t happen until their constituents throw a tantrum because the price of everything has doubled, and by then it will be too late. The damage will have been done.

Catastrophic. I wish I didn't have to live through the collapse of the US.

The hand has made contact with the stove.

> Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that California will look for ways to expand trade and persuade international partners to exempt the state from global payback as President Trump’s sweeping round of tariffs have sent U.S. and global financial markets tumbling.

Isn't this technically illegal?

Line doesn't even go up anymore.

Here's the brilliant formula they used to determine those tariffs by the way:

https://xcancel.com/orthonormalist/status/190754526581875103...

https://xcancel.com/corsaren/status/1907554824180105343

It's trade deficit divided by total exports divided by 2

> Yes (Edit: not sure now, I'm hearing some say they include the 2017 tariff regime of flat 10% - smh shows how this was just a political ploy that answers for such a critical question are mixed)

https://xcancel.com/EamonJavers/status/1907540655871521264#m

An ill-specified, inconsistent agenda that he and his cabinet lack the IQ to achieve.

No direct evidence that he was "disappeared" yet, but that won't stop the America haters from spreading their propaganda.

> 7m people presumably many of them on 996 schedule must be producing a sizable LoC output...where is it going?

Malware. I’m barely exaggerating, look up what popular apps like Tik Tok and DJI do to obfuscate their runtime. Also, Black Myth Wukong runs on UE5 so it’s mostly American-made code. I still wouldn’t want to run it on any devices I own though.

8 hours per year is basically nothing.

> I have yet to see a reasoned justification of how this benefits thr USA beyond the awfully short term trite "saves money

The optimistic explanation I’ve heard from the more enlightened MAGAs is that this is an attempt to “toughen Europe up”: get them to spend more on their defense and run ops without the US so that the US can focus on preparing for the war with China while Europe handles Russia.

I think this is cope since Trump has also been acting belligerent towards Japan and Taiwan, but that’s the steelman.

Again, the simplest model of the world that explains all of Trump’s actions is: he’s a foreign asset.

Russia is winning the information war, unfortunately.

The zeitgeist is shifting away from "wokeness" and people are testing the waters trying to see what they can get away with saying now.

How do diffusion LLMs decide how long the output should be? Normal LLMs generate a stop token and then halt. Do diffusion LLMs just output a fixed block of tokens and truncate the output that comes after a stop token?

Maybe Trump will finally learn the same lesson that everyone who deals with Russia learns.

All of them were ethnic Chinese

>The two US Army active-duty soldiers were identified as Jian Zhao and Li Tian, stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, in Washington state. Zhao, a battery supply sergeant was assigned to the 17th Field Artillery Brigade and Tian is a health services administrator. The former soldier, Ruoyu Duan of Hillsboro, Oregon, served in the Army from 2013 to 2017.

Another recent incident also involved ethnic Chinese service members.

https://lite.cnn.com/2023/08/03/politics/navy-sailors-arrest...

And that’s a good thing. Modern cars are rolling surveillance devices. We don’t need CCP eyes in every garage in America. We also don’t want to lose the manufactiring capacity that the domestic auto makers bring.

These routers are used to host malware that targets US infrastructure, so no.

> At first, the local government in Beijing fervently opposed the initiative. At one point, the Chinese deputy minister of environmental protection publicly called the American air quality readings unlawful and said the US was “intervening in China's domestic affairs.”

"Say the line, Bart!"

Not sure about the higher prices, but the coming recession is being talked about in MAGA circles as a correction and a fault of the Fed.

All those people who voted for Trump because they hated high prices and inflation are about to get a very harsh wake-up call.

And: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43250070

Yes