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I am actually in favor of tariffs in a couple of limited situations:
Foreign goods are cheap due to non-existent labor laws
Foreign goods are cheap, but produce more emissions than domestic manufacturing
#2 is also called a carbon border adjustment mechanism, or CBAM, and the EU voted to implement one last year that goes into effect in 2026. The USA desperately needs one IMHO. I'm involved in a nonprofit that's been lobbying Congress to implement our own CBAM.
It's silly though to think that a tariff is anything but a tax. It's not any different than any other way that we use our tax laws to try to regulate "pure" capitalism by encouraging certain behavior and discouraging other behavior.
I thought Republicans were the anti-tax party?
Seems like people have been doing this enough that companies have started to disable the functionality. Comcast will just hang up on you nowadays if you spam zero.
My trick lately to speed things up with Comcast is just go straight to cancellations. I always immediately get a human on the phone. I them tell them what I'm actually calling about, and they will then transfer me to the correct department.
I scrolled back on this community and honestly even the memes with 0 upvotes are pretty funny. I appreciate its existence.
I use arch, btw
I do this at work whenever I ssh into a server.
Streams flac. Good supplement to piracy. I might switch to Qobuz sometime, but it works well for now.
Please just don't let the Cart Narc have a scandal. His work is too important.
For me digital wallet is a bit more convenient than using my real wallet, but not essential. I have one credit card that I use all the time, but it seems my bank hasn't bothered to make it work with NFC payments yet for some reason, but it works with Google Wallet so that's nice.
I also always keep my wallet with credit cards and a little bit of cash as a backup. One time I was out at a bar and there was a power outage. They were still serving drinks, but instantly all transactions switched to cash only. I think it makes a lot of sense to have backup options.
The opposite can be good too -- your phone as a backup just in case you forget your wallet.
It's probably not entirely been worth the effort to stay up to date with changes whenever Google breaks things. At some point I may stop. I guess one immediate value has been that watching things unfold has hastened the souring of my view on Google. I am now frequently looking for ways to avoid their ecosystem, and avoid big companies / non open source in general. I'm far from ready to leave the ecosystem on every front. But at the very least, I would never recommend a Google product in my professional life at this point, at least not without careful planning of an exit strategy.
Is this due to root rot? Temps? Or something else? Leaves have been curling down due a few weeks, and now they are starting to droop and dieback quickly over the last few days. There is some new growth still though. Do I need to uproot it and check / cut roots?
Ah well, nevertheless.