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Amazon denies it had plans to be clear about consumer tariff costs
Absolutely the right thing to do show it (the new Federal sales tax) as a line item on the bill that Americans get to see, eliminate all doubt where the cost is coming from. The red staters need to see it in black and white. They don’t seem to understand anything until it knocks them over the head.
Anyone selling anything across the land is not gonna take the blame for that occupant in the White House. As we have heard from him so often business is business and he is the greatest at it. Isn’t he? According to his constant blathering he is the smartest man in the room or is it the world I keep forgetting?
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iPhone & Mac tariff reprieve only temporary
tmay said:
In fairness to you, I am very much against China for its human rights violations, authoritarian government, mercantilist trade policy, and threatening military.9secondkox2 said:
Pretty sure the current admin is prepared for chin to pull every last one of their cards. The Chinese government is a lethal combination of petulant, proud, and evil. You don’t stir that up unless you’re prepared to do some serious stuff. China is not a free country and is not run by benevolent people. China has a public plan to reshape the world in its image. They need standing up to now more than ever. Tarriffs are small potatoes.AppleZulu said:Now China is halting exports of certain rare earth metals and magnets. They have a monopoly on them, and the US needs them. I'm sure @9secondkox2 ; will tell us how this was all part of Trump's brilliant master plan as well. He has our best interests at heart, and has thought all this stuff through, you know. Don't you fret. Everything's fine.
Regrettably, I see the very same issues with the current Trump Administration, though worse, since the Trump Administration has knowingly destroyed America's soft power, and worse, has deprecated many of those scientific and educational assets that has given America a tremendous economic advantage since the end of WWII.
Destroying the U.S. economy is something that I never expected, but, here we are.
WRT rare earths, there is no great shortage of them even in the U.S., though it would require an investment in processing those same rare earths, something that our previous allies, especially Austraia, were interested in as well.
But of course, we have no allies anymore.Rare earth materials are all over the Western United States, Mexico, and Canada. There is no shortage. There is just the lack of will, and another problem, many American companies that would pursue the mining of rare earths, don’t want to clean up after themselves they want the American tax payer to do it.Building usable infrastructure is also an American problem. The rail system needs maintenance all across the country, and the same applies to road bridges and highways. China ain’t responsible for that, they also are not responsible for throwing Oak Ridge, Tennessee under the bus.Nuclear power also isn’t a problem if you clean up after yourself and recognize that you have to put/store the waste material in a responsible manner that goes back to rare earths and mining in general. You just can’t create the mess and then ignore it.America’s unwillingness to build new infrastructure has nothing to do with China, the failure of US Steel, Ford, GM (for example over the last 60 years has nothing to do with China, Tesla however, will be run over by modern China and BYD, self improvement is very hard when you spend most of your time blaming other people for your lack of long range thinking/planning and a commitment to the task at hand and the current administration is but a extreme example of exhibit “A” they don’t know which way is up from day to day they are basically just winging it….
On another note just had a 5.2 earthquake in northern San Diego County, earthquakes are monitored by the USGS, a very useful federal agency, which seems to annoy Elon and the current administration of short term thinkers, I’m glad they’re still on the job at least for now.
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Apple's satellite plans could be stalled by Elon Musk's Starlink
davidlewis54 said:Tim Cook should tell Musk and Trump that he’s quite capable of running a large company and that their interference is not required. Bearing in mind Trump is not good at running businesses and Musk is just a chancer who buys other people’s ideas and companies, I think I’d trust Tim much more. Tim is also considerably more honest, though that isn’t much of a compliment, on reflection.
Trump is, after all, just a guy with a big mouth and the sooner more people stand up to him the better.Shame about the GOP and the Dems who seem completely incapable of mounting any sort of response, let alone an attack. Why is everyone frightened of the guy? Very odd.Except for maybe two or three Democrats most of the Democrats currently behaved like Schumer they think that if they just be nice someone on the other side will see the light of day, and wake up but you notice they don’t, most other than Liz Cheney don’t say anything until they retire and leave office and that’s too late. we currently live in the second Joseph McCarthy era except there isn’t an Edward R Murrow to break us out of the spell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow One of the best…..
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Apple to build AI servers in Houston, invest $500B in U.S. economy
proof143 said:Wow, never seen so many gloom and doom comments. I guess Apple should announce they have changed their mind and will be investing $500 billion in Europe or Asia.Geeish, sounds like a bunch of “know it all’s”, I believe Apple will hire the most qualified people. So how many people on this site are job creators? If so, you have my respect and thanks.I for one think all these new investments in America is a good thing.If you plan on visiting Texas, make sure that everyone in your family has had their vaccine for measles because they certainly don’t give a damn down there, and when I say have your vaccine, I mean, make sure that everyone in your family even those that won’t even be going to Texas, if you plan going to seeing them again, make sure particularly if there are any females in the family in the child bearing years.https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/texas-measles-outbreak-may-have-spread-to-new-mexico-total-cases-near-100/ And if you could avoid it, don’t drive through Northwest Texas.
It’s good that Apple is doing this, because I believe in the end, they will sell servers to the public because there will be a demand for them, however Eastern Oregon somewhere around Bend, Oregon, or Prineville, Oregon would have been better, although eastern Oregon probably suffers from the same vaccine avoidance.
https://www.datacenters.com/apple-inc-prineville Apple already has a facility there, relatively close to the Columbia river and Oregon is attached to the national grid Texas is not. -
M4 Mac mini may have a USB-C connectivity problem
Multiple hubs, SSD drives, multiple cables from different manufacturers all hooked up into a menagerie of additional wires and cables and peripherals what could go wrong? Apple M2 Ultra Studio owner, no hub/external SSD drive user. Hopefully there is a software upgrade fix. I doubt it. Speaking of which Bluetooth has is always flaky…..
