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Limiting myself to just stuff that's current/recent;
Luthen and Dedra from Andor Punisher, Kingpin, and Vanessa from Daredevil Born Again Ubel from Frieren
Remember, the only way for tariff revenue (which is just a direct tax replacing income tax) to hit anything like their targets, two things have to happen;
- Imports have to remain at their pre-tariff levels, or even exceed them.
- The tariffs have to remain in place permanently.
If that's the case, then Trump is lying about bringing manufacturing back to the US, and he's lying about making trade deals. Bringing manufacturing back, if successful, would reduce the total amount of imports, because people would buy the locally made goods instead. Making trade deals would require the US to lower or remove their tariffs as part of the deal. Neither of these things can be true if the tariffs are going to act as a new source of government revenue. And the tariffs themselves do not reduce the tax burden on the American people, they just move more of it to people who can afford it less.
And you're just going to comply with that?
I for one would still want to call out whats being done, to make a record for future generations if nothing else.
Are you really such a good little soldier that the supreme court makes a bad decision and you immediately reorient your entire moral framework to match?
Listen, if any branch of science is going to crack immortality, it's the mycologists, 100%. Mushrooms are really, really, really fucking weird.
This was a triumph...
Autarky.
That's the four dollar word for when a nation closes off all forms of outside trade and supplies all its own needs internally.
It doesn't work.
And it's a core tenet of fascism.
The reason why autarky appeals is because an autarkic nation can freely engage in hostilities with anyone they want to, without fear, because they don't depend on anyone else for anything. See Nazi Germany.
It's an incredibly stupid notion. While unrestricted free trade is not by any means good, some amount of trade is simply far more effective and efficient than trying to be an island. And trade is an excellent means of extending soft power.
Trump hates soft power. He doesn't understand it, so it's bad. To him, hard power is the only thing that matters. Being the biggest, the strongest, the toughest. It's the politics of a bully. He wants an army with a nation attached, endlessly manufacturing weapons, food and medicine to supply the troops as they goose-step across the world.
Remember, this is all about OpenAI convincing investors to shovel more money into their furnace.
They are not profitable. They have no realistic path to being profitable. Their only hope for survival is to South Seas Company their through round after round of investor funding. And to do that they have to create the appearance of near unlimited demand for their services, and therefore for additional capacity to run those services.
The writing is on the wall. Microsoft and Amazon, two of the biggest players in the compute space, both of which also run their own AI projects, have both massively scaled back their plans for future compute expansion. If anyone should be building out like crazy it's them. If anyone has a clear idea of what the actual demand is, it's them. If Amazon and Microsoft are out, this thing is fucked.
OpenAI is fucked. Sam Altman knows it. But if he can keep the illusion going, the money train doesn't have to stop. Yet.
Hard agree. The original trilogy has some truly great moments, but nothing on the level of Luthen's "sacrifice" monologue, or "one way out."
I consider Rogue One to be a very good, but very flawed movie (IMO the last act does a lot of work to make up for a weak middle, but the last is so very good that it actually does make up for it), but Andor is basically flawless.
Andor is, without hesitation, the best piece of Star Wars media ever made.
Yes, even including the original trilogy. I said what I said.
Seriously, why do they let him talk? The man is a walking PR disaster.
Then again, we should all be asking how the hell he's not in jail for possession of child porn, so I guess this is a pretty minor thing in comparison.
Same place they're getting the first one, Boeing.
This thing will never be airforce one. It will take years to retrofit it to the same standard as the current planes. By the time they do, Boeing will have finished the replacements they're already working on.
But after Trump's term finishes, it'll go to his "library foundation", meaning he'll own it. This is just Trump scamming himself a free private jet.