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3 days agoThe people who pay taxes don’t have extra money to pay extra taxes, so they will not be able to pay extra taxes and no extra tax will be collected.
Nobody benefits.
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Oh yes it’ll go on for a long time and might never return to the previous state.
American products got world wide recognition in a time when USA was the peak of western culture, technology and quality.
With or without tariffs and boycotts, people everywhere in the world will once again have to question if they even want America products. This doesn’t go well with the increased consumer awareness that is happening everywhere else but in USA.
UK turning down clorinated American chickens is the funniest thing today, like eew brother, eew what’s that?
Maybe Americans should consider not paying taxes in the first place.
Never mind the money. Think about this: Is the American lifestyle self-sustainable?
No? Why not?
Because they use more than they produce? Yes, and where do those things come from?
Imports? Yes.
Trump litteraly put a stop to the American lifestyle.
It would be nice to know if he’s even alive.
VAT is (almost) the same idea as American sales tax.
The difference is only how it is managed in wholesale, how it is displayed to consumers in retail and obviously the rates. Otherwise it’s the exact same thing.
European stores show the price including the tax, whereas American stores show it without taxes. The VAT rates are generally higher in Europe than the sales tax in states, but this is not the explanation for the car prices.
Cars are more expensive in Europe due to other kinds of taxes. Germany is actually one of the cheaper countries for vehicles, because they don’t have vehicle registration taxes, but they do have an import toll of 10% on cars. The same price increases happens the other way too. A European car will be more expensive in USA than in Europe for the same reasons.
7·8 days agoBy temporary and quiet, I think the previous poster means: The reason why there has not been more resistance or assassination attempts is that everone expects Trump to die from uninflicted causes soon enough. It’s not worth sacrificing your own life to see it happen sooner than later.
The entire world is a powder keg where everyone is hoping that the fuse goes out before it explodes. That is why nobody is stopping Trump. This includes the people in GOP who know fully well that they’re on the wrong path. You can tell because they’ve stopped blowing air on the fuse. Except for Vance and Elon. Those idiots want the world to explode.
Waiting it out is still a bad solution, because it will enable more to follow his example.
It would be illegal for companies in France to do what Trump is demanding.
What would they get for doing it anyway? More threats?
I wish more companies would take that kind of responsibility.
“no, otherwise thank you” (nej, ellers tak) can be said in a variety of ways.
The entire purpose of adding more words to a “no” is to have more words for expression.
Even in the most polite way it basically means “definitely no”.
That’s why you ask for the sources, so you can check them.
I think this kind of prompting is an important part of how to use it in any meaningful manner.
You can also input your own sources and ask it to only use that. For instance by uploading a pdf of a law and ask it to figure out how to do something totally legal and then let it show where in the law it says so. You’ll obviously still need to check that the law actually says so and that it isn’t hallucinating.
It’s usually possible to ask the AI for the sources. A proper journalist should always question the validity of their sources.
Unfortunately, journalism is dead. This is just someone writing funny clickbait, but it’s quite ironic how they use AI to discredit AI.
It makes sense for a journalist to discredit AI because AI took their jobs. This is just not the way to do it, because AI is also better at writing clickbait.
You could put a blinking neon light ad all over the entire night sky, but if someone farted, you would still look around and ask “who farted?”.
The Tesla is so stupid ugly that it attracts attention the same way.
Not all companies do that. It is possible to make dual class voting, where some shareholders shares have more votes than others. For instance Google, Meta, Ford, Warren.
Yes, he’d still be a large shareholder
If they fire him, he would sell. This would tank the stock value.
They’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
Yes. They all bought into the same bubble. Even if they want to fire him as CEO, they’re afraid of the loss in case Musk sells off his stock. The next board meeting will be interesting.
somehow manages to control the company with his minority stake.
… maybe his job as CEO at Tesla has something to do with that?
WTF is a voluntary search?
“Attention all flight passengers. This is ICE on the speaker. If you want to be searched, please raise your hand and we will get to you shortly.”
Imagine if it’s a live stream, changing the plot as you watch dependent on your reaction.
At first it might be fun to see what happens if Frodo doesn’t throw the ring in the lava, but eventually you gotta ask yourself why you’re wasting your time in front of a screen watching weird cat videos.