Why is VAT so hard to understand for otherwise literate Americans?

China just needs to do what Trump wants and refuse to export things to the US for a week or two. That should be enough for the people bankrolling Trump to get rid of him.

Just for reference in case someone needs it, Nintendo is “offering” free joycon replacements in North and South America, most of Europe (EU+EFTA+UK), Australia, and New Zealand.

How’s the leopard treating you, Bill?

The problem is that this is screwing the restaurants too, either through reputation damage or through empty tables if the scalpers don’t manage to sell the reservation on time.

So, what’s he going to do about it?

0% tariffs

Sounds reasonable, we just need to set some ground rules.

Free trade area with the United States of Chlorinated Chicken

Ha ha ha, fuck no.

“US President has an uneventful Thursday and doesn’t crash the world economy”.

I pity The Onion’s writers.

The closest, at least outside of China, would be Dailymotion.

The Trump administration got a human trafficker in Romanian custody free for some vacations in the US. That’s the only thing I have to say about the US and people in foreign custody.

The US interferes with foreign custody regularly, both through legal and illegal channels. The judge will only accept the excuse if he’s dumb.

Revolutions need organization. Organization needs third spaces were people can meet, discuss, and organize. Most of the US has basically no third spaces outside of churches, and this is very much by design.

The thing is that when he says Soros he doesn’t mean Soros, he means something that would make him sound even more like a Nazi.

You misunderstand how most dictatorships work. You either crown someone absolute king - and there’s less than a handful of them - or you pretend to work within a constitutional framework which is the most popular form of dictatorship by far and the only realistic option in the US, at least for now. The latter introduces limits to what a dictator can do without breaking the illusion that everything is working as it should.

I can’t overstate how much effort the garden variety dictatorship puts into making everything seem “business as usual”.

If Trump goes there he might as well try to formally replace the entire constitution.

I know this one! What’s the last sentence of 12th amendment?

They published some interesting mobile ones. And then figure out the crappy slop based on their TV shows actually does better, so they are going all-in on that.

Of course there will be elections. Very few dictatorship skip elections outright nowadays.

It depends on the context. If the pentagon has a chat app that only has authorized people with verified identities and using official devices in it, then using Signal introduces an attack vector that was not there before.

Just don’t release the game in the US and Japan.