Even the administration admits that it will make things more expensive. The “passthrough” of 0.25 in their equation means Americans will pay 25% of the tariff amount. And it’s in the denominator, so if it was 0, the (limit of the) tariff rate would go to infinity, which means no amount of tariff would be effective.
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cmacto Too Dumb To Imagine@europe.pub•US Vice-president Vance didn't know that it's cold in Greenland: 'it's cold here and nobody told me'English12·29 days agoI can’t believe he married a DEI spouse. He should have married a much more competent white man.
cmacto World News@lemmy.ml•Palestinian Oscar winner lynched by Israeli settlers and kidnapped by IDF3160·1 month agoI guess this is a severely watered down use of the word “lynched”, because you’re not alive to be kidnapped after the traditional meaning.
That’s not true since the 23rd amendment was passed in 1961
cmacto Technology•Judge rejects Musk's attempt to block OpenAI's for-profit transitionEnglish8·2 months agoMusk wants to block it, so being against blocking it is the opposite of what he wants.
cmacto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.ml•Food being packaged with a prime number making division impossibleEnglish1·2 months ago9 servings is certainly possible, but good luck reconnecting all the pieces you have to chop up into 9 slices.
cmacto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.ml•Food being packaged with a prime number making division impossibleEnglish51·2 months ago11 * 25 = 275, there’s only 225 g. You could divide it into 11 servings of 20.4̅5̅ g.
cmactoEconomics•Tesla's market cap sinks below $1 trillion as stock slumps more than 8%61·2 months agoWow, now they’re only worth as much as the next 10 largest auto manufacturers combined. Their market cap is completely disconnected from reality. They should not be worth 4 times as much as Toyota.
cmacto Politics@sh.itjust.works•Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crashEnglish6·2 months agoThey all subscribe to ATC Premium™. Much safer than the publicly funded one.
It’s not illegal, but most government employees work for the executive branch, so you can theoretically be fired for not obeying the chief executive (president). Just like someone at a company can be fired for disobeying the CEO, unless there is actually a law protecting the specific behavior.
cmacto politics •Marjorie Taylor Greene demands Congress 'force' Gulf of Mexico name change as UK refuses to adopt new name17·3 months agoHow did Trump support the name change in a 2024 executive order if he wasn’t president during any of 2024? I don’t remember Biden signing that order for him.
There’s always inheritance tax, and splitting the fortune with siblings. Eventually someone down the line would only be getting $999 million.
It’s not a link to a sponsor. It’s a YouTube info page about what it means for a video to have the “Contains sponsorship” tag.
cmacto News•Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South57·9 months ago“…except as a punishment for crime” -13th amendment
Maybe “former” slave plantation isn’t an accurate description.
cmactoCartography Anarchy@lemm.ee•The 50 states, by how acceptable it is to name your child after themEnglish20·10 months agoIt’s not, but they gave it a rating.
cmactoCartography Anarchy@lemm.ee•The 50 states, by how acceptable it is to name your child after themEnglish44·10 months agoI assume North and South Carolina are green because you can name your kid just “Carolina”, so why is only one of the Washingtons green if we’re allowed to use partial names?
Edit: Also Columbia is a name
Since they’re rendered to look like spheres are the numbers proportional to the area of the circle, or the volume of the sphere?
Those aren’t even real people. Those “usernames” are the names of custom emojis you can use in Twitch chat. Still weird in context, but I can see how it would be even more creepy if you didn’t know that.
As one of his constituents I certainly don’t feel like he’s lacking empathy. I’m definitely planning on voting for him again.