This angst about the impact of tariffs on prices appears purely selective and disingenuous to me. There is no such hand wringing about the impact of other government policies on costs when it comes to energy or housing or food or vehicles and many other matters. Just tariffs. Somehow the costs imposed by tariffs are a great crime, but all the rest is fine and of no concern.

Will tariffs work to achieve the stated intentions? No. As you point out, it would require fundamental policy change that survives changing presidents and congresses over decades to effect a re-industrialization of the US. And to actually produce any standard of living benefit, that shift would somehow have to forego rapidly improving automation capabilities.

Neither of these are real or likely. So at the end of the day, this is all performative and pointless. That won't stop you from crying about prices though, as though you actually care about the poor slobs being hurt. And it won't stop me from enjoying pointing out your biases and selectivity.

We have the largest population in the country by a significant margin and around a quarter of our homeless came here from other states. Personally I think that the number should be considered to be higher since it includes people who moved here for jobs that weren't sufficiently stable to move for, and people who were self employed but it didn't pan out. People literally come here because they know they will be able to get social services. This is enabled by other states being allowed to refuse to implement social services.

A reasonable fix for this would be to eliminate the electoral college so that if other states want to have a say in elections, they should have to make their states not total fucking shitholes so everyone doesn't want to leave.

It's not arbitrary, it's designed to sell more PCs for their partners, who will include more Windows licenses, producing more revenue for both parties.

This happens when you're asleep? So a power event can destroy both your storage and the backup?

You got your causation in my correlation!

You got your correlation in my causation!

Did someone hurt your iFeeFees?

"The U2 thing wasn't an advertisement"

Yes, of course it was. It was an advertisement for music sales through Apple, and an advertisement for U2. Seriously, this is why consumers get taken advantage of, many are stupid AF.

Firefox on Android has a pathetic JavaScript-related memory leak that causes it to slow down my device multiple times per day, I have to force it out of memory. My phone has 4GB, which is not a lot any more (sigh) but it's still adequate for every purpose other than running Firefox for long periods. It's surprising its market share isn't lower.

Just try convincing people practically anywhere that noise is harmful, and most of them will tell you it's not that bad because they survived noise, and anyway you need to toughen up. They will have no awareness that it's harming them, too.

And the auto parts stores. And the electronics stores. And the clothing stores. And...

boltdepot.com baby: I'm on about my 10th order with them this year.

I guess Amazon Prime wants some of that from me.

From what I'm seeing online, the Three Gorges Dam in China, looks like it might not need an earthquake or a tsunami, just some floods.

Fuck patent trolls.

More often wind shuts down because the wind is blowing too hard than it is too little.

Does your righteous anger extend to the solar industry, paving over 1000 acre chunks of rural land with each new deployment? Wiping out farms and forested habitat?

I'm betting not. I'm betting your anger is highly selective; reserved for only some of the forces making your dreams more expensive.

Why would anyone think that? The right makes their view perfectly clear on this: the Right wants the US to reindustrialize. They leave nothing on the table here: they campaign on it and trumpet their (few) successes.

It's the left that it cryptic about their reasons. They can't say what they really think: that they can't stand the thought of a factory being built. That some working class white man might enjoy a bit of income growth.

Perhaps that fact should inform you about the morality of the factions here. Who is being honest and straightforward, and who is being deceptive?