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Captainant

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  1. Probably because China announced 34% retaliatory tariffs on American goods Are we feeling like we've made America wealthy again yet???
  2. Yes now we can finally just pick winners and losers, as the Almighty Free Market intended. It's so great to be beholden to infinite growth goals
  3. Except the person now steering our country's economic direction is doing everything literally the opposite of what we did to recover from COVID.
  4. What's his surly handle?
  5. A 10-20% correciton would be a blessing. We're staring down the barrel of stagflation. Inflation is rising, unemployment is rising, and these tariffs are going to be a considerable headwind for economic growth. And it's all self-inflicted for really no reason whatsoever and no benefit. So yeah, lots to be blase about, I guess.
  6. What are you using windows for? IMO you'd be better off buying a cheap NUC or laptop for whatever windows stuff and just let your macbook do mac stuff. Emulating x86 Windows inside an ARM-based virtual environment is gonna be worse performance than most cheapo windows laptops, even on an M4 pro. In terms of extensability and driving external displays, I'd go for M4 pro all day. Thunderbolt 5 has way better bandwidth and can daisy chain more devices per port than Thunderbolt 4 edit: or are you using ARM Windows? You might try that instead of x86 and see if you get a performance uplift
  7. It's easier to snatch more power when there's chaos and fear. Trump's entire modus operandi is chaos and fear.
  8. Isn't this where DCBC or twice or another surlylawyer comes in from the top rope to scold us for doubting the justice system?
  9. Ya know, I think I'm finally coming to understand why you tolerate so many trolls on surly. You think it's mutually exclusive to be either an idiot, or to be a cruel and awful person. There tends to be a lot of overlap in that venn diagram, home skillet
  10. Heh. Rudy Guliani was with Newsmax at the opening bell. I think the simulation is fucking with us
  11. Ok I take it back, THIS is a really funny opening bell for today
  12. Nevermind that the tariffs rates are based off of trade deficits, not tariffs levied. They're just making shit up, and it's not funny anymore to laugh at all the useful idiots dancing to try and justify it. Now it's just cruel and tragic
  13. Just circling back - it's almost certain that the administration conflated trade deficits and tariffs. I found a good breakdown, reposting the receipts here: These "tariff" numbers provided by the administration are just ludicrous. They don't reflect any version of reality where real tariffs are concerned. I was convinced they weren't just completely made up, though, and their talk about trade balances made me curious enough to dig in and try to find where they got these numbers. This guess paid off immediately. As far as I can tell with just a tiny bit of digging, almost all of these numbers are literally just the inverse of our trade balance as a ratio. Every value I have tried this calculation on, it has held true. I'll just use the 3 highest as examples: ***Cambodia: 97%*** US exports to Cambodia: $321.6 M Cambodia exports to US: 12.7 B Ratio: 321.6M / 12.7 B = ~3% https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/southeast-asia-pacific/Cambodia- ***Vietnam: 90%*** US exports to Vietnam: $13.1 B Vietnam exports to US: $136.6 B Ratio: 13.1B / 136.6B = ~10% https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/southeast-asia-pacific/vietnam ***Sri Lanka: 88%*** US exports to Sri Lanka: $368.2 M Sri Lanka exports to US: $3.0 B Ratio: ~12% https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/south-central-asia/sri-lanka What the Administration appears to be calling a "97% tariff" by Cambodia is in reality the fact that we export 97% less stuff to Cambodia than they export to us.
  14. They're beautiful tariffs. Many people are saying they're the best ever. They've never seen anything like it. Other people, they have small tariffs, but we have big beautiful tariffs. We are going to win big with beautiful tariffs like this
  15. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. welllll ackshually..... https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-austin-area-teen-trump-disappeared-to-el-salvador/ Terán, despite being in the country lawfully, is terrified that he and his wife and their toddler son could be next. They’ve talked about returning to Venezuela, where life is dangerous but not as fickle as it is in the U.S., once their visas expire. Terán dreams of Daniel being freed and meeting them there. “I’m thinking like a father,” he said, “which is that my son needs me. He needs me to be present and be supporting him.” He told his son, when Daniel was still in detention, that he would make sure his bike was waiting for him.
  16. Why did $NMAX (Newsmax) go from $14/share to $130 share? Because fuck it, that's why. $150M in revenue with negative net income completely justifies a $30 billion market cap! Same memestock dynamics as TSLA
  17. Our country is being led by an abusive man. This behavior of threatening and then relenting and over and over is classic abusive controlling behavior. It's meant to make his targets keep their heads low for fear of worse reprisals.
  18. Not that I really care but apparently he refused to participate in sketches too, which is why Jonas made a random appearance https://pagesix.com/2025/04/01/entertainment/morgan-wallen-refused-to-do-snl-sketch-joe-jonas-stepped-in/ Doesn't seem like good business to show up and do the barest minimum, but who cares it was a pretty weak episode anyways
  19. Just wait till one of them has to make a healthcare claim
  20. This is just bullshit. An engineering degree is valuable specifically because of the high and uniform bar to be a professional engineer. And in tech, you REALLY don't need a degree unless you're going BigTech™. And even then, I've met senior folks with only an associates degree
  21. Extremely fucky to announce something like this on April fools day. I have no doubt that El presidente would rename Big E into the Musk.
  22. Not hyperbole: the feds are deporting now and asking questions later. Facts and evidence be damned. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/ This shit is actually happening. Please stop thread shitting and doing the baghdad bob, Rex.
  23. Holy shit Rex go day drink somewhere else. Please stop claiming that this thread is full of hyperbole and dismissing the actual real kidnappings our government is doing under the guise of immigration enforcement
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