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19 hours ago, speed817 said:

Dear Xi, I wrote you but you still ain’t callin

I left my cell phone, white house address and tariffs at the bottom

I sent more tariffs back AND market uncertainty, you must not have seen em

There prolly was a problem with twitter or something

My economy is imploding too, I'm about to have a recession

If I have a reccession too, guess what imma call her, imma name her "Biden"

I read about your exports dropping, I'm sorry

I had my economy kill itself over some things too, some great things, america things

Sometimes I scribble executive orders to sloppy when I jot em,

But anyways, fuck it man, how’s your barter? My economy is stagnant too, I hope to be a martyr.

Got the hots for my daughter, guess what I do call her, I named her Ivanny

I know you probably almost never hear this, but like Drake I'm waiting by my cell phone

Just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan, this is Don

More like:

the president of the United States does not beg people to call him, people beg I’m to call them!  So we are begging you to beg him to call. 

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While I know this fold is good….a part of me wants him to keep dramatically fucking up and stick to his water guns

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22 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

While I know this fold is good….a part of me wants him to keep dramatically fucking up and stick to his water guns

Exactly and we all knew he would cave. The playbook is out on him. Punch back and he will tweet something dumb and surrender. 

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6 hours ago, Underdog said:

Didn’t Apple just ship a bunch of iPhones recently to get ahead of the tariffs? 

 

Yes, but....they really didn't get that far ahead, because in terms of sales, they were limited on how many iPhones they could squeeze onto a plane.  Plus, the point is moot after Trump capitulated today:

 

https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/how_many_iphones_can_fit_on_a_freight_plane

 

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This sounds like one of those puzzles job interviewers often ask, but there’s a practical relevance at the moment: What’s a ballpark estimate for how many iPhones Apple might have hustled to ship into the US on those five freight planes ahead of the new tariffs? Ryan Jones tackled it in a post on X:

 

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A whopping 12 days of sales. At most.

Math: 
• B747 Freighter carries 300,000 lbs 
• boxed iPhone is 0.9 lbs 
= 350K iPhones per plane

 

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I like Jones’s ballpark math here. Let’s not worry about volume, just weight. If we’re wrong about the volume, it can only mean fewer new-in-box iPhones can fit per plane. There’s no way to (safely) exceed the weight limit of a plane.

 

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Jones also estimates that Apple sells about 150,000 new iPhones in the US per day, at least in the typical April–June quarter — which I concur is a good ballpark figure. So each plane can carry a little over two days’ worth of US domestic iPhones. That means if the Times of India is correct that Apple “transported five planes full of iPhones and other products from India to the US in just three days during the final week of March”, those five planes combined carried, at the most, about 12 days’ worth of new US iPhones.

Now that’s just from India. And those are just the five planes the Times of India heard about. It seems safe to presume Apple might have hustled even more planes out of China and Vietnam. But again, at most, each plane full of Apple products carries about two days’ worth of products. We did our napkin math using iPhones, but “1 full plane = 2 days of inventory” can’t be far off the mark, no matter what the mix of product is in each plane’s cargo hold.

350,000 iPhones packed onto a single plane is a lot of iPhones. Sending a few million units across a dozen (or more!) planes is, quite literally, tons of iPhones. But Apple sells about 50 tons of new iPhones in the US alone every day. We all know that Apple’s iPhone business is huge. But when you start to consider it in practical terms like this it’s just staggering.

There’s no way Apple can “beat” these Trump tariffs by having shipped products ahead of their taking effect. Could they hedge against two or three weeks of tumult? Maybe a month, tops? Yes, and it seems like maybe that’s what they did. But no matter how many planes they filled — or how many container ships they might have had the foresight to send a month or two ago — there are very practical limits to inventory, too. Apple’s warehouses are likely designed with one or two weeks of inventory in mind. You can’t just rent random warehouse space to hold billions of dollars worth of iPhones.

From Adam Lashinsky’s 2008 profile of Tim Cook for Fortune:

Almost from the time he showed up at Apple, Cook knew he had to pull the company out of manufacturing. He closed factories and warehouses around the world and instead established relationships with contract manufacturers. As a result, Apple’s inventory, measured by the amount of time it sat on the company’s balance sheet, quickly fell from months to days. Inventory, Cook has said, is “fundamentally evil,” and he has been known to observe that it declines in value by 1% to 2% a week in normal times, faster in tough times like the present.

“You kind of want to manage it like you’re in the dairy business,” he has said. “If it gets past its freshness date, you have a problem.”

 

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Posted
Just now, Captainant said:

Starts? 

Touche, but I mean out in the open.  Like literally saying so and so CEO "needs to be nicer to me if he wants lower tariffs."

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China is going hard on TikTok exposing how cheaply it makes luxury goods and openly inviting Americans to come in a 9-day visa-free tour to buy shit straight from the factory.

That’s some next level “peasants with pitchforks” shit right there, eh, JD?

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14 minutes ago, berlinerbaer said:

Good news, but damn Trump is such a pussy.

The rare combination of giant pussy, single digit IQ, as ugly as it gets, fat as fuck, and supremely annoying. 

But he shows up to park his fat ass in a ringside seat at UFC events so the idiots think he's tough. 

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1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

China is going hard on TikTok exposing how cheaply it makes luxury goods and openly inviting Americans to come in a 9-day visa-free tour to buy shit straight from the factory.

That’s some next level “peasants with pitchforks” shit right there, eh, JD?

Three quarters of the country, including all of its under 18s, spending most of their day with their brain plugged directly into a CCP propaganda app is an interesting wrinkle to all this that I hadn’t considered. Trump should’ve waited until after he seized it and handed it to one of his buddies to do the tariffs. That would’ve required the bare minimum amount of strategizing though. 

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6 hours ago, tokamak said:

Three quarters of the country, including all of its under 18s, spending most of their day with their brain plugged directly into a CCP propaganda app is an interesting wrinkle to all this that I hadn’t considered. Trump should’ve waited until after he seized it and handed it to one of his buddies to do the tariffs. That would’ve required the bare minimum amount of strategizing though. 

It’s not just that. They’re threatening to crater the entire American retail sector.

Were are doing some home renovations right. Ow, and we’re going to need some new living room furniture. So one that was pertinent to me was a gal at a furniture factory. She says “you like something from the Restoration Hardware catalogue? Send us the SKU. We make all that shit here in this factory and we will send you that sofa door-to-door for 10% the price you would pay at Restoration Hardware in Austin.”

Even after you pay the 125% tariff, it’s 80% off retail.

If people do that in any kind of numbers, yikes.

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8 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

It’s not just that. They’re threatening to crater the entire American retail sector.

Were are doing some home renovations right. Ow, and we’re going to need some new living room furniture. So one that was pertinent to me was a gal at a furniture factory. She says “you like something from the Restoration Hardware catalogue? Send us the SKU. We make all that shit here in this factory and we will send you that sofa door-to-door for 10% the price you would pay at Restoration Hardware in Austin.”

Even after you pay the 125% tariff, it’s 80% off retail.

If people do that in any kind of numbers, yikes.

I'm in the market for some new living room furniture. Can you hook me up with your connection?

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^ If you’re in the Austin area there may be a shitload of estate sales in the North Bluff Estates trailer park off Wm Cannon in the near future, probably find some good deals on furniture there. 

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15 minutes ago, Underdog said:

^ If you’re in the Austin area there may be a shitload of estate sales in the North Bluff Estates trailer park off Wm Cannon in the near future, probably find some good deals on furniture there. 

Thanks, but I officially left Austin about 8 months ago, and I don't have a truck/trailer for hauling stuff, so I'll need someone to deliver to me.

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51 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

So one that was pertinent to me was a gal at a furniture factory. She says “you like something from the Restoration Hardware catalogue? Send us the SKU. We make all that shit here in this factory and we will send you that sofa door-to-door for 10% the price you would pay at Restoration Hardware in Austin.”

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Posted
1 hour ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Episode 2 Car GIF by The Simpsons
 

 

 

Like Biden's CHIP Act? Only supremely stupid and implausible?

Who is this Lutnick asshole? Had never heard of him, was he highly regarded in anything every before? In a sea of spineless cunts debasing themselves for an evil clown this fucker is really going all out. 

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46 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Why do we need those things to be built in America?

Keep in mind the reason this shit isn't built in America is because 1) Intel turned Apple down at making chips for the first iPhone; 2) Intel, after spending years well ahead of everyone else (tsmc got hung up at 28 nm), got hung up at sub 14 nm and still really hasn't figured it out. Tariffs aren't going to fix that. 

 

This ignores that tsmc and Samsung are already building huge new fabs here. These fuckers are going to show up to the openings to do a victory lap that their tariffs worked 



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