Last time I checked, country xxx laws tended to have priority in country xxx as compared to those from country yyy. Treaties, I think, end up being integrated into country law in some fashion.
This is possible, or it might just be Trump copying Carney. i.e. Carney is the self-made economic guru that Trump has tried to portray himself as. Carney is the one making big waves by diversifying Canada's markets in response to Trump's grab for power over Canada. Potash is one of the things people immediately point to whenever Trump says the U.S. doesn't need anything Canada has. So, now he's going to find a new supplier in order for the U.S. to be less reliant on Canada. Belarus is never going to be able to produce more than a tiny fraction of what the U.S. needs, plus there's the transport issue. Maybe some kick-backs made it worth doing anyways. Who knows?
At the same time, Trump is making a big show of passing (or just threatening) new sanctions on Russia and anyone who trades with them (because midterms). Given that a lot of this Belarusian potash is likely to travel through Russia (if it doesn't actually come from Russia), and Belarus is basically just an extension of Russia now anyways, wouldn't this mean Trump should threaten the U.S. with his new sanctions?
Trump missed his true calling. He should have done comedy.
The US idiocy was to whiplash de minimis regulations. The US gov't suddenly raised the de minimis threshold to $800; with the easily foreseeable effect that the country got flooded with crap from Temu; and then reacted by eliminating de minimis completely.
If they'd just kept the threshold at $200, all the chaos could have been avoided...
To my mind, the increase from $200 to $800 was more of a pragmatic policy tweak than a change of course. It was a recognition that US customs had limited capacity to check the value of small packages.
The EU also got rid of customs minimums and (at least in germany) has been letting delivery companies charge highway robbery fees to pay the couple of euros and cents for you at the border. The $3 per linie item that is on top of that mess.
Locked behind firewall. Is the author saying the young lack the imagination to read or at least to see analogies? Are they saying that there's insufficient stimulation on the written or typed page? Or that people today are too passive to engage in reading, merely receiving video?
Lock everything down and everybody's going to stop reading cuz they're not going to pay for the text and they're not going to hack their way in. And if AI is generating said text, it's going to be wordy.
STEM is really a pastiche. Things one looks for in CS aren't the same as what's looked for in a Science program. It's way easier, for example, to see whether the person has a BS Chemistry degree (which has predefined requirements) than checking each course to see whether it's for majors or for poets or for pre-meds. I suspect it's similar in Physics, and Biology has the problem of being the safety major for pre-xxx types. Or at least it used to be.
Given the lab requirements, there's little undergraduates at uni can do in Science. They can participate in a paper, but they spend a lot of time trying not to hurt each other and develop some kinds of lab skills. And if they're p-chem or theoretical, they might not even get lab skills (more engineering). Some schools offer their lab-oriented majors the chance to intern at a biotech/pharma, and THAT has a major impact on hire-ability. But w/o the PhD, they're headed for lab tech.
For CS, on the other hand, you can build entire systems independent of attending uni. So yeah, what-you-have-done is usually more significant than what-did-you-study. Given this, trying to wedge Science and Technology together really isn't useful. Didn't some of the techbros call uni a waste of key programming years? Similar to how footy views uni vs. youth programs.
If US-ians stop cutting checks to Alberta oil companies, the trade deficit goes away. Get cracking on the cracking and get those drillers into Venezuela. I guess one can't have trade deficits with colonies, er, states?
Us/Canada had a nice free trade deal signed by the current prez in his first term. Pity said prez is ignoring it. Hasn’t left the agreement, just ignoring it. And nobody bothers to point that out and how he’s breaking us law to do so (ratified treaty).
People with complementary positions facing shared difficulties have been known to work together. As Franklin said, "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." And there's no guarantee that the current US approach to other countries will change in the (near) future.
Let them have their minority government and see what they table for consideration. From their actions, people will judge them.
The won because people think complex problems have simple, untried solutions that are common sense. They hate "them", they're stoked on (social) media. They feel put upon and denied their rewards. Same old, same old with more effective communication paths.
I don‘t think people believe in the effectiveness of the proposed solutions.
It’s more about “the old parties didn’t have any solutions” and “political promises and proposed solutions don’t work anyways”. So why not try a new party
> political promises and proposed solutions don’t work anyways
This is very effective for populist parties because in a way it keeps them from being held accountable by their own voters. When I hear interviews with Trump voters being faced with evidence of how Trump hasn't kept one campaign promise or another, it's exactly the sentiment above: politicians never keep their promises anyways and Trump is no different but we like him so we'll stick with him.
I don't know about german politics, but here in the US this isn't what I observe. My aunt is a republican lobbyist. She is also a drunk. She gets drunk and texts us her unfiltered thoughts.
She genuinely believes that the bulk of racial minorities in the US should be expelled from the country, that Trump is making progress towards that goal, and that the US would be a better place if it was just white people. She isn't just motivated by frustration with the liberals. She is motivated by the racial purity policies of the GOP.
The simple, untried solution is to stop being the export dumping ground of china. But when anyone says that the knee-jerk reaction is “you’re an awful person for saying that”
That is not a simple solution in practice, only on social media.
It will make prices go high, which will spiral in a lot of things and will increase the cost of living in the present even more for the vulnerable part of the population of a country.
of course it can be the proper solution for the future but saying it is simple is a huge huge understatement of the political and economical will needed to make it happen.
"Cheap goods" is quite a problem, as basically the US, possibly all of North America loves their cheap Walmart items. Screw how they were made... They're usually the cheapest. Replace "Walmart" with whatever large box store goes lowest price as appropriate.
> "Cheap goods" is quite a problem, as basically the US, possibly all of North America loves their cheap Walmart items. Screw how they were made... They're usually the cheapest. Replace "Walmart" with whatever large box store goes lowest price as appropriate.
Loves? Or driven to them by necessity?
The whole "China Shock" "bargain" for many was something like: you'll lose your jobs, status, and security; but "cheap Walmart items" should make your lowered circumstances more bearable.
Increasing COL for everyone is an interesting solution, I wonder how well it would do for your re-election prospects.
The United States voted a shit-slinging gibbon in over anxiety of a minor COVID COL increase. (That he caused, but everyone has forgotten his role in it.)
They are smarter than that: Siegmund says he doesn’t want to form a government. After all then people could see how they function in office, and that might hurt the AfD in upcoming national elections. Better to wait until the AfD is in power at the national level.
It doesn’t help that there’s no local contribution once the thing’s built. A few people taking care of the machines and power generators. Probably no local tax contribution to speak of. And the things support a worldwide or countrywide customer base so the locals won’t see a difference due to the machine in their back yard vs one 1000 miles away.
And they’ll have to pay for the load on their utilities and air as it runs. Possibly noise as well. NIMBY makes sense for these things outside of remote sites with lots of natural power and water.
data centers have always made massive tax contributions, lowered utility costs and improved infrastructure. louden county is basically funded by nothing else and is fine. the present spike was just too much for anything to handle
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