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Harris Rips Trump as 'One of the Biggest Losers of Manufacturing in American History'
  • I understand that, but being pedantic doesn't make your points stronger when you handwave the negatives. You also interpret the steel industry as just steel producers but it is also the purchasers who have seen increasing costs due to tariffs.

    Us steel has made a smaller portion of worldwide supply, while costing more for usa purchasers. However, even with the tariffs, some Costa are down due to less demand, from a cooling economy, which tariffs are partly to blame for.

    Tariffs dont give businesses the opportunity to invest in new infrastructure. They actively make it less necessary for them to do so. They reduce the need to invest in efficiency.

    https://www.barrons.com/articles/biden-trump-steel-tariffs-c44f4279

  • Harris Rips Trump as 'One of the Biggest Losers of Manufacturing in American History'
  • Yes, but you seemed to only focus on the effects for the steel industry and handwaved away the loss from rrtaliation.I'm pointing out that it was overall negative.

    Youre also thinking its a zero sum game. In sourcing to the domestic market because of tarrifs means less competitive pricing which reduces demand and productivity. New products are not launched due to costs being too high to do so. New factories go unbuilt.

    Tariffs to build in the negative externalities, like lax labor laws or carbon cost are allowed by WTO and level the playing field making trade more predictable, not more erratic and I expect will be a big part of future global trade. Trunks tariffs were not that. I take your point though that his weren't that. I think its worth clarifying why.

  • After is a new dating app that tries to tackle ghosting
  • Because when ghosted, some people catastrophise. If it happens a lot they start to worry about what might be wrong with them. Our brains aren't wired for it.

    So, yes, sometimes a polite lie is better than nothing. Sometimes a polite lie is better than the truth. Its not you, its me.

  • German supermarket Aldi's fake discounts breach EU law, top European court says
  • Some are worse than others. Both in practice and the language they use.

    I know in Ireland, one rule for a sale price is that it must have been on sale generally (all stores) at the higher price for a minimum of 30 of the last 90 days. So you can't jack up the price for a week and then claim you've reduced it for a month. Similarly, you can't claim a reduction if it was being sold at another brach but not this one.

  • Ellen DeGeneres Is Unapologetic, Unrelatable and Totally Insufferable in Her New Netflix Special
  • Wow, that review is surprisingly balanced for a clickbait type review. Its not calling her out or canceling her. It acknowledges her success and her downfall and rates the special fairly. If only all reviews were so void of clickbait inside no matter the subject.

  • Rules
  • Yep, as an Irish jaywalker, I was shocked to find not only is jaywalking not allowed, but you actually get fined. For crossing the road with no traffic.

    Or even just being denied entry to a pub for racism or sexism. Its an offrnce not to leave immediately.

    On the bright side, peopke clean their shit upnin parks and beaches for the most part.

  • 10 best sci-fi comedies of the 1980s
  • Its definitely satirical. Usually with satire, the point being made is more important than the comedy but its still quite farcical. Lots of the humour is dark and dystopian, but that doesn't make it not a comedy.

  • Corporate UK tax breaks to cost £20bn more than they generate, study finds
  • Ah, like on Jan 6th with the new president celevratory riot. Dont worry, the French will show you that rioting is just a normal part of the democratic process. They also had guillotines at some of theirs, historically.

  • X is capitulating to Brazil’s Supreme Court
  • And while they serve a purpose, they aren't really missed in any significant way when gone.

    15 years ago, we might have missed google. There were other options then, but they were worse. Now google is worse.

  • Corporate UK tax breaks to cost £20bn more than they generate, study finds
  • Population and GDP wise, its a bigger relative sum. However, it doesn't really cost that. It meant they could expense equipment down immediately against tax. However, the usual way is to expense it over a number of years with a depreciation scheduke. So they have a lower tax bill now to encourage investment, but they will still pay the same amount of tax overall, just delayed.

    Its more that the scheme was not very successful. However, given that it effectively cost nothing except the borrowing costs on 20b, and maybe have cobtriubuted 10billion, it could be beneficial. In the context of budgetary concerns, a lower return than hoped is poor spending and policy. Framing it as a big giveaway is disingenuous though.

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    Using containers for different accounts

    I’m trying to set containers for some websites on a shared windows terminal with multiple users under the same login. We use some cloud software and each user has their own log in. Manually opening websites in container manager allows this, but I’m struggling to do so for opening in container for the home page.

    Each log in just launches in the default container (unassigned). I’ve tried using bookmark tree, which seems to support containers, but I can’t get it to work. Assigning a site to always open in a container doesn’t seem to work either as it’s the same site for multiple users (which seems to be the purpose of multi account container), so if it always opens in container A, person B still needs to manually open in their container.

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    bug with exiting images

    I just recently got the 190 update pushed. It mentioned lots of fixes. One was image handling.

    I have found that now exiting an image is a bit slow or glitchy. A single gesture to go back does not exit and instead it needs two. Tapping an image instead still closes it but there is a delay that wasnt there before.

    I'm on a pixel 7pro with gesture navigation.

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    bug - refreshing after data outage unresponsive

    My phone coverage stopped for a period. I was using connect at the time and a comment failed. I initially thought it was a big but noted after restarting, it still was out. Then I checked with a test search to find it was all internet.

    A few minutes later internet was back. Went back into Lemmy and refreshed. No data showing. I checked down-for-me for my instance and it was up. Refreshed again. No data.

    Again restarted app and it was fine then. So, it seems he connection outage did not allow refresh after it came back, despite a restart during the outage.

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