Trump's tariff wars...long post.

[Daz39]

3 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

I can see that as a euphemism for over valued real-estate, but what else?

 

You can multiply by two? You can multiple by 0.1 and add and subtract? Then you can calculate your tax to 1 decimal pretty easily.

 

6.625% is very near 6.6% aka 6% plus 10% of that.

 

Tax = sticker x2 x3 /100 plus 10%

 

Alternatively (Sticker x2 x2 x 2 ) -( Sticker x2)/100 plus 10%

 

Little routines like this are 2nd nature to the Americans Mr Pseudonym referenced.

Come on: this is a nation with some of the lowest literacy and numeracy standards in the developed world.

McDonalds tried, and failed, to sell the 1/3 pounder burger because customers believed it was smaller than the 1/4 pounder (no, it isn’t urban myth.)

[Lozz196]

13 minutes ago, Daz39 said:

Come on: this is a nation with some of the lowest literacy and numeracy standards in the developed world.

McDonalds tried, and failed, to sell the 1/3 pounder burger because customers believed it was smaller than the 1/4 pounder (no, it isn’t urban myth.)

I can also imagine what people might refer to the third-burger as as well, Daz

[TimR]

Wasn't it Burger King? 

[prowla]

54 minutes ago, Daz39 said:

Come on: this is a nation with some of the lowest literacy and numeracy standards in the developed world.

McDonalds tried, and failed, to sell the 1/3 pounder burger because customers believed it was smaller than the 1/4 pounder (no, it isn’t urban myth.)

It probably would be in the UK.

(Shrinkflation and all that...)

[prowla]

On 28/03/2025 at 08:46, prowla said:

OK - I've bought a ticket.

If I win it I'll pay for all the bass bashes for the next 5 years! (Including cakes!)

Sorry folks - I didn't win, so you're on your own!

[Wombat]

Again!

[Wombat]

You sure you are doing it right?

[SteveXFR]

So JD Vance was unpopular in Greenland. Maybe he should have worn a suit and thanked Greenland. Just seems like that might have helped. 

[Agent 00Soul]

48 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

So JD Vance was unpopular in Greenland. Maybe he should have worn a suit and thanked Greenland. Just seems like that might have helped. 

Are they proposing to make Greenlanders into US citizens?  I ask because in his last term, Trump said he wanted to remove Puerto Ricans from their current status as citizens. It is consistent with his belief that Nordic people are what the US wants and Hispanics are the ones it doesn’t. People who hate PC love that kind of thing but PC people consider it racist. 

[Chienmortbb]

14 minutes ago, Agent 00Soul said:

People who hate PC love that kind of thing but PC people consider it racist. 

You have to define PC. To the Orange one and his glove puppet JD Chancer it is anything that stops them being an asshole, them doing or saying what they want. Woke is anyone that disagrees with them.

[tegs07]

36 minutes ago, Agent 00Soul said:

Nordic people are what the US wants and Hispanics are the ones it doesn’t. People who hate PC love that kind of thing but PC people consider it racist. 

I would say that that is a little bit further down the path to full blown fascism rather than being merely racist.

[TimR]

50 minutes ago, Agent 00Soul said:

Are they proposing to make Greenlanders into US citizens?  I ask because in his last term, Trump said he wanted to remove Puerto Ricans from their current status as citizens. It is consistent with his belief that Nordic people are what the US wants and Hispanics are the ones it doesn’t. People who hate PC love that kind of thing but PC people consider it racist. 

 

Only the white European Greenlanders. Obviously not the indigenous Inuit. 

[Buddster]

49 minutes ago, Agent 00Soul said:

Are they proposing to make Greenlanders into US citizens?  I ask because in his last term, Trump said he wanted to remove Puerto Ricans from their current status as citizens. It is consistent with his belief that Nordic people are what the US wants and Hispanics are the ones it doesn’t. People who hate PC love that kind of thing but PC people consider it racist. 

I'd say it's whats under the land and the strategic location is what they want rather than the people. 

[TimR]

4 hours ago, Daz39 said:

Come on: this is a nation with some of the lowest literacy and numeracy standards in the developed world.

McDonalds tried, and failed, to sell the 1/3 pounder burger because customers believed it was smaller than the 1/4 pounder (no, it isn’t urban myth.)

 

3 hours ago, TimR said:

Wasn't it Burger King? 

 

It was A&W burgers in the 1980s who thought they would be able to rival McDonalds with a bigger burger for the same price.

 

The Americans weren't falling for it. Everyone knows 3 is smaller than 4. 

[Pseudonym]

5 hours ago, Daz39 said:

Come on: this is a nation with some of the lowest literacy and numeracy standards in the developed world.

McDonalds tried, and failed, to sell the 1/3 pounder burger because customers believed it was smaller than the 1/4 pounder (no, it isn’t urban myth.)

This kind of thing is one of many reasons why I invest in AI for the long haul. I have witnessed the general levels of human intelligence on three continents. I don’t think it is inherently wiser to rely on the benign good judgment of the blood-and-tissue version. It isn’t as though life was enlightened and peaceful before the ZX81’s grandchildren could beat us at board games.

[TimR]

1 hour ago, Pseudonym said:

This kind of thing is one of many reasons why I invest in AI for the long haul. I have witnessed the general levels of human intelligence on three continents. I don’t think it is inherently wiser to rely on the benign good judgment of the blood-and-tissue version. It isn’t as though life was enlightened and peaceful before the ZX81’s grandchildren could beat us at board games.

 

The problem is AI is being trained on the Internet. Which is basically people lying and p..n. 

[Downunderwonder]

10 hours ago, prowla said:

Work out 2/3 and shift the decimal point once left, then add that to the price.

Quite feasible also.

[Pseudonym]

2 hours ago, TimR said:

 

The problem is AI is being trained on the Internet. Which is basically people lying and p..n. 

That’s not really the kind of AI I am looking at when I invest for the longer term. That’s more the latest do-more-with-less crapola for generic, common-denominator uses. That said, I also do very well with my professional services because highly trained people rely far too much on what they find online. In that respect, too many human experts are also being trained on the internet, with predictably plausible yet wholly fragile results.

Edited Saturday at 20:39 by Pseudonym

[Agent 00Soul]

15 hours ago, TimR said:

 

 

It was A&W burgers in the 1980s who thought they would be able to rival McDonalds with a bigger burger for the same price.

 

The Americans weren't falling for it. Everyone knows 3 is smaller than 4. 

I think this is one of the reasons why Trump wants more immigrants from Northern Europe. He thinks they are smarter and better educated overall. 

[Agent 00Soul]

Did anyone ever read JD Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy?  I never did, but it was actually popular with progressives and Guardianistas when it was first published for whatever reason. 
 

Edited yesterday at 07:17 by Agent 00Soul

[prowla]

I came across this grreat quote:

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You gotta be some kind of awful to piss off Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, and Greenland. Love those Greenlanders!

 

[prowla]

This is an interesting speech by Bernie Sanders.

 

 

[SteveXFR]

JD Vance must be the worst diplomat in history. Ghengis Khan was more diplomatic. 

[Steve Browning]

4 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

JD Vance must be the worst diplomat in history. Ghengis Khan was more diplomatic. 

.... and welcome (maybe).

[tegs07]

30 minutes ago, prowla said:

This is an interesting speech by Bernie Sanders.

 

 

Kind of sums up the situation. However in their infinite wisdom the American people elected a handful of billionaires to MAGA. This is despite the Trumps first term giving massive tax breaks to the very wealthy, attacking medical care for the poor and implementing tariffs that had no effect whatsoever on increasing GDP. This term it’s all being taken to extremes and the US constitution, it’s freedom of the press and its position in the global world order is being shaken to the core.

 

Oh well hopefully by the midterms they will be exposed as the charlatans and crooks that they are.

Edited yesterday at 08:19 by tegs07