If the teriffs burden exceeds the profit margin, which in most cases related to recent US discussion it does, if companies don’t raise prices they’ll be selling at a loss. No amount of corporate belt tightening can save you, even if there was an appetite for that, which there isn’t anyways.
Not recommend but all of mine are named after Mesopotamian archeological sites.
The most telling thing about the character of a person is what they dream of when there is a boot on their neck.
Some dream of becoming powerful enough to rid the world of those who would be a boot on the necks of others.
Some merely dream of becoming powerful enough to be the boot.
I’d thicken the bottom, and then have the interface have some pegs/holes to fit together like a puzzle. If you’re printing in that orientation the pegs should be unlikely to shear off. Then, lots of super glue and sand it down. As others have said, a lip underneath the interface would give you more surface for super glue as well.
Because it’s going in your fridge, there will be inevitable spills that need cleaning. So I’d want to minimize the seam and complexity on the interior of the container.
I can imagine the typical household plumbis will vex future archaeologists
Initially read as “eaten”. Disappointed when I re read.
Pokemon go to the polls
It’s always projection.
He’s not going to go
There are already plenty of parallels between how Putin seized power and Trump. If he’s following the playbook, a false flag should be coming down the pipe any day.
For many, the answer is “yes”, because it’s perfectly easy and incredibly comfortable. Why sacrifice the immediate gratification of what they’re doing now with literally anything else.
Admitting that someone you trusted and idolized lied to you, and then working against that former idol is hard. Heartbreaking, even… People will find themselves alienated by thir communities who still thinking it’s 7D-Chess. That is the consequences.
All or nothing ultimatums generally result in nothing.
That isn’t a conservative community, fyi
Accurately count the occurrence of the letters in a word of their choosing
When the Soviet Union collapsed, there was kinda a “fire sale” of government assets… They just got “sold” (effectively handed) to people who were favoured by the leaders of the time. This was how these Russian oligarchs came to be.
I think this is where the wind is blowing in the USA. Tear apart anything the government does and hand the responsibility for those things as private contracts, and to just hand those contracts to whomever seems like they’d be a good soldier.
Basically, rip all of the copper out of the walls, sell it at 10% market rate to the PayPal mafia, and then let them sell you copper-as-a-service.
No. It was a long winded way of saying “it’s not strictly necessary from a purely functional standpoint, but it is in reality because humans are mushy and irrational especially in groups”
No. But yes.
Like pretty much every social construct, it only really exists as far as people have faith in it. Money only has value because we blindly assume that the grocery store will accept them. Any agreement only has the value of the belief it will be honoured. Law only has meaning if we believe they’ll be applied.
In any coalition there will be participant members with disparate interests. Someone needs to speak for the whole to generate the faith that the collation really does have alignment (that the coalition truely exists). In turn there must be faith that constituent members really do support the direction-setter, at least in so far that they won’t leave the coalition given internal disagreement.
It’s the “U” in USA. Without a federal government, without a leader, it’s just the SA.
The USA was the de-facto leader of the Western world since about May 8, 1945. I think history will recall that reign ended Feb 28 2025. I’m not sure if it’ll be the EU body directly from here on out, or if it’ll directly be France or Germany who acts in the function of the leader of the free world.
Not sure if it’s what OP meant, but I think Russia winning is what sets the immutable path to world war.
This is a test of the global west. If it faulters, Russia takes another stab at Europe within 5 years. China at Taiwan. Probably coordinated on timing to further test the resolve of the west.
Yes. By the time those come down to a per-unit cost, they’re something for sure, but nowhere near as large of a factor of cost of materials.
Again, if we were talking a 5% cost increase in raw material input, then the ratio between additional unit cost of materials and unit cost executive salary would at least be closer. But we’re talking terriffs that are STARTING at 25% and god knows who’ll say the wrong thing to cause them to jump to 50 or 100.
As exorbitant as they are, you are probably underestimating the volume of production and so overestimating the per-unit cost of those salaries.
Ford, for example estimated a 25/10 teriff on steel/aluminum would add 1.6 billion to input costs in 2017. Now we’re looking at 25/25 so, I dunno, 2 billion per year (2025 dollars)
You could cut all executive pay at Ford to 0$ and you’ll still be in the red by like 1.8 billion.