The very first word in the headline for this article is "Trump".

No, the factory is unlikely to be built and operating and making anything before Trump leaves office.

They didn't move anything. The factories in India and China were already there and making phones. They changed where they were delivered. It does sound like Trump's threats to India about buying Russian oil (which I agree with) will likely force Apple to use Chinese iPhones in the USA again.

If every person using an AI assistant becomes a mechanical turk for sending data back upstream to the AI provider as a means to bypass robots.txt that's what isn't cool. Local usage for the benefit of that user should be ok, but not the follow on effects.

...then fire and/or burn it.

That's what dictators do. Nobody trusts China's and Russia's official econ stats because the books are always cooked to make the dictator look like the best dictator ever, believe me, everyone says so.

There can't be climate change if there is no instrument around to measure it.

I agree with you.

A "conspiracy" is when more than one person works together on some action. Possibly the word should not apply unless they make an effort to hide the fact that they are doing the action. But it is going to cover a lot of stuff like business dealings and arranging a surprise birthday party.

A "conspiracy theory" is somebody claiming there is a conspiracy without any proof. May also require that they not be a member of the conspiracy, somebody claiming they are part of a conspiracy but lying should have some other term.

I think I misread the initial posts, the person talking about 9-11 was complaining about the same thing, you need the word "theory" to split real conspiracies from ones that may not exist. Initial poster was claiming you should never use the word "theory".

No. What you describe, I just call a "conspiracy" (assuming the action is harmful or illegal or .. eh, I think the word "shady" probably fits best).

I suppose the participants technically do also have a conspiracy theory, but I think it's inappropriate to call their direct knowledge that. The hypothesizing is usually by nonparticipants, and if they come up with a hypothesis with enough evidence to back it up such that their explanation becomes widely accepted in the mainstream, then they have a conspiracy theory.

(BTW, I know I already lost this argument decades ago. I lost the fight over the word "hacker" too. But that doesn't mean I can't grind this axe for the rest of my life! The word "theory" means something, or at least it did/should in my fantasy world.)

I am very confused; don't movie studios use artificially generated characters frequently for special effects? Isn't it almost certain that especially over the past few years they've used AI to do that? How would this be something new?

The "left" tries to use tariffs to change behavior, for instance "unless you bring your worker protections up to American standards you get this tariff". IMHO the chances of this working are just as dismal.

They would pay to fly you from the US to India, including hotel and I think food too, to have certain medical procedures done.

To slice off the needful.

I agree, such very expensive cameras will just be hidden in the fentanyl shipments if they are easily bought for the original price in Japan.

The increase for the three quoted items are 12.5%, 11.8%, and10.7%. Apparently the previous tariff was about 2% so the increase is actually 13%.

Tariffs are used because they are an income source and a regressive tax. They basically rely on the fact that nobody is able to manufacture the object locally.

No that does not work. The factory still needs to get the parts needed to make the product, and those are still imported and covered by the tax.

It is possible to "promise" to build a factory in the USA, that may result in the tariffs being dropped as Trump may be fooled into thinking he "won".

I'm aware of how they handle the recall. My 2 year anniversary with my Ioniq 6 was last Friday. (No more free EA DCFC for me.)

My point was the total number of cars that were repaired after an ICCU failure is very small. Lots of manufacturers have recalls, including for parts that can cause a vehicle to stop running. Ford is the worst. Every vehicle lineup has their issues, so just putting it in perspective.

2 years for me, no ICCU issues. No charging issues. They did replace my interior door panels under warranty for peeling clear coat.

But GartnerGPT predicts it will never go out of business.