Winner! This is about Chinese drone companies being forced to pay bribes to Trump to remove the tariffs, and if that fails then the fallback is that the tariff is enacted and acts as a national sales tax. Republicans have wanted a national sales tax for years because the lower and middle classes spend a larger percentage of their income on goods than rich people do. And for importers and retailers, tariffs are much worse than a sales tax: sales tax is only paid on items that were sold and the retailer has already collected the money that needs to be paid to the government while tariffs apply to all items imported, including items that may never be sold, and they need to be paid upfront which requires lots of extra liquidity.

That's true now but it's highly probable that China's economy will eventually outpace the U.S. to a point where they could tell us to piss off. Sure, it would hurt China's economy but it would hurt the U.S. a lot more. While that may seem unlikely today, it's something they may be willing to do if relations between the countries deteriorate significantly.

However, in the case of an emergency the executive can give itself more power. Emergencies like national security risks.

It's interesting that none of the Constitutional crises Trump has perpetrated have resulted in the use of emergency powers but any and all competition to his business interests seem to be rife with the use of emergency powers.

I presume it's because Muh Rule Of Law says that Trump can't ban them but can put tariffs on them.

Since when have laws impeded any of Trump's actions during his second term?

Paying a tariff on imported drones is a security measure in the same manner as charging an extra $45 for airline passengers who don't have a Real ID is a security measure. Evildoers don't have modest amounts of extra cash to throw at the U.S. government for the purpose of inflicting harm or death on proles, and if they do have that cash then they'd better be ready to pay for the privilege.

Switching to Apple will cost you much of your life savings.
Switching to Windows will cost you your dignity.
Switching to Chrome will cost you your freedom.
Bonus: Switching to Linux will cost you your sanity.

Oddly enough, the Photos app included a single image depicting the album art for U2's Songs of Innocence.

If a company in the United States collected and sold

But what if Flock buys the data and generates a proprietary score that gives people an idea of your financial means without divulging any of your actual financial details? I'm not saying that Flock does that, but it doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility.

How are higher costs for raw materials in the U.S. due to these tariffs going to make more profits for U.S. chipmakers?

One of the few things in which I agree with Trump is that I'd like more chips to be fabbed in the U.S., especially for national security reasons. However, imposing tariffs is only going to make that process more expensive and therefore even less likely. This is yet another case of this guy saying he wants a particular outcome and then doing everything in his power to make that outcome less likely.

That's completely irrelevant. The law is clearly stated but once again this regime can't be bothered to pretend to give a fuck about obeying it.

Back when I was learning Linux, I was constantly told by experts to read the man page. The problem was that I never knew which command I needed to use to know which man page to view. With AI today, that is far less of a problem.

At this point, the command line is almost preferable - perhaps even for average users. It seems like half the time an LLM provides a set of instructions for a Microsoft GUI or web portal, the interface or URL has changed significantly and the LLM's instructions are virtually useless. Linux commands are generally far more stable.

Apple's P/E ratio has nearly doubled over the last ten to fifteen years. They've benefited from irrational growth during that time and now they have to suffer a potentially irrational loss. The big players get more attention, so the market has a tendency to overreact to good or bad news about them. If you're that incensed by it, put your money where your mouth is and buy the dip.

Apple is so obsessed with vertical integration that it's hard to fathom how this hasn't already happened. It's not like they don't have the money or clout to hire the talent and procure the equipment.