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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 23:51:59 JST Paul Cantrell

   Paul Krugman’s latest brings up a point I’d missed:

   This chicken-with-its-head-cut-off tariff policymaking is now “putting much higher tariffs on intermediate goods used in manufacturing than on final goods” (see screenshot below, taken from the article).

   That means Trump has actually managed to •disincentivize• electronics manufacturing in the US.

   …or at least this second, but who knows what US policy will be in 15 minutes? Way to go, geniuses! Companies, come invest here! You’ll get screwed now, but at least you can’t count on the future at all! USA! USA!

   https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-tariffs-just-got-even-worse

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     Paul_IPv6 (paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 01:29:58 JST Paul_IPv6

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     @inthehands

     yup. there is no "trump is playing 4D chess against our 'enemies'". he's eating the checker pieces, throwing ketchup, and soiling his diaper while he burns our trade reputation into ash.

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     Dale Trexel (daletrexel@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 04:56:27 JST Dale Trexel

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     @inthehands
     This is how you get intentionally disposable laptops, made of cardboard and meeting absolutely minimal definitions of "laptop", but with really good batteries inside.