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   Aho (aho@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 23:56:59 JST Aho

   #tumpery #trump just decided that #bloodplasma in #USA should be at least 30% more expensive by setting #tariffs to 30% for imports from #EU their main provider of #blood #plasma
   This for EU has #VAT on all products, regardless where they are produced and always the same % for a specific category of products (VAT is country specific and can differ between EU countries, but everyone has it).

   Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/12/business/trump-tariff-mexico-european-union

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     NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi: (neonpurplestar@outerheaven.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 23:56:59 JST NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi:

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     @aho with the exception of amd, i am not touching anything american for the rest of my life
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     Aho (aho@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 01:17:09 JST Aho

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     • NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi:

     @NeonPurpleStar maybe after midterm elections things could normalize a bit, it looks good with two parties fighting over maga support, should hopefully give the democrats an upper hand.

     Sadly VIA hasn't been successful with their amd64 compatible CPUs, at least I haven't seen those and Zhaoxin provides their versions to ccp only, so there is just two options AMD or Intel which both are US companies 😞

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     NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi: (neonpurplestar@outerheaven.club)'s status on Sunday, 13-Jul-2025 01:17:09 JST NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi:

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     @aho considering that i have not seen lisa su grovel at the feet of the usa gov, i am ok still buying from her
     
     regardless, i for sure will make it my mission to avoid us products as much as i can