The aliens are interested in bovine bowels, which are difficult to probe from afar.

I hate the mandatory “updates” which is only a prompt to install “suggested” apps. Even when deselecting everything, it still starts downloading TEMU. Fuck that.

Assembly is not enough.

It’s not just a tariff, and it’s also not just a single row list of tariffs on countries or products or whatever.

The tariff tables are multi dimensional. Each product has it’s own table of rates. Besides country and product type, there’s a dimension of how it’s assembled/manufactorered and potentially if it’s part of some sort of special agreements etc.

“The tariff” is basically a worldwide database of product information.

There are actually very few products that are fully produced in any one country. This is mostly agricultural or raw ressources. All other products are said to be manufactorered from different countries. The country of origin in that case is the last country in which the product significantly changed value from being manufactorered locally and it requires a facility to do so. Slapping a sticker on something is not enough.

Anyway, the tariff tables take all that into account. It’s very naive to think you can legally bypass this system simply by leaving a product in your neighbors garden before bringing it home.

You don’t have to waste your time doing that for fun. Plenty of people in logistics get paid well for doing just that, and if they can’t find the loophole, there is very little chance that you’ll find it described online.

Country of origin.

Something that people often forget: Contact the embassy in the country.

They know all the stuff, have networks and can send you in the right direction. It might cost something if they need to do any kind paperwork, but in my experience they’ll gladly give you contact info for free to someone who can help you.

Put them in self drive mode towards Moscow.

Both.

Copied from various sources elsewhere:

Consumer confidence is a catch-all phrase for the opinions and attitudes of consumers about the current and future strength of the economy.

Consumer confidence index (CCI) is a standardised confidence indicator providing an indication of future developments of households’ consumption and saving.

The Consumer Confidence Index is based on the Consumer Confidence Survey, which has a responding sample size of 3,000 questionnaires. The survey was initially conducted every two months starting in 1967 but changed to monthly tracking in 1977.

There are five questions asked in the survey. The first two relate to present economic conditions while the remaining three are related to future expectations.

Imagine if it’s a live stream, changing the plot as you watch dependent on your reaction.

At first it might be fun to see what happens if Frodo doesn’t throw the ring in the lava, but eventually you gotta ask yourself why you’re wasting your time in front of a screen watching weird cat videos.

The people who pay taxes don’t have extra money to pay extra taxes, so they will not be able to pay extra taxes and no extra tax will be collected.

Nobody benefits.

When Reddit changed the layout (new/old) some ten years ago, I started using a 3rd party app, because “new reddit” was everything that I hated about other sites. I stopped using it when they killed 3rd party apps, but that was really just the final nail in the coffin anyway. It was rotten to the core long before that.

Oh yes it’ll go on for a long time and might never return to the previous state.

American products got world wide recognition in a time when USA was the peak of western culture, technology and quality.

With or without tariffs and boycotts, people everywhere in the world will once again have to question if they even want America products. This doesn’t go well with the increased consumer awareness that is happening everywhere else but in USA.

UK turning down clorinated American chickens is the funniest thing today, like eew brother, eew what’s that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Scaramucci

Unpredictable things happen at that speed.

Forget about braking distance. The reaction time is the difference between life and dying before you even know it.

I know of one example where a motorcyclist killed himself that way. Nobody knows how fast he was going but it’s assumed above 250 km/h, on a regular highway. Down the road is a cross section. A lorry was fully stopped at the crossing and preparing to turn right onto the highway in the same direction as the motorcycle. The lorry driver checked both directions and saw that the road was completely clear as far as the eye could see, hundreds of meters.

A split second later he heard a bump and pulled over to check if he had hit an animal or something. He found a massive hole in the back and the debris from a motorcycle. There was no brake marks or anything indicating that the motorcycle had even attempted to brake or steer around. The theory is that the motorcyclist might have glimpsed at the speedometer or something for long enough that he drove the entire visible distance before being able to even react.

Obviously he was a fault himself, but the point is that at speeds like this, you no longer have any capability to predict what happens next.

If your friend thinks that cool, he might as well play Russian roulette. At least that doesn’t put innocent people in danger.

Maybe Americans should consider not paying taxes in the first place.

Never mind the money. Think about this: Is the American lifestyle self-sustainable?

No? Why not?

Because they use more than they produce? Yes, and where do those things come from?

Imports? Yes.

Trump litteraly put a stop to the American lifestyle.

It’s Nicole, isn’t it?

It would be nice to know if he’s even alive.

VAT is (almost) the same idea as American sales tax.

The difference is only how it is managed in wholesale, how it is displayed to consumers in retail and obviously the rates. Otherwise it’s the exact same thing.

European stores show the price including the tax, whereas American stores show it without taxes. The VAT rates are generally higher in Europe than the sales tax in states, but this is not the explanation for the car prices.

Cars are more expensive in Europe due to other kinds of taxes. Germany is actually one of the cheaper countries for vehicles, because they don’t have vehicle registration taxes, but they do have an import toll of 10% on cars. The same price increases happens the other way too. A European car will be more expensive in USA than in Europe for the same reasons.

Two. The last part of centaur is tau-or.

Similarly, “dinosaur” is pronounced dino-sour, and not as dino-saw.

Hard C and noticeable U: Ken-tower.