Is it? Could be a pebble. We don’t have a scale after all.

Gotta make sure those poor white males aren’t suffering. They have everything going against them after all.

Uh oh, they’re expressing outrage now. I’m sure someone will suffer.

I believe they thought they could ignore the order because they could ignore the order.

So the story is plausible then?

I’m not actually worried about my drives. In fact that was kind of the point. I was kidding around because this excuse that the hard drive overheated sounds a little like a car running out of blinker fluid.

Ok, but do you know anyone this has happened to? I don’t and I have some pretty old drives I still use. I tend to just buy more. Also most drives these days are solid state aren’t they? This just feels like a low probability event to me. Overheating RAM or the CPU or GPU, sure, but hard drive?

So you’ve had this happen?

I didn’t know hard drive overheating was a thing. Should I be worried that my 5 year old hard drive is about to overheat. I mean is this actually a floppy disk or something?

Good.

Uh oh, Democrats are outraged. There will be hell to pay now.

Yeah, we should definitely hurt Canada economically. I mean screw our best ally and longest lasting friendship.

Retaliatory measures don’t have to include taxing your own people. I suggest merely rallying people around the cause of boycotting US products does more good.

A tariff is a tax on the country imposing the tariff. The only way it actually hurts the country that the tariff is placed against, is if people stop buying the foreign products. But in the case of a tax on steel or aluminum, that would require people to avoid all products made with foreign steel/aluminum. This is nearly impossible. So it only hurts Australians in this case.

Plus that’s not how capitalism works. A real example from Trump’s first term was a tariff imposed on washing machines. The tariff made foreign washing machines more expensive than domestic ones. So far, so good. What did American companies do? Raised the price of domestic washing machines to match that of foreign ones in a greedy grab for profits. This meant the incentive to buy American washing machines was nullified. You know what people also buy when they buy a washer in the US? They buy a dryer. So the price of dryers went up as well, even though there was no tariff on those. So in the end all that happened was Americans wound up spending more for washers and dryers. Why would a country want to do that to its own people?

You’re screwed no matter what you do. As right wing as Australia has become, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but good job Australia.

There are other ways to retaliate. China doesn’t mess around. They outright banned certain companies from operating there and denied sales of certain needed elements to the US.

Finally! Someone who gets it.

Should rename it to EDA( Environmental Destruction Agency).

Or Environmental Freedom Force for short.

Grabbing a scanner at the door makes more sense otherwise they would have to be made waterproof since people take and leave their carts outside.

I worked for a company that did a demo using RFID tags. Every item had one and you just walk through a scanner when you’re done shopping and it rings everything up instantly.

Every day I watch the news or look at Lemmy or talk to a friend and I hear some horrible new way of creating a distopia I had never considered. It’s depressing.

I saw this on Lenny about Jeeps. I asked someone sitting in a new Jeep if she got ads when she came to a stop and she said no. So now I wonder if there is something about the trim level or something. She said it was 1 year old. Maybe this just started.

Yeah. I guess I always knew at some level, not that I gave it much thought in the past, that there was a chance fascism could take hold in America. But what surprises me is how friggin stupid they are. How can anyone listen to Trump talk for more than 5 minutes without their bullshit alarm going off.