✅ I have not said mean things about Erdoğan

or save yourself the effort and just run ELIZA

don’t skip Kissinger while you’re down there

he tarriffed penguins, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• Trump – let’s piss off all of our trade partners and start a trade war with China
• China – 🎶 whole new markets 🎶

You get a Bhopal! And you get a Bhopal! Everyone gets a Bhopal!

environmental effects

Fortune article last year just talked about water and power in just the chip sector: The chip industry’s dirty little secret: It’s very dirty

“At Intel’s Arizona campus, where the new facilities are still unfinished, the company already emits about two tons of hazardous air pollutants quarterly.”

the kicker will be when new-from-China plus 100% tariff is still cheaper than American made …

not to mention one of the reasons we eagerly off-shored electronics fabrication in the first place is because it’s a toxic nightmare

youtube comment: “Disney made a movie nobody is going to pirate”

from Mastodon:

“At this point I assume ‘free speech’ just means you want to say slurs on a site someone else built.”

Old Yeller in first grade, Where the Red Fern Grows in third grade …

whataboutism – as long as you’re distracted by “China!”, you aren’t paying attention to the far more egregious privacy violations happening right here at home

even his own Grok is against the idea:

even ChatGPT agrees this is stupid:

one of the California wildfires’ air quality was so bad, it was described as “smoking a pack of cigarettes an hour”

assuming it doesn’t just blow its load all over the Caribbean

Caritas – “taking up 1/3 of all currency in circulation in Romania at its peak”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minim_(palaeography)

you forgot about pollen season in between the two