International shipping to the USA has slowed dramatically and the word is this is just the beginning. This is extremely rare to see these docs without cargo.
Brought to you by your local low IQ conservative voter.
Someone else posted this in a different thread but its even more relevant here.
Light takes 8 minutes to reach the earth from the sun, if the sun vanished it would still be daylight for 8 minutes.
It takes 30 days for a ship to reach the US from China.
We're around day 26 now afaik?
I work in the fashion retail industry. We had cancelled half of fall holiday orders and increase MSRP on a bunch of other stuff. This is only the tip of the iceberg for issues that will compound.
This is about to make COVID shortages seem aspirational.
Yup, there-abouts. Someone said the last ships from China will reach the east coast on the 8th (that one takes longer). So, starting on the 8th, there will be NO import from China in the US.
Prep for some spicy times.
It's not that China's blocking shipping, it's that retailers aren't confident that they can move a product at whatever the previous cost of the product x 2.25 + other costs and profits was, right?
A lot of telescope parts are made in China, IIRC, so let's use them as an example. Celestron is based out of California, let's say they sell a scope for $1400 and it used to cost them $800 to get from China. That means that to make the same amount on each unit after the cost, they'd need to charge $800+(800*1.25)[the tariff]+(1400-800)[their margin on the product] for a total of $2400. Mind you, I have no idea how thick their margins really are, so I'm not going to comment on that. Now, my understanding of markets is that they sell at whatever they think the market can bear, so if they thought they could sell the scope at $2400, they already would have been. So, it makes sense to just not buy any telescopes just now, since if dingus wakes up tomorrow, declares victory in the trade war and declares tariffs woke, you'll be stuck with a bunch of product that will be basically impossible to move without taking a loss. This also gives you time to scrape up the capital to buy at the increased price if the tariffs don't drop. Eventually, though, you're either going to have to buy product at the higher price or close up shop.
So much to say that I'm a little surprised that there aren't at least some shipments coming of lower-cost higher-volume goods that might be better able to absorb the shock of the tariffs. The fact that there's just nothing coming our way is incredible to imagine. Is it because of the recent gouge-flation; companies have recently increased prices to the resistance point and they now know that there's zero wiggle room for passing those costs on to customers without suffering a loss in sales volume?
Most people also forget about another element in this puzzle.
Usually what happens is, you buy goods in bulk, and plan for that in advance. Say, you've planned a shipment of 1 million dollars worth of telescopes, $800 each. But now with the tariffs hit you can afford fewer telescopes per 1 million dollars. Which mans that - because you're now ordering them at $1k - you can afford 250 fewer telescopes which rises the price per telescope due to a smaller order. So now you're not paying 1.25 on the dollar from 800, but rather from 1k! Which makes you afford fewer, which rises the price, etc., etc., etc.
GamersNexus has a great documentary on this shit show of a situation, I do recommend giving it a watch. :) It's oh so optimistically titled The Death of Affordable Computing.
Holy crow, I did not know about that!
Ah well at least they stuck it to the woke agenda amirite? I just want to repeat that I feel awful for the actual decent people in the USA that have more than two brain cells. And I wish that I could give you an island or something where you don't have to share a country with piece of shit scum human beings.
But that aside, I'm going to start looking at this as good news, personally. I am going to feel glee at seeing Americans having to lie in the bed that they made. I'm looking forward to some real pain and suffering here.
I am going to feel glee at seeing Americans having to lie in the bed that they made. I’m looking forward to some real pain and suffering here.
American here. Feeling the same. The only way the dumbest among us can learn is through personal suffering. So that's the way it's going to be.
The only way the dumbest among us can learn is through personal suffering. So that’s the way it’s going to be.
I'm a bit worried that, instead of learning on their mistakes, they'll just find another scapegoat. Like, "if we had Canada and Panama none of this would've happened", or some other inane shit like that.
Maybe they're going to go hungry for a month or three, but at least they owned the libs!
This is going to cause an enormous amount of inflation isn’t it
Yes, but never mind that.
This is going to cause Soviet-style, empty shelves, lining up for bread, actual goddamned shortages.
Imagine going through another COVID-like experience as far as the economy is concerned, except this time it was entirely caused by the conservative virus.
Because it's starting to look like that's what is going to happen.
Don’t worry, Americans are great at sharing and rationing
Oh yeah. They proved that with their expert handling of the toilet paper shortages during COVID!
I was down there just as Covid was ramping up and borders were closing. A guy had a couple of grocery carts full of meat. Took almost the whole display. He was arguing at the cash register because they wouldn’t let him buy it all
which will superheat the aforementioned inflation
Glad I just got a bread maker!
Gotta learn to make buns with it so it's just not loaves.
I could be wrong, but my very limited experience with bread makers is that they're basically for making loaves more conveniently, since they can mix, knead and bake all in one device. If you've got to remove the dough and form it into buns to bake on a sheet pan anyway, I'm not sure a bread machine has any advantage over a normal stand mixer.
I'm not sure a bread machine has any advantage over a normal stand mixer.
It takes care of the mixing, and rising. It's very "set it and forget it".
Forming buns or a pizza crust out of that dough and tossing that in the oven is a pretty fast part of the process.
Over a mixer maybe not, but I have the machine already and no mixer.
You don't even need a machine or mixer. There is the "artisan bread in 5 minutes a day" book and website. You add flour water yeast and salt, stir it in with a knife or spatula then stir or fold it in with your hands till it is somewhat consistent. They even say don't over mix, the dough will figure it out. Wait two hours. Either boule it up or cut into bun blobs , rise again 40 mins and then bake it. Easiest recipe ever and it tastes amazing.
So there it is.
Too much winning.
So begins the actual effects of Trump's idiot tariffs.
Seattle did not vote for this.
Add in Bob Ferguson as well, Seattle voters really aren't getting what they're voting for 😭
Winning!
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That’ll teach the libs!
(Sarcasm)
What a weird photo in the article.
Edit: now realised it's a hand
At least we get an unobstructed view of the USCGC Healy
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.