SaltSong

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Packaging, no. But manufacturing it into something else, yes.

Do you think a tariff on copper would apply to an iPhone? Or a tariff on oil?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 50 points 15 hours ago

Congratulations on getting what you voted for.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

That's generally how tariffs work. A tariff on grain is not a tariff on bread. A tariff on steel is not a tariff on knives. A tariff on cotton is not a tariff on clothing.

It can be, of course. A tariff can be on steel and items made with steel. But that's not usually the case, and it's usually called out as such. Of course, Trump is not what you'd call the most precise communicator in the world, but all we can do is work with what he says.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

Right, but this tariff, at least as I understand it, is on chips imported as chips, not on products that contain chips. An iPhone will, of course, be subject to some other damn fool tariff, but not this specific one.

Of course, my understanding of this specific tariff may be wrong.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago (23 children)

What he means is, if I buy an iPhone built in China, this tariff won't affect the price I pay.

But if I buy a phone built in America, with an imported processer, this tariff will make that phone more expensive.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 61 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Unlike the Left, we don’t believe in erasing American history — we honor it.”

Really? Because your guys spent the first few months of this year erasing as much history of women and minorities as you could get your hands on.

Oh and you guys are trying to erase about half the history of impeachment in the country.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is the way.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

I'm an actual engineer with a degree and everything, although this is not my area of expertise, it's one I'm familiar with.

They could do something like you suggest, but every step becomes more expensive and less effective. The exhaust from a coal fired power plant is still plenty hot, and more energy could be extracted from it. But it requires more and more to make less and less.

The curse of every engineer is to see a way to them every waste stream into a useful product, but not being able to do so profitably. (Which means no-one will approve the project)

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Everything does happen for a reason. In many cases, it happens because some evil prick has not been properly dealt with.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

Interesting. They only works in a few cases, but It's good to have the options.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The difficulty is, to put it in very simple terms, is that physics doesn't allow that. The less simple explanation is a thermodynamics textbook, and trust me, you don't want that.

Everything generates heat. Everything. Everything. Anything that seems to generate "cold" is generating more heat somewhere else.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

Note your use of the word "cool."

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Naked Prisoners (startrek.website)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by SaltSong@startrek.website to c/rimworld@lemmy.world
 

Is there an easier way to get clothing for a prisoner than drafting a pawn and having them strip in the cell before walking naked back to the cloths storage?

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