Post #2435558
2025-04-06 19:19 UTC
Replies (10)
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@moving_target01@sfba.social 2025-04-06 21:46
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz What I see in the very near future is people using their existing devices years longer than they typically would due to higher costs. Computer and phone upgrades will happen less frequently, meaning each of those companies will likely have to go through layoffs due to reduced profits. Cellular providers will slow their expansions and signal upgrades (4G to 5G). Apple, in specific, might have to release only 1 iPhone model per calendar year, and the prices will continue on their already painful upward swing. The entire US suffers because of 1 person's desires, short sighted thoughts, and temper.
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@CanadianCrone@mstdn.ca 2025-04-06 21:57
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz Can Canada follow suit?
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@WaitingOnABus@urbanists.social 2025-04-06 23:35
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz reminds me of Grist’s recent coverage, especially this on the effort to determine WHERE we could maybe profitably extract these in the US. Just another object lesson in why these are so, so, SO stupid. Stuff that should have taken years of careful business development, strategic tariff deployment, etc. done in one day because a sundowning, venal fascist wants to cosplay as a 19th century politician. https://grist.org/energy/critical-minerals-mapping-trump-biden-earth-mri-usgs/
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@AnguaDelphine@mk.absturztau.be 2025-04-07 00:08
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz Like "End User Certificates" in the UK for arms. Except the Chinese will probably police them properly. So annoying that it takes an authoritarian human rights abuser to lead the way on dealing with another authoritarian human rights abuser*. Sucking up to Trump just leads to divide & rule; that's part of how we got here. *They hardly had clean hands before Trump 2.
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@itsmeholland@mastodon.social 2025-04-07 00:42
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz LMAO our military dominance is the only reason the US is still relevant in the world and China just kicked the defense industry in the nuts. We're cooked! Lol! 🥳
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@semitones@tiny.tilde.website 2025-04-07 00:43
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz AI art :(
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@semitones@tiny.tilde.website 2025-04-07 00:58
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz one thing doesn't make sense: if these critical materials only come from China, how could the USA avoid a dependency? Seems like the ideal solution is an interdependency where neither trading partner wants to lose the other. Not that this would deter the Republicans either. > This didn’t need to happen. The warnings were there. The dependency ratios were published. The stockpile gaps were documented. But instead of building resilient supply chains, the U.S. chose to chase[...]
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@Dialectician@universeodon.com 2025-04-07 10:10
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz Can we hope the unintentional consequences will be the collapse of the oligarchs totalitarian world order? No amount of BS will allow the spawn of their fascist programme to hide while staking a claim to the value of reintroducing #DEI, so they can keep their Hydra’s creep show alive! #Forgiveness #Retribution #JustLessons #Fascist2025 #EndOfEmpires #NoWayOligarchsWW3 #JustDesert #TheFederationOfRepublics
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@Darkphoenix@universeodon.com 2025-04-08 01:06
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz Trump got played, and he is too stupid to realize it.
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@havvyhh2@mas.to 2025-04-08 04:26
@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz ...brilliant, this, really. Canada can do similar thing with potash....must be other examples. There is no doubt in my mind that if the rest of the free trade world lines up, coordinates a response and stance (though we still have a recession to get through)...the world comes out as a better free trade union and US is either left mostly left out (isolated as it seems hellbent on becoming), or complies with the overwhelming group's stance on free trade and tariffs.