Doubling tariffs today will make it look like deflation occurs harder when they drop the tariffs later.
A few people will show the data correcting for tariffs, but will be drowned out by the “we did it, prices have come down for Americans” message.
When it’s totaled, then you get a cash payoff for what they declare it to be worth. It being the other person’s insurance does give you a bit more leverage than is it were your own.
At least in my case, I was able to negotiate a bit and got the other person’s insurance to at least go up to paying the blue book retail for mint condition of the car. They also tossed in a few thousand for pain and suffering and covered a full month of rental car. In my case someone in the other car was unresponsive and needed an ambulance ride, and on my part I had been very thorough in documenting everything that legally would count including damaged contents in the trunk, missed work, and other things.
However ultimately it is a check and car sales can be rough. So it may be that they were underpaid, or that the car’s general book value didn’t match their subjective value for the car, or they were thinking they should get what they paid for it. I could imagine if they bought a 2015 in 2019, they were probably getting a decent, off lease practically new car. Now they have a check appropriate for buying a 2015 of the same make and model and the 2015s now available are in worse shape than they kept their own, previous owners that neglected their car over a longer period.
I still think it could be a strategy for midterms.
Best way to win midterms is to have the economy improve, for prices to go down.
Best way to improve the economy is to first break it in obvious ways you know roughly how to undo.
Come January, I expect TACO to go into full effect, announcing a hiatus on tariffs and in the subsequent months they’ll actually be able to show prices going down year to year. A comparative flood of cheap and available goods. They’ll claim the upswing as proof that 2025 was just the residual ‘Biden economy’.
And it’ll work. People relieved at the good fortune will happily vote for the people that exacerbated the mess in the first place. Anyone pointing this out will be branded as a sore loser democrat that refuses to recognize Trump’s economic leadership.
Unless they decide not to ‘waste it’ on midterms and save up for 2028 instead. But I’d guess midterms to keep GOP power strong while they have more time to implement whatever other measures might make it matter less about having to actually win over voters.
Fair though “actual underlying value” is a bit of a fiction in general. There really no objective numerical value that is Inherent to anything.
Those metrics aren’t any more trustworthy than their own subjective word anyway. If they wanted to say they took more time then they could delay at their whim anyway. If they said their production costs increased, then again, they could spend the money to fit the narrative. On those particular points objective evidence is so susceptible to being gamed that it isn’t really more valuable than their subjective reporting.
Numbers of subscribers/views could be a bit more informative, but then people inclined to disbelieve would claim it’s because of any number of other reasons not because of AI slop.
Killing in this case sounds like the content is becoming harder and harder to create, which they lay out the subjective case for, but that wouldn’t be exactly something they could use figures to present, since it’s so subjective.
The one point they might have been able to show with numbers would be the emergence of AI slop ‘infotainment animations’ diluting the audience, but that wasn’t exactly the biggest point of the video and it might be a bit early to be able to demonstrate statistically credible evidence on that one.
Also, presuming they are sincere and put in all that effort, they are competing with other sources that have no such discipline and they are able to flood the field and grab eyeballs faster than they could.
It’s so fun when it’s so specific about some detail with casual confidence that is based on absolutely nothing at all. I know ultimately it’s architecture is more akin to a predictive word generator, but it seems so much better.
Saw a clear demonstration and it is wild that the output is consistent, but at least in the model I saw being run, every word is generated without it having considered what the word after would be or what the general concept it is going for. For a human one has to already know the concept before he/she starts putting words to it, but at least the models I’ve seen explained with detail, it manages to assemble it word by word without knowing where it is trying to go in advance.
People who believe the administration and drop Tylenol for Motrin, Kenvue is happy either way.
Also they continue to own the brand that is demonized by the administration that some people will stick with precisely because this administration demonized it.
Also reap a bump of people stockpiling because they think the government might take it away.
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Generally I see a few:
Mainly the last point is the only one I personally find potentially aggravating, but since I never really am in a broken system without journalctl I’m not too bothered by it. I have saved myself some effort thanks to systemd including stuff that the daemons used to provide for themselves.
AI because its dumber than them and useless.
I am much better at washing dishes by hand than my dishwasher. I still mostly let my dishwasher have a crack at things to spare me from usually having to bother.
It’s a bit trickier with AI, as it’s more obnoxiously screwing up when it screws up, but at least upon occasion it’s able to spit out a few mind numbingly obvious lines of code that would have taken me longer to type myself, because I can only hit keyboard buttons so fast.
King Louis-Antoine lasted about 20 minutes.
I didn’t suggest that people who are abused tend to go down this path, I’m saying of those that abuse others, they themselves were likely abused.
I don’t know the percentage, but hypothetically if 2% of people abused go on to abuse others, this would be true without even saying anything about 98% of abused people.
Abusers often are “paying forward” abuse they suffered.
Conservative voices are being silenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNZTtoQBmA
I think you need to clarify… Is it because right wing comedy is just so good that they want to participate, or that right wing comedy is so terrible it’s a ripe opportunity to be a gigantic fish in a small crappy pond?
Oh man, I remember seeing things go from burned in subs to sub tracks with all kinds of nice functional markup and managed font color schemes and such to… Slapping white text with no border/shadow in the bottom middle of the video unconditionally without formatting…
Kind of miss how much effort went into fan subs, with notes explaining things that didn’t exactly translate without context…
You see, she thinks shooting dogs is just plain funny, why would she be offended?