Agree that Hillary was a pretty awful candidate. Electing Trump instead was not a "look how smart we are" moment though.
Vanity again. The other girls in my middle school class can't even!
Meanwhile, economy is going great, Americans have jobs and a reason to feel good about their economic prospects for the first time in 10 years.
As for foreigners, America used to have lots of friends in the world. Now you have people who tolerate you out of necessity.
I'm sure that will recover in time once you have a normal person in charge again though.
Yeah. I don't care. No one else in the US should care either. Foreign countries claim friendship or don't, and they pursue their own agendas. They'll never choose what's good for the US over what's good for their own people — and they shouldn't.
Are diplomatic smiles genuine or forced? What difference does it make? None.
We don't know how you ended up with Bozo the Clown for your president...
The media went all in to elect Hillary. They promoted Trump and changed the subject to Trump every time anyone talked about anything else during the campaign. They did this to ensure Hillary's opponent would be Trump, because they were sure Hillary could beat Trump. But they didn't understand that Hillary is terrible — really, really terrible in many different ways. Americans are also tired of being lectured to by people who hold them in contempt. Long story short, Trump won, Hillary lost. Hope that helps.
...but he is an embarrassment to your country in pretty much the entire rest of the world.
Cosmopolitan vanity has negative practical value. There's zero reason to believe that foreigners' opinion of the US matters at all, and Americans who court foreign favor are the ones would should really be embarrassed.
Stop recycling. It's a feel-good activity that doesn't help the environment anyway. If there's no one to do the recycling work, then it's ime to grow up, stop pretending, and face facts.
Good luck with that. And you will need it, because you have abandoned cause and effect decision-making in favor of name-calling and surrender to the tide of events. The rest of us who haven’t given up will continue to try to improve by making good choices.
The idea behind making the rich pay their fair share in taxes, is that money does more economic good when it is spread around.
1. Someone paying taxes doesn't equal money being "spread around". When person A pays taxes, person B doesn't receive a check. And the rich guy was already spreading it around — money is spent and invested, not kept in stacks in a big cartoon vault.
2. Lots of people can think of lots of good and happy things they want money for. If you want to "do more good" with some money, earn the money yourself. "Do more good" doesn't justify stealing from people. And if you think it does, then go out and do your own robberies rather than hiring a politician to steal for you.
So then you'd argue Dell and HP and other do the same then? They use some of the same plants Apple uses.
Yes.
So now you're saying is that Chinese manufacturers have to give in to whatever a foreign power says because . . .
They should talk about a deal. Because not talking is working out worse than talking. And a deal might work out better than the alternative situation of not making a deal.
If they don't want to pay tariffs, how else can they avoid paying tariffs?
You don't know any Democrats? Lucky you. Because they literally want America to fail. They hate this country. They want to see it fail by any means they can.
Come on, that’s not fair. Mostly they just want to spend money other people earned, and use government to bully those who wouldn't let them spend other people's money in the past. Also to punish people for climate sins and other sins against "progress" — so, so many sins must be punished.
Except that the $100 cut isn't applied to everyone evenly, and neither is the $10 increase. And the $100 cut means some people lose services they were relying on to live, while others just pocket $100+.
And therefore, no one should ever do anything. Because someone will imagine a story where an imaginary person might have imaginary problems as a result.
Man up and stop being wish-washy. If you think you've succeeded beyond your merit, then be better. If you don't know, then look at the situation objectively and decide one way or the other. The last thing the world needs is a bunch of angsty nerds.
Apple can move small amounts of production around quickly and large amounts of production around slowly. No one should have illusions about it being simple or cheap. Nor should anyone have illusions about it being impossible given enough time.
The generally donâ(TM)t have to worry about selling enough soy beans to keep the heat on this winter.
Soy beans are a commodity. If China doesn't buy from US, China buys from Brazil. Europe then can't buy from Brazil, who does Europe buy from? Who has soy beans to sell? US does.
If there's no huge worldwide surplus of soy beans, someone will buy them. Ultimately it doesn't matter who it is. It's like pumping water from the south end of the lake to the north end: the water level stays the same.
If you specifically rely on Apple products for your daily life then you have really fucked up by "putting all your eggs in one basket".
Everyone should have 6 or 8 bizarrely patched baskets that they have to regularly troubleshoot and repair, and that periodically drop a few of your eggs on the ground.
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Meanwhile, economy is going great, Americans have jobs and a reason to feel good about their economic prospects for the first time in 10 years.
That is true in most places. The long recovery from 2008 is not a Trump exclusive
The improvement steepened though. And that's versus the literal end-of-the-world predictions from the cosmopolitan vanity people.
Agree that Hillary was a pretty awful candidate. Electing Trump instead was not a "look how smart we are" moment though.
Vanity again. The other girls in my middle school class can't even!
Meanwhile, economy is going great, Americans have jobs and a reason to feel good about their economic prospects for the first time in 10 years.
As for foreigners, America used to have lots of friends in the world. Now you have people who tolerate you out of necessity.
I'm sure that will recover in time once you have a normal person in charge again though.
Yeah. I don't care. No one else in the US should care either. Foreign countries claim friendship or don't, and they pursue their own agendas. They'll never choose what's good for the US over what's good for their own people — and they shouldn't.
Are diplomatic smiles genuine or forced? What difference does it make? None.
Keep telling ordinary Americans you hate them.
We don't know how you ended up with Bozo the Clown for your president...
The media went all in to elect Hillary. They promoted Trump and changed the subject to Trump every time anyone talked about anything else during the campaign. They did this to ensure Hillary's opponent would be Trump, because they were sure Hillary could beat Trump. But they didn't understand that Hillary is terrible — really, really terrible in many different ways. Americans are also tired of being lectured to by people who hold them in contempt. Long story short, Trump won, Hillary lost. Hope that helps.
...but he is an embarrassment to your country in pretty much the entire rest of the world.
Cosmopolitan vanity has negative practical value. There's zero reason to believe that foreigners' opinion of the US matters at all, and Americans who court foreign favor are the ones would should really be embarrassed.
There’s never been a prolonged shortage of raw materials. And every time someone predicts such a shortage, they end up being laughably wrong.
https://www.plasticpollutionco...
Keep telling ordinary Americans that you hate them and hold them in contempt.
Key word: "currently"
Because: facts. If you want to "believe", you're welcome to your religion and you may pay to recycle privately.
In most cases, no. Recycle the very few materials where it makes economic sense. For the rest, stop pretending.
There's a country that just reached a trade deal with the US: Mexico. Apple could manufacture in Mexico.
Stop recycling. It's a feel-good activity that doesn't help the environment anyway. If there's no one to do the recycling work, then it's ime to grow up, stop pretending, and face facts.
Good luck with that. And you will need it, because you have abandoned cause and effect decision-making in favor of name-calling and surrender to the tide of events. The rest of us who haven’t given up will continue to try to improve by making good choices.
The idea behind making the rich pay their fair share in taxes, is that money does more economic good when it is spread around.
1. Someone paying taxes doesn't equal money being "spread around". When person A pays taxes, person B doesn't receive a check. And the rich guy was already spreading it around — money is spent and invested, not kept in stacks in a big cartoon vault.
2. Lots of people can think of lots of good and happy things they want money for. If you want to "do more good" with some money, earn the money yourself. "Do more good" doesn't justify stealing from people. And if you think it does, then go out and do your own robberies rather than hiring a politician to steal for you.
There are deals in place. With this President, no deal is ever safe as he changes his mind on a whim.
That's an interesting perspective, but how does it lead to a course of action?
So then you'd argue Dell and HP and other do the same then? They use some of the same plants Apple uses.
Yes.
So now you're saying is that Chinese manufacturers have to give in to whatever a foreign power says because . . .
They should talk about a deal. Because not talking is working out worse than talking. And a deal might work out better than the alternative situation of not making a deal.
If they don't want to pay tariffs, how else can they avoid paying tariffs?
People can try to be objective without someone playing referee for them.
You don't know any Democrats? Lucky you. Because they literally want America to fail. They hate this country. They want to see it fail by any means they can.
Come on, that’s not fair. Mostly they just want to spend money other people earned, and use government to bully those who wouldn't let them spend other people's money in the past. Also to punish people for climate sins and other sins against "progress" — so, so many sins must be punished.
It’s up to individuals to judge their own merit.
Dictionaries aren't as interesting as you seem to think they are.
Except that the $100 cut isn't applied to everyone evenly, and neither is the $10 increase. And the $100 cut means some people lose services they were relying on to live, while others just pocket $100+.
And therefore, no one should ever do anything. Because someone will imagine a story where an imaginary person might have imaginary problems as a result.
Man up and stop being wish-washy. If you think you've succeeded beyond your merit, then be better. If you don't know, then look at the situation objectively and decide one way or the other. The last thing the world needs is a bunch of angsty nerds.
57.55 percent surveyed experienced Impostor Syndrome
I don't know who it was that filled out my copy of that survey, but it wasn't me.
Apple can move small amounts of production around quickly and large amounts of production around slowly. No one should have illusions about it being simple or cheap. Nor should anyone have illusions about it being impossible given enough time.
The generally donâ(TM)t have to worry about selling enough soy beans to keep the heat on this winter.
Soy beans are a commodity. If China doesn't buy from US, China buys from Brazil. Europe then can't buy from Brazil, who does Europe buy from? Who has soy beans to sell? US does.
If there's no huge worldwide surplus of soy beans, someone will buy them. Ultimately it doesn't matter who it is. It's like pumping water from the south end of the lake to the north end: the water level stays the same.
If you specifically rely on Apple products for your daily life then you have really fucked up by "putting all your eggs in one basket".
Everyone should have 6 or 8 bizarrely patched baskets that they have to regularly troubleshoot and repair, and that periodically drop a few of your eggs on the ground.