They absolutely will.

Either directly, because those goods are now more expensive to Best Buy and they're not about to eat that, so it'll get pissed directly on to the consumer (with a mark-up)...

...or indirectly, when any one or more of the corporate entities involved in the domestic supply chain sees that domestic goods are now cheaper than imports for the consumer, which means that they now have an opportunity to simply raise their prices to match and pocket the difference.

Nevermind that domestic supply chains often have roots in China anyway, so it's not like the domestic electronics are going to be able to hold price either, since their imported components will still be getting hit with the tariff.

My favorite part of this aspect of it in particular is that while electronics are no doubt ubiquitous, most electronics purchases are more discretionary. It's not like a car where if yours dies you are definitely buying another one. Most times, people are getting a phone because a new model came out, or they decided theirs was too slow. They're getting a new TV because they want to upgrade or found a good deal.

So when these tariffs hit and prices lurch up, expect sales to plummet as people decide they can keep going with their current electronics just a bit longer.

So congratulations, domestic beneficiaries of an electronics tariff, any profit increase you might have gained will now be more than gutted by the nosedive in overall sales!

My guess?

He's far less concerned about the specifics of this situation and far more concerned about what happens if/when his Twitter is host to something horrible enough that people are calling for his head, and/or he is wanting to sell...or being pressured to sell Twitter...but there's something specific he wants to stipulate in that transaction that a precedent set here might fuck up.

For a few years, it seemed like everyone I knew who has having a little girl was naming them after old presidents.

So many Kennedys and Reagans and Madisons...

My girlfriend at the time did really like "Madison", but I told her if we were ever to have a little girl and we're gonna name her after a former president, we're gonna have a little Eisenhower running around.

She laughed (as was the intention) but agreed the trend was a little ridiculous.

It shouldn't be concerning, it should be enlightening.

But it won't be. Not for the party leadership.

Over the past 40 years they've gone from being the champion of blue collar and union workers nationwide, and being able to take those votes for granted...to having the rust belt become the biggest swing region in the country (which their opponent swept this month). Did they take this as a wake up call and do more for the blue collar voters to win their loyalty back?

Nah, they just blame them and talk down to them, and tell them they're too stupid to know what's best for them.

In that same time frame, they were seen as abandoning the blue collar worker to court the minority vote, talking their efforts at helping factory workers and turning them toward helping minorities in race and gender. While they were actually doing this they did indeed appear to gain that loyalty at the ballot box. Of course once they had it, they felt no need to keep up the good work for these people and have slowly become a party who does nothing for anyone, and runs on a platform of essentially admitting they do nothing, but that their inaction is better than the other side, so they should still be owed votes.

Once again, this isn't working out for them, and once again, rather than take it as a rejection of what they're doing, no...it's the voters who are wrong.

I despise the GOP as much as any reasonable person, and I firmly believe that many of their voters won't like what they voted for once they start to get it...but there's no denying that the GOP has a message, goals, and demonstrable progress toward them. And to counter that....the Democrats have..."I think things are good and I wouldn't change anything. You should vote for me because I'm not MAGA aligned, and if you don't, it's your fault not mine."

Arrogance is off-putting, and it appears it's going to take at least a half century for the Democrats to figure that out.

First, an explanation isn't an excuse. It's a reason. It doesn't make it okay, it doesn't place or shift blame, it just correctly points something out.

In this case, Trump broadly received the same number of votes as he did 4 years ago, while the Democrats got millions fewer.

There's no assumption there, it's just an observation.

It's not pushing or assigning blame. Maybe they didn't vote because they were lazy. Maybe they didn't vote because they didn't like Harris. Maybe they didn't vote because they didn't like the process by which she became the nominee. Maybe they didn't vote because they've lost faith in the entire system.

Regardless of reason, and regardless of how any observer decides to interpret it or assign blame, the facts speak for themselves.

That's how they beat covid!

That is exactly what US steel did in response to the steel tariffs back in Trump round one.

I feel like for me, Johnson's is more punchable, based solely on the fact that I don't want to make physical contact with Gaetz.

If I can use some intermediate object like a baseball bat? Gaetz all day.

I'd love to see Disney try out a sort of anthology of short seasons that all share thematic elements of WW2 that made the OT such a spectacle, but do like 4-8 episodes about a given person/squad/ship/squadron/station/agent/whatever...tell one good solid story about that subject then move on.

I'd love for one of those seasons to follow a light capital ship with 1-2 squadrons of fighters, and model it with elements of the carrier war in the Pacific mixed with a submarine movie theme.

Have them playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with a much larger ISD or Victory, both stuck in a nebula. They both get their hits in that cause grave damage, but both crews hang in there and stick to the mission.

How it ends is anyone's guess, but I could absolutely see plenty of room in that framework for intense scenes of sensors crews glued to their stations, hoping to go unnoticed, or desperately searching for any sign of their foe...

She does! But that's her mouth haha.

I was taking a pic and she decided she needed to rub against my phone.

I feel like this is very situation dependent.

That may be the case in your company or industry, but not everywhere.

In my experience there's been a big difference between a general resume I'm uploading to a place like a LinkedIn or Indeed (and letting the recruiters come to me), using that uploaded resume to apply to job postings on that site, and sending resume/application to specific companies on their site.

For the first one, hell no, no cover letter. How would that even work? No cover letter is better than a generic one.

For applying for specific postings on these sites? For me it depends on just how good the opportunity is. If I feel like there's some sort of special connection that makes me tailor made for the role, the money is great, it's doing really interesting work, or a company I really want to work for? Absolutely I'll include a cover letter. I'm just looking to get out of a shit job, or the role doesn't really move the needle, but I think it might be a good fit? Nah, just hit that quick apply button and move on.

But if I'm reaching out to a company directly?

Cover letter every time (unless they specifically say not to). If they don't want it, they won't read it, but I've never felt like it hurt my chances, and in a few interviews, they've specifically mentioned something about it.

Yeah he's an unholy mix of Palpatine and the goblin king from the hobbit movie.

In fairness, they also included the clause "to me" at least twice.

But in general I completely agree with you.

The thing that really gets me is that they follow up the whole "I don't like this so it's objectively unacceptable" with demanding action and demanding they "make it a top priority".

Like yeah, sure, we're gonna make "pleasing hypersensitive crackpots" a top priority...

You're talking about the organization of the ships crew, they're taking about overarching styles and themes.

This is also a favored tactic when it's time to hold the budget hostage with threats of a government shutdown a few times every other year too.

And just in case anyone had any hope of the next generation fixing things... they're also targeting education.

Yeah, if you can get a MAGAt to be honest with you, at some point, the core of what they want comes down to, "I support Trump because I want people who are different than me to have more misery in their life than I do."

If that means taking on some extra misery themselves, be so be it, as long as it's even worse for them.

It's a sad type of cruelty.

She wanted that too.

Not for herself, of course, but anyone else.

It would absolutely be Dr. Spaceman!