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  • It's an import tax on imported goods.

    I'm the CEO of the Orange Company, an American company. I sell oranges for $1. It's the winter and Florida has no oranges for me to sell. So I call up a business in South America and have them send me oranges, $1 million of oranges.

    The Orange Company pays them $1 million. When the oranges arrive in the US, the US Federal government charges me a 10% tariff on my imported oranges - $100k. The Orange Company pays the US government a 10% tariff, or $100k, for importing $1 million of oranges.

    I then sell my oranges to American consumers. Because my cost of goods went up, I can't sell for $1 anymore. So I pass on the 10% increase in orange cost to my customers by selling oranges for $1.10.

    That's what a tariff is, how it works, and how it is effectively a sales tax.

  • The commodification of our most base needs, such as romantic relationships, is truly troubling. So much unrest because things like food, shelter, and reproduction are paywalled. Makes the population more vulnerable to fascist ideals.

  • The original image, and your extension, are an emergent behavior as a result of The Algorithm - due to "scarcity", Player B (men) is (are) encouraged to roll the dice as frequently as possible.

    This whole dynamic is real, results in negative interactions for both players, and is intentionally set up by the apps to maintain engagement and extract as much money via pay-to-play advantages as possible. Dating apps are rigged to give men and women bad experiences so they (largely men) become desperate enough to pay $25 a month or whatever to have an unfair advantage.

    The internet (and other players!) likes to hate the players, not the game, and the only "comfort" many young men have is Tate and Co.

  • My humble experience so far: https://kcross.engineering/blogs/matrixandmautrix/

    Biggest thing so far is "go slow on federation". Large federated servers are where you get into trouble with resource requirements and needing to spin up workers, etc. Small, private servers are relatively easy.

  • My humble experience so far: https://kcross.engineering/blogs/matrixandmautrix/

    Biggest thing so far is "go slow on federation". Large federated servers are where you get into trouble with resource requirements and needing to spin up workers, etc. Small, private servers are relatively easy.

  • That is fair.

    IBT Media introduced a number of bad practices to the once reputable magazine and mainly focused on clickbait headlines over quality journalism. Its current relationship with IBT Media is unclear, and Newsweek's quality has not returned to its status prior to the 2013 purchase. Many editors have noted that there are several exceptions to this standard, so consensus is to evaluate Newsweek content on a case-by-case basis.

    Lines up with the "nothingburger' headline. Probably case-by-case is appropriate. Thanks for showing me that!

  • I can try to write some stuff up, it's not super complex. Core requirement for my setup is Docker + a domain. I recommend Linux host but you can make Docker Desktop work.

    Let me write some stuff down this week.