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For all we know he could have been stitched up.

Norris, 65, was elected as the MP for North East Somerset and Hanham in 2024, defeating the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.

I wonder who will be lining up to try to win the seat after Norris is gone? Because he's probably not going to be able to hold his seat, whether or not the charges stick.

Edit: In another article they mention that he also has a master's degree in social work. More and more I'm leaning towards this being a potential stitch up. However, we don't know what information the police have, none of that is public.

In that context I think tariffs are absolutely valid. In particular, as you mention, because China is subsidising their EV market and thus discounting the export price. A tariff should raise the price of the imported good such that the local good can compete - and we've seen this with extreme tariffs on Chinese EVs. Trump actually led the way on this in his first presidency, proving he is the proverbial broken clock. Now Europe also has tariffs on Chinese EVs.

Ideally, this should also involve ring fencing the tariff revenue and exclusively re-investing it into incentives for local businesses to pick up the slack of the imported businesses. This rarely happens, but it should.

This doesn't work when tariffing the US, though. The US is often already more expensive for the things people import from there. People buy US goods and services because they want the US version; there is no better alternative. The tariff just makes US products even more expensive, costing buyers more. The only thing it does is raise revenue for the government.

In other areas even tariffs against China have been meaningless. If China sells a trinket for 1/10 the price of local industry, then even a 100% tariff would mean the Chinese product costs 2/10 of the local price. People will still buy the Chinese product over the local one, but now they just pay more. Maybe they buy less, so Chinese businesses make less money, but they'll probably pay more overall. The government get this extra money. This is what Trump is doing in the US with his general tariffs on China, there's no plan behind them and they're all but meaningless - the only thing they do is raise tax revenue for the government.

If the only thing a retaliatory tariff does is raise revenue for the government, then it's no better than what Trump is doing.

A good tariff should minimise the effect at home and maximise the effect against the foreign country the tariff is meant to penalise. I don't think that's viable with import tariffs against the US, the effect at home just isn't worth the minimal damage it would do to US businesses.

It’s 2025, and 90% of all software devs in Hamburg have worked for Otto at some point, and they still can’t get their shit together.

I'd put money on that being a dumpster fire of a workplace - the kind where turnover is very high, everyone is constantly busy putting out fires with slapped together solutions, and if anyone tries to do anything that might prevent future fires they get shouted at for not putting out fires.

The USA detained her at the border because a) there was no direct way for her to go back home from the US/Canada land border; b) she had been refused entry by Canada, who have similar entry requirements, meaning the US should be refusing her entry also; and c) she had already been in the country for 3 weeks and they needed to investigate what she had been doing. That's an awful lot more than just "vibes".

But yes, as I said in my comment above, the length of detention is the real fucked up part. That's longer than needed to sort the logistics or perform any necessary investigations, and proves that this is just about filling private prisons at the expense of taxpayers.

Canada was not in the same position as the US, so the two responses aren't directly comparable. However, you're right that the US is not a safe country - I'd even caution US citizens against crossing the border right now.

That one was at the Mexican border, and I think the woman was German.

You might be right, I remember the tattoo one being a girl who was turned away at another border before being detained by the US on her way back. If that happened in Mexico as well it's easy to see why the two could get confused.

Like I say though the fucked up part is the lengthy detention. That doesn't benefit anyone except the private prisons, at the expense of American taxpayers.

The comment above said they were 3A charging and that that wasn't "fast". I haven't seen the charging spec for these cables, but they do have a 60W cable. 60W is fast charging, and is likely achieved with 3A at 20V. It's not as fast as 100W or 240W, sure, but it's as fast as most phones will go.

These cables probably aren't rated for 100W or above. Most cables aren't. However, you can get multiple longer cables rated for that much power for less than one of these.

Yes that's my point. There's a bit more of a process from the Canadian land border than at an airport. At an airport, you'd just be turned around and paying for a flight. At the land border - particularly the border between two countries that don't want you - it's going to take a bit longer because the logistics are more complicated. Also, there might be some kind of investigation, as she has already been staying in the country for several weeks at this point.

However we should be talking about like 3-4 days at most (if that), not 3 weeks.

How am I trying to appease Trump? You call me a moron, and yet nothing you say makes sense.

At least we can agree that Trump is a cunt lol.

All I'm saying is that IF a country wants to apply a retaliatory tariff, they should do so in the interests of their own country. They should ring fence the revenue from the tariff and re-invest that in local businesses to replace the foreign imports.

However I don't think that's necessary. America isn't a cheap manufacturing source, it's expensive high tech. Tariffs are meant to balance prices - like tariffs on cheap Chinese EVs, such that other EVs can be competitive on price. American stuff is already more expensive, so a tariff doesn't change the equation.

People don't need tariffs to incentivise themselves not to buy American. They need alternative options to American goods and services. Tariffs won't do that, at least not without proper planning and re-investment.

Export tariffs would cause even fewer European goods in USA. Nah, let’s not do that.

Not necessarily. Canada has had some success with tariffing exports of electricity. The key part here is that the US can't stop buying electricity, so sales from Canadian electrical businesses don't go down, the US just pays more to Canada.

The point being, a tariff has to be clever. It has to minimise the damage at home and maximise the damage overseas. Trump's tariffs don't do this, because he's trying to damage America just as much as he's trying to damage everywhere else.

Other countries should not do what Trump's doing, as it will damage their own country.

We’re going to hit them where it hurts.

That's the thing, a retaliatory tariff probably won't hurt them. For one, it would only (mildly) affect certain US businesses. For another, people generally don't have an alternative source, so they end up just paying the tariff. Both US businesses and local people get hurt, the only benefit is that the government gets more money - but that's not really a benefit if the government isn't re-investing it. The US government doesn't really care about US businesses, so they're not going to capitulate. In the end no one wins except the two governments have more money to piss up the wall.

We're already looking at buying less from the US wherever possible. People want alternatives, and the US isn't a cheap source (like China is) so it's already easy for local businesses to undercut them on price - you don't need to add a tariff to tip the balance. Tariffs won't incentivise people, they're already incentivised, they need options.

If a tariff isn't paying for such an option then it isn't worthwile.

If only workplaces would stop using WhatsApp.