That’s 104%, across the board, if they don’t completely capitulate by tomorrow. Instituted and affirmed by Republicans.

What a timeline we’re in. Imagine if you told this to someone in 2000, watching them try to imagine how the world possibly could have gotten there. You just tell them “Yeah, you know the internet? And this guy named Mark Zuckerberg in school? You should really do something about that…”

Yeah, you and @ampersandrew@lemmy.world have a point.

I am vastly oversimplifying a lot, but… Perhaps mobile gaming, on aggregate, is too shitty for its own good? It really looks that way whenever I sample the popular ones.

live service games make up a significant amount of what the average consumer wants, and those customers largely play on PC for all sorts of reasons

You are leaving out the elephant in the room: smartphones.

So, so, so many people game on smartphones. It’s technically the majority of the “gaming” market, especially live service games. A large segment of the population doesn’t even use PCs and does the majority of their computer stuff on smartphones or tablets, and that fraction seems to be getting bigger. Point being the future of the Windows PC market is no guarantee.

The Switch 2 chip is effectively older than the now aging (but fantastic for the price/size) Van Gogh chip in the Steam Deck. It shouldn’t be expensive to make.

Oh, you think Canadians aren’t going to get in on tariff evasion? They 100% will.

The tremendous irony is America was founded to evade massive tariffs, sorta… and now we’re doing it to our self.

Yeah don’t get me wrong, I love Lemmy. But I don’t like, well, that sort of thing. Or straight up disinformation being posted along the lines of that vitriol. It makes me worry about the Fediverse, as that culture only goes one place, and I feel like we shouldn’t stick our heads in the sand and only talk about the love if the culture is getting radicalized to an extreme.

I do report them, but some communities seem to encourage it and leave it up.

I guess I can block the community, but it’s still affecting the “Lemmy culture” at large…

Highly upvoted comments like “Elon Musk should commit suicide” or “X group of people are all mentally retarded” or even popular posts themselves make me feel uncomfortable.

It feels toxic like X. Or what Voat (an older Reddit clone, albeit not a federated one) turned into. So much of y’all upvoting posts like that, normalizing it, does not make me want to stick around, as that culture of hate will only get worse.

Probably not going to happen in the house. The 4 Senate Republicans that voted that way are known breakaways/Trump haters:

Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Mitch McConnell (Ky.) Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Rand Paul (Ky.) joined Democrats in voting for the measure, which passed 51-48.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/senate-repeal-trump-tariffs-canada

Yeah.

And again, the US was a legendary tariff dodger back in the day. It’s like our claim to fame. The irony is tremendous.

Or “launder” goods through there, like China did with Mexico and some other countries. Or the US did earlier in its colonial history.

A quirk of the deficit / imports formula they used. Small countries with relatively small trade balances with the US can hit pretty wild values.

You can generally toggle LLM “grounding” features, aka inserting web searches into their context.

Modern LLMs have a information “cutoff” of a few months ago, at the latest, so the base models will have zero awareness of this formula.

TBH it’s probably human written.

I used to write small articles for a tech news outlet on the side (HardOCP), and the entire site went under well before the AI boom because no one can compete with conveyer belts of of thoughtless SEO garbage, especially when Google promotes it.

Point being, this was a problem well before the rise of LLMs.

In this case, it’s as simple as “type it into ChatGPT, like the Reddit users did” :/

That they didn’t try to replicate it.

How about the outlet checks and finds out?

I did, and I couldn’t get low-temperature Gemini or a local LLM to replicate it, and not all the tariffs seem to be based on the trade deficit ratio, though some suspiciously are.

Sorry, but this is a button of mine, outlets that ask stupidly easy to verify questions but dont even try. No, just cite people on Reddit and Twitter…

I’m all for “it’s benefitting the billionaires,” and that’s what tariffs do, but most of the ultra-wealthy’s money is tied up in the market, too. It’s more that this is a regressive tax to fund cuts to progressive taxes, fucking shit up is not the intent.

Some of the administration’s actions really are them drinking their own Kool-aid. Like, what they’ve done to the HHS is objectively detrimental to the ultra-wealthy old guys too. There’s some arguments to be had around tariffs, but implementing them Iike this is more on the kool-aid side.

This gold from wallstreetbets:

Soooo is the tariffs charged to the United States really a ratio of the trade imbalance?? For example Vietnam imported roughly 14.6 billion in goods from the United States, and we imported around 146 billion, so thus they have decided tariffs are 90% to the United States…thus we are putting a tariff on them of half of that…which means we are literally tariffing the goods we either a)need more or b) get more efficiently at a higher rate? That may be the absolute dumbest way to create a tariff policy I could imagine if that is the case…which it looks to be.

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1jpzhje/tariff_chart_released/ml476s7/

They’ll try to spin it in tomorrows finance news, so it may be sharp but not as sharp as it should be.