Bwaz

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[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

And use the resulting funds to make refunds later to exporters in proportion to how much they ship those same items to non-US countries. Make it cheaper for EU, etcetera, to get those things and establish trade patterns.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder what be the effect if Canada enacted an additional tax on exports of certain products to USA particularly needed by US (lumber, foods, fertilizer) so that the bumped up price increases don't all go to Trump's tax cuts for wealthy?

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

And it is a tax eventually on purchases. People need purchases, but the tariffs don't bother those whose purchases cost a miniscule part of their income. It greatly bothers those for whom purchases cost a huge part of their income.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In my mind that would open the door to forgetting some other constitutionally defined things. Like, who is a President.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'll agree till your last sentence. Trumpers know very little about reality, they operate entirely on wishes and imagined the unfairness.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Arrested??? They haven't even had their names exposed!

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

They call those Christian teachings "wokeness" these days.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because they can't accept that climate change is a thing, without seeming "woke".

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

Replaceable battery. No contest.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Had one of those, but it eventually died. Great phone.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Ho hum. Another new ultimatum that will be ignored and forgotten. Anyway, that war was ended the day after he got back in the white house, right?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Bwaz@lemmy.world to c/mindmatter@lemmy.world
 

AI could provide some minor deshitification of the internet by answering obvious questions implied by clickbaity titles. In other words, comb the link and pop up, in simplest terms, what a title baits you with.

For instance, a browser plugin that could pop up a balloon showing "It's Portland, Oregon" when you hover your mouse over "One US city likes its food carts more than any other". Or "Tumbling Dice" when you hover over "The Stones' song that Mick Jagger hates to sing". Even give "Haggle over the price and options" on the classic clickbait "Car dealers don't want you to know this one trick!". All without you having to sift through pages of crap filler text (likely AI generated) and included ads to satisfy trivial curiousity you might be baited by.

I wouldn't even mind too much if the service collected and sold the fact that I did (or didn't) get curious about the related topics. It would still be fewer ads in the face overall. So maybe monetizing like that could motivate someone to develop a service?

Or would that just make the net worse?

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