Recent content by tetrasodium

Don't we use terms like marketing propaganda and cult indoctrination for that though? Can you give some specifics if you are talking about something very different from those examples?

No need to get personal but you still aren't really making a case. Focusing the question through a lens like Star wars corrupts the discussion by forcing moral absolutism onto the framing. You yourself seem to have recent posts agreeing or admitting that the question needs to be answered in...

But not untrue, that's one of the longstanding criticisms of starwars as a whole and I'd add that your choice to omit the first half of that sentence mentioning the earlier post along omitting with the very next sentence about its cartoonish morality lends weight to the claim of how star wars is...

Yes intent matters greatly, but it's not everything either. I mentioned it several pages back in post 33 how the OP itself corrupts the discussion with a terrible comparison to star wars. The star was lore and fiction are so cartoonized it turns the whole question into a bizarre form of...

He's not wrong though. The difference between poison and medicine is often a matter of knowing when and how much to provide someone. I've seen more than one health care professional I know socially or am related to express the same "all medicine is poison but" phrase from earlier as a thing...

Going to link up this video I came across because it does a nice job of covering the details of what kinds of things are being worked out, what sort of present and near term alternatives exist along with where it's eventually heading. Extra bonus points for doing it while being focused on...

Some of us are here year round, they aren't really limited to being a summer thing https://youtube.com/shorts/NxEfRj90bRE?si=D_8A2av13-hBOJEL

Revocation of the de minimis exemption shifts it to "it depends" because what is being shipped can matter as much as where it is from and where it's being shipped from. They may not be reporting it but all of those national postal services refusing to ship are almost certainly doing things like...

I'm going to second this and add to it the fact that Star wars is too simplistic on too many sometimes cartoonish levels for the JMT (jedi mind trick) to be at all relevant to the OP's question. The JMT is really little more than a particularly quick and effective hypnotic suggestion towards an...

I think that there is zero chance this won't be appealed. More important question we will be if it appeals to scotus or Congress. Scotus has lately been rather predictable in their willingness to interpret law in unexpected ways while an appeal to Congress could be as simple as "yes we grant...

Not sure if this pretty good video was linked already but I came across it for the first time and figured I'd link it :)

Ni to belittle what ryokos is doing but it's probably more complicated. Everyone in the chain is impacted. When the manufacturer needs work and money or would like to not be storing product it has been growing more and more common for them to work out a deal where they split the tarriff or eat...

He's not wrong in the possibility. You would need to define: * Where those goods are manufactured and potentially the origin country for any resources/parts used to produce them (ie some of the auto tarrifs make an easy example here). *Where those finished goods are warehoused *Where the...

Same basic situation, a more recent link was provided in post 95. Quoting that, "August 25 will be the last day it takes consignments, but premium delivery service DHL Express will not be affected by the suspension, the company added. It said private customers could continue to send gifts...

The refusal stuff like dhl refusing to ship business to consumer packages worth over 800$ was temporary and dhl already worked it out https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/business/dhl-global-shipments-us-suspension-intl-hnk...