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AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

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I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this but there was a story that this whole reciprocal tariff idea from Trump came from artificial intelligence. The whole calculus… everything. That’s why Trump put a tariff on an island inhabited only by penguins.

The question is whose AI was he using? Remember how especially Republicans were saying DeepSeek was censoring Tianammen Square meant it wasn’t true AI and no should be using it because it didn’t work? Well whose AI was Trump using. It wasn’t DeepSeek. Was it Grok? OpenAI? People were talking how Trump’s reciprocal tariff formula was crazy. And you know Trump and the Republicans wouldn’t know of that island of penguins even existed to mistakenly choose it to tariff. So who’s flawed and broken AI thought it up?
 
StraightEdge

StraightEdge

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FriedButter said:
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It’s going to work about as well as last time.
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I am thinking about a situation, imagine if Apple do move away assembly business from China, how likely will China allow Apple to sell devices in China?
2 points from Glenn Luk on twitter comes to my mind.
A - China's value add in Apple BOM is pretty low (around $40 per unit).
B - Apple has made more than $200 billion in profits from Chinese consumers in past decade.
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So, if Chinese workers lose the assembly business, would China allow Apple to still profit from Chinese consumers? Not to mention, the likely hood of Apple's profits can go to Huawei/Xiaomi or other companies.
 
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tokenanalyst

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StraightEdge said:
I am thinking about a situation, imagine if Apple do move away assembly business from China, how likely will China allow Apple to sell devices in China?
2 points from Glenn Luk on twitter comes to my mind.
A - China's value add in Apple BOM is pretty low (around $40 per unit).
B - Apple has made more than $200 billion in profits from Chinese consumers in past decade.
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So, if Chinese workers lose the assembly business, would China allow Apple to still profit from Chinese consumers? Not to mention, the likely hood of Apple's profits can go to Huawei/Xiaomi or other companies.
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They will likely lose the Chinese market and the same time will have to compete with other Chinese companies for share around the world outside the US.
 
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zscstephen

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FriedButter said:
Is Elon trying to save himself?



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He probably saw it take off without an engine, but the hatches were already closed.
StraightEdge said:
I am thinking about a situation, imagine if Apple do move away assembly business from China, how likely will China allow Apple to sell devices in China?
2 points from Glenn Luk on twitter comes to my mind.
A - China's value add in Apple BOM is pretty low (around $40 per unit).
B - Apple has made more than $200 billion in profits from Chinese consumers in past decade.
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So, if Chinese workers lose the assembly business, would China allow Apple to still profit from Chinese consumers? Not to mention, the likely hood of Apple's profits can go to Huawei/Xiaomi or other companies.
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Apple has to enter real ultra high end market around the world to retain revenue, China could wait and see.
 
supercat

supercat

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Sure, I will be planting trees like crazy too if I'm really panicking.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1908297844777484574

The reality of the matter:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1908134371523019220

Do nothing. Win.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1908161778527219853
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1908345804286316710
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obj 705A

obj 705A

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GulfLander said:
Is it?
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1908306434934399421
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very weird white supremacy moment from Vance.
it sounds even worse than calling the Chinese "yellow people".
remember Vance is married to a brown woman, an Indian. does he call her a peasant? what about his kids. he has three brown kids. does he call them peasants & Pajeets?

I wonder why white supremacists like Vance or serpentza or laowy86 get married to women who are people of colour.
 
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