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  • logos@sh.itjust.workstoWorld News@lemmy.ml•China Now Faces 245% Trump Tariff
    13·
    2 months ago

    It might as well be, except for the theater of it.

    “Given that, at the current tariff level, U.S. exports to China are no longer commercially viable, China will not respond to any further tariff hikes by the U.S. on Chinese goods,” the ministry said.

    The U.S’ tactics of weaponizing tariffs have become “a joke,” it said in a statement.

    “If the U.S. keeps playing the numbers game of tariffs, China will ignore it,”

  • logos@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.ml•Plausible deniability
    131·
    5 months ago

    “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

    ― Jean-Paul Sartre

  • logos@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyz•YEETEnglish
    9·
    7 months ago

    This is the origin apparently.

    RRB: “My calculations are irrelevant on this point. They are only valid in speaking of the shock reflection.” Ogle: “How fast did it go?” RRB: “Those numbers are meaningless. I have only a vacuum above the cap. No air, no gravity, no real material strengths in the iron cap. Effectively the cap is just loose, traveling through meaningless space.” Ogle: And how fast is it going?" This last question was more of a shout. Bill liked to have a direct answer to each one of his questions. RRB: “Six times the escape velocity from the earth.”