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Third night of rain in a row. Tonight's been much heavier, especially this last round. It's been coming in waves for the last 2-3 hours. Glorious. Hopefully, it gets down to you guys soon but not too soon. I want to keep.hooging it for another day or so. Runoff goes into the Colorado River Basin anyway.
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They're great for the rose bush, though.
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Got about an inch of rain spread over the past two nights out here in the wastelands. Just checked the forecast for this weekend and was NOT expecting to see this.
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By Justin Wolfers Dr. Wolfers is a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan. These tariffs are going to hurt. A lot. By my calculations, this round of tariffs may be 50 times as painful as the ones Donald Trump instituted in his first term. That means they are going to reshape your life in much more fundamental ways. To illustrate how, letβs look at a prosaic example: your washing machine. In 2018, Mr. Trumpβs relatively modest tariffs caused washing machine prices to rise by nearly $100. As a result, many families elected to stick with their aging machines longer than they otherwise would have. But that choice incurred a new set of costs: late-night thuds from unbalanced loads, wads of scrunched cloth still dripping wet after a cycle and higher energy and water bills. In other words, the total cost of a tariff isnβt just what comes out of your checking account. The time you spend to rearrange the stuff in your washer is a cost. The time you spend wringing out sopping wet T-shirts is a cost. Tariffs are costly not just because they raise prices but because they force you to make different decisions that will extract a different kind of cost from you over time. Small tariffs create small problems. Big tariffs create huge ones. Take Mr. Trumpβs 25 percent tariff on vehicles, which is expected to raise their prices by roughly $4,000. Many families, like mine, will probably decide not to buy a second car. That creates far bigger problems than an aging washer. Now, weβre constantly juggling how to get our kids to all their activities, and ourselves to work, with only one set of wheels. And itβs not just cars. These are across-the-board tariffs, so they will distort virtually every purchase you make. In each case youβll have to stop your baked-in calculations, recalibrate and find a way to make do β perhaps substituting frozen vegetables for fresh vegetables, a less effective medication for a higher-priced import, or corn syrup for sugar. And in each case, youβre worse off. By the way, tariffs donβt distort just your buying decisions, they also distort what businesses make. Just as tariffs lead you to buy less desirable alternatives, they lead businesses to channel labor and capital into less desirable β that is, less productive β activities. The tariffs announced on Wednesday are roughly 10 times as high as most other industrialized countries, and higher than the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariffs (of Great Depression fame). Mr. Trumpβs latest tariffs will lead folks to rethink not only whether to replace their washing machine β as they did in 2018 β but also their dryers, refrigerators, stoves, groceries, clothes, cars and even everyday essentials. Many of the substitutions weβll make will be quite painful. If a 1 percent tariff leads you to switch from real guacamole to a pea-based alternative, then you really didnβt care about guac all that much. But if it takes a 20 percent tariff to get you to switch, thatβs a sure sign that going without the real thing is a serious hardship. And this is why higher tariffs generate a far greater amount of pain. These forces arenβt independent of each other. They interact. Or in math, they multiply, which means their costs rise in the square of the tariff rate. That leads to some pretty painful arithmetic. The average tariff rate was about 1.5 percent just before Mr. Trumpβs election in 2016. He subsequently raised tariffs on steel, aluminum, washing machines, solar panels and many goods from China, but left much of the rest of the economy untouched. All told, by 2019 he roughly doubled the tariff rate, to around 3 percent β and so effectively quadrupled whatever pain the 2016 tariffs were causing. (Yes, two times two is four.). Joe Biden kept some of these tariffs, but Mr. Trumpβs latest round pushes our current rate to around 15 times its 2016 level, and so squaring that, itβs 225 times more painful. Thatβs more than 50 times as large than the cost of Mr. Trumpβs first term tariff increase. Perhaps voters pulled the lever for Mr. Trump with warm memories of the good economic times. But the reality of his first term is that there was a lot more tariff talk than action. They were barely more than a bump in the road. This time, theyβre a mountain. And so the impact will be more like a crash than last timeβs comfortable jolt.
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Y'all need to start adding @MAROON to these. He's a big fan of this idiocy.
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Haha! That little @MAROON cunt got triggered for being called out on giving a little heart reaction in agreement with the idiot OP and STILL is too much of a coward to post his thoughts. What a little snowflake!
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Midland ISD made that decision freely, on their own. I grew up in the Permian Basin and we played "Lee" when I was in high school, so I followed the story. There was no outside influence. It was a purely organic, grassroots push from local residents, themselves. This obviously came in the wake of George Floyd, but Midlanders decided to do the right thing on their own for once, in that moment. In today's climate, I freely acknowledge the community would probably prefer to go back. In fact, I'd be surprised if they didn't, if we continue on this path.
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Didn't even realize Dr. Oz was up at bat. Jesus. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/health/dr-mehmet-oz-senate-confirmation.html
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Shit like this is why I cannot give them the benefit of the doubt over any supposed stupidity. They're doing this with the intent to deceive. It's deliberate self-destruction.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
bolverk replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
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Justice Department declined to prosecute Texas AG Paxton in final weeks of Bidenβs term: AP sources WASHINGTON (AP) β The Justice Department quietly decided in the final weeks of the Biden administration not to prosecute Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, effectively ending the corruption investigation that cast a long shadow over the political career of a close ally of President Donald Trump, The Associated Press has learned. The decision not to bring charges β which has never been publicly reported β resolved the high-stakes federal probe before Trumpβs new Justice Department leadership could even take action on an investigation sparked by allegations from Paxtonβs inner circle that the Texas Republican abused his office to aid a political donor. The move came almost two years after the Justice Departmentβs public integrity section in Washington took over the investigation, removing the case from the hands of federal investigators in Texas who had believed there was sufficient evidence for an indictment. https://apnews.com/article/ken-paxton-ag-federal-investigation-justice-department-b4c3469a90f1c546dcb69177c432a383
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Hahaha! This is getting to be Surly's own version with that poor guy, Matt Gertz, always being confused with Matt Gaetz on Twitter. You meant to tag @realgreggym.
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I've come up with a brilliant idea to profit off these tariffs, but I don't know how to invest in Goodwill or other consignment stores. Can someone help a capitalist, profit-seeking brother out?
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Waiting for the sky to fall (Catch all tornado thread)
bolverk replied to Royalfan5's topic in Daily Texan
When I first clicked on it, they said something about losing the NWS, and I was all like, "WTF? Has DOGE already killed all the regional stations?!?!" So, the answer is "No, that NWS office is about to get hit by a fucking tornado." Goodspeed, Paducah weather nerds who keep us safe. -
You guys raising valid questions about federal revenue, recall Grover Norquist's quote from 20+ years ago, "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." And, then, remember Steve Bannon vowing the "destruction of the administrative state." These people are crazy assholes. So, yeah, get rid of income taxes, raise revenue through tariffs as an inadequate substitute, and kill the federal government, leaving all power to the states. We're still fighting the Civil War, fellas.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
bolverk replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Yeah, a little context would be really helpful before I blow a fucking lid.
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