U.S. shoppers' orders canceled as world shuts down some American-bound shipments
The end of the “de minimis” exemption for cheap parcel shipments, nearly a century old, is prompting countries everywhere to suspend shipments to the U.S.
Good bring this country to its knees.
As an American who grew up on its proclaimed hegemony and superiority, yes, please. I think there is really something to the idea of "The American spirit" once you strip away the toxic cultures of individualism, corporatism, and blind self-aggrandizing; we were lied (propogandized) to for decades about being "the best", and the result is some folks who would do awesome things if the fucking societal compass of this place could be directed toward real social and societal good. You know, equity, progress, a sense of self-preservation when it comes to the climate/environment...
I am sorry but your user name is incredibly on point for this comment.
Yes, maybe once we were, we had some kind of admirable core of 'practical utilitarianism and basic fairness in a local community'...
But... we have now become the mask, forgotten all but warped, distant, misremembered echoes of some former self we used to be.
Skull kid may be in there somewhere, broken and crying and confused ... but we have become monstrous and dangerous to the point that hardly matters.
We are the villain, our tragic backstory may matter in a narrative sense... but ironically, not in a practical sense.
Can we please hold off until my new GPU gets here?
Sadly nothing will change. Those in power don't give a shit (they can fly their stuff in via private jet) and the ones who will suffer the most will still be too weak to do anything about it.
This may sound stupid and petty/personal given the very large scope and seriousness of this, but whoo boy when I first saw this news a couple of days ago, I finally jumped on buying new sticks and button pads for my Steam Deck.
I've been using it a lot, and the sticks were drifting, buttons/dpad got mushy... so yeah, pulled the trigger on getting replacement/upgrade parts (hall effect sticks with more resistance, 'clicky' button boards and replacement gel pads) that are only made in China, arrived a couple days ago.
If the de minimus exception is fully going away, I think the import tariff/shipping fees on these would... be more than the ~$50 cost of the actual things.
But anyway... yeah, this is uh... very, very bad for everyone in the US who is used to buying ... anything not made in the US... which is basically everything.
Back to Great Depression style re-use/repair everything, or die broke and starving.
Online stores like Amazon, other large e-tailers like Walmart... they're still gonna have some stock left in their domestic warehouses... but that won't last probably more than about a month, depending on the kind of product.
I’m a fan of repairing broken things. Too bad it’s basically impossible to get parts and repair most things anymore.
I have a buddy who (we are around 70) repaired anything and everything. Had a booming business repairing circuit boards for many different products. Then they started putting blobs of glue all over boards so no repairs. All the other stuff he would repair, similar thing. Business’ locked it up. Pretty much destroyed his business. So sad to watch it happen over all those years.
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Why repair?
Just toss that shit in a landfill and buy another one!
Hooray for literal dumpster based consumerism and a capitalistic production paradigm.
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Perhaps amusingly, I have a cheap massage gun that uh, the head got wobbly, starts knocking around off the center line.
Solution?
Fucking duct tape, just basically narrowed the uh... neck hole? of the thing? I dunno what to call it, the aperture for the massage head.
Doesn't knock around near as much now lol.
The age of the 3d printer is arising.
MAGA, have the day you voted for.
Sorry for you. You might be able to make it yourself with a 3d printer?
I was able to get the parts in time... but uh, 3d printer?
Not unless your 3d printer prints PCB computer boards, as well as injection molded gel and plastics, screws, springs...
You could maybe 3d print uh... possibly the back and faceplates for a Deck, maybe the L/R 1/2 triggers bumpers, maybe some other of the buttons?
But they'd be rough, low quality, you'd have to sand them and such afterward.
Maybe clip on grip embigenners for those with larger hands might be a reasonable use case for 3d printing Deck stuff? Kickstands/Non electronic docks?
But uh generally speaking, 3d printing ... it has its use cases, but its far from a cure all multi tool for producing everything that you'd likely need to replace on a Deck, or many other things.
I don't think you can uh, 3d print hall effect joysticks, lol.
Are they tired of winning, yet?
No, as long as we're still grumpy about it in posts they're still getting what they wanted.
Just add it to the pile of bullshit heaped upon those who didn't vote for this fascist fucking bullshit...
Burn baby burn
Glad my plaid pants made it in time. Crisis averted.
