US treasuries is literally what we used in university as the “risk free rate”

When you have government officials saying they want to default on the “risk free” bonds it undermines markets in a completely unprecedented way.

Shockingly stupid.

It’s really reprehensible. Having low wages makes these countries reliant on exporting. They are being exploited for the benefit of richer countries and what to they get as thanks? Tariffs.

Just look through this page and tell me if you weren’t the leader you wouldn’t be begging to be spared:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Madagascar

I imagine there are other countries too that are going to be devastated by the tariffs.

It’s unclear where the Trump administration stands on the tariffs, whose cost will be largely paid by American consumers in the form of higher prices for foreign goods. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CBS News Tuesday that the tariffs are “negotiable but not a negotiating tactic.”

Trump said Monday that there could be both “permanent tariffs and there could also be negotiations.”

This feels like the start of a really stupid riddle.

I’m negotiable but not a negotiation tactic, I’m permanent but subject to change…

The places are probably developing countries with GDP per capita under $2000

I doubt any well conected country is doing that when america is clearly the underdog in a “civilized world vs america” situation. Tax American services, impose controls on yank companies operating domestically or just size their assets all together. What are they gonna do? Go cry to the WTO?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispute_settlement_in_the_World_Trade_Organization#Paralyzation

Trump literally lobotomized it and Europe had to put together a parallel judgement body. No shot it won’t be biased against the US

And what was being pardoned:

“In what may have been a first, Trump pardoned a corporation. The company to earn that distinction was a cryptocurrency exchange sentenced to a $100 million fine for violating an anti-money laundering law.”

Setting a precedent of excusing money laundering really does just feel like “I want to destroy the country” with not a whole lot else going on.

“News outlet” is a huge stretch. It’s a crypto currency blog pretending to be news.

My point is it’s already for sale, both in bankruptcy proceedings and potentially in less legitimate spaces

https://www.404media.co/23andme-hack-christmas-gift/

Doesn’t this just increase the value of the already for sale 23 and Me data?

I don’t think “depleted stocks” is good way for saying there are tanks available but not usable but I also don’t know what a better wording would be so maybe it’s accurate. Thanks for elaborating regardless.

Even without assuming they’ll use low quality examples, the article also says

According to researchers, only about 1,200 tanks can still be relatively easily restored after major repairs.

It sure sounds like the title is BS.

Wrote down not off.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/02/x-twitter-stock-falls-elon-musk

Debt is written off when deemed unrecoverable.

Assets can be written down when the value is lower than expected. Often this is due to more rapid depreciation of capital assets due to damage or impairments to goodwill (brand failure).

But none of that matters because private equity valuations are all bullshit and mean nothing anyways.

https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/private-equity/private-equity-is-a-joke

Denmark has not kept pace and devoted the resources necessary to keep this base, to keep our troops, and in my view, to keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China and other nations," Vance said. He gave no details of the alleged incursions. The U.S. vice president said Russia, China and other nations are taking an “extraordinary interest” in Arctic passageways, naval routes and minerals in the region and the U.S. will invest more resources, including naval ships and military icebreakers that will have a greater presence in the country.

It sounds like there is one one group doing more aggressive incursions.

The human operators are there for when the AI gets softlocked in a situation where it doesn’t know what to do and just sits there, not for regular driving.

It doesn’t even need to be a side quest, just a second screen activity lol

They’ll do it for pennies an hour for 12 hours a day.

I was referring to the child.

Children don’t get to pick their name or their parents.

No, because it’s speculation.

It’s far more comfortable to think it’s being done for some malicious reason rather than out of stupidity or fear.

I was going to make that joke too but given the real victim of the punchline is someone who had no ability to consent or exercise control in the situation it doesn’t feel right.

The system will only scale if there are enough desperate poor people. Otherwise it quickly become too expensive.

You can also get MMORPG players to do it for pennies per hour for in-game currency or membership. RuneScape players would gladly control 5 ‘autonomous’ cars if it meant that they could level up their farming level for free.

The game is basically designed to be an incredibly time consuming skinner box that takes minimal skill and effort in order to maximize membership fees.

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