Em Adespoton

I wonder what effect all this is having on the timeshare industry….

This is why I no longer go out in public.

Looks like most of this is happening outside the US - multinationals can apply for relief loans in other countries where they have an established workforce that could be impacted by the tariffs.

Eg, in Canada: https://cdev.gc.ca/applications-are-open-for-the-large-enterprise-tariff-loan-letl-facility/

As originally mentioned though, all this is loans to large multinationals; end users aren’t going to see the relief loans OR the refunds.

The main people who will get the money are the import brokers who have been leveraging their businesses against the tariffs with the expectation that the money will eventually be refunded.

Americans have been protected against the largest impacts from the tariffs over the past 7 months by these loans. Things would have been MUCH worse when purchasing goods without this.

As a result, if the refunds DON’T go through, all the importers will have to default on their loans, sending both the financial and import industries into a tailspin — PLUS everyone having to shoulder the full effects of the ongoing tariffs.

And if I’m ever planning a home invasion, I need to get some red and white flashing light and a bullhorn.

They could always have been ice deputees heading home from work wanting to make a little extra on the side….

Yup. Entry level wages have stagnated while food and housing prices have skyrocketed.

Exact same thing here.

If you ignore any company related to “cloud” or “AI”, especially if you focus on tech jobs at companies outside the software industry, there’s still plenty of hiring fresh coders going on.

$165,000 tech jobs are still out there. Usually they require at least 10 years experience, or a masters in mathematics or data science.

Fresh out of school? Try a $48-64k job and get some experience.

I remember working an entry job and thinking that the snacks were free because everyone was just grabbing them. Took a few months before I found out there was an honor system and people were paying at cost for the items and dropping the money in a drop box.

If nobody confronted the employee, there should be a statute of limitations for each infraction.

I hope they’ve called that sector of space “Mordor….”

Still true a decade later.

That… seems odd; vasectomies and hysterectomies are a specialty; there’s no way I’d want a GP or even a brain surgeon sterilizing me. And as far as specialists in the field go… are there really some that will refuse a consenting adult of sound mind?

You’re completely correct.

However, I’m not a Trump appointee. They appear to have their own ways of doing things.

How many people linked to Kevin Bacon have died under mysterious circumstances?

Really sounds like Russia wants some breathing space to regroup before another attempt.

All about blood oxygen monitoring in the Apple Watch.

I tended to use moos, muds and mushes more than IRC. The servers crashed, but you never had to worry about netsplits.

That took me a few parsings. At first I thought they meant a researcher had continued working around the glacier for 66 years, unaware that the world had moved on.

Which Vancouver was she at? If this is US border patrol, in uniform, in Canada, asking questions about whether you joke about US politics… that’s no better than the Chinese police stations. Does the government know US border patrol is interrogating people on Canadian soil?