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  • The purpose of tariffs is to reduce supply, and allow local producers to increase costs without facing competition. So, supply will be affected, no matter what.

    Add money with reduced supply and you get inflation. Already countries are looking to increase trade with each other in lieu of trade with the USA. China on particular has been talking to all the Asian producers to reassure and warn against demaking with the USA. They are now the trustworthy partner.

    The recession is going to come from a loss of commodities. From a loss of trade, including the components essential for domestic production. Those prices are going to rise. Jobs will be lost. All the while, all exporters to the USA will increase their prices in response to USD fall on value so that their margins in their currency remain the same.

    Sure, the falling dollar, in normal circumstances would make American products more attractive, but all other countries are now imposing tariffs on the USA in response. Some, like the EU, have not done it across the board, but they will ramp up. China and USA have effectively planned to cease trade. America doesn’t have the high tech supply chain they need to compete with Chinese products internationally.

    As the recession will lead to job losses, wages will have downward pressure, not up, like in every other recession.

    The fact that you remain unwilling to listen and have made up your mind to remain I’ll informed os a poor decision.


  • Firstly, the value of the dollar decreasing will increase the cost, in dollars, of all imports. The tariffs on top will add to this inflation.

    Printing money doesn’t automatically lead to inflation but in a recession environment where less is being produced, it certainly does. The quantitative easing and money printing workdwide, due covid, led to the crazy inflation we saw. Certainly supply was a problem, but a reduction in trade between 2 giant economies is also going to cause those kinds of bottlenecks.

    Add loss of faith in the dollar and this multiplies. Trump is destroying the dollars purchasing power which leads to inflation. All the while he’s killing jobs in public sector and private sector at the same time.






  • For me: English, Irish, french, German, Indonesian, Malaysian (same as Indonesian), japanese I’ve thank you in Turkish, Thai,

    For Irish Please is: le do thoil (é). Translates as; by your will (it). Pronounce : le duh hull ay.

    For thank you: Go raibh (míle) maith agat. Translates as may (a thousand) good things be/fall upon you. Pronounce : guh rev mee-la moh a-gut

    For pronunciation, I’m using Munster dialect. It can be quite different for other dialects.

    Other languages seem to be covered by others, so I thought I’d add the Irish in more detail.


  • Generally, people in poorer countries have more children. It’s a necessity for survival. They need the children to care for them in their old age. There is no pension, or Medicare or healthcare or nursing homes. Instead the family shares the load. In wealthier countries, we are meant to pay for 8t in conjunction with available social services and programs.

    However, all things being equal, people have less children if they are pessimistic about the future.


  • Ubiquiti is reputable and has the infrastructure to manage sensitive data from many companies. The software phones home and is cloud based for logging in and back ups etc, however its network information and settings rather than personal information. This does include data about your devices, sites visited, apps used etc. However, as a b2b rather than a consumer facing company mainly, they are not really into data mining, yet. I’ve used them for my business. It’s a bit pricy for my home needs, but I’m due an upgrade soon and will be looking at their equipment. It works well together, is both powerful and mainly intuitive.

    Any internet connecting hardware theoretically has access to all your data passing through it. So, I’d either go ubiquiti or open source. My understanding is that the open source options are playing catch up as most modern routers don’t release open drivers for their components. So, although the software is theoretically equal, practically it isn’t, but that may change with openwrt releasing a new router soon. If you need stuff now, I’d get ubiquiti.






  • I don’t really follow content creators. YouTube ads are more annoying than tv and half the content feels like an ad.

    I’m more into prestige tv shows. I just look at critics top lists for different years. Whatever looks interesting goes on jellyfin. Generally HBO is good or at least was.

    It means you aren’t waiting for shows to get renewed or see if they iron out the kinks. I don’t bother with anything that hasn’t been renewed unless it’s getting ratings over 7.5 or critical acclaim, preferably both.

    If I run out of new content, I go to old reliable a, like the west wing or ab fab or six feet under. I’m not a big fan of reality tv but the traitors, especially the UK one without celebrities scratched an itchy and I’ve binged them all. I think it will drop off in quality as people learn how the game is played successfully. Too quiet or too loud and you’re out.