<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><img src="cid:ii_m9adpzd00" alt="2025-04-10 01_51_33-WhatsApp.jpg" style="margin-right: 25px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM steve smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p>Gil =</p>
<p>I'm with you bro! Sortof. Mostly. Somewhat.<br>
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<p>We are definitely entering a "long dark night of the soul",
probably a notch beyond the events after 9/11/2001 and during the
height of COVID, but maybe not (quite) the scale of the Great
Depression or the Black Plague era or that of the Golden Horde
sweeping into Europe.</p>
<p>A previous fearless leader (GW Bush) who was mandated into his
office in 2000 by the Supreme Court (or a handful of hanging
chads) put a fine point on it when he gave us all $500 (plus or
minus) and told us that the "best think you can do is go out and
spend it!"... making it clear that our most important quality as a
US Citizen (or resident) is being an over-eager consumer.</p>
<p>Most of us will have to delay the refresh of our personal
automobile of choice, gaming computer or full-featured mobile
device for a year or three and that will suck in various ways.
Others will watch their farm/ranch/sawmill that was in their
family for decades go bust (possibly after a ridiculous boom for a
very few?). Others are already trying to find a new job in a
job-market which was just scarred badly by the arbitrary firings
in the Federal Government, and the cascade effects of that haven't
even set in. The tarriffing spree hasn't had a chance to "come
home to roost" beyond the stock market slump (crash), but it seems
unavoidable that retail markets will churn violently. I'm
personally glad to see consumer products being challenged, but I'm
a grumpy old man shaking his fence telling the kids with that
newfangled frisbee thing to "get off my lawn!".</p>
<p>I hope many can (gently) tighten their belts, be more thoughtful
of how they spend their discretionary funds (e.g. buy local)
where they can and take some of the harsh hedges off of the
ringing in the system that all of this harsh/arbitrary
elbow-swinging is causing. <br>
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<p>I'm mostly looking for ways to support my friends, neighbors and
acquaintances as best I can to mitigate the harshest of the
consequences of their bad decisions (in spite of NM being
technically blue, nearly 1/2 of the people I meet on the street
must have voted for the Felon in 2024)?</p>
<p>Our (refreshed since COVID) small flock of chickens are producing
roughly twice as many eggs as we consume... gifting them to
neighbors has stimulated a tiny local gift economy with folks who
don't wear their MAGA hats too tight BUT do look askance at our
Bernie and Harris bumper stickers when they come to exchange a
loaf of homemade sourdough bread or tureen of soup for a dozen
fresh eggs. A small thing but something I think? <br>
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<p>Most if not all of my age-peers are moderately dependent on
Medicare and Social Security and a few entirely. I also have at
least 3 friends who are very vulnerable to the loss of public
programs and in one case to immigration over-enforcement (recently
achieved permanent resident status). I'm listening carefully for
where I can help them in any way, even tiny. <br>
</p>
<p>On the other hand, there are several people (including my only
sister) who I avoid speaking to almost entirely because they
continue to apologize/lie for their Orange Jesus and his cohort of
Billionaire Robber-Barons. Oh well, I know their (oversized)
401k's are plummeting and can't even gloat!<br>
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<p>- Steve<br>
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<div>On 4/9/25 9:59 AM, Gillian Densmore
wrote:<br>
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<div>That's just the start!</div>
<div>America, imports a huge amount of things: normally this is
perfectly ok. Because: Friendly country gets an economy boost,
and we get stuff the US can't make. Yet, or even at all. In
the gaming and somewhat greater tech comunities the running
joke is: america is bad at turning sand into GPU's and
motherboards but is great at being Mr.Wallet.</div>
<div>And honestly that's not bad...per-se. But does meen:be
super congenial and even out right friendly to literally every
sanely run country. Generally (from what I understand) in
return they'll send people over: from students, to engineers,
to marketers etc to pick up the slack where companies can't
and again we don't know how to do companies make money and etc
etc.Ie We by you beer, you fix my food truck, food truck
offers jobs to your company first, and discounts we both end
up with win/win.</div>
<div>In the gaming area: Nvidia and AMD are already charging
ridiculously hi prices for there stuff both for gamers, and
for backgones of companies: I didn't know some types of GPU's
are mad good at helping network switches something about to do
with the GPU core propper being Asynchrinous and mad good at
math dead useful I have no idea how LOL.</div>
<div>And then there's uh basic buyers: might need or want a new
GPU those 700-800 and at the top end 2k GPU's very likely
doubling in costs and the eh well butterfly effect being: How
to body America's way of life: brought to you buy a pouty old
dude.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net" target="_blank">jofr@cas-group.net</a>>
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<div dir="auto">The new tariffs of the Trump administration
could blow up Apple. It is a little bit ironic that the
administration in an attempt to "make america great again"
destroys its most valuable company, isn't it? As everyone
knows the supply chains of Apple end in China.
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<div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/will-trump-tariffs-make-apple-iphones-more-expensive-2025-04-03/" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/technology/will-trump-tariffs-make-apple-iphones-more-expensive-2025-04-03/</a></div>
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<div dir="auto">I knew that the 2nd term would be
catastrophic but I wasn't sure which sort of catastrophe
would happen. Apparently it starts with a worldwide
economic crisis - which in turn will lead to massive
unemployment and inflation.<br>
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<div dir="auto">-J.</div>
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