“I know you have not been feeling great but it’s good to see you in better health,” Mr. Vance told the pope, according to video footage of the visit

“I know you have not been feeling great but it’s good to see you in better health,” Mr. Vance told the pope, according to video footage of the visit

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/pope-francis-meets-with-jd-vance.html

The country of origin in that case is the last country in which the product significantly changed value from being manufactorered locally and it requires a facility to do so. Slapping a sticker on something is not enough.

My point is, that there is indeed a significant change, when parts are put together into a product. In the case of almost 150% tariffs, I am sure that this would be an attractive solution.

I am not looking for a loophole. Just stating the obvious and trying to understand how the USA handles these challenges. Slapping tariffs on countries seems naive, when globalization has intertwined every country into each other. Especially when it comes to trade and production

Inconvenient (for the world) at best, devastating (for the USA) at worst

So basically Chinese companies could ship prosucts in parts to neighbouring countries for assembly and they’d be sellable in the USA?

How do the tarrifs actually work? Are they applied on all shipments from China or on any Chinese product shipped from anywhere?

Not without going completely off the grid no. But there is a big difference from that, and actively using their services or even paying them money.

Simply privacy tools will anonymize your use of the internet, but actively avoiding the use of any google services, is the first big step

I don’t see it as impossible at all. But it is indeed inconvenient and may even cost some money.

But if it was as straightforward as just changing the TV channel, everyone would have done it already.

Having values and acting on them does cost. It is when we are willing to cope with those costs (financial or/and practical) that we stand our ground. Not when we don’t feel it. In that case it would just be a logical choice.

I’m mostly using herewego. I believe that I tried mappy but it didn’t have traffic updates for my region? Not sure 🤔 I went through so many!

I know! For me, the hardest part was Google photos, that i eventually replaced with ente. But there is a reason why they have a market monopoly. By definition, it makes it difficult to find alternatives. But its possible!

I now only use them when Qwant does not give satisfying results. Kagi is good too, although i have recently replaced it with qwant.

Or just skip Google alltogether

You’re not fooling any algorithm by not mentioning his name

The text appears to be a piece of political commentary or resistance advice targeting a controversial political figure. While it doesn’t mention a name, the language and references suggest it’s about Donald Trump, particularly during or after his presidency. Phrases like “Don’t use his name,” “This is a regime,” and “assign them to ‘The Republican Administration’” strongly hint at opposition to him and his political influence. This kind of post circulated widely on social media, especially around the time of Trump’s presidency (2016–2020) and leading into the 2020 election and its aftermath.

Personally I’ve stopped listening to what he and his boss says. They way they have been blurbing random things out and pulling them back when the dumbster isnon fire, makes it very hard to take any of it seriously. So why listen in the first place.

The issue is, that this is not just this one president. It is a population that has chosen him for their president not once, but twice!

You are not alone. The whole world has lost confidence and trust to anything the US does or says

We are putting tarrifs on stuff we buy from you, because you make too much money on us. But we are going to remove tarrifs from the stuff that we buy from you, because we need them.

There must be a lot of lobbying going on behind the scenes at the moment!

You have 90 days to save your businesses dear Billionaires! They will soon open a bribing office to keep track of the corruption and agreements made during this period

As if 18 year olds even have a comfort zone!

Buying votes that’s what it is

On top of this, Denmark had been doing this every year. The only thing you can count on Trump doing every year is to change his mind and ask you if you’ve said thank you for it.