One of Meta's main arguments is that it isn't a monopoly because it faces intense competition from TikTok... which is now banned by law from the US but is still here because Trump has chosen not to enforce the law. Are we having fun yet www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

He’s saying that if you eliminate first class and all the people who pay much more for those tickets that are much more profitable and/or are used to tie frequent flyers to the airline, what you will accomplish is making tickets more expensive for everyone else and so others won’t be able to fly.

Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff

Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.

Serenely repeating to myself “these people are mad because they are losing control over the Democratic Party position on housing, and they are furious at me because I am an effective messenger for YIMBYism.”