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No, don't refrain. I got the joke and think we could use more.

You can get down or up voted either direction for any politically adjacent puns.

But karma points have no cash value, so whatev.


"The Gulf formerly known as Mexico" is a bit of a mouthful.

So like Prince back in the nineties, perhaps it should have a symbol. Maybe ⌂ ?


Well, if there was a hurricane headed to Toledo, it could be justified.[0]

All depends on if it's in the storm path drawn by the Presidential Sharpie.

[0] First Trump threatened to nuke hurricanes. Now he’s waging war on weather forecasters

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/04/trump-...


Back in the late '70s my dad bought a retired 1942 pumper fire truck from the city. Back then it was sealed bids submitting to the city. He was the only one who bid on it.

I assume today you could buy an airport one from a government auction site.



The fill-ups would probably financially ruin anyone that doesn’t have access to bulk Jet A.

Oh shit, the next instagram thing will be DnD cosplayers trying to get selfies with them.

I think Game of Thrones cosplayers would be more likely

I don't want to track them, I want to mirror them.

Oh the product offerings are way ahead of that. Until recently, you could invest in Inverse Jim Cramer. Plenty of passive and active funds for Nancy Pelosi.

Inverse Jim Cramer ETF closed 1 year ago due to lack of interest, sheesh.

To follow Pelosi, just look up the public record on the government website. It tells you the date and the product he used. Then just look up the chart for that day and look at the price range.


, while Ukraine gets 10%.

The Orange Emperor has a huge hard on to make Ukraine suffer ever since it led to his first impeachment. Zelenski didn't kiss the ring so down they go.


10% is the hard minimum, nobody has less than 10%, so ergo 10% is actually the most favourable rate.

Even the UK gets 10% which is truly mad given we have balanced trade and tarrifs (if anything the US tariffed the UK more than they did them).

^So essentially MAX(10%,(imports-exports)/imports)


If you look at the full list (available e.g. here https://www.newsweek.com/trump-reciprocal-tariff-chart-20545...), some countries (most prominently Russia) are not on it. Whether that means anything is debatable, but Mexico and Canada, who were explicitly "spared" from these tariffs (but have other tariffs "tailor-made" especially for them), are also not on the list.

Is it possible the Newsweek list is wrong?

The EO and Annexes are not on the Federal Register website yet but on the Whitehouse website it has EO[1] and Annex I[2] and Annex II[3].

I do not see Russia or Ukraine mentioned in any of those so I would assume both get the base "10 percent" under section 2/3.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regu...

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Annex-...

[3] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Annex-...


Russia is already subject to sanctions and high tariffs. What is the balance of trade like?

Also imposing high tariffs now would reduce the power of the threat to raise tarrifs: https://www.ft.com/content/ec99b3c2-9f4d-4f34-9a01-f97d98131...


> Russia is already subject to sanctions

So is Iran, and yet Iran is still on the list.


Well, the reasonable explanation would be that Russia is sanctioned and thus already has an infinity effective tariff.

But then, I have no idea if the reasonable explanation applies. Are the other countries not in the list Iran and Cuba?


Russia is a interesting catch, but you can easily imagine why now is an inoptune time to piss them off.

The others make sense since they have worse tarrifs (though different, yes)


It's like they pulled a list "All Countries the US Trades With" off wikipedia and used that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...

Same clowns who made blanket cuts to every Federal dept and then had to walk a bunch of them back. There's no nuance or forethought, or realization of the long term damage they're doing.


Very likely that is literally what they did.

Favorite scene from Real Genius, the group shot of a bunch of them studying for finals in the student lounge.

One guy gets up and starts screaming in frustration at the book and then the room and finally runs out.

Everyone looks up briefly like nothing happened and then somebody gets up and takes his seat, like "oh look, a more comfortable study chair."



Original 1990 New Yorker article movie is based on.

https://archive.is/p6RgL


Dioxygen Difluoride

That both words start with DIe! is enough to warn me off.


Dihydorgen Dioxide. Oh no!

Not the best example. Hydrogen peroxide is actually rather nasty when highly pure. I mean, it's got nothing on FOOF, not many things do, but it's still in a class where it needs to be handled with care and shouldn't be handed to non-professionals. Don't be fooled by the fact it's sold in grocery stores at low concentrations.

Not as bad as FOOF, but still burns on contact to an open sore.

Pure hydrogen peroxide will do a lot worse than burn on contact with an open sore, unless you mean "set your sore on fire" (though it's more likely to detonate, or spontaneously dissociate into steam and pure oxygen).

Usual solutions for disinfection are 3~5%, at 35% h2o2 will bleach skin, and bite through it.


Read up on the Me-163 if you want to see the craziness that's involved with using high-purity H2O2 as an oxidizer. With a hydrazine/methanol mix fuel to boot.

"Ignition" was already mentioned. It has quite a few "anecdotes" about T-Stoff (then German term for 85%+ pure H2O2).

30% is non-chlorine pool shock, and readily available where I am (VT). As it happens, it's also one of the parts of two part wood bleach. The other part is a solution of NaOH (lye, available in solid form for drain opener). Works great, best used while wearing gloves and a face shield.

Sure. We also call it bleach :P

Bleach, when people refer to the general product you can buy in the grocery store called "bleach", is sodium hypochlorite, not hydrogen peroxide.

You can call hydrogen peroxide bleach, or a bleaching agent, but if you ask your significant other for "bleach" you're not going to get hydrogen peroxide.


Speak for yourself, we have/had a bottle of it lying around. Used for bleaching hair and as a cleaning agent. It's not Clorox, but actually says hydrogen peroxide (low dosage though).

High test peroxide is used as a rocket monopropellant, and was involved with the loss of the submarines HMS Sidon and Kursk.

Many things are used as rocket propellant not least of which O2. As in all things dose makes the poison.

You missed a prefix in monopropellant. That "mono-" is doing a lot of work that you ignored.

Oh, then add nitrous oxide. There, problem solved.

> That "mono-" is doing a lot of work that you ignored.

Ironic, given they generally produce less thrust.


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