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Trump Rages At Walmart For Raising Prices Over Tariffs

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That's a bit of a gross oversimplification. Overseas or foreign product? Sure tariffs apply 100%.

But what if the modified corn gloop is processed with a machine from Germany? And quality inspected with a sampling device from Canada? And the cameras used to inspect the packaging come from Japan? And the computers to power the logistics operations come from Taiwan, Korea and China?

Sure the corn gloop isnt taxed via tariff, but every single part of its manufacturing just got 20-120% more expensive (and supply chains got that much less predictable). Most businesses would go under if they tried to eat that cost.

The answer? Sweeping tariffs mean sweeping price increases. The list of which prices won't go up will be infinitely smaller.

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Realistically you don't get to react at that speed. Best you can do is slow down and hope.. Anything more than small adjustment of the steering wheel and you're no longer on the road. If I crashed at even half that speed I would probably wish I was dead because it's going to be a very long time if ever I function correctly again.

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Another way to think of it is this: Volts are like water pressure (potential energy) Amperage is like the flow rate of water Ohms (resistance) is like how hard it is to push water from high pressure to low pressure Watts are like the volume of water (a unit of energy)

A big hose has low resistance, water can move freely A coffee straw has large resistance, it's hard to pull and push water thru it

A river has very low water pressure, and the speed of the water can vary, so volume of water moving can be huge so the flow rate of water can be huge as well. A pressure washer might have very high pressure, but use as much water as a kitchen faucet. Certain applications need high pressure, some need low pressure. A car battery is like a river, low pressure (typically 12volts) but move a lot of amps (cold cranking amps of up to 500-600 ish usually), and a wall outlet by comparison is like a pressure washer with 120v, 15A (in the US). A fridge won't play nice on 12v, it needs 120v. It might need 400 watts which a car battery can do but it cares about how it can get that by requiring higher potential.

A watt, W=VA, can be thought of as asking how much water is there? 1 minute under a sink verse 1 minute in front a fire hose has two very very different amounts of water.

A watt hour, which most people are familiar with in the US for billing on their utilities, is like asking how many cups of water an hour. A light bulb needs a fraction of a kilowatt hour, a drier needs multiple kilowatt hours, but might only run for 30 minutes.

This idea gets a little tricky and falls apart at its edges but as a general idea should hold up for most peoples understanding of electrical stuff unless you work with it daily like an electrical engineer, electrician or something similar. For sanity sake I'm not going to try to apply this to AC verse DC, I don't have a good analogy for that

Obligatory mobile formatting heads-up and what not and I'm not caffeinated so meh

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Child dies after accidentally being shot in the chest at a target practice area

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I would assume he's referencing the number of celebratory gunfire incidents. There are a lot of holes in roofs, cars, and every now and again people from people shooting guns in the air for celebration. There is a non-zero chance that one of those bullets will have enough power to do serious bodily harm. Scary as hell bc it can be some idiot within 3 miles putting lives at risk

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Trump blasts immigrants for taking jobs as he courts voters at a Black church, MAGA event in Detroit

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American here and by no means an expert so take this with a grain or 1000 of salt. It's not segregation (at least not enforced any more) as much as a cultural thing. Many black churches likely started during segregation and the culture has definitely shifted over time which heavily influences things like music (look up soul gospel or soul music) and I believe tend to be more colorful in clothing and decor. There are aspects of elements of a service, and without a doubt influences on the topic of the sermon (thinking about it... Sermon might be a very Catholic word so I am not sure if that translates well). There might be some social do's and don't's that I don't know of as well but I don't have first hand experience

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"is usually written by an over worked engineer"

I'm in this post and I don't like it.

But really these scada systems are rarely well defined by the time implementation happens. Often the architect has a great plan, but by the time it's passed to a manager, a non-software engineer, to the product engineer to the automation team to the contractor the end result is "X data is pushed in With Y form and we use either a,b,or c date time stamp any nobody knows"