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Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

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Re: Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

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Post by anigbrowl »

FpUser wrote: post #193
SoftTalker wrote: post #129

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Everyone here is worried about it from the American side, but China has motivation to settle this too, so they can continue to sell their enshitified plastic crap. It's not like most other wealthy countries want it, at least not any more than they are already buying.

>"enshitified plastic crap" Cut the bull. Generally you get what you pay for. China does both. You can get crap for a penny but you can also get high quality stuff which costs more. Both made in China.

'plastic junk' seems to be the latest MAGA talking point.

Re: Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

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Post by AStonesThrow »

bombcar wrote: post #264
dullcrisp wrote: post #138

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You mean the chair of the department of history is actually a YouTuber.

Someday colleges will have Tubers, who outrank Chairs.

Indeed, and some Tubers will be Common Taters, while others will be Gingers, and some will rise to the ranks of Howard Cosell

Re: Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

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Post by anigbrowl »

rayiner wrote: post #404
LiquidSky wrote: post #262

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The idea that China only makes "cheap, disposable junk" and this faux-tough guy "we gotta man up and suffer through" pose is a big part of the problem.

Yeah but the Christmas toys mentioned above are cheap disposable junk.

You're an intelligent well educated person so I wonder why you insist on poisoning the well with shallow tropes that you know to be false.

Re: Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

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Post by nilsbunger »

jimt1234 wrote: post #435
dten wrote: post #158

I found out yesterday that the port of LA has a free real-time dashboard ( https://tower.portoptimizer.com/ ) so you can check the stats yourself. While it's interesting that next (week 19) shows a 35% drop YoY, the following week predicts a 25% increase from w19 and "only" 8.7% drop YoY.

This site is obviously a "hostile and political act" by the Port of LA.

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias" - Stephen Colbert

Re: Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

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Post by throwaway48476 »

silisili wrote: post #410
trhway wrote: post #391

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The retailers need to start showing tariff charge as separate line. People have the right to to see what they voted for. Yesterday Trump frantically called Bezos when Bezos threatened to do it, and Bezos seems to have backed up (probably got some concession for that). Edit: it is also can be treated as a consumer right to know, by analogy with food labeling), what are the major components of the price they are paying…

Retailers and middlemen typically don't like exposing how much -they- paid for an item. Exposing tariffs would show how much things are marked up from time of landing to reaching the shelves.

I on the other hand think it would be great if they exposed how much they paid.

Re: Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

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Post by wqaatwt »

isaacremuant wrote: post #530
atoav wrote: post #490

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Turns out reality itself is a hostile and political concept if your political leadership is incompetent enough.

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> proves not to be true

Perhaps. It's not black and white of course, more like black and grey.

Majority of all things Cheeto says are either outright lies or just incoherent rambling which is too hard to decipher.

I mean you do have a point about tribalism and the danger of blindly supporting anyone. However that's almost entirely tangential in this specific case. Just stating the fact that Trump and his cabinet are extremely (purposefully or not) incompetent and corrupt is not partisan in any way whatsoever.

Re: Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

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Post by freefrog1234 »

Teever wrote: post #315
ryandrake wrote: post #281

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> Worst case all this triggers a recession. Recession is probably the best case scenario. If only we get through this with just a recession! The world's economic inter-dependence is one of the things that have kept World War 3 at bay for decades. Nobody's going to start a hot war with their neighbor when they rely on each other through trading. Russia shows what happens when you economically isolate a country with sa…

That isn't the lesson from Russia invading Ukraine. The lesson from Russia invading Ukraine is that the presence of authoritarians anywhere is a threat to democracies everywhere. The kind of people who crush freedom aren't content to just do so within their own borders and will eventually do so to others around them. As such it should be the priority of all democracies to extinguish authoritarians whenever possible.

This is sort of a white man's burden argument.

From the Russian perspective, the US promised not to expand NATO eastwards in return for allowing German unification. While Russia was weak, NATO ignored the promise, but miscalculated after Russia strengthened.

Ultimately, you need to understand the Russia reasons, and they had been threatening war since 2008 when Bush announced Ukraine could become a NATO member.

If you rely on Western sources to interpreted Eastern motives, you end up with rubbish like "they hate us for our freedoms".

Re: Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

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Post by anigbrowl »

oceanplexian wrote: post #290
duxup wrote: post #48

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I wonder if he wants to work in a shoe factory?

The US already makes highly advanced goods like cars using robotic manufacturing. Wouldn't an entrepreneur be able to figure out how to make something as simple as a shoe factory? And wouldn't that also result in fairly high paying union jobs, such as the people to maintain the machines and software?

something as simple as a shoe factory

What? Of all the non-high-tech things you can manufacture, shoes actually seem pretty complicated. You have a mix of different materials, if you want to go more traditional you need a higher level of employee skill, you need a big variety of styles and sizes to be competitive, and if people have one bad experience with your product they'll probably never buy from you again. Also the margins and competition are brutal.

Re: Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

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Post by unethical_ban »

School-Cotton wrote: post #214
unethical_ban wrote: post #135

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The two party system, forced on us by plurality voting, is the reason people feel they don't have a choice. Pick one of two very different sides. If a third candidate tries to enter the race, they harm themselves and the person they are similar to, and they help the opposition. Any form of ranked voting will rid us of this restriction and allow more candidates to run for an office, and allow citizens to vote their tr…

No idea why you got downvoted. This is exactly the answer.

The only "non-objective" component of my comment is the analysis of the GOP's motives to stop voting reform.

Re: Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week

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Post by netsharc »

isaacremuant wrote: post #530
atoav wrote: post #490

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Turns out reality itself is a hostile and political concept if your political leadership is incompetent enough.

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Reality loses elections? What a surprise! How many politicians have so far sold bullshit lies like greatness again, which the desperate voters keep buying? Freaking planet has double the people (4 extra billions) compared to the 1970's and effects of burning the resources are now more and more apparent, but oh hey, that politician promises a return the prosperity of those times when you didn't even need condoms to fuck, do I want to face reality or do I want to vote for fake hope?
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