Yup that’s exactly what I was doing, and I was surprised that the negatives won’t catch up until at least 3 months which brings us to July at the earliest.

Edit: Thanks General I didn’t notice it’s in weeks. So we’re looking at early June which is closer to what we were all thinking.

My read was that it was much higher to prepare inventory for the tariff shock

Please correct me, then. The surprising moment came when I noticed the vertical axis is for year-on-year change and not raw tonnage.

Since when do popularity polls even matter for a dictator. Does Kim Jong Un care what his people think? As long as he can prevent them from rising up in opposition he’s golden.

OP’s data shows the U.S. is stocking up tremendously in April, and then maintaining year-on-year patterns after that with a slight downturn that doesn’t even compensate for April’s glut.

I haven’t seen this data before but it shows the opposite of the shortage I was expecting.

Ordering a pizza

It’s called a self-embargo

It’s called a self-embargo

The global dollar system is not at all fragile. Not even close. It’s rock solid. But that doesn’t mean it’s impervious to dynamite and stupidity.

It means he fires them if they disagree with him. It checks out.

• Black is a color!!
• Dolphins are fish!!

“What I’m saying is… is that the Earth is only roundISH.

Why do so many people insert an extra IS ?

Displasia literally means “out of place”? Nifty.

I have the same experience including the thing with subtitles. What’s the connection between the no-internal-voice and the maddening subtitles?

It’s not just because he’s an idiot. He also said explicitly that the tariffs are part of a negotiation that he will use to get concessions. So he intends to bargain them away which would render any industrial tariff-based investments useless.

Yeah I’m wondering how all those protesters even coordinated this event. Not on the internet surely with all these paid shills suppressing dissent everywhere. Lemmy is full of “why bother?” And “shoulda just voted” nonsense.

For me vinegar’s contribution to foods is that it brings out hidden flavors from the other ingredients. But just a tiny amount is enough to do that. Any more and it’s kinda gross. I agree with everything op said.