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[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 20 hours ago

You heard him folks, shine up your Somali and take to the seas, this man wants to see if we can cost him more money as traditionalists.

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 18 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I wonder what his definition of Transshipping would be if asked off-the-cuff without his advisors around.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 17 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I'm not interested in giving rich humans access to another trillion dollars.

That works against the best interests of hu-fucking-manity.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

So anyway, here I was, drifting through the lemmy pages, when I realized there was a ton of money to be made by writing software for smugglers.

I have never really known a smuggler of physical goods, but I imagine I will try now

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I can’t imagine their software and bookkeeping would be significantly different from any other international logistics company?

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 16 hours ago

Don’t know. But if the tariffs are as bad as many think, I believe the black market in the USA will grow faster than the speakeasies and smuggling booze did a century ago. There will be huge demand to bring in cheaper goods that are legally sold at higher rates.

It’s a new and huge untapped market to provide support, even if most of the movement of goods will be done by organized crime later. A lot of what will happen is unknown.

Certainly there will be a new cat and mouse dynamics. Very rarely does a huge layer of graft poof into existence to fast in a country. Lots of dynamics navigating this new electronic frontier!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 21 hours ago

I was wondering when piracy is going to join the game. Awkwardly absent so far.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

idk if i want agent orange to get a stroke because on one hand might just die but on the other hand the nonsense he speaks could just get more powerful

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Hell, he might end up more coherent.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 20 hours ago

I mean. We could do all that if we want.

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