You act as if it's the countries that are doing the trading; it's not. It is the businesses and other entities within the countries that are doing it. They are doing it because it benefits them. If a company is doing overseas manufacturing it is because they benefit and it isn't the United States that made that decision.

Trade happens because both sides agree and make an exchange. I don't understand how "other countries rob us blind."

I wish we would call them "taxes on imports" instead to reflect what is actually happening.

Merriam-Webster: "The meaning of TARIFF is a schedule of duties imposed by a government on imported or in some countries exported goods."

Apparently the dictionary is "woke."

Wikipedia: "A tariff, or import tax, is a duty imposed by a national government, customs territory, or supranational union on imports of goods and is paid by the importer."

Oxford Economics: "Tariffs are taxes imposed by a government on goods and services imported from other countries."

I know what tariff means, I just think many people don't realize it means "taxing US citizens" and not "sticking it to some country we don't like"

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you didn't know.

I meant, "Yes, you're so damned right! It's even in the dictionary! I wish people would educate themselves and not believe lies!"

100% agree

I think either gray hair or bald does a lot too.

6 feet balding and gray here. Can pretend to walk importantly. Never felt farther than CEO. Maybe it's a sign I need to start my own company.

If you're in the Salt Lake County/Utah County area, we're having Ruby meetups: https://www.meetup.com/utah-ruby-users-group/

Oh my god, Salt Lake City! I never see anything here, and the first thing I click on today no less... unfortunately I'm not a Ruby programmer but I'm happy to see that some stuff is happening here.

I helped run a website selling tickets for a venue that had a Garth Brooks concert. I can confirm that they did the same thing in the 2010's.

Incorrect.

Ruby Central hosts the RubyGems service, not the RubyGems repository. Ruby Central employs some RubyGems maintainers but does not own the repository. Ruby Central decided to make their employees who are maintainers take over the repository against the wishes of the other maintainers so they could remove some of the maintainers from the project.

It sounds like the judge works for Anthropic

The first programs I ever wrote were from one of these books.

Hypercard was inspired by an LSD trip.