Got the parts to fix my air conditioner in my car, and a used phone, and a retro handheld I had been putting off.

All used, of course. I’m not contributing back to this corrupt hell government.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    We got a refrigerator. Needed one anyway but rushed it a couple months back because I saw the writing on the wall.

    • kobra@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Is this as a hobby or prepping for food scarcity? Not judging, legitimately just asking.

    • AThing4String@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      I think tariffs are generally applied based on date of customs arrival, not time of order - discussion on wine imports who order months+ in advance as well as some small businesses getting hit unexpectedly on long-ordered goods, plus my own industry that has a several month lead time on orders and some bills we have received. I’m less familiar with that mechanic but I don’t know that placing the order before that time will help you if it has to ship from overseas.

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Nothing, I’m not buying anything special from that country they can fuck off.

    Slowly but surely we will move all our ongoing needs away from the USA and back within the EU fully, so that they can burn in their own little corner of the dark ages as they desire, while we continue to live in present day.

      • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pubOP
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        3 months ago

        I’m American and I’ll say both. They(we) let it happen, and our cowardice and inaction right this second just continues it. We had millions of protesters over the weekend. Did anyone listen? Nope. Until we take it back by force, nothing will change and the majority isn’t willing, so, we’re just gonna take it. Every second of inaction is willingness on our part. It can always get worse and does, yet we do nothing.

        We deserve it. Maybe it will finally wake us the fuck up, if it doesn’t destroy us first.

        • scintilla@lemm.eeEnglish
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          3 months ago

          The people that are going to suffer the most are the ones that don’t deserve it. It will be the gay kids in the south who are sent to conversion therapy and are physically abused to “fix” them. It will be the black buisness owner who is forced to hire more white people so it isn’t “dei”. It will be a sweet grandma that starves to death because she can’t afford food anymore.

          • FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            3 months ago

            Your examples are tame. There are already prison camps in El Salvador, house raids, disappearances, death of the rule of law…

            This is actual fascism playbook™ stuff.

        • r0ertel@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          We had millions of protesters over the weekend. Did anyone listen? Nope.

          What’s supposed to happen from protests? Let’s say that you have a representative who was just elected or reelected and they’re fully aligned with the current administration’s policies. They don’t need votes or your support. Of what use will protests have?

          • meowMix2525@lemm.ee
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            3 months ago

            Rallying our forces. Protests are where people get connected with organizations whose focus is to bring the working class into cohesive groups that are empowered through collective struggle to win better conditions. A protest makes it visible to everyone at the protest and all the regular working people who witness it, what they believe in as a collective and that none of them are anywhere near alone in feeling that way. They make it clear, both to the protesters and to the ruling class, how much strength there is in numbers and how deeply connected we are. It is a show of our forces and; even though I agree that protest is severely neutered under our current state of policing; when done correctly, it can still be a display of the numbers that we are willing and able to mobilize and even use to disrupt the system when doing so is strategically advantageous and agreed upon by the movement.

            Of course, the ones done correctly are generally the ones that don’t get any media attention, if not deeply negative attention, precisely for all the reasons I stated. It is against the interests of the wealthy and ruling class for those to be viewed positively and widely publicized.

            Oh, the reaction to these protests also makes it blindingly apparent where the loyalties of the ruling class lie, which is bound to wake a few people up along the way.

            If nobody ever mobilizes, you quickly see people start to go doomer, believing nobody cares and there’s no possible way out of the situation because this is what we “chose”. This is a “democracy”, and this is what democracy gave us, so it must be correct. It’s much easier to gaslight the masses and normalize what is happening if they never see resistance to the popular narratives put up by powerful monied interests.

            • r0ertel@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              Excellent answer. I fall into the category of your last paragraph. I feel like I’m in a country not my own and if this is what the populace wants, maybe I’m in the wrong place.

              This actually connects a few things for me that I’ve been thinking about lately. I believe that the current “ruling” class has figured out, among other things, that it is easy to disrupt a collective action problem while somehow also solving it for their own groups. If you look at the people in the cabinet and other supporters, they’d all be fighting each other, but are somehow united under one man.

              If I understand your post correctly, organizing to protest puts like minded people together to further organize into groups that can unite to solve common problems even if their personal problems differ. For example, if I’m out to support trans youth and I meet up with someone to support women’s reproductive rights, we both have a common vested interest in changing the current political climate even if I’m also a gun owner.

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Sadly, I have no way to import a KMR L–02 Orca OR, since the ATF makes it such a pain in the ass to import onsey-twosey, and the tariffs mean that if they ever get a US distributor, it’s going to be out of my price range.

    But I did get a CZ Shadow 2 Compact a week ago, and that’s going to be my carry and competition gun for however long these tariffs last.

    I’m going to have to get a few pounds of powder, primers, and a few thousand bullets (the projectile part), because all of that is going in increase in costs, too. I was quoted a price of $315 or so for 8# of Vihtavouri N-135 powder; I’ll probably try to get 16-24#, 15,000 small rifle primers, and at least 8-12# of Ramshot Silhouette powder. About half of the raw materials to make bullets–lead, copper, brass, nitrocellulose, etc.–end up being imported, because we simply can’t keep up or don’t have the mines.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yup. I’ve been busy, oh you know, managing having fucking cancer and having necessary surgeries.

      I only fucking wish I had money to spend to rebuild my life before it all goes to shit.

      • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Some fun new news! Now Trump wants to enact tariffs specifically on pharmaceutical companies! Hooray!

        It was nice having met you!

        Edit: /s, obvs; I’m so sorry that you’re in for even more shit

        • iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          No previous poster; I felt smart a couple days ago buying a few smaller appliances and airbrush parts ahead of the tariffs, then the pharmaceutical ones were announced and it’s like “oh cool, so my chronic health condition will just bankrupt me now instead”

          • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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            3 months ago

            I really hope that you’re not telling me that you only had a problem with Trump’s tariffs once it affected you personally. Because that would be pretty shitty.

            • iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              I see now my comment had a typo: it should have read not previous poster at the start. No, more I felt like I might be “getting ahead” of the tariffs a bit by prepping some and now that preparation is more than wiped out if these pharmaceutical ones happen

              For the record: I happen to care about everyone being impacted negatively by the tariffs, up to and including the hapless fuckwits that voted for it. If that still reads like being selfish, I think you’re trying to read it that way

  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I built a gaming PC back in January for this purpose, unfortunately GPUs are impossible to get so I’m stuck in a 2080 TI (which is showing its age). Tempted to pay ebay scalper prices ($300+ above MSRP for a 9070 XT), beats paying tariffs and prevents that extra money going to fund whatever new atrocities my government intends to commit.

    Also got a nice motorized sausage stuffer.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      What games are you playing where it’s showing its age? I’m using a 2070 super personally. With a variable refresh rate monitor I hardly notice slowdown unless it’s below 30fps, or if it’s spiking.

      I also play old games. My recent ones (past year) have been Fallout New Vegas, Stardew Valley, Watch Dogs, Watch Dogs 2, Sonic Unleashed Recompiled, and Cyberpunk 2077.

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Its not the games so much as the resolution; I’m at 4K, watchdogs 2 struggles and i had to drop settings a bit to maintain 50+ fps.

        Esir: also i want to play Avowed at 60 FPS. Love the universe and played both Pillars of Eternity games, enjoyed the tutorial island of Avowed, just wanna enjoy buttery smooth combat.

    • papalonian@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I’m still running my 1080 (non-TI), I’ve wanted to upgrade since the 30x0 series but couldn’t justify the cost… Definitely not gonna get any better.

    • frickineh@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I have a 3080 and usually play on a patient gamer schedule so I don’t really need to update yet, but I sort of wish I had now. I feel like my current build is going to have to last me for a lot longer than anticipated. But that’s ok, it’s probably better for my bank account to hoard the money I have anyway.

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I built at a good time, micro center had the 9800x3d in stock at MSRP 😁 i should be good for 5+ years from now

        Also i was upgrading from a ryzen 7 3800X (predating the x3d line) and to 100% NVME storage (4tb gaming drive and a 1tb boot drive)

        • frickineh@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Just having it in stock seems like a miracle from everything I’ve seen for a while. I may be moving to Europe late this year or next year and my income will be dropping to about half (with a generally much lower COL, but PC parts look to be about comparable to the US at the moment) so I’m guessing I may be able to find the parts but affording them will be a different matter.

          • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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            3 months ago

            your industry in tech? it seems only tech and phd level scientist are able to move there as a viable alternative.

  • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
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    3 months ago
    • Filling up my pantry with shelf stable/dry goods.
    • New stock of seeds for the next couple years.
    • grains and seeds for chicken feed
    • ammo
    • miguel@fedia.io
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      3 months ago

      See, that’s real prep, not buying 2,000 cans of beans and 20k in ammo :D