NuXCOM_90Percent

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NuXCOM_90Percent @lemmy.zip 1w ago

that the company has to give it back because the company already has all that information

Do they?

Let's use Nintendo as the example.

First and foremost, how much did they change the price of the switch 2 based upon tariffs? More specifically, how much can you prove they did? Should a company that chose to eat the costs of the tariffs themselves be penalized and forced to lose even more money over NOT raising the price every time fuckface did? What about the specific case of the Switch 2 where they intentionally waited a week or three to announce the price after revealing it to factor in expected tariffs?

Also, what about the units they had stockpiled ahead of Liberation Day? Do they now owe "the customers" money based on the date of sale rather than the date of import? Or does Baby Jane Doe get less because her gameboy's serial number corresponds to a unit imported in March rather than May?

All of which ignore that Nintendo weren't doing direct to consumer sales in the vast majority of cases. They went through intermediaries like Best buy and Amazon. Many of whom ALSO were playing the same math regarding stockpiled units and ordering more supply from Nintendo.

1w ago

Nintendo sued by players who say they should get any tariff refunds received by the US government

NuXCOM_90Percent @lemmy.zip 1w ago

Because the company handled all the nonsense of importing on behalf of the end customer (also most intermediaries).

The youtube channel HowNot2 talked about this a bit since they somehow became a(n actually really good) climbing gear store. Because tariffs were changing so frequently (often multiple times a day), basically nobody could plan for them. So companies had to balance their in-country stock with anything they were going to buy in the next few months... or even days. And try to figure out what price they might be paying.

Some companies basically just charged the tariff rate on any given day... which is bullshit since they would have bulk purchased whatever they could while they were "low". Others would eat the cost because they didn't want to lose customers by increasing the price of a preordered item. And so forth.

And... people who got their aliexpress on can tell horror stories of getting a bill once things made it through customs.

So... it actually makes perfect sense for the companies that dealt with this bullshit to get reimbursed by the christofacists. I would hope they would "pass it on" to the customers as an act of good faith (even if it is just a free game or something) but... this is a case where the problem isn't the corporations: it is the government.

2w ago

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated | TechCrunch

Symfonium on my phone (so also android auto and just connecting to a bluetooth speaker while I cook) and Feishin on my desktop. Still need to verify that scrobbles are propagated correctly for discoverability purposes (so far it looks like ratings in Feishin aren't propagated to the server).

I could probably have gotten away with just mpd but figured "why not?".

2w ago

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated | TechCrunch

And there have been a lot of discussions over the decades over artists/"aritists" who overly sampled a song and became orders of magnitude bigger than the original artist.

Its a balancing act. Most people aren't going to get too annoyed if someone uses generative AI to help build a backing track or a beat to go with their song.

The issue is that so much of this slop is "make a song like this" from scratch. And while there is a lot to be said about manufactured acts and the role of major labels... one of the few good things about spotify et al destroying the music industry is that it has become so much easier for smaller independent artists to get a foothold.

And all this does is add more slop to push them back out. And the difficulties with detecting slop will mean people will be a lot less likely to ever check out a smaller band when they can instead listen to whatever the latest major act that beyonce et al vouched for is.

2w ago

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated | TechCrunch

This (moreso for youtube music, since Deezer seems to not have a lot of East Asian labels signed) is a huge part of why I've been building out a selfhosted Navidrome.

Obviously there is the old school way of getting music. But Bandcamp is WAY more beneficial to the artists and ebay and Half Price Books are also awesome for grabbing music.

And combine all that with musicbrainz for scrobbling and discoverability of new bands.

2w ago

Streamer 'Troll' Johnny Somali Found Guilty on All Counts, Sentenced to South Korean Prison Labor Camp For Public Nuisance Crimes

He is a us citizen at a time when the us is aggressively fucking over all its allies. His streamer name being "Somali" makes him an unlikely flashpoint, but 6 months means he can be ammunition for the 2026 elections without anyone actually feeling the need to do anything because he'll be out around the time votes are being tallied.

So Korea gets to make an example without being made an example.

2w ago

Streamer 'Troll' Johnny Somali Found Guilty on All Counts, Sentenced to South Korean Prison Labor Camp For Public Nuisance Crimes

Six months hard labor in a country where, when his warrant was put out, more or less engaged in a nation wide manhunt to get the fucker who gave a lap dance to a statue of a child that was constructed to remember the systematic rapes the imperial japanese military commit.

I sincerely doubt he has the kind of mental or physical fortitude required to come out of that unchanged. Do I think he will be a better person for it? No. This is punitive, not rehabilitative. But I sincerely doubt he will fuck around to anywhere near this degree ever again.

Probably shift more towards trying to pull an ishowspeed and talk about how he has changed and is nothing like he used to be and blah blah blah give him money.

4w ago

ICE agents reportedly detain wife of US soldier just days after their marriage

They never hear about it. And if they do, they assume she did something to antagonize ice and it was his fault for not "controlling his woman".

And all the heroic men and women in The God Blessed United States Military will just talk about how this troubles them but they serve the flag, not the rapist giving them orders and that if people don't start properly respecting them then they don't see a reason to care.

4w ago

White House reports discuss possible 25th Amendment removal of Donald Trump

I mean, we watched that happen.

He led a violent insurrection against the US government with the goal of lynching congress and his own VP.

4w ago

White House reports discuss possible 25th Amendment removal of Donald Trump

Zero chance.

There is no world in which trump trusts someone to protect him AFTER he gives up his power. Because he backstabs everyone the second they aren't useful to him.

4w ago

European allies are losing hope of keeping America in NATO

Pointing out that the US spends massive amounts of money on military spending is just a fact. https://www.nato.int/content/dam/nato/webready/documents/finance/def-exp-2025-en.pdf is the official NATO write up of this from last year and the only countries that outspend the US (as a percentage of their GDP) tend to be the countries that are where The War will kick off Poland) or... countries with other things going on

And keep in mind that is in terms of GDP percentages and how massive the US's economy was for most of that period.

The "conservative" talking point is not: "The US spends money on war while the EU spends money on healthcare and actually giving a shit about its population". It is "The US spends money on war so you should do whatever we want". Its also worth understanding that The EU did not spend that money anywhere near that altruistically but it doesn't change the situation that the EU/NATO finds itself in.

Because when that military is increasingly likely to be the aggressor? You need to rapidly start making guns and revisiting what is required of your populace. People have exploded over Germany recently more or less codifying a standing policy but... there is a reason politicians are looking at their conscription laws.

Look. We all live in a content bubble. But if you actually want to understand the world, rather than just get angry in ways that are convenient to influencers and politicians, actually look at statistics and respond to facts. Rather than getting pissy and screaming "fake news" because you don't' like what you saw.

Because, to be clear, I REALLY don't fucking like how broken the US is because of how much it spends on the military.

4w ago

European allies are losing hope of keeping America in NATO

Yes... I said that the US was the military might of NATO. I did not say that was the only reason we have a truly massive military.

If all you are able to do is build tangential strawmen then... do yourself a favor and just go post on chatgpt.

4w ago

European allies are losing hope of keeping America in NATO

You talk about GDP percentage, as if every country had a similar GDP per capita, and could this afford to spend similarly

Where did I ever say this?

The reality is that the US had more then enough money to both fund its military and fund its social programs, but it chose to instead fund the military and the already wealthy.

Which changes absolutely nothing from the perspective of NATO

4w ago

European allies are losing hope of keeping America in NATO

Not a one sided deal to the disadvantage of the US as Americans seem to be made believe by Trump and his oligarchy.

Where did I ever say this was a one sided deal?

4w ago

European allies are losing hope of keeping America in NATO

If you think we ‘happened’ to keep a large standing army just because we were defending Europe.

Where did I ever say that?

4w ago

European allies are losing hope of keeping America in NATO

Because, for decades prior, the US was the military of NATO. The US pumped massive percentages of its GDP into maintaining a standing military while most of NATO focused more on social programs with comparatively minimal military spending.

And threats like russia wouldn't attack out of fear of having to fight said militarized nation. Whereas now there is a very clear window where the nations that might stand up against them are rebuilding. "Fortunately" russia is stretched pretty far by a failed invasion of Ukraine but... go read the wikipedia article on how their previous invasions of Ukraine went.

Welp. The Internet as a whole is real broken. But Lemmy is very rapidly taking the cake for THE place where you can never discuss anything and the only responses are people who are incapable of having a conversation and are just angry that you didn't say what they wanted to hear.

Dead Internet Theory looking increasingly not that bad. Or, better yet, prioritizing different social media where people respond to each other rather than the voices in their own heads. Somehow... we managed to actually leap frog reddit on the way down?

4w ago

Donald Trump spokesman forced to deny US President death and hospital rumours

Time to watch him rant after having five gills of meth injected into his body. Again.

4w ago

Half of planned US data center builds have been delayed or canceled, growth limited by shortages of power infrastructure and parts from China — the AI build-out flips the breakers