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(DIR) Post #AqoA9eb3wzL6d94JCy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-05T12:21:09Z
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Amazon and Walmart can still get their shipments of pallets from Chinese factories but due to this embargo I cannot.An obvious attempt to drive people off of temu and aliexpress: back to amazon. It’s not blocking Chinese made goods. It will NOT “help” US factories. It will help US mass retailers get their cut of everyone’s paychecks. I may need to just eat $300+ in logic gates and LEDs that will never arrive. I am now more determined than ever to never give a penny to mister bezos
(DIR) Post #AqoBP9FaMaCrzyyVKi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-05T12:30:37Z
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I don’t agree with protectionist trade policies. I don’t think they work in many cases. However that’s not what this is! It’s not blocking shipments to stock the big box stores and amazon warehouses. We end up buying the same plastic objects from the same factory we just have to pay more. It’s one more racket and way to take away options and independence from regular people. How will I get the supplies I need to teach my students to soldier and about electronics!!
(DIR) Post #AqoDi5ZsRU5E1CcqJc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-05T13:00:58Z
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@Nightmancore You can screenshot— please do not leave my name off it’d be nice if you linked to the post in fact if that’s a thing people do over there.
(DIR) Post #AqoECqu13QIZTtiLxo by MyWoolyMastadon@toot.community
2025-02-05T13:06:37Z
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@futurebirdI was just reading about all of this. It feels like stopping USPS from handling the packages from China & Hong Kong was just as much about forcing the switch to corporate shipping companies as it was about taxes and pushing people to buy their crap from big distributors.(Weirdly enough, TEMU is better positioned. They have warehouses in the states where a majority of their goods go to first.) I fear it's another way to try & kill off the USPS as well.
(DIR) Post #AqoEwRqCZ4094ifj0K by crcollins@writing.exchange
2025-02-05T13:14:51Z
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@futurebird I quite Amazon back in November and, while most of replacing where I buy stuff has been more difficult than impossible, I was surprised that certain products are extremely challenging to find. For example, I was gifted a small hydroponics system a year ago & finding replacements for things like nutrients & growth medium has been maddening. Even going through ebay--those sellers ship stuff to me through Amazon. 🤬 Currently waiting for growth cones to arrive from China.
(DIR) Post #AqoJVHLLzAuUTB6hWq by PizzaDemon@mastodon.online
2025-02-05T14:06:02Z
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@futurebird IPODInflationary Policy of the Day -make migrants scared to go to work-tariff anything that moves -hide information-stand down teams in charge of bird flu containment-close borders to certain channels
(DIR) Post #AqoNhcmkUUWWGJ3zf6 by FaithinBones@mastodon.social
2025-02-05T14:53:01Z
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@futurebird I just saw that the post office is backing off and allowing shipments from China for now
(DIR) Post #AqoQ3hKYTKTwdcWrdw by bruce@darkmoon.social
2025-02-05T15:19:28Z
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@futurebird Tariffs are import taxes, which are another form of sales tax. It's a way to further shift the tax burden from the wealthy onto the rest of us since the wealthy spend far less on consumer products as a proportion of their income.
(DIR) Post #AqoQCZCQ4am61ex8K0 by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-02-05T15:21:04Z
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@futurebird It also means that I cannot order tea directly from growers in China.Back to the import shop.As I continue to not buy anything through Amazon.
(DIR) Post #AqoUIQpGWAgbbtAtUW by dogfox@kpop.social
2025-02-05T16:06:55Z
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They changed their minds already. Did they change them back?@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AqoUzpSGp6EmRq71km by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2025-02-05T16:14:46Z
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@futurebird A triple boycott for the win#TeslaMustGo #MetaMustGo #AmazonMustGo
(DIR) Post #Aqoad0fxXPe0JU19E0 by gimulnautti@mastodon.green
2025-02-05T17:17:53Z
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@futurebird Classic conservatism. The arguments are "competition" and "free trade" when they stand to benefit, but it was never about that. It was just about who benefits.
(DIR) Post #AqocI43byDnOczDkbg by rejzor@mastodon.social
2025-02-05T17:36:32Z
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@futurebird Amazon is a more expensive AliExpress anyway. It's flooded with chinese sellers to a point it's impossible to buy brand names because Amazons product browser is just horrible. I've not bought anything on Amazon for years. I rather just buy in local stores and for cheap gadgets I still use AliExpress. We also have Chinese shops in my country, sort of retail AliExpress if you will. Not as cheap but always ready with no weeks long waiting.
(DIR) Post #AqoquihwgCFJ48Pgem by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-05T20:20:21Z
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@Apiary Only the most massive of brains. Why do I have to find out about six terrible ideas every day and then only one happens and no one even knows which one it was?This is exhausting. Did we invade Greenland yet? My face hurts.
(DIR) Post #AqorJwj5hESnmayga0 by Apiary@mastodon.social
2025-02-05T20:24:41Z
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@futurebird as far I can tell the US has not annexed any new territory this week.
(DIR) Post #Ar0RRbRCE9I0vdC5vk by simrob@social.wub.site
2025-02-05T12:37:25Z
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@futurebird ok I absolutely understand your point and your frustration, but when I read the last rhetorical question I immediately think “Adafruit, Jameco, Mouser, Digikey.” The tariffs are absolutely limiting your options here, but there are non-billionaire-fascist-oligarch options galore *especially* in the small electronics space.