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I never said my opinion about that, just said what tariffs are for.

Obviously protecting an industry makes prices go up, that's exactly the intended effect.

Yeah. Having stakes makes people irrational, they do the dumbest things.

Still, the absolute number is what matters, still bigger market.

Not only do Chinese (and Korean) cars beep at you when they think you're tired, they are louder, more annoying and more difficult to mute than other brands.

Plus most of them have a screen with the face of an AI assistant on the dashboard, it seems to be almost standard in China.

That's what tariffs are for. There is no contradiction and no hypocrisy.

Nobody is against tariffs as a concept, every country protects some industry that is deemed critical (like agriculture) with tariffs and trade barriers. What people complain about are wholesale, generalized tariffs on everything from everywhere based on a ChatGPT suggestion.

Protecting a key industry like electric car manufacturing using tariffs is fine, using tariffs for everything because you just learned the word, is not.

I want to win? How do I win? What "my" candidate?

I already have universal Healthcare, free childcare, my engineering degree costed about 4k in fees and my kids will have to pay even less. I have public transport, bike lanes, a high speed train network and even a monorail. A whole year of paid maternity leave, unlimited sick days, 30 days of PTO a year on top of 11 public holidays, workers unions, rent protections...

I sure letting Republicans win out of spite will get you all those things in the next 3 years. That, or a few trillions more of debt to genocide not only Gaza, but now also Iran and Lebanon. Keep voting third party, maybe in 2029 president Vance will bomb Jordan, or Denmark...

I never said that you should, THAT is a super weird take. I'm explaining MY reasoning to do it, the carrots are more than enough for me.

Do you always think that people talk about you in particular when discussing technology online?

I volunteer my private information. Here it is for you too: I run the dishwasher at 55C in eco mode which takes 4h and 5 minutes. There, now the whole internet knows about it. It doesn't have a camera pointed at my bed, it's a dishwasher.

The wifi is not needed for it to work, it's an addictional interface. If anything it provides redundancy, in case some of the buttons (which are exposed to water and chemicals) fail.

All my IoT devices are in a separate vlan and ssid, so security doesn't worry me much

And regarding repair, I chose this brand because they offer replacement parts even for 20 year old appliances, with manuals how to repair it yourself. And again, if the wifi fails I will still have the buttons.

My dishwasher is not audible in the middle of the night if I stand more than 5 steps away. During the day with all the noise of daily life... not even if I hug it.

Point 1 doesn't concern me much because the oven doesn't come with a camera or microphone. At most they might know how hot I bake my pizza at. I can tell you all here: it's 180C.

Point 2 doesn't either, all IoT devices run their own WLAN isolated from my network and each other.

Similar setup here, home assistant bridge which is then available via reverse proxy from the internet.

Home assistant

What exactly are the concerns?