well yeah i agree that giving companies time to move back would have been better.

I agree that a plan is needed. Still, what would be the other parts of the plan? Tariffs are the only really impactful measure, it seems to me. Tariffs on import and subsidies on export.

Also, maybe Trump is so “on-off” with the tariffs to give companies a warning to bring back manufacturing to the US, and them lifting them again to not cause a recession, giving them a few years to set up the infrastructure, and then re-install the tariffs. One needs to look for the “good outcome”, sothat one steers in that way.

because one specific kid was unruly

Edit: There wasn’t even an unruly kid.

Well, outsourcing labor was a mass phenomenon in the last 50 years.

40 years ago knowledge workers were in high demand, and IT was booming. Now, IT is enshittifying, so what do the workers do next? Where do they go?

tell that to the workers

Well just to be fair - and i know people like shitting on Trump but hear me out - the complaints from workers against out-shoring labor to other countries has been very loud for many years.

Everytime the newspaper reports “Company X has moved its factory to China” you can be sure that lots of people are gonna complain about it. But tariffs are the only thing that actually forces companies to put the factories back to the USA. Or do you have a better idea?

I’m not sure whether this should be a “standard”, but we need a Linux Distribution where the user never has to touch the command line. Such a distro would be beneficial and useful to new users, who don’t want to learn about command line commands.

And also we need a good app store where users can download and install software in a reasonably safe and easy way.

It’s not about “forgiveness”, it’s about whether the mistakes can be undone.

Consider you accidentally insult somebody. That can be undone by apologizing.

What if you murder somebody? That can never be undone.

the mass increase due to relativistic effects is really really small, significantly smaller than the weight loss due to fuel consumption, which btw is described by the Rocket Equation.