Trump continues to increase uncertainty, #FloodTheZoneWithShit, be #Unpredictable, #DestroyTrust, violate agreements.

I see he now has a blanket 10% tariff on all countries ('cept CN).

And this is being described as #RemovedTariffs - which is bullshit.

And the stock markets are soaring.

I'm still open to the idea he is a genius.

e.g. 10% tariffs are being called "removed tariffs". That looks like a difficult achievement.

Except THIS is not how any of this works!....

• All it will do is see the #USA as #unpredictable, #unstable and less #trustworthy than the "P.R." #China or even #Russia under #Putin.

#Trump literally lashing out against friends and neighbours will only backfire hard, and I expect @EUCommission and @europarl_en to enact #PrizeFreezes for #US #products & #services whilst forcing #Retaliatory #Tariffs on all US #products and espechally #services, demanding 100%+ in all #fees, and #revenue of #GAFAMs' services and products to the point that they'll effectively cancel half their revenue that flows back.

• Plus forcing all products and services to be processed and sold via a #EU-based #corporation and adding a 30% "#AlienTax" as the #USA already does for i.e. #App #developers that ain't from the US even if they never sold a single license to a US customer.

Not to mention cancelling any #DataProtection agreements that only stalled the foreseeable court decision that #CloudAct is incompatible with #GDPR, thus banning #Office365 / #Microsoft365, #iCloud et. al. from the EU!

• And yes, this level of #retaliation is not only just, but #overdue, as we need @european_alternatives / #EuropeanAlternatives to #VISA, #AMEX, #MasterCard, #PayPal, #Steam, etc.

Given #Trump can't be assed to even fake any #loyality or #allied status even for the cameras, this is a #ForeseeableConsequence.

• As only with #Accountability and #Consequences will we see change, and punishing the GAFAMs is a neessity in this regard.

Unless we want to end up #downgraded into the state of a US-occupied overseas possession without statehood, like #Guam, #PuertoRico or #AVI...

Tariffs
Start with Trump being a #Genius and the amounts and the way those amounts were arrived at don't surprise or even look unusual.

From here that's a dominance display - Trump showing all the other players that their expectations that he'll be bound by norms, treaties, tradition, reason and logic are useless fantasies.

"I can do whatever the fuck I want, and you can't know what I'll do next. I'm #Unpredictable and you're all piss-weak."

Look, as we all know, he's going to keep doing this, he's a person of self-absorption & whim not of law or reliability. The best possible thing other countries can do right now is to find alternate trading partners for the same goods, so that they have a secure reliable supply that isn't at the whim of a madman/conman, and then drop the U.S. as a trading partner all together.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/trump-administration-briefing-trump-changes-tack-on-tariffs-again-as-us-plans-to-close-consulates

This house and its description are utter madness. Reading the writeup and going through a slideshow is an exercise in unpredictability. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1201-Marble-Way-Boca-Raton-FL-33432/87660584_zpid/ #mansion #House #unpredictable #SlideShow #RealEstate #maximalism

Worth a look:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/08/10-foreign-policy-implications-2024-election/
These are the headings:
#Trump will be #unpredictable
#Liberal #hegemony is dead.
Beware the coming #trade #war
#Europe is screwed.
#Ukraine is really #screwed
#MiddleEast #strife will continue.
#China unbound.
The #climate #crisis
Unified #power in a #divided society.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8jdwxdl5no #life #unpredictable

~ Baba Yaga ~

This sorceress-goddess is intrinsically linked with her woodland and its wildlife. Known as both a "swamp witch" and a "forest mother," she can be a child-eating kidnapper or a helpful matronly figure.

https://www.inkedgoddesscreations.com
#DivineFeminine #Goddess #BabaYaga #Slavic #Crone #Cthonic #Underworld #Nature #Unpredictable #Magick

Stay as #wild & as #unpredictable as the #oceans ️

Resist the easy pulls towards complacency

Respect & admire all wild & natural energies

"Our world runs on randomly generated numbers and without them a surprising proportion of modern life would break down. So, why are they so hard to find?"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240704-the-search-for-the-random-numbers-that-run-our-lives

Dear Whinging Friends, ​​
As we in the UK (allegedly) know, 'musn't grumble'. Maybe we should a little more?
- Brexit? Bet you can't eat three? Eh wait that is wheatabix, readybrex, shredded wheat/wit? Something tasteless with added sugar rush? ​​
- The #weather is now so #unpredictable we can talk about it and whinge even more. Result!
- We are now #bank ruptured. Oh the #humanity

Easy to be a whinge bag. #Fortunately we have some of the #brightest minds in the IMPerial Empire of little In-gland:
- Pubic [sic] transport run by runner haz beans...
- Schools making way for Pink Floyd, 'We don't need no education, Teacher leave them kids alone'. #Sum mishtake surely.
- #Food #grown in #inns and out of hunger #allotments

Expect more surprises. As they happen, mostly by accident...
​​

Predictive #physics model helps #robots grasp the #unpredictable

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-06-physics-robots-grasp-unpredictable.html

Today I unpredictably came across this t-shirt

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JOSH HOMME Looks Back On KYUSS' Infamous Generator Parties: "By Today's Standards, It Would Be Downright Illegal, And Outrageous"
"We would take a generator into the desert and play in order to get away from the police busting up house parties.”

https://metalinjection.net/news/josh-homme-looks-back-on-kyuss-infamous-generator-parties-by-todays-standards-it-would-be-downright-illegal-and-outrageous

Simple Predictions Were Wrong: New Research Shatters Old Climate Change Assumptions
https://scitechdaily.com/simple-predictions-were-wrong-new-research-shatters-old-climate-change-assumptions/ #environment #ClimateChange #prediction #modeling #unpredictable #AtlanticMeridionalOverturningCirculation

Ordinals Reach 20 Million Milestone, But Bitcoin-Based NFT Sales Slide - This week marked a milestone as the number of Ordinal inscriptions minted on the B... - https://news.bitcoin.com/ordinals-reach-20-million-milestone-but-bitcoin-based-nft-sales-slide/ #marketsandprices #seven-daysales #unpredictable #blockchains #performance #downtrend #enigmatic #landscape #contrast #increase #nftsales #bitcoin #decline #dynamic #markets #pattern #persist #reverse #rise