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Spraying kerosene over the DRAM inferno, US commerce secretary suggests memory chip makers could face 100% tariffs unless they commit to increased US production (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 5 days ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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Oh for fucks sake you incompetent morons.

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[–] recursive_recursion@piefed.ca -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I wish your comment wasn't downvoted as it is fair.

While this community is hosted on our Canadian instance, I believe that it's still fair to post here as we (for better or for worse, currently worse) share close borders with the US and in the PC parts marketspace; generally whatever happens in the US tends to have effects up here as well.

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Funnily enough in this case however; Trump's decision will likely make markets outside the US better, Why?: well American companies themselves will likely redirect incoming parts to other nations as the tarrif cost will be difficult to bear in such short notice.

  • we saw this happen during Trump's initial tarrif snafu and we're probably gonna see this happen...again. What a fucking moron.

For my American friends, this really blows and I'm sorry :/

For those who I know, when I've got time I'll try to calculate if it's worth shipping parts into the US from Canada. It's so stupid that THIS is the timeline we're living in.

[–] madjo@piefed.social 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

No it's not a fair comment, it completely misunderstands how Lemmy, Piefed and the rest of the Fediverse works.

It's like complaining about Canadian news being posted on Reddit.com, because Reddit is a US website.

Or complaining about introverts being on Piefed.social.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social -3 points 5 days ago

Canada can make a genocide in profits if they open a fab and sell RAM.