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Archive: https://archive.is/2025.04.12-132331/https://www.ft.com/content/3eb48a07-7cb0-4a44-9159-eb5b402c2fec

The Trump administration has excluded smartphones from its steep “reciprocal” tariffs as it battles to calm global markets by tempering its approach to the multifront trade war launched by the president. 

According to a notice posted late on Friday night by Customs and Border Patrol, which is responsible for collecting tariffs, smartphones, along with routers and selected computers and laptops, would be exempt from reciprocal tariffs, which include the 125 per cent levies Donald Trump has imposed on Chinese imports.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/25299294

Archive: https://archive.is/2025.04.12-090922/https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/04/12/polish-presidential-candidates-meet-for-chaotic-hastily-organised-tv-debates/

Some of the main candidates in Poland’s presidential elections took part on Friday evening in one or both of two televised debates that were organised at the last minute in the same town, resulting in a chaotic five hours of viewing.

The bizarre situation meant that, right up until the debates began, it was not clear who would participate in them and what format they would take. (…)

Trzaskowski wanted just Poland’s three main stations: the private Polsat and TVN plus public broadcaster TVP. However, Nawrocki additionally wanted two conservative channels, Republika and wPolsce24, to be involved.

Meanwhile, other presidential candidates (there are so far 13 official candidates in total) complained that it was unfair for just Trzaskowski and Nawrocki to be given televised debates.

Some also claimed that TVP was violating its statutory role as a public broadcaster by organising a debate for only two candidates. However, TVP announced that it was Trzaskowski’s campaign that was organising the debate, not any TV station. It noted that TVP will host a debate for all candidates on 12 May. (…)

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Lustro: https://archive.is/wJgce

Tytułowe słowa rzucił w Końskich Szymon Hołownia, jedyny wygrany patodebaty kandydatów na prezydenta zorganizowanej właśnie przez Rafała Trzaskowskiego. Trudno o lepsze podsumowanie tej smutnej parodii demokracji.

Karol Nawrocki dostał wymarzony prezent, ale narzeka, że opakowanie czerwone zamiast niebieskiego, więc gotów go oddać. Telewizja publiczna ma gdzieś obowiązujące ją standardy. A Rafał Trzaskowski robi wszystko, aby utrzymać przy władzy polityczny duopol PO-PiS.

Lustro: https://archive.is/2025.04.12-062837/https://polityka.se.pl/wiadomosci/debata-ktora-wymknela-sie-spod-kontroli-popis-chcial-grac-solo-nie-wyszlo-aa-24kp-ETXy-sSkv.html

Debata prezydencka w Końskich to miał być show Rafała Trzaskowskiego i Karola Nawrockiego. Pozostali pretendenci jednak skutecznie popsuli im wieczór, zmuszając obóz POPiS-u do rezygnacji z debaty duopolu i to oni wyjeżdżają z Końskich jako zwycięzcy - pisze dziennikarz "Super Expressu" Tomasz Walczak

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(…) In the past, Ros had created board games for himself and his friends, and he had been noodling over an idea based on the word “drafting” as a double entendre — referring both to the drafting of cards in a game like Magic: The Gathering and the drafting of architectural blueprints.

What emerged was a prototype for a game in which the player would continually draft new rooms from a randomly generated selection, sort of like drawing cards from a deck. He was also inspired by a board game called Labyrinth and the esoteric puzzle book Maze, published in 1985 by Christopher Manson, which has never quite been solved.

From there, Ros began filling the manor with puzzles and mysteries, trying to build a world in which knowledge was the key to making progress. “I wanted it to feel like Zelda,” he said. “You’ll find information in very disparate places, and you don’t need all of those pieces of information to progress.”

He tried to avoid playing similar “metroidbrainia”-style games, such as Outer Wilds or Return of the Obra Dinn at one point, he did accidentally play through the action-role-playing game Tunic before realizing that it shared the same traits. (…)

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