President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a new round of punishing tariffs, saying the United States will impose a 100% tariff on imported branded drugs, 25% tariff on imports of all heavy-duty trucks and 50% tariffs on kitchen cabinets.

Trump also said he would start charging a 30% tariff on upholstered furniture next week.

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    3 days ago

    I think that truckload should be the new standard unit for ~30 anit-vaxxers.

    I propose the we call it T sub L as a challenge to the poor folks still trying to write Fediverse mobile clients ;-)

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      3 days ago

      How about we just call it “The Standard Unit” and choose U its symbol. You know, just to mess around with all the other “units” we have for everything. I’m looking at you, Enzyme unit, in particular. Also, the “Astronomical Unit” was a pretty obnoxious name too, so points for that.

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        2 days ago

        That one kills me… I couldn’t even get U400 or however it goes. My doctors all blew off their chemistry prerequisites so they couldn’t fathom another human being keeping track of different concentrations.

        Pens designed so a literal blind person can work it out by shape :-(

        Ah well… it just adds to my country’s rich history of nonsensical metrics.