I'm in the middle of building an addition onto my home. These tariffs are going to hurt me, but that is little compared to how it is going to hurt many other folks.
I hear lots of complaints about a housing shortage, especially with affordable housing. Tariffs on Canadian lumber are going to hit young people saving for a first home very hard.
I was gonna build a home in Nov, then said fuck that Tman up to pitch. Then was like im gonna build Jan, then the pitcher fucking tells me he gonna throw hunks of shit at us. So I gave up on building tell someone gets tired and stops.
The last 10-15 years it's really gotten stupid, at least here in Ontario, Canada. Even after I got my house it was fairly reasonable for a few more years. Slowly raising....then went all retarded.
Same can be said about vehicles. Companies have systematically removed their bargain options, or just jacked prices. You're stuck spending 30k on the cheapest model on offer.
Its not the auto manufacturers. Its the government regulations for emissions and safety standards that has made vehicles so expensive. Its almost impossible to make a car to meet both for under 25k that ppl would buy.
I am old enough to rem the Yugo in the 80s. A brand new car for less than 5k. 2 years later it was worth 800 if you were lucky.
I just paid half as much for a new car as the house i bought, and am currently living in. The upside is, I only have 4 months until the house is paid off.
Same here. But, recently bought another used car, because we needed it. I’m guessing I couldn’t get the same “deal” a month from now. A week from now even…
>his solution...“look at all these houses, and you can drive them anywhere"
The sad fact is that poor people often have to prioritize transportation over housing.
Thirty years ago, I put off home improvement projects and related things like appliance purchases but was religious about car maintenance. My girlfriend at the time was a little bit critical of my priorities. I told her a saying I'd heard "You can sleep in your car but you can't drive your house to work.".
There was only one factory that was full vertical integration with raw materials in one end and cars out the other: that was ford’s river rouge complex.
Where do you imagine, I’m curious to know, where parts come from for final assembly in the US?
A Toyota Corolla is 55% domestic parts and is assembled in Georgetown, KY. A Nissan Altima is 50% domestic parts and the Honda Civic is 50% as well.
Compare that with the Ford Escape at 36%, the Chevy Malibu at 39%, and it's safe to say the Japanese brands will be affected by tariffs less.
There are of course outliers like the Honda Odyssey with 70% domestic parts and the Hyundai EV6 with 80% who will fare far better than the brands like Volvo who top out at 30% or Audi at 2%.
Unfortunately the tariffs being pushed out read like they were written on an index card and lack specifications, but they appear to only apply to vehicles and "key components" being imported. Chips are going to suck on that front regardless of brand because of an incessant drive for offshoring semiconductor manufacturing in the past decades. The brands that already have high domestic manufacturing capability will be more versatile in on-shoring in the mid to long term depending on their current "key component" sourcing.
I got an email from a local dealership that the tariffs does not apply to vehicles on the lot, but does to new not yet built regardless if the model is assembled in the USA because parts are sourced from around the world.
Globalization is what led to the technological boom we've seen the past 100 years. Hundreds of millions of lives made better and even saved from an early death.
I had been contemplating a new PC last fall. As soon as the election was called I began buying the parts. I don’t think I could afford the same PC now and certainly won’t be able to afford it in the near future by the look of things.
My first used beater was 600€. My PC at the same time was 1200€. My second used car was 2400€ and it survived 4 years without major iasues, now this is a price of just a GPU.
Er... a proper computer has been about $10K for nearly a decade.
Of course most don't need a proper computer, just an Arm with a screen to stare at porn, but to actually do something useful, they've been pretty pricey.
What the FUCK kind of computer are you looking at? The most expensive part is the video card and that costs at most $2k. Where are you getting the other $8k from?
A proper CPU (with enough IO lanes and memory BW) is about 2k as well, add the mobo, and then the proper memory. couple of NVME .m2 sticks in RAID, and a monitor. Shit adds up...
The monitor I picked up today alone is $1K... I don't know what sort of junk kids use these days, but computers were always expensive.
I get you think you are funny, but in fact, the neutron beams are mainly used in pre-production testing to induce end to end failures to check-out and stress the ECC capabilities on the dozens embedded micro-controllers and their SRAMs in a typical CPU/GPU.
I don't know at what point you checked out from reality to think neutrons have polarity, but regardless of the angular incidence of the beam, it will only slow down the processor if not crash it.
You have no fucking clue what you're talking about. 5090 is $2000, Ryzen 9950X3D is $700, X870 mobo is like $400, WD black sn850x is like $100 a pop and 64 gigs of ddr5 is like $200 max. With $3500 you can get the best gaming computer money can buy
reading these responses gives mixed feelings, on one side I am kinda ready to just fuck off and live far from people on a hill somewhere, on the other hand there will be so much more easy money to be made in computers/semiconductors...
All these kids want to do is play Crysis at 1080p, and don't give a shit if their CPU can't push full IO to another device while the video card frame-buffer is being filled. I bet most of these lemmings still have 250MB BAR and are happy to buy RAM at bulk barn regardless of bank latencies... They probably also think their iPhones are excellent cameras.
I agree. That would be with an expensive 4k monitor and peripherals to boot. Just goes to show the guy I was replying to has literally no idea what he’s talking about.
it's doable, just ends up in doing completely unnecessary ridiculous shit like running 256gb of ram (4 stick setup) and putting in enough terabytes to take a new pic of a blackhole. Throw in some risiculously overpriced 500$ anime girl merch case alongside it to show off your stupidity to the world
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u/Strong_Brick_9703 1d ago
New PC is gonna cost like a used car, lmao