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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Rabbit hole time.

Apparently, caffeine in soft drinks is synthetic. I thought they just used caffeine that is extracted from decaffeinating coffee beans - not so. Also it's barely produced in the US (anymore), and we mostly import it from China.

Neat part is: it doesn't look all that complicated to synthesize and requires some common-ish organic compounds and solvents to make. As a bonus, the "the raw synthetic caffeine often glows - a bluish phosphorence". If anyone is on his Patreon, please give NileRed a nudge to give this a shot; I think it would be right up his alley.

So we can get by without coffee, but short of running your own chemistry lab, it's going to be a bit before industry can ramp up production of the synthetic stuff. Meanwhile, caffeinated beverages across the board would be more expensive were synthetic caffeine a part of any tariff scheme.

More here:

https://www.decadentdecaf.com/blogs/decadent-decaf-coffee-co/174589383-ever-wondered-where-the-caffeine-comes-from-in-soda-or-energy-drinks-answer-synthetic-caffeine

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 24 minutes ago

Finally, the Step Too Far.

[–] BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

All this insecurity about tariffs has me hoping he have a Boston Tea Party situation. If I recall the story correctly, they threw the expensive British Tea overboard to protest the tax.

Similarly, I also recall a sugar tax, and either an ink or paper one: basically, I hope I can see something similar to see there's still a small piece of American values from our ancestors (not the twisted Conservative heaven MAGA wants, but on the American dream of freedom, liberty, and justice for ALL.)

No Taxation Without Representation!

[–] Alenalda@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Can we do it without fucking up the environment in the process?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Nah. Environment needs to pay

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 23 minutes ago

What has Mother Earth ever done for us?

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

They were definitely just going to protect the natives, that's the lovable British empire that I know

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

In our techo utopian future, the only caffeinated beverage will be Diet Mt. Dew.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Ewwww, I will take the crab juice.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Sorry, everyone who knows how to make khlav kalash has been deported.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Because of your lack of patriotism for our national beverage, the leadership has decreed that you will now only be able to drink caffeine-free Diet Mt. Dew.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The leader has issues a new memorandum. You will only be allowed to drink flat, room-temperature, caffeine free Diet Mt. Dew.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 26 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Some folks were a little late to figuring out what tariffs were okay!

[–] DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Wanna bet that the search trend spikes again when/if they come into affect?

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I feel like most people I have heard talking about them while supporting Trump seem to know that tariffs are taxes, but have no concept of how they play out in a real economic situation. Most fall into one or both of two camps:

A) Tariffs are taxes, but they're taxes for companies not individuals, and they're only applied to importing, so they won't affect me.

B) Tariffs are taxes for foreign companies, to level the playing field and keep American business competitive. Since the companies that have to pay it are foreign, it won't affect me.

Spoiler alert, guys: no matter where the tax is levied in the system, the consumer is the only person who ever pays for it, since they're the only ones that can't pass that cost on to anyone else.

Also, while this can make domestic competitors more competitive, it's important to remember two things: first, if it works, it's only working by making things more expensive for consumers, and second, this assumes that the domestic competitors want more business, have the ability and posture to increase their production to meet the new greater demand, and will operate in good faith. Much more likely is that they simply also increase their prices in reaction to the tariffs, so they're not producing or selling any more volume and aren't creating any jobs... they're just padding their profit margins at the corporate/shareholder level while doing nothing for their employees, all while having the average consumer foot the bill.

That's exactly what happened with the steel tariffs in the first Trump term and that's exactly what will happen now...the only difference is that this time it seems like there will be significantly fewer economic buffers between the tariff and the consumer, so more people will more directly feel the sting here...and presumably the mental gymnastics from the MAGAts will be even sadder in their attempts to somehow make it not a criticism of their orange leader's incompetence.

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

"Surely the company that sells a product for $100 will keep selling the product for that price once tariffs mean that it costs a $125 to produce and import!" - crazy people.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 6 points 13 hours ago

Tariffs are taxes, but they’re taxes for companies not individuals, and they’re only applied to importing, so they won’t affect me.

Typical Magoo (literally my dad in 2016): "you can't tax business owners, they're going to just make everything more expensive for us! They pass on the burden to us!"

Also Magoo: "Yay tarrifs! They are a tax on business but that won't get passed on to me!"

The Magoo motto: Whatever words I need to use to suit my purpose I will use, to hell with reality.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 points 10 hours ago

So then what companies should be formed in the US to give its citizens a chance at affordability of breathing in this life ?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Chocolate also. Lol I hope you fucking like corn syrup and candy corn you little shits.

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[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Who are we kidding? Trump’s going to enforce it selectively to nefarious ends and enrich himself off exemptions that he’s hand picked to be subservient. Free market my ass.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

100% this. I see tariffs on foreign cars coming quick.

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 day ago (14 children)

I'm not American, but tariffs to fix import issues is pretty stupid.

This is the capitalist dream, export all the production of the goods you use daily to third world countries, who will have shit labor practices like the US used to have when slavery was a thing (and bluntly, for quite a while afterwards), so that the boots-on-the-ground laborers that produce everything are either treated like slaves or literally are slaves, then import the raw material to be manufactured into whatever you're selling in the US, so you can slap a "made in the USA" sticker on your shit to enhance sales and charge more. Meanwhile "made in the USA" doesn't and shouldn't imply that there's no imported goods going into the manufacturing process to make that thing, just that you took raw materials (from wherever) and made this thing in the USA.

Tariffs unduly harm end consumers, pretty much everything we buy and own is, or has components that are, imported shit.

Most microchips, a large amount of the food we eat, most electronics, pretty much everything you'll find at a dollar general, etc (the list is very very long)... all imported in whole or in part.

Hell, there was a time that it was more economical to have your raw materials, even if they're mined/harvested/produced in the USA, shipped overseas for assembly by slave labor, then shipped back for sale to the US public, than to have it assembled inside the US. Much of that is still true. The US neither has the manufacturing capacity, nor the desire to build their own shit. The only time that's not the economical option is for large cost (and scale, either in size or money) items, like housing or vehicles. Assembly generally happens in the country/landmass where the vehicle will be sold and used. Even a company like Toyota, a Japanese brand, will have assembly plants in the USA for cars sold in the USA, because that's cheaper than importing hundreds of vehicles. For everything else, it's generally cheaper to assemble it outside of the country and import the final product.

You think process are high now? Wait until the tariff wars really kick off.

No company is going to accept the costs of tariffs and be okay with that eating their profits, they're passing that cost into consumers, because we're the saps that are still going to buy it.

When the tariffs come down, and they will eventually, prices will drop, but not to where they were from before the tariffs. Companies will continue to post record profits, justifying not giving raises because tariffs, and wages will remain stagnant. We'll earn less, while they rob is for more than they already do.

The worst part is that when the tariffs are lifted, we'll thank them for lowering the prices by buying more of their shit. We'll be grateful for the opportunity to pay even more into their profit margins.

Congratulations, you're experiencing late stage capitalism. The system is working as intended. You are poor, you remain poor, barely able to scratch out a living, while your owners profit more and more off of your hard work, and you get to thank them for that opportunity.

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

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