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cococandy:
It takes a special level of buffoonery to say people were happier in the 50s. This totally disregards the experience of black people. The only people who were happier in the 50s were white people. If you can’t see that because you choose not to see things “through a lens of race”, it means you’re totally disconnected from your own identity. It’s not a flex. Unless you think only white people are humans. Therefore when assessing happiness only their happiness counts.

If we make American great again to be like the 50s, you will not be part of the prosperous class. You’re going back to fighting for civil rights. I can’t believe we’re having this conversation in 2025. A group of black men who want to go back to the times before they had the right to vote.

I’m nauseated 🤢

Subject to debate.Wasnt about race.

Context was ,how far could a dollar take you?

Maeve7:
The myth that life was easier in the 50s, even for white people, is a just that, a myth. Basilico dodged my questions because he likes to live in an alternative reality where facts don’t matter.

In Africa we had the whole sky for water and whole forests for toilets.

bemeruca:
Humans in the 50s vs today.

Great progress.

GloriousGbola:
What job opportunites do you think black men had in the US in the 50s?

Do you understand what the civil right act and affirmative action were about?

Maybe next you will say Nigerians were also doing well in the 50s

Go and watch Malcolm x. Watch devil in a blue dress. Watch hidden figures. Watch fences. Watch till. Those movies will give you an idea of what life was like for black people in the 50s.

The nostalgia is from white people who were guaranteed a good life on a high school education. That is gone partially because of the corporate greed Raum celebrates but also because white people now have to compete with blacks and browns for jobs.

You can also watch actual movies from the 50s. The only roles for blacks - cleaning


One of the reasons star trek was so groundbreaking when it came out was that it featured a black woman (uhura) in a leadership role. Not as a mammy or a maid or a cook.

Unfortunately those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it, so here we are.

I'm not the author please.

Whoopi Goldberg lies on air saying egg prices have not fallen.

https://www.aol.com/whoopi-goldberg-falsely-claims-egg-183629880.html

He did promise to lower the price of groceries, I have not seen an egg fall one cent since this man got in,” Goldberg said, prompting co-host Sunny Hostin to falsely say they are going up.

These people are paid to lie. Sunny Hostin was forced to read a legal memo some months ago trashing Matt Gaetz.

They know half the country will believe them.
Those who believe these people are just dumb dumber dumbest

IjeBos:
Bemeruca even argued that the 50's were the best time for the US or he might have even said the World.
Make American Great Again right?

Nostalgic .

https://historyfacts.com/arts-culture/article/life-in-1950s-america-by-the-numbers/

The “nuclear family” (describing married couples with kids at home) was ingrained in the culture; more than half of all people (68% of men and 66% of women) were married. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of these cultural norms would be upended, but this generation left a lasting mark on American society. H

GloriousGbola:
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1jv6f1d/lenovo_stops_shipments_to_the_usa_as_of_today/

https://www.gizmochina.com/2025/04/09/us-laptop-imports-paused-tariffs/

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-HP-Dell-and-others-suspend-US-shipments-for-two-weeks-due-to-US-tariffs.996427.0.html



you are a nigerian

you know exactly how this will turn out.

from 2006 to 2015 a brand new corolla was 4m or so. crv like 7m or so. then in 2015 customs increased import duty and the price rose to 18 -24m or so. of course that was the beginning of the end of most corporate entities buying cars for staff.

customs has continued raising import duty, to the point where most people just say fk it and buy naija used cars.

it is the consumers that will suffer. anyone who has cash will be scrambling to buy things he /she wants because this may be the last time they will see them at those prices.

china will be fine.

There will be a glut of high end products in China, look for a laptop with UL rating

bemeruca:
I was not fully invested in solar. I just had a little bit of everything. Electricity was constant enough; the generator was for the night. The panel was for during the day in case we have transformer issues. At night, the Gen takes over and charges the batteries.

Oh I see. Solar can be expensive but once you start generating several kWh a day , you want to push it further, space willing to add more panels and batteries.

budaatum:
Canada, along with parts of South America, Japan, Taiwan, and Saudi Arabia, primarily use a voltage range of 110V to 127V AC and would buy if cheap enough.

A factory with orders from Amazon , Home Depot and Walmart will simply ship the products elsewhere. It's that easy to you.

GloriousGbola:
Saudi is 220v tho.

this is the thing. for an industrialized china, it is not a big deal. a competent road side electrician can rewind the transformers of devices to run on 110 volts instead of 220 and vice versa. it is just small component swapping that can be done at the factory.

Really, it's an added cost to finished products.

GloriousGbola:
you are actually right.

this is from the brochure for jinko 550w

we are project managing some solar deployments and this is from vendor material literature

Half cut cels 144 are the rage nowadays. More efficient.. Their Vóç goes to around 50V or more.
You have a choice between Ntype and P type too.Tje figure you want to look at practically is the NOTC but STC is the official rating .

Didn't have to type this,the bit is correct here.


STC (Standard Test Conditions)
Definition: STC refers to the conditions under which solar panels are tested to determine their performance.
Conditions:
Irradiance: 1,000 watts per square meter
Temperature: 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit)
Air Mass: 1.5 (which simulates the solar spectrum at a specific angle)
NOCT (Normal Operating Cell Temperature)
Definition: NOCT measures the temperature of the solar panel under real-world conditions, providing a more practical performance metric.
Conditions:
Irradiance: 800 watts per square meter
Ambient Temperature: 20 degrees Celsius (68 degrees Fahrenheit)
Wind Speed: 1 meter per second
Key Differences
Purpose:
STC is used for standardized testing and provides a baseline for comparing different solar panels.
NOCT reflects more realistic operating conditions, giving insight into how panels perform in everyday situations.

bemeruca:
My mom sold my inverter and battery cells. The panels are not priced well so I asked her to not sell it. So I want give it to a friend.

I was using this nightmare 😂😂

For home use below 10KW.
That's a PWM controller. Very cheap.
You should use MPPT charge controllers.
Inverters integrated with a CC are all MPPT nowadays
They are upto 30% more efficient. They also just accept a range of input voltages say 100V upto 500V.. You just connect your panels and make sure the voltage from the panels doesn't exceed their rated input ....

bemeruca:
My mom sold my inverter and battery cells. The panels are not priced well so I asked her to not sell it. So I want give it to a friend.

Panels have a 25 year warranty of sorts. Batteries, inverters and separate charge controller, get a buyer at a reasonable price.. sell pronto. More efficient ones are coming out that you can also integrate into a home assistant.
The prices are also really down thanks to competition and climate change Activism.

bemeruca:
The solar panel sitting in my house in Nigeria is 48V
GloriousGbola as usual "I too Sabi" always has something to say.

Pretty soon he will start saying a true solar panel is 12v because (insert a stupid reason here)

That would be a 144 cell, half cut in reality it's 72 cells. They are more efficient, they will go up to 50V.
Ordinary 72 cells are nominally rated 36V but the voltage with just a meter between the positive and negative is around 42-44V with a Vpeak of 40-4V.

He probably uses 100W panels,nominally rated 12V but with an Open Circuit voltage of 21V. Today it's pointless to use 100W ,the costs are really down, most users are doing 450W upwards to almost 680W

GloriousGbola:
man is lying through his teeth

he cant say he does not know about jinko solar panels or felicity - at least those ones are not chinko/chinesium

Almost all batteries especially Lithium are Chinese made. Countries import grade A cells and assemble them with a different brand name such as Growatt, Ecoworthy. It's UK made but the cells are Chinese. They just get the casing ( from China too) ,add a BMS and voila ,a UK or America made battery.You can also get a Chinese assembler to brand them gbola or whatever fancy name you choose.

The two top solar panel manufacturers are Longi and Jinko. Chinese companies.

Solar panels are not all 12V. They are made of cells anywhere from 36,48,60 or 72 upwards to the half cut 120 or 144. Each cell has 0.588V or so so you'll find some with 21-50V when open circuited. But they have nominal rating 12,24,36 or 48V .
I've had enough problems importing from China,as you mentioned sone have no manual,can't get a refund easily if at all you ever

budaatum:
Yeah, Chinese are that stupid. They can't make 240V appliances, and that's why they sell no electronics in UK, and Nigeria.

Even their solar panels are limited to 110V, which is why you only install them in America?

How you convert a110V single phase appliance to a 240V . Easy Add a step down transformer from the 240V outlet. That's another gadget .
With 3 phase industrial devices either use a transformer or a variable frequency drive . More expenses .

Americans buy a lot of electrical and electronic stuff . How many you think Chinese warehouses have in store,that are facing 104% tariffs ,And that no other user anywhere else will buy - because first it's expensive and secondly need 240V to 110V step down
..

feedthenation:
---This is going to happen very soon over the next 90 days---Bessent can't stand the rapid inconsistencies from Felon 47 economic and trade agenda---

You are out of your mind


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLP1mME8nZE?si=axjtR7mXFUoqDRLV

That looks like someone who is resigning .
Democrats are the ones who are plotting to oust Elon Musk within 130 days of being sworn in.....

Cococandy,see how MSNBC lied about Joe Biden.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/2909317/the-best-biden-ever/#google_vignette
This article appeared on March 7 2024.

[b]THE BEST BIDEN EVER.’ On his MSNBC program Wednesday, former Republican Rep. Joe Scarborough launched an impassioned and aggressive defense of President Joe Biden — specifically, of Biden’s mental fitness to serve a second term as president. Scarborough’s performance was an attempt to show that the best defense is a good offense: In Scarborough’s view, the 81-year-old Biden is not only not declining cognitively, but he’s absolutely the best he’s ever been. And to majorities of voters, both Democrats and Republicans, who believe the president is not up to a second term, Scarborough had a simple message: “F*** you.”

Scarborough said he had “spent a couple of hours with Joe Biden, sitting, talking, going around the world as far as talking issues, talking the economy, talking inflation, talking.” After those discussions, Scarborough came to believe that Biden “might misplace a word here or there” but is in fact really sharp. “I undersold him when I said he was cogent,” Scarborough said. “He’s far beyond cogent. In fact, he’s better than he’s ever been intellectually, analytically. Because he’s been around for 50 years.”[/b]

Democrats wanted targeted tariffs
Now he has targeted China and they are still wailing
Trump may act stupid but he isn't. Every nation gets 10% tariff and they are all happy, 10% on top of whatever tariff existed before. Quick calculation. If US imported $3T then the extra tariffs will raise $300B above last year
Democrats and RINOs are clearly in the pockets of China . The globalists want a weak Europe and America, that's why they promote China. Foolish of them feeding a crocodile hoping it will eat them last.
China is isolated. Begging Australia for friendship after it's been sending it's warships all over East in a show of force . Let's see what happens to the islands they been building .

China extends hand of friendship to Australia
China's Xi Jinping is offering to 'join hands' with Anthony Albanese to defend global trade against Trump’s tariffs.

The communist regime's ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian wrote that China and Australia should join forces to maintain an ‘open and cooperative’ trade relationship.

Mr Qian does not spell out specifically what he meant by joining hands.

'Under the new circumstances, China stands ready to join hands with Australia and the international community to jointly respond to the changes of the world, resolutely uphold international equity and justice, defend the multilateral trading system, ensure the stability of global industrial and supply chains, and maintain an open and co-

Everyone can also see that China doesn't play fair in trade deals.
Trump in less than 3 months has shown that America is too powerful. How successive leaders use this power remains to be seen.

feedthenation:
---Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened to quit---

https://newrepublic.com/post/193634/donald-trump-treasury-scott-bessent-tariffs-quit

Completely fake news that was debunked over one week ago right here
Fake story.

cococandy:
Someone said he’s punishing the country for rejecting him in 2020. That Tracks

I got this from disqus

Trump threw a HUUGE wrench into the financial status quo of the world's economies! Everyone is paying attention now, and whatever we say here, Trump is in the driver's seat and shifting gears. The destination is FAIR TRADE, and the starting place was UNFAIR TRADE! So, Trump is by far the most GET THINGS DONE president we've had in a long time! Less than 3 months in, he's tightened the open border, given illegals fair warning to self deport, had SC decisions in his favor, lowered regulations, gotten $7 trillion in new business promises, gotten energy prices down, hostages released, peace talks in motion, ship attacks way down, Iran on a deadline to change, NATO members to increase spending AGAIN, and now trying to level the playing field of trade deficits fairly for everyone, including China!!! I'm inclined to trust his capabilities! CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT'S DONE BY 100 DAYS!

One man's meat can be another man's poison. While you are seeing Armageddon under Trump many others are seeing Paradise.

bemeruca:
whats happening here

Fresh cargo unloaded into the fish market.

H

raumdeuter:
This is why I will always support death penalty, personally I dont see why this guy or any mass shooter should be alive even for life imprisonment

Quick one adjudicated within 30days

Suicidal people would not mind commiting murder,their desire to expire can last them 30 days.
I would go for a maximum 2 years for someone to live. Clearly marked on a calender in his/her/ they/them cell.

descarado:
Speechless.
And his pric came alive

Such happens all the time. Iraqi parliament once voted to lower marriage age to 9. Whether it passed or not, it's outrageous for someone to come up with that idea. It's unheard of, should never happen.

Ibime:
On Twitter it looks like it was Maga crowd that loved him more

You are right MAGA holds the Governor, Senate and House in California that's honouring Luigi Mangione with a bill.
Gaslighting at it's finest.

Maeve7:
Congratulations. You have just proven that alternate universes exist.

What do you mean. I have always been against the Chinese. Don't think I've ever supported their actions without a 'caveat'.

descarado:
Read carefully from BBC few hours ago.
Read with unbiased mind..............
Uk is even getting worried.
Somebody said China will not feel it as its a communist country. Lol.


A full-scale trade war with China and the US is in prospect after President Donald Trump imposed tariffs of more than 100% on Chinese goods imports.

China has said it will "fight to the end" rather than capitulate to what it sees as US coercion, and will hike its own tariffs on American goods from 34% to 84% in response to the White House's latest move.

What does this escalating trade conflict mean for the world economy?

How much trade do they do?
The trade in goods between the two economic powers added up to around $585bn (£429bn) last year.

Though the US imported far more from China ($440bn) than China imported from America ($145bn).

That left the US running a trade deficit with China - the difference between what it imports and exports - of $295bn in 2024. That's a considerable trade deficit, equivalent to around 1% of the US economy.

But it's less than the $1tn figure that Trump has repeatedly claimed this week.

Trump already imposed significant tariffs on China in his first term as president. Those tariffs were kept in place and added to by his successor Joe Biden.

Together those trade barriers helped to bring the goods the US imported from China down from a 21% share of America's total imports in 2016 to 13% last year.

So the US reliance on China for trade has diminished over the past decade.

Yet analysts point out that some Chinese goods exports to the US have been re-routed through south-east Asian countries.

Live updates on this story

China is not backing down from Trump's tariff war. What next?

Who are the tariff 'PANICANS' derided as 'weak and stupid' by Trump?

For example, the Trump administration imposed 30% tariffs on Chinese imported solar panels in 2018.

But the US Commerce Department presented evidence in 2023, external that Chinese solar panel manufacturers had shifted their assembly operations to states such as Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and then sent the finished products to the US from those countries, effectively evading the tariffs.

The new "reciprocal" Trump tariffs imposed on those countries will therefore push up the US price of a wide range of goods ultimately originating in China.


What do the US and China import from each other?
In 2024, the biggest category of goods exports from the US to China were soybeans – primarily used to feed China's estimated 440 million pigs.

The US also sent pharmaceuticals and petroleum to China.

Going the other way, from China to the US, were large volumes of electronics, computers and toys. A large amount of batteries, which are vital for electric vehicles, were also exported.

The biggest category of US imports from China is smartphones, accounting for 9% of the total. A large proportion of these smartphones are made in China for Apple, a US-based multinational.

The US tariffs on China have been one of the main contributors to the decline in the market value of Apple in recent weeks, with its share price falling by 20% over the past month.


All these imported items to the US from China were already set to become considerably more expensive for Americans due to the 20% tariff the Trump administration has already imposed on Beijing.

Now the tariff has risen to 104%, the impact could be five times greater.

And US imports into China will also go up in price due to China's retaliatory tariffs, ultimately hurting Chinese consumers in a similar way.

But beyond tariffs, there are other ways for these two nations to attempt to damage each other through trade.


00:32
Media caption,
Watch: China says it will 'fight to the end' in trade war

China has a central role in refining many vital metals for industry, from copper and lithium to rare earths.

Beijing could place obstacles in the way of these metals reaching the US.

This is something it has already done in the case of two materials called germanium and gallium, which are used by the military in thermal imaging and radar.

As for the US, it could attempt to tighten the technological blockade on China started by Joe Biden by making it harder for China to import the kind of advanced microchips – which are vital for applications like artificial intelligence – it still can't yet produce itself.

Donald Trump's trade advisor, Peter Navarro, has suggested this week that the US could apply pressure on other countries, including Cambodia, Mexico and Vietnam, not to trade with China if they want to continue to exporting to the US.

How might this affect other countries?
The US and China together account for such a large share of the global economy, around 43% this year according to the International Monetary Fund.

If they were to engage in an all-out trade war that slowed their growth down, or even pushed them into recession, that would likely harm other countries' economies in the form of slower global growth.

Global investment would also likely suffer.

There are other potential consequences.

China is the world's biggest manufacturing nation and is producing far more than its population consumes domestically.

It is already running an almost $1tn goods surplus – meaning it is exporting more goods to the rest of the world than it imports.

And it is often producing those goods at below the true cost of production due to domestic subsidies and state financial support, like cheap loans, for favoured firms.

Steel is an example of this.

There is a risk that if such products were unable to enter the US, Chinese firms could seek to "dump" them abroad.

While that could be beneficial for some consumers, it could also undercut producers in countries threatening jobs and wages.

The lobby group UK Steel has warned of the danger of excess steel potentially being redirected to the UK market.

The spillover impacts of an all-out China-US trade war would be felt globally, and most economists judge that the impact would be highly negative.

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Nice article. One point. China will take a massive hit .Americans use 110V while most of the world uses 240V . You'd need a transformer for every gadget , shaving machine, hair dryer, toaster, etc to use it in other countries Millions of gadgets they can't sell.
As for industrial 3-phase industrial scale it's quite expensive to use transformers or variable frequency drives . Probably they'll have to dismantle them and rebuild them afresh
China can't channel their commodities through Vietnam or Sri Lanka etc because the rest are at 10% I presume during negotiations, they will have to strictly agree not to transship Chinese made products to America.
I'm loving this giant Panda beatdown

descarado:
Read extract from the BBC article I pasted up there and see that the Brits are already complaining and trying to distance themselves away.

The world will just wake up to see China as who they are.

In uk, we have primak. Their goods are made in Cambodia and some of those smaller countries.

I was debating with somebody that it is the voice of esau but the hand of Jacob. They evade tarrif by going through slither country they can muscle.


China man is a horrible capitalist. They tasted economic freedom and the sky isn't their limit anymore. And when they render help to you as a country, the collateral is your port. Do the math.

I've been writing here about how China game plan is not just lift 600 million from poverty It's to take over as the superpower, a carefully crafted long term game plan
They bought out the Bidens , Hollywood and NBA makes a lot of money from China too. Then you have democrats who hate America, would rather everyone is on a government handouts Hungry people depending on govt are a
reliable voting block

feedthenation:
---Is this your next talking point---@bolded---thought Felon 47 Treasury Secretary Bessent said the US will punish any country which sides with China---after the Spanish PM commented that other countries should look towards China---

I'd posted earlier that EU was in coordination with China on how to react to the Trump tariffs . I don't see that effort going anywhere .

descarado:
China will not adapt to anything.
China has tasted capitalism though it politically is a communist country.
It is impossible for China to go back to full time communism.
Whe you have tasted power, you do anything to stay there.
I don't think any of you know Jack about chinese
economy.

As for Trump being a failed business man, you can show us yours even if you are still controlling thousands.
Talk is cheap.

China needed expansion into world economy to soar and that is what they have tasted and enjoying. Communism my foot.

Go and read up chinese economy as of today, and were they stand, we can then have this conversation. I will tell you about chinese economy than American or British economy.
I have been studying Chinese economy for years, both their languages and different cultures.

Wonder why all of you are so pained. If America fail as its projected to if drastic measure is not taking, you all should enjoy it.

Like I said before, empires rise and fall.
America falling won't be the first empire to crumble.

I want China fake products stopped, their takeover of every business is too much.
Vuvuzelas are south African , the ones you buy are Chinese made

Maeve7:
Trump caved a little too late. He should have never started the nonsense in the first place. But he needed to try this experiment to finance his trillions dollar tax cut for the rich. I give it to him, he is the greatest con man the world has ever seen. He has made all these poor suckers believe he was actually fighting for them.

Do you realize he has pitted the whole world against the Chinese? He still gets 10% tarrifs from every country as they line up to negotiate for a deal within 90 days
Meanwhile the Chinese order cancellations will start within hours.
Lots of unhappy Chinese I guess especially those outside of China.

AmazonTopaz:
I just need red states hit the hardest in all of these. I have no sympathies left for anyone who enabled this madness. May everyone of them suffer under this man. His supporters home and abroad. Amen.

You are in good company. 55% of democrats would justify Trump asassination today.
Stop pretences, just say you want all republicans dead.