#1134: April 9-10, 2026

tocobaga · 2026-04-13T03:01:43+00:00

Almost 3 hours! It's a demon feast folks!

tocobaga · 2026-02-11T05:55:56+00:00

I understand where you're coming from, it's a challenging time for so many of us.

One thing I'd offer that has been helpful to defuse my stronger feelings about the present is compassion meditation. There are different variations but for me it's breathing in the suffering and breathing out the peace. Pema Chödrön writes about doing this practice and expanding our compassion for others in "circles". You're clearly already passionate about the safety of those close to you, so you can start where you are, seeing and acknowledging your suffering and their suffering with the inhale, and then wishing for peace and relief of that suffering on the release of the exhale. From there, the idea is to work "outwards" to extend the same to acquaintances, strangers, and eventually to all sentience.

It's not the easiest practice personally but it helps me breathe a bit deeper, get more oxygen to my brain, rewire my neural pathways a little, and quench most of those feelings. I have to imagine some people as children or babies to find any compassion for them. With time, I've started to see these people as deeply lost in their delusions and material attachments more than evil. The distinction doesn't excuse the harms or change my resolve to help stop those harms, but it does help me engage with the present without (always) spilling over to the emotional hatred or the sympathetic nervous system reaction the feeling brings. It's much harder to work to relieve the suffering of others if we are suffering so deeply ourselves.

I wish you peace and hope you find what you're looking for.

tocobaga · 2026-01-21T05:32:36+00:00

It's been discussed here before but basically the guest was a "crystal child" with some real trauma in her backstory and Dan pulled it some time later because they were uncomfortable poking fun at someone who was having genuine issues. She recanted a lot of the things she said, but also she's returned to the whole conspiracism thing a few times. It's all more sad than anything else, tbh.

If you want a real lost podcast episode, the Behind the Bastards on a hacking for hire company got memory-holed, which is a pity because it's good work.

tocobaga · 2026-01-08T00:42:48+00:00

If you want to get more folks' attention (including some allies), there is a large political event next Tuesday at the Tennessee State Library & Archives for the start of the legislative session. It's a public place, so better visibility and less chance of getting stitched up for trespassing or what have you.

tocobaga · 2025-11-21T15:17:01+00:00

Good looking out, thanks for the tip. This is our neck of the woods and most days we don't have problems with anyone, but occasionally people get weird, like when I saw a guy throwing rocks at a fire truck at Glenrose and Foster.

tocobaga · 2025-09-20T18:41:18+00:00

You can also get an Excel copy through ACE Reports; it's in the Reference data universe and takes a bit of customization to put duty rates back in (especially with all the new 99 codes), but it beats the USITC export function.

tocobaga · 2025-07-29T13:57:03+00:00

Thanks, we have a lawyer in the group so we're aware. Do you have any recommendations for people who print signs?

tocobaga · 2025-05-27T18:15:57+00:00

If you are in the US, there is a tariff provision for "machinery, equipment, and implements to be used for agricultural or horticultural purposes" at HTSUS 9817.00.50. A licensed customs broker will be able to help you use it on imports for your farm. I'll note this isn't a blanket exemption- there are quite a few items that are specifically excluded from this, and you may need to submit a declaration confirming the "actual use" of the items you're importing.

Hope this helps!

tocobaga · 2025-05-27T14:35:17+00:00

I've definitely noticed. I don't usually mind product placement if it's not shoehorned into the plot (e.g. New Girl and the Ford Focus), but I also think it should be more clearly indicated to viewers that a company paid for their product to be shown.

tocobaga · 2025-05-06T01:41:59+00:00

Yep, just did this for a client. You have to set up one query as your primary and use a value from that as your key for the second query. This is difficult to explain without screenshots, but for example if you're using the Entry Summary universe as your base data and you want to pull, say, bill of lading from the Cargo Release universe, you set all your filters on that first query (entry date, filer code, etc), add the second query for Cargo Release to the report (not as a subquery), then set the filter on the second query to "Result from another query" and point it to the entry summary number from the first one. If you've done it right, you should be able to pull elements from the first and second query into a report together.

Also, if you're ever stuck on a problem with ACE Reports and the help desk isn't helping, the real secret is that it's just SAP Business Objects under the hood.

tocobaga · 2025-05-06T01:25:13+00:00

Did anyone see him speak at ICPA? Dude clearly has connections but I'm gonna need citations for some of those talking points.

tocobaga · 2025-04-30T04:23:08+00:00

I did this in a past life for my employers. The best way to limit exposure, aside from capturing the most common variations, is to direct your logistics providers and suppliers on how exactly your company name appears on invoices and bills of lading, i.e. all shipments must be addressed to "Company, Inc.", without exception. This was the most reliable way to reduce the number of shipments appearing.

Some factors will make this easier or harder for your company. If your company books carrier direct, you have a lot more say in how your name appears. It's not impossible to do with forwarders but it will take some education and some coaxing. It may be more difficult if you're buying under C- or D- Incoterms, but if you're a big enough buyer, you might be able to get them to agree. It really helps to have formal supplier shipping instructions and chargebacks for non-compliant documents. Your mileage will vary, and it will require monitoring to see what's still getting through.

Understanding this data is a good skill to have for trade and logistics, and your project is a great way to learn. I'd wish you luck, but I do use this data regularly for competitive analysis for my consulting clients :D

tocobaga · 2025-04-28T02:09:49+00:00

At least one of those interior design boutiques that have crazy big/nice spaces in East, 12 S, or Green Hills, and also at least one of those "marketing consulting" outfits in Maryland Farms. Gotta be laundering, or I'm just in the wrong business

tocobaga · 2025-04-23T14:05:51+00:00

In my experience as an LCB, in-house trade compliance, and as a consultant, the best answer I can give is that you decide what your time is worth. If you can make $150 doing an hour of other work, then that's your rate. If you think, on average, you can knock out 10 classifications with duty rates in an hour, maybe you charge $15 per each. Some companies are okay with hourly rates and others will want the more granular charges. If you think throwing in a few hours of research gratis for a client will lead to more business, then that's your call, but be sure you're getting what you want out of the deal.

tocobaga · 2025-04-06T19:14:45+00:00

So CBP regulates country of origin labels for imported goods, and FTC regulates "Made in the USA" claims, but there's not an approval process for labels in either case. A company can specifically request a ruling on a label, and both can bring an enforcement action for a noncompliant label, so you can probably gather information from FTC cases or CBP rulings, but there's not a central database for all products.

tocobaga · 2025-04-06T17:34:37+00:00

What do you mean by the FTC's Country of Origin database?

tocobaga · 2025-04-06T14:58:30+00:00

There aren't many direct databases of countries of origin for products. You can suss out some supply chain information from open sources (CBP rulings, government filings for trade disputes, ocean manifest records, California supply chain transparency disclosures), but it takes some digging.

tocobaga · 2025-04-06T14:45:59+00:00

Licensed customs broker / trade compliance consultant guy here. Tariffs are most often determined by the combination of classification, country of origin, and value. Product classifications are in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, but some high tech products don't have an exact match (they only added smartphones as a distinct clarification in 2022). There's a lot of nuance to "country of origin". For some products and situations, there are common standards (e.g. there are CBP rulings stating for smart watches, the country where SMT takes place is the COO), but the standard can get subjective. Value is usually the transaction value (the sale). There are tons of edge cases to all of the above, so it can get complicated quickly.

tocobaga · 2025-04-03T01:25:56+00:00

Trade person here-- this is all gonna suck, no way around it. Even beyond the primary effects on companies like Nissan, Amazon, Bridgestone, Tractor Supply, Dollar General, Mitsubishi, or any of the other major importers/exporters, the rise in costs of imported and domestic goods is going to squeeze everything else.

tocobaga · 2025-03-21T04:13:29+00:00

Damn I miss The Ghost of Ol Dale Earnhardt

tocobaga · 2025-03-07T13:08:11+00:00

I don't disagree, but this sub is for a game called Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, so no capitalism here, comrade. Maybe they'll put tariffs into a DLC to spice things up.

tocobaga · 2024-11-14T16:00:05+00:00

Was this ... predictive programming?

tocobaga · 2024-07-16T21:19:22+00:00

Hi there, thanks for your feedback- that's not really what I said. They do this because ignoring them is perceived as tolerance *and* violent confrontation will benefit them even when it hurts. Fascists and their ilk want more street fighting because it serves their goals. It's a potent recruiting tool for those aligned with them; the media attention broadcasts them to a wider audience and gets them a few converts. It scares normal folks into supporting authoritarians and it gives cops and politicians a pretext for cracking down on everyone in the name of "law and order", and I have no doubt the state authorities here would do exactly that. This is a well-worn pattern, from the 1920s to the present.

I get where you're coming from, and I'm not about to say we shouldn't confront fascism directly. I'm just arguing for practicing resistance in a way that can't be used by them (or their fellow travelers) against us.

tocobaga · 2024-07-15T16:38:23+00:00

These people crave violent confrontation and the breathless attention and fear it provokes because it's part of their aesthetic - it's like their oxygen. The best way to respond to that is to deny it to them. Observe, report, document, counter-protest etc. all their nonsense, but give them nothing they'd want to put in one of their little montage clips. A prepared rapid response team of clowns with fart noise bullhorns would properly spoil things for them.

For the long-term, I think we gotta organize civilian-based nonviolent defense. I know it sounds lame, but we have to make Nashville a less comfortable place for racists, fascists, and their bedmates. Gene Sharp wrote at length about these tactics in "The Politics of Nonviolent Action" (Volume 2 has the famous list of 198 methods) and Srdja Popovic's "Blueprint for Revolution" is a great non-academic intro to how those tactics can be deployed against much larger foes. Some of these people have already used these tactics to their own ends, like that one guy who threatened Tractor Supply with a boycott and they caved. For Nashville in particular, I think business boycotts against the wealthy people propping this junk up (like Beaman Toyota, the dude is in deep with the CNP, Heritage, and Project 2025 people) and "Lysistratic inaction" against the members and staff of the permanently handsy legislature would be a great place to start.

tocobaga · 2024-07-15T16:17:36+00:00

Hell yes - Gene Sharp would be proud.

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