The Trump Presidency, Season 2

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Guardian Australia (@australia.theguardian.com)

Trump signs order to bring back plastic straws claiming paper ones ‘explode’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-plastic-straws-executive-order?CMP=aus_bsky

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Trump can try all he wants to make Pixy Stix a thing again, but it's just not gonna happen.

 

[Ellie]

Trump can try all he wants to make Pixy Stix a thing again, but it's just not gonna happen.

May the patron saint of vaping protect our paltry devices from the crab-like thoughts and attentions of the fat-fingered grabby one!

 

[Noodles]

Trump can try all he wants to make Pixy Stix a thing again, but it's just not gonna happen.

Oh man, its been forever since I one of those.

Now I kind of want to buy some. Because sometimes you want to suck down a straw full of sugar.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Knee's lookin a little bent

Bing still rockin' Double Mexico:

 

[Beebo Brink]

Thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S. | KTLA

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S. | KTLA

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S. | KTLA

Nah... they should offer to buy a poor state like Mississippi and offer to fix it up since Republicans can't! lol. I of course get this is just a symbolic FU to Trump.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Trump wants to bribe foreign officials legally again: Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the US justice department to halt prosecuting Americans accused of bribing foreign government officials to win business.

The order instructs the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to pause prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 until she issues revised enforcement guidance that promotes American competitiveness.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-steel-aluminum-tariffs
“Future FCPA investigations and enforcement actions will be governed by this new guidance and must be approved by the attorney general,” the document said.

According to the White House, the law puts US firms at a disadvantage to foreign competitors because they cannot engage in practices that are “common among international competitors, creating an uneven playing field”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-order-foreign-bribery-act

 

[Tigger]

Does that mean I have to 'round' $4.99 up or down?

It'll be down. $4.99 or $4.98 is seen by many as 'around $4' but $5 is $5

People are always more willing to spend 'about $4' than $5.

 

[Beebo Brink]

It'll be down. $4.99 or $4.98 is seen by many as 'around $4' but $5 is $5

Say what? That doesn't make any sense. Everything I've read about this says payment will round UP. If an item is set for sale at $4.99, payment would round up to the nearest nickel, which in this case means $5.

If, for marketing purposes, retailers are loathe to have prices at $5, then they will reset the price to $4.95.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Say what? That doesn't make any sense. Everything I've read about this says payment will round UP. If an item is set for sale at $4.99, payment would round up to the nearest nickel, which in this case means $5.

If, for marketing purposes, retailers are loathe to have prices at $5, then they will reset the price to $4.95.

Sales tax will make pricing individual items impossible to predict how the final price will turn out.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Don't worry, Yanks, Canadians looked just as ridiculous in 2012 lighting our hair on fire over eliminating the penny. (And we round off.)

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

Part of why I put 'round' in single quotes. Mathematical rounding shifts up at 5 but transactional 'rounding' tends to be a bit more ambiguous.

Also, I remember GST being pre-calculated in the price and not at the register.

But, I also remember prices commonly being AU$n.49, AU$n.59, and AU$n.99.

I just don't recall what I was getting in change because that requires more peripheral awareness than I typically exhibit (<3 ADHD).

 

[Tigger]

My point is they won't change a price to break into the next whole dollar, the price will be reduced.

Why Supermarket Price Tags Often End In 99 Cents

Understanding the psychology behind pricing strategies reveals why products often end in 99 cents.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Costco and Trader Joe's are limiting the number of eggs people can buy locally.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/10/food/trader-joes-egg-limits

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S. | KTLA

I didn't have Canada and Denmark in a bidding war for California on my 2025 bingo card.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Since there ae

Honestly, getting rid of pennies is probably a good idea. Several other countries have done it.

They're not getting rid of them, though. There's tens of billions of them still in circulation (or sitting in people's coin jars, or behind their sofa cushions, or sitting uncirculated in bank vaults).

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Costco and Trader Joe's are limiting the number of eggs people can buy locally.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/10/food/trader-joes-egg-limits

Honestly, the evil selfish bastard in me hopes that the price of eggs keeps going up. I can't eat them, they give me hives/migraines (same with milk products). Finding baked goods -without- eggs in them is a struggle.

I'd really like to see this 'crisis' push products into finding alternatives to eggs.