There's also cheaper keyboards that have media keys on the F* buttons but that's not exactly dedicated

yeah

@Jignx cool thx fam

ancient buddhist peace symbol necklace it is

got one for my burger friend last year together with the communist book

👌 good gifts

ancient buddhist peace symbol and red toilet paper book of communism

sounds like a good combination

So is cheap Chinese shipping going away?

Not soon.

Is there a recommended Chrome cast from Ali? I'm just after something that will let me push YouTube to my TV. My TV already has Netflix, Amazon etc on it.

@(import (srfi 151)) expect EU crackdown on it by 2020

@esdeca Kodi

@Tribit I meant to the US. Didn't we withdraw from some postal treaty?

yeah but it to will take a year or so to go into effect

So you're saying I could hoard and resell with a small markup?

Maybe

theres lots of people doing that already

so good luck

Papa Trumpu is gonna negotiate a better rate for the USA, or have the UPA remove China's "developing country" status, just you wait

Sure…

Wouldn't surprise me if china front a good chunk of the money to subsidize it tbh. But its going to cost more definitely.

This is really untenable for pretty much every developed country tbh

@Julian yeah, margins would be pretty small on sales that aren't guaranteed, so kinda risky I guess.

how will they crack down on it?

Most shipping companies are state monopolies so it would be easy as the government also is customs.

Unless the chinks decide to get into privatized couriers, which will be massively expensive the western postal services can easily tell them to fuck off and pay more.

Might be blowback but the people in charge of that aren't elected and the bureaucracy moves in tides, not waves so it wouldn't matter who is in charge anyway.

Oh, there is a third option 100% mechanized sorting and sorting centers where you go to it.

Which have the same problems of overhead, rent and access as retail stores.

wouldn't it be better if they set up automated factories in burgerlands

with highly advanced 3d printers shitting out stuff as ordered

No, the whole reason shit is cheap is because china has no regulations.

I believe that 3d printer factories are the way of the future

not the near future but far future

Robotics that advanced are not going to be a thing until at least 50 years.

for them to become viable

Yeah, maybe 50 years but even then its 11 dollars an hour for people and moving overhead or 200 million upfront and compete with people working 4 dollars an hour.

isn't china becoming more expensive

and stuff is moving to pajeet land

Not really, the pajeets never had a large and centralized movement to advance, private or govt. They are definitely getting there but I would not hold out any hope due to cultural and economic problems in thier own border.