The remote Heard and McDonald Islands haven't been visited by humans in almost a decade.
  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
    301·
    22 hours ago

    Good article, but it doesn’t really answer the headline question beyond

    Australian trade minister Don Farrell told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that the tariffs were “clearly a mistake”.

    “Poor old penguins, I don’t know what they did to Trump, but, look, I think it’s an indication, to be honest with you, that this was a rushed process.”

    A theory I heard that’s just stupid enough to seem plausible with this administration,

    • nadram@lemmy.world
      6·
      21 hours ago

      Exactly… That’s a sad attempt by the bbc to try and make sense out of this instead of calling it for what it is, idiotic.

  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
    2·
    20 hours ago

    We have the dumbest people in America running out country now. Thank you MAGA America really is a representative form of government.

  • DickFiasco@lemm.ee
    31·
    21 hours ago

    My conspiracy theory is that some Australian company is evading taxes or laundering money by routing it through Heard Island and it shows up as a small amount of import/export dollars.

    • notabot@lemm.ee
      21·
      17 hours ago

      It’s got to be something like that, there was something like $1.3m of machinery exports from an island populated by penguins. Someone was doing something naughty, and whilst the way these tarrifs are calculated is idiotic, it’s fun that it’s exposed sonething like this.

      • DickFiasco@lemm.ee
        2·
        17 hours ago

        Lol, I’d be so pissed if my tax evasion scheme got discovered because of some Trump tarrif AI hallucination.

        • notabot@lemm.ee
          3·
          16 hours ago

          Seriously. Can you imagine, you’ve had this process running quietly for years, and it’s getting you round some awkward tax or import restriction somewhere, you’re making a tidy extra profit, and you don’t even feel too bad about fidfling the paperwork a bit, after all, who’s going to notice, a bunch of flightless birds? Then along comes the orange idiot and his cadre of fascists and accidentally expose you because they don’t understand how to rationally calculate tarrifs and just get an intern to copy and paste from the nearest LLM.

          It’s laughing at this sort of thing that’s jeeping me sane right now.

          • Cort@lemmy.world
            2·
            14 hours ago

            Idk why, but my first thought was that it was cia/Contras type thing where the person trying to hide something was a government entity.

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