When the cost of importing goods goes up significantly with little notice, manufacturing orders get paused. Without orders to ship to the customers that normally make the orders, shippers reduce the number of boats that sail. When fewer boats sail, less stuff gets imported. When less stuff gets imported, there’s less stuff to buy at the stores.

We are currently in “Chapter 3: The Sinking of the Supply Chain” of this story on tariffs. We are going to see work pauses, layoffs, stockpiles of empty containers, less products to buy, less items on sale, and more of our own exports piling up in short order. For how long? Good question.

This is not the Spring 2025 that any of us ordered, but it is the one that shipped - and there is a strict no return policy. This episode the guys dip their toes into the pool of what we currently know is coming in the next couple of weeks for our supply chain among the chaos.

UPS to cut 20,000 jobs, close some facilities as it reduces amount of Amazon shipments it handles

Adidas warns it will raise prices on all U.S. products due to tariffs

Walmart, Target resume business with some Chinese factories after tariff-related halt, suppliers say

Chinese factories are stopping production and looking for new markets as U.S. tariffs bite

US farmers in ‘full-blown crisis’ as Chinese orders for pork, soybeans plunge over Trump tariffs

The White House has put itself and the country in a bad situation - Molson Hart

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares National Emergency to Increase our Competitive Edge, Protect our Sovereignty, and Strengthen our National and Economic Security – The White House

Treasury Secretary Yellen on why Biden is targeting Chinese manufacturing with new tariffs | PBS News

Trump & Tariffs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

How Trump’s tariffs actually work on the ground | The Verge

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(1:58) National Supply Chain Day

(4:55) cj's week: Nintendo Switch

(6:03) Jeff's Week: Aliexpress Purchasing Party End

(8:00) Headline: The Trade War's Wave of Retail Shortages Will Hit U.S. Consumers in Stages

(11:59) Headline: Chinese freight ship traffic to busiest U.S. ports sees steep drop

(13:36) Headline: Some Amazon sellers are pulling out of Prime Day amid Trump tariffs

(16:49) Headline: Apple Could Move All US iPhone Assembly to India in 2026

(21:44) Headline: Google Ending Support for Early Gen Nest Learning Thermostats

(27:22) WordPro 3 Plus/64

Happy Tuesday! We are starting this week out with the ever increasing snowball we like to call The Tarrif Woes. You get to look forward to cancelled orders, short supply, increased prices, and less items on sale this summer. Yay, us!

The number of cargo ships scheduled to arrive from China next month is far less than last month and the same time last year. So that can’t be winning.

Some of the largest US companies are moving manufacturing to other foreign countries that don’t start with C and end with Gina. Still not winning.

And to add insult to injury, you might lose cloud access to your Nest Thermostat.

Happy days are here again, everyone!

Now You're Playing Together ft. Paul Rudd – Nintendo Switch 2

Super Nintendo Entertainment System – 1991 Commercial

The trade war's wave of retail shortages will hit U.S. consumers in stages

Chinese freight ship traffic to busiest U.S. ports, Los Angeles, Long Beach, sees steep drop

Some Amazon sellers are pulling out of Prime Day amid Trump tariffs

Apple Could Move All US iPhone Assembly to India in 2026 | PCMag

Taco Bell - Beverly Center

PSA: Google Ending Support for Early Gen Nest Learning Thermostats | PCMag

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Getting the Internet from space - it’s a thing. But how does Starlink get fast internet access streamed to the ground? And are they the only ones?

Well, in this episode the guys chat about satellite internet constellations - who needs them, how they work, who is operating them, and what the benefits and drawbacks are. As a people, we are on track to more than triple the number of satellites zipping around the earth in just the next couple of years, most of them for the sole purpose of bringing high-speed internet access to rural and otherwise internet-barren areas.

It’s fascinating tech, and while this episode is far from a deep dive, there are plenty of details that we bet you don’t already know!

Ontario cancels $100M Starlink deal, leaving northern communities in digital limbo | CBC News

Satellite internet constellation - Wikiwand

Light pollution - Wikiwand

Kuiper Systems - Wikiwand

Eutelsat OneWeb - Wikiwand

Starlink - Wikiwand

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(0:33) Open

(1:02) Earth Day

(1:53) cj's week: Here Comes The Sun!

(2:18) Jeff's Week: Filling The Papal Vacancy

(2:50) Headline: A lot of Logitech products cost more now than two months ago

(7:24) Headline: Trump’s tariffs trigger price hikes at large online retailers

(13:30) Headline: Is the GSA using a backdoor to siphon off government data?

(17:00) Headline: Meta is ramping up its AI-driven age detection

(23:53) Headline: Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power

(27:17) Headline: China pits humanoid robots against humans in half-marathon

(30:23) Close

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Fortunately, our accelerated Amazon and Aliexpress purchasing was not in vain - price creep has begun! All sorts of products are seeing 10-25% increases as tariff costs get passed on to the consumer - even Shein and Temu are passing the buck back to you.

And why is there a Starlink antenna on the roof of the GSA in Washington DC?

Like any episode of Nonsense, AI highlights, including: animated art, the cost of saying please & thank you to your LLM, age detection, and humanoid robots running half-marathons.

Everything is fine. It’s fine.

A lot of Logitech products cost more now than two months ago | The Verge

Trump’s tariffs trigger price hikes at large online retailers - Ars Technica

SHEIN Customer Notice

TEMU Customer Notice

Elon Musk installed his top lieutenants at a federal agency you probably haven't heard of

Meta is ramping up its AI-driven age detection | The Verge

Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power

All art is illusion.

China pits humanoid robots against humans in half-marathon | Reuters

Humanoid robots race humans in a half-marathon in Beijing | REUTERS

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Retail has come a long way from the days of trading bits of precious metals for chickens and grain. In this episode, the boys discuss how technology has propelled retail shopping forward over the past century-plus.

The printing press, physical mail delivery, cable television, the internet, and now search terms and product viewing stats have all worked to transform how consumers discover, assess, and consume products over the years: Sears, Service Merchandise, K-Mart, QVC, The Home Shopping Network, Amazon, Etsy, Ebay, Aliexpress, Shein, and Temu have all provided novel experiences in their time.

Even more interesting, before many of these services found dominance there was a diverse landscape of options; very few people, if any, ultimately knew who the winners would be.

Catalog merchant - Wikiwand

Service Merchandise - Wikiwand

Sears - Wikiwand

QVC - Wikiwand

Resale price maintenance - Wikiwand

Toyota Production System - Wikiwand

Shein - Wikiwand

Temu - Wikiwand

Cubs win 16-0 in Dodgers' worst ever home shutout loss - ESPN

HIGHLIGHTS: Catch up on Oscar Piastri’s stellar run to victory at the 2025 Bahrain Grand Prix | Formula 1

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(1:35) Tax Day

(1:41) cj's week: Earthquakes & Dodgers History

(3:30) Jeff's Week: Pre-Tariff Ordering

(6:08) Headline: Actually, Semiconductors Still Face a 'Special' Type of Tariff

(15:34) Headline: Nvidia says it will build AI supercomputers in America for the first time ever

(18:20) Headline: China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies

(21:26) Close

(22:08) Recommendation: GeePS.com

So very much news this week.

Good news: semiconductors aren’t going to be tarrifed! There was much rejoicing!

Bad news: Psych! They just moved to a “different tarrif bucket”. Great.

Good news: Nvidia is going to build supercomputers in America, we think?

Bad news: the US can’t get magnets anymore without an “export license”.

So in the end, #winning?

And later this week, our big story: how the way we buy and consume things has evolved.

Actually, Semiconductors Still Face a 'Special' Type of Tariff | PCMag

Apple stock pops 6% as investors bet the tariff exemptions are real

Apple silent as Trump promises “impossible” US-made iPhones - Ars Technica

Nvidia says it will build AI supercomputers in America for the first time ever

No more motor magnets for the USA. | The Verge

China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies - The New York Times

GeePS.com in July 2000's Computer Shopper

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(1:38) The Flu

(4:12) Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Bird Flu

(12:36) Case Fatality Rates

(16:55) Mammal-to-Mammal Transmission

(19:54) Is H5N1 the Next Pandemic?

(23:39) How Can You Protect Yourself?

(27:59) What’s the Impact?

(32:48) Egg Prices

(41:42) cj’s recommendation: 8-Piece Buckets from KSC!

(43:24) Jeff’s Recommendation: Black Bag

Over the past two decades bird flu has effectively killed over half a billion birds, and seems to be getting worse. In this episode of the Nonsense Big Story, we provide some color on why avian influenza should be a real concern to everyone.

How do the chickens even get the flu? Why are farms killing entire flocks at the first hint of a chicken developing bird flu? And why is not killing the entire flock a terrible idea?

Ok, so it’s just chickens. What about other animals? Have any humans even gotten the bird flu, let alone died from it? What’s the big deal?

And why the hell are eggs so eggspensive?

We’ll try to answer these questions, and probably throw in a Penthouse joke somewhere along the way. Let’s go!

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⁠Avian influenza - Wikiwand⁠

⁠Wikiwand - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1⁠

⁠Wikiwand - Human mortality from H5N1⁠

⁠Wikiwand - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 - Mortality⁠

⁠Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5 Clade 2.3.4.4b Virus Infection in Birds and Mammals⁠

⁠Wikiwand - 2020–2025 H5N1 outbreak⁠

⁠Wikiwand - List of mammals that can get H5N1⁠

⁠Temperature Food Safety Guide | culinarycrush⁠

⁠A Practical Guide to Sous Vide Cooking⁠

⁠The Wall Street Journal | Justice Department Opens Probe of Sharp Surge in Egg Prices | Farm Action⁠

⁠Exposed: Billionaire Egg Baron Pays Contract Farmers Just 26 Cents Per Dozen | Farm Action⁠

⁠As egg prices soared at the supermarket, so did producer profits - The Washington Post⁠

⁠RFK, Jr. Wants to Let Bird Flu Spread on Poultry Farms. Why Experts Are Concerned | Scientific American⁠

⁠Are We on the Cusp of a Major Bird Flu Outbreak? | Harvard Medical School⁠

⁠Why Canada has plenty of eggs — and the U.S. doesn't : NPR⁠

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⁠BLACK BAG - Official Trailer [HD] - Only in Theaters March 14⁠

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(1:38) cj's week: Back on Land, Water Parks, KSC!

(3:26) Jeff's Week: Buying All The Amazon, I Love Big Bats

(5:36) Headline: EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network

(10:33) Headline: Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought

(17:39) Headline: We just declared a trade war with the world

(29:45) Recommendation: DayStar's Fast Cache llci

Oh you are lucky. For the first time ever you are getting two doses of Nonsense this week.

First up, the headlines that help keep you current with the tech, business, and (sometimes) entertainment worlds. This week: the EU might “make an example of X” by issuing up to a $1 billion fine to Musk, Starliner’s wild ride to the space station, and of course the trade war that we just declared on, well, everyone.

We’ll be back later in the week with the story of eggs: where do they come from and why are they so damn expensive?

EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network - Ars Technica

Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought - Ars Technica

We just declared a trade war with the world | The Verge

Apple Reportedly Flew in 5 Plane Loads of iPhones to Dodge Trump Tariffs | PCMag

Dave Chappelle in 2017: I want to wear Nikes, I don't want to make them...

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