FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.ioM to micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.world · 1 month agoHow Trump's tariffs are killing 'Made in America' mopedselectrek.coexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up1129arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1127arrow-down1external-linkHow Trump's tariffs are killing 'Made in America' mopedselectrek.coFartsWithAnAccent@fedia.ioM to micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square10linkfedilinkfile-text
It’s taken a while, but most Americans have finally come to realize that the new tariffs imposed on imported goods…
minus-squarecanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoI think we need to be making more use of the word “ostensibly”. ostensibly intended to encourage manufacturing in the US instead of sending those manufacturing jobs overseas. That reads much better to me.
minus-squareThe_Hideous_OrgalorglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoRemember that most US citizens read at or under a sixth grade level.
minus-squarecanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThat low? I thought I remembered newspapers were written at 8th or 10th grade levels.
minus-squareThe_Hideous_OrgalorglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoOver half of American adults (54%) read below a sixth-grade level.
minus-squareRivalarrival@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agohttps://247wallst.com/media/2019/07/23/over-2000-american-newspapers-have-closed-in-past-15-years/
minus-squareresipsaloquitur@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agoFair, but in journalism you can just write “Trump says the tariffs are to encourage manufacturing in the US…” Unless the journalist is a mind-reader, they don’t know what Trump thinks.
I think we need to be making more use of the word “ostensibly”.
That reads much better to me.
Remember that most US citizens read at or under a sixth grade level.
That low? I thought I remembered newspapers were written at 8th or 10th grade levels.
Over half of American adults (54%) read below a sixth-grade level.
https://247wallst.com/media/2019/07/23/over-2000-american-newspapers-have-closed-in-past-15-years/
Fair, but in journalism you can just write “Trump says the tariffs are to encourage manufacturing in the US…”
Unless the journalist is a mind-reader, they don’t know what Trump thinks.
That’s true, I don’t mean to discount that.