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Coming up, will Steve Burke of Gamer's Nexus be able to help Ed Zitron understand tariffs?

Should we treat Sam Altman's new startup like a venereal disease?

And who is the mysterious, identical man

living in Kevin Ruse's mirror?

All this and more.

On this week's

Better Offline.

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That's right. You're listening to Better Offline. I'm your host Ed Zittron.

As a reminder, you're now able to buy Better Offline merch. Check the episode notes for a link, of course. More importantly, today I'm joined by Steve Burke, the host of The Incredible Game is Nexus, as someone I've wanted on the show since I started it. Steve recently put out a three-hour-long video called The Death of Affordable Computing, and it's the single best way I've seen anybody explain the current

tariff situation. Steve, thank you for joining me.

Thanks for having me. Yeah. I'm excited to talk more about it.

So is there any way you can break down in simple language, how these tariffs actually work?

I mean, effectively, the tariffs are, they're effectively a tax, right, that's paid on imports.

So the goods come in from any other country that's potentially tariffed, and the company bringing

those goods in has to pay some amount in order to complete bringing them in.

And so that then gets passed on to somebody.

Maybe they absorb some of the cost.

Maybe they increase the price of the product.

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