The US is likely never going to be a manufacturing powerhouse again.

Americans love the idea of buying American made products, but not the cost and certainly not the labor that actually goes into making them at scale.

Certainly some things need to be produced domestically, and still are, either because it’s expensive or impractical to ship them, or because it’s a national security concern. But the vast majority of products your typical American buys will never be made here, because they would instantly become luxury items.

Tariffs are really meant to increase demand for domestic production, but that can only really happen if the production exists domestically to begin with.

Yeah but that dude died and came back so many times he barely knows what his name is or what dimension he’s in.

He’s just tub thumping through the universe, like a cooler Indiana jones.

Like when safety at work asks what steps to take when you see an electrical fire.

“Fucking big ones” apparently isn’t a good response

Reich 4.0

Yes, but what this movie failed to anticipate was the visceral anger I feel when I hear that stupid AI generated voice. I’ve seen too many fake videos or straight up scams using it that I now instinctively mistrust any voice that sounds like male or femaleAI.wav.

Could never fall in love with AI voice, would always assume it was sent to steal my data so some kid can steal my identify.

This has the plot of a CBS show.

19 year old hacker kid gets contracted to work for the government because he’s “the best”

Except this is the real world where 19 year olds aren’t good at much of anything beyond learning that dating sucks and unlimited masturbating is fun.

Guarantee you this kid got hired because he can use ChatGPT to generate code that barely does what he wants.

Also guarantee you this kid is also the target of honeypot stings from every intelligence agency outside of America, plus maybe a few inside, and he will fall for it and divulge dangerous information.

You know, none of the “AI is dangerous” movies thought of the fact that AI would be violently shoved into all products by humans. Usually it’s like a secret military or corporate thing that gets access to the internet and goes rogue.

In reality, it’s fancy text prediction that has been exclusively shoved into as much of the internet as possible.

That is also what this article says.

Although a single bolt is going to need to be quite strong to hold down a long piece of steel exposed to high speed wind regularly.

I have legitimately had a pedestrian hit me.

I was stopped and my car was in park waiting for a gas pump to open up. This idiot watching TikTok’s while walking proceeds to walk straight into the side of my car, and then started yelling at me.

I was in a parking spot too.

They asked if I had a degree in theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics.

This has the same energy as a 10 year old telling their parent at 10pm that they need help making a presentation that’s due tomorrow morning.

I thought CEOs were supposed to be in charge, not act like socially awkward high schoolers.

This is what people mean when they say they have an economics degree.

At this point, it’s a rationalization, not a belief.

If he changed his mind and thought “maybe I should have gotten her the vaccine” then it means that he directly caused his daughter’s death. If he changes his mind later that maybe vaccines aren’t so bad, that means his stupid, selfish choice caused his daughter’s death.

I don’t know of many people that could handle that realization. So his mind just rejects it out of principle.

It’s a completely useless website.

Was looking for a fun weekend project to this weekend. Clicked on a google image result I didn’t realize was from Pinterest.

One photo with no context or additional information. No other angles or anything.

What’s the fucking point of that website.

The lady who thought you could cram a thousand people into a starship and do passenger ICBM launches?

The lady who was convinced this would be allowed by any government, anywhere in the world? A giant death tube with a thousand people hurtling towards a city at near orbital speeds, with the pinky promise that their engines will relight being the only things saving your city from ruin every day.

She’s a fucking idiot too.

What people who want to gut the postal service don’t understand is that it’s a fucking service.

The USPS does last mile delivery for all courier agencies. FedEx and UPS won’t pay a driver to deliver your dildo out to your cabin in bumfuck Nebraska, but the USPS will, along with your tax documents, bank statements, and anything else you need.

If you get rid of USPS, you’re cutting anyone who isn’t in a major city off from not only packages, but critical documents.

No no no.

First you make a meeting to discuss the need for a taskforce.

Then a meeting to discuss the potential budget of the task force.

Then a meeting to select the members of the task force.

And so on until you don’t even need the task force anymore.

Problem solved.