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Yep, and this is the problem. The US doesn’t export nearly enough.

It’s hard to find your niche when your major trading partners are manipulating their currency and applying tariffs on you

This is actually something that I think a lot about with tariffs. The price that you pay at the corner store for an item, even an imported item, is nowhere near the price that an importer pays at the border.

Hard to imagine that woman could get 3 jobs without an ID.

50 billion different innies

Fort Worth's population was 918,915 as of the official 2020 U.S. census count, making it the 11th-most populous city in the United States.[7][8]

What’s going on with this post?

Anecdotally I still have some of my high-school underwear and it seems to be outlasting any new underwear I buy!

I think this thread is conflating "quality going down" and "low-cost tier getting cheaper and more popular."

Look at Ikea. They sell a wooden table with four chairs for $199 (Hagernas). $199 for a place for a family of four to eat on new furniture, and it looks all right! That is a remarkable amount of value. Even if that won't last forever, high-quality stuff has always been expensive; like any dining set that anyone would consider "quality" would be at least $1000 new, or the cost of five of these Ikea sets.

So I guess my point is that the Dust Bowl farmers who had nice furniture maybe only had that because they didn't have a choice; maybe they would have preferred to save that money or buy clothes or better food but they really had no low-end options. And having that choice for an Ikea table would have actually made them richer, not poorer.

One day you’ll just give it a script and get a movie out

Sidebar but don’t those countries usually get called “ East Asia”? Northeast Asia would more accurately be Siberia

0 is not in the “Value” column

Lasers need line of sight.

It’s landers all the way down.

On the moon, you would eventually slow down after bouncing because of the energy loss from the not very elastic balloons. But it might take a while and you might bounce into a crater or something.

Honestly these are great. I’m noticing that I can ask Google way more specific questions like “whats the best dish at <restaurant>” and get a clear answer. I used to just Google the restaurant name and then click down to the menu or the reviews, so this is a timesaver.

The Catalina bovine mixer

I hate this argument. Yeah, billions of dollars flowing to arms manufacturers is a stimulus. But in an inflationary/supply constrained economy, that stimulus is actually not what we need — we need to reduce the demand on the military’s inputs

Google didn’t have a real choice here. DoJ is already threatening to break them up, and an olive branch to Trump is in the shareholder interest

Is it possible that it was actually safer to grab it? Like if these items were stowed under your seat, then the plane flipped and now they’re in the “aisle”. Maybe picking it up actually clears the path? Maybe leaving it behind causes someone else to stumble?

Would a room temperature superconductor that costs, say, $100k for a pound be useful in any way?

Yes, but it’s famously volatile day to day, to put it in perspective the current price is back to where it was 2 weeks ago.

“Tanking” is a bit much.

How many people is ideal to look after $10,000,000,000,000 in assets? Some bloat is definitely necessary at these mind-boggling numbers, and assets-per-employee is still half a billion.

Biggest difference is climate. Truckee's average highs never dip below 40F. Jackson has 2 months average highs below freezing -- that means a LOT more residual ice and snow.

The state wanting the blood and money of illegals isn’t proof of anything more than the state wanting ever more blood and money

That hardly means anything about birthright citizenship and says a lot more about the draft

Zeno’s book keeps eluding me, I keep getting halfway closer to finishing it

In my experience you have it backwards. Democrats demonize Trump supporters (“basket of deplorables”, “garbage”).

I dont think you are disagreeing

Realistically, what is the concern for EV batteries? They already make up a pretty substantial amount of market chair in the US, and yet I don’t hear stories about EV’s being more dangerous or more prone to fires or anything. The only time you ever really see an EV burning is one that was in an accident, and guess what, gas cars also blow up when they’re in an accident sometimes