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.

Have you trained yourself to shit out little cubes?

And does this adversely affect your plumbing?

This is the same country that classified its nukes so hard that the engineers couldn’t find non-redacted procedures for making a critical component of fusion bombs.

We’ve always been incompetent, now it’s just partnered with enhanced stupidity.

For security reasons, I review every line of code before it’s executed on my machine.

Before I die, I hope to take my ‘93 dell optiplex out of its box and finally see what this whole internet thing is about.

That’s one of my skills as a certified genius. I’m wicked fast at math.

37/2.4 boom 16.38.

Is it right, maybe, maybe not. But I did it fast

Who would have thought that releasing trillions and trillions of tiny toxic pollutants into the biosphere would have negative consequences.

I mean, probably some executive at shell or BP, but clearly executives have some kind of mental disorder that prevents them from anticipating anything further out than 3 months in the future.

Chapter 1: don’t steer towards that giant radar signature.

Chapter 2: turn away from that giant radar signature.

Chapter 3: holy fuck open your eyes.

It’s certainly classified info, but I sincerely doubt the F35 has a kill switch.

If you have a kill switch on a weapon, that means an enemy can potentially disable your weapons.

One can argue that only export models would be equipped with a kill switch, but that puts the US in the position of potentially having Allied planes disabled remotely, leaving the US as the only air support in a conflict.

It’s far more likely that the US would simply discontinue parts and software updates, leaving a former ally scrambling to maintain their sudden white elephant fleet, while the US updates their own software to better manage fighting an identical aircraft that they know the exact technical specs of.

This freeze hurt private companies.

And everyone knows that companies are a higher class citizen than people, so the court defended the companies.

Ah yes, the company that routinely blows up rockets to test them, and that took several minutes to realize their first starship blew up wants to be in charge of airline safety.

I’d rather they pull a random 12 year old from school and give them the job of running the fucking place. At least the 12 year old doesn’t have a track record of fucking up 50% of the time.

Yeah, note instead of Russia being a communist authoritarian hellscape, it’s a capitalist authoritarian hellscape.

Very different

It did for Mexico and Canada.

They agreed to nothing new, and the terrifs vanished.

It must be like trying to negotiate with a toddler.

Well then Chuck him out on his ass

More like there’s systems in place to prevent countries from creating a stateless person, who would have no rights anywhere.

Just because it sounds nice to happen to people you don’t agree with, it’s still something that shouldn’t be allowed to happen.

I don’t think you understand what side the US would be deploying for

Oh no, a sales platform that takes a cut of revenue.

Valve isn’t a charity, and they provide very good services for what developers pay.

Devs don’t need to host download servers, they don’t need to staff customer service reps, they don’t have to set up banking infrastructure or worry at all about handling payments from hundreds of different banks across hundreds of countries.

It’s not like valve takes 30% and sits on it. They put that money to use.

Now a days you have add —no-preserve root after the laggy French pack to fully remove it.

France and the UK’s nuclear arsenal is minuscule compared to the US stockpile.

And a lot of the nukes at NATO bases are on loan from the US, so if the US pulls out there will not be nearly as many bombs close to Russia.

Anyone insane enough to start a nuclear war may decide that absorbing a hundred or so nukes isn’t so bad when they have hundreds of Cold War era bunkers and thousands of their own nukes.

Sick, the US did a backflip.

That’s horrify to see on a line graph