I spent a good chunk of this paycheck on car parts for my car and my wife’s.

Breaks, oil and air filters, enough for 3 years of maintenance.

Last month was parts for the furnace.

Most of the affordable stuff is made over seas.

If you can, I suggest also stocking up on repair materials. Parts are going to skyrocket in price very soon, and it’s going to become very expensive to even do regular maintenance on most mechanical equipment.

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.

Everyone who isn’t a prick chooses work at other airlines.

The number of issues United has is indicative of severe cultural issues within the company. Toxic work culture drives good, compassionate employees away and leaves only the people who thrive in toxic environments.

They probably had some office assistant order a pallet of bolts from Home Depot.

This is the company that glued the accelerator pedal on, you think they know what grade of bolt they need?

He’s also balls deep in a government that is obsessed with deporting immigrants.

Elon himself was an undocumented immigrant for years, as he violated the terms of and overstayed his student visa.

Genuine question though. If the ultra wealthy use loans against their stocks for cash, does this not violate the terms of one of or all of the loans he uses?

The last time I got a personal loan from my bank, it stipulated that use of the money for any illegal purposes would result in the immediate termination of my loan. Does any financial institution have the balls to enforce this boilerplate clause in elons case?

I’m sorry okay, that kid keeps getting in the way.

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.

That’s not what leaked means tho

How do you cure a protein in a stable shape?

That’s all a prion is, it’s just a misshapen but stable protein that causes other proteins to fold into that stable shape too.

You can’t vaccinate against a shape.

We can’t scan every protein in a body and selectively destroy the ones that shaped wrong.

The only thing to do is to destroy prions whenever they are found and with extreme prejudice. But, that’s expensive so it won’t get done.

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.

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.

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.