That’s exactly the problem. We don’t, and in many places can’t, make things here.

A lot has to do with access to resources. China is dominating in electronics in part because they essentially (but not really) colonized most the world that has good silicon.

But moving manufacturing around the world, to a place where literally everything is more expensive, is an costly endeavor that simply won’t be worth it for most businesses.

That’s the point of tariffs…to give domestic supply a shot.

It’s stupid and short-sighted in a modern economy. It’s not worth it for any manufacturer to shut down existing mega factories and build new ones here. They won’t find enough people to do the jobs (especially if we deport/denaturalize a ton of people) and the costs and re-investments are huge.

Plus the only places that are left to build giant factories are distant from population centers. And I doubt there will be mass transit into them. So more pollution from personal transportation. And more pollution from local factories. Ripping the EPA to shreds will help with that, and that’s a part of agenda 47.

And you just know the ones that choose to come and build here are gonna get really nice tax breaks to do so, so there won’t be any real return for the community for a long time, if ever.

The end result is either they pass the costs into consumers, or they cut costs by laying off their expensive state-side employees and moving their positions abroad. American middle-class loses bigly either way.

For some reason now I wonder what Reading Rainbow would be like if hosted by Samuel L. Jackson.

You don’t have to take my word for it…motherfucker.

What is this gif from?

Look to the Xiaomi Mi AX6S. Quite capable router and only like $50 on AliExpress. I just got a second one to use as a mesh node and wireless bridge for a bunch of stuff that gets a terrible signal inside of a solid wood entertainment center.

This is the USA. Since when is the US part of the rest of the world?

Seems most the world wants to distance themselves from us. Except for some shithole countries.

I also appear on any graph that shows the months between July and January abbreviated by the first letter of the month.

According to Wikipedia, he’s actually a criminal defense attorney in California, and also “The Fish”, original lead guitarist for Country Joe and the Fish.

I went to Texas for the eclipse. Made a big family vacation out of it…landed in Houston, rented a Mustang Mach-E, stayed there for a few days, drove to Austin for a few days, drove to Dallas for a few days (and for the eclipse, was at the Perot), then back to Houston for a few more days.

I say this because this was a lot of highway driving. More than I would usually do. And I absolutely loved one-pedal driving in the city, and the adaptive cruise control and lane keeping on the highway. I trusted it much, much more than in our 2019 Odyssey.

Anything more than that, I don’t think the tech is really ready for. I wish it were. I know theoretically a computer could be a much, much better driver than humans…but it takes a non-trivial amount of intelligence to drive. We take it for granted, because a lot of it is practically instinctual to us, and almost entirely subconscious. It’s an incredible amount of identification and complex decision making that goes into it if you actually break down the number of inputs you observe and variables you “know” the values of (such as stopping distance for various surface and weather conditions).

I imagine power is the tricky part. Badge readers and the like that use RFID also use wireless electricity to “power” the card. The range of that is limited without massive coils. You may be able to harness power from heat in asphalt (from traffic or sunlight beating on it), but I’d think that’d also be very limiting.

Better would be low power RF beacons set up at every transformer or every N utility poles. Something like BLE, maybe a little bit beefier. Power is readily available. They don’t require data. All they need to do is broadcast their exact location and time (which they can get from GPS receivers).

What kind of troll named the towns in Newfoundland?

There’s also a “Dildo” and a “Placentia” on the larger island.

Dude, it was like 70F here on Halloween night. Both my kids were sweating bullets when we got them out of their costumes. A couple kids in our group had to take them off because it was overbearing.

Hell I went as Hagrid so my costume was like…sweatpants and a wig. And I had to take my wig off. Granted, I had filled my 30oz Yeti with a pretty strong cocktail for the walk. But still.

Just want to share that NASA has one of the highest ROIs of any government agency.

I blame Trump every day, but sure.

Yeah but…I mean…wow. I graduated HS class of 2003 and I can’t remember anyone handing in a hand-written paper in any of the 4 years.

How do people be around this stuff for half their life and not know basic things like Ctrl+C Ctrl+V.

Today’s 40 year olds graduated in the high school class of 2002…there are people from that era that can’t copy/paste? For real?

IDK man, she might be on to something. Look at this rainbow. It’s more like a rain shield…ain’t no archer DPS this is tanks.

Yes. I don’t know what you are arguing. I don’t think you do either.

Contract violation is a civil issue, not criminal. I think you agree with that.

You cannot get imprisoned for violating a contract. I think this is what you’re missing.

However if you are sued for a contract violation, you will receive a civil summons.

A civil summons is a court order. That is word of law, and wilful disregard or disobedience of a court order is literally contempt of court.

You can get arrested for that. But that’s not getting arrested for a contract violation, that’s getting arrested for contempt.

Do you expect contempt to not have teeth? It’s literally the underpinning of all modern courts, that participants in it have respect for the truth and respect for the court. Of course the court and the government has to protect and enforce that respect.

I really want like, a Frieda McFadden-style novel about an AI chatbot serial manipulator now. Basically Michelle Carter…the girl who bullied her boyfriend into killing himself. Except the AI can delete or modify all the evidence.

Maybe ChatGPT could write me one.

It is known.