US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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it's called "owning a projector"
Honestly, I'm thinking of downsizing. My 'new' house could only really fit the 92 inch screen. And it's nice with the pseudo-4k projector. But I have to think that maybe switching to an 83" OLED might be the right move. A little more ambient light friendly could be nice. But this bulb has a couple thousand hours left so I'm not too worried.
 
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Factories need White Collar “officer” staff to run them, perform R&D. I’m one of them here.
A lot of this is arrogance. If you don’t have mechanical inclination, you don’t know what you don’t know.

If you have shitty spacial reasoning, you can’t run a five axis cnc machine.

Troubleshooting ANY sort of issue requires you understand the physics and engineering going into it.

Most people can’t successfully sharpen a drill bit because they don’t know that the tip of it has to have clearance to relieve the cutting edge
 
A lot of this is arrogance. If you don’t have mechanical inclination, you don’t know what you don’t know.

If you have shitty spacial reasoning, you can’t run a five axis cnc machine.

Troubleshooting ANY sort of issue requires you understand the physics and engineering going into it.

Most people can’t successfully sharpen a drill bit because they don’t know that the tip of it has to have clearance to relieve the cutting edge
And stop blaming the coolant.
 
The utter seething that people have over the concept of the middle class working in small factories, building things, developing technology, whether its toasters or drones is so great.
They literally built their entire stock portfolio and economic plan on exploiting foreign labor, and giving things to our literal rival states. They exploit tax loopholes, they took money from the taxpayer under false pretenses and paid themselves.
This is pure kino.
The idea that we "can't make things because who is going to make them??"
What are you retarded? The only reason this isn't happening is you blow a giant hole in our economy and mexicans, indians, and chinese people come pouring in with their tribalism.
Why the fuck would I care about your hedge fund, or your 401k ,or your stocks? That's a you problem.
 
Canada annexation is on the menu right?
When it happens, it won't happen all at once. Canada is going to break apart first, at which point the provinces will become part of America separately, either by joining or annexation. This will take several years to fully play out, probably taking longer than Trump's 2nd or even 3rd term.

The barely-populated northernmost provinces will probably be claimed by America right away. This will have such little impact on the lives of the few people living there that they may not even notice. Ontario and Quebec will probably to hold out the longest before they can no longer sustain themselves. When they finally become part of America, it will be at least 100 years before their resentment and bitterness subsides, and it will never fully go away.

Newfoundland will be a different story. Newfoundland is actually the only surviving remnant of Atlantis, which had once been home to a thriving civilization of space travelers. Instead of joining America, they will raise their ancient homeland from the sea and reclaim their cosmic birthright.
 
We can't cut them anyway, so resolving the trade deficit (impossible) is just an easy excuse. The country is going to be (if it's not already) in an unrecoverable financial situation due to debt within the next 10 years. The government could just refuse to pay because "fuck you, we're the most powerful country on Earth" but what happens after is unknown. Tariffs need to stay, and medicare and social security need to be abolished ASAP (but the taxes associated with them need to stay) if the country wants to have any chance of paying off its financial obligations.
 
We can't cut them anyway, so resolving the trade deficit (impossible) is just an easy excuse. The country is going to be (if it's not already) in an unrecoverable financial situation due to debt within the next 10 years. The government could just refuse to pay because "fuck you, we're the most powerful country on Earth" but what happens after is unknown. Tariffs need to stay, and medicare and social security need to be abolished ASAP (but the taxes associated with them need to stay) if the country wants to have any chance of paying off its financial obligations.
If they cut the programs but not the taxes I think every notable government official would be hacked to pieces by a mob
 
I’ve designed CNC coolants before, just a joke that people always blame it first.
It’s usually the boss that blames the coolant, because the guy running the machine tells him the tools are wearing out too fast and it probably means they have to slow it down because of chatter or whatever, and the step before was to change out the soft jaws or cut a new fixture, etc, but the boss heard a brag about feeds and speeds from a sales rep or read it on a site and has decided that marketing is truthful
 
Factories need White Collar “officer” staff to run them, perform R&D. I’m one of them here.
A lot of people are completely ignorant to the huge amount of white collar labor that factories can consume between regulation, operations and logistics. Documenting what you are using and how your disposing of shit, and keeping track of literal tons of raw materials and tooling collectively worth millions of dollars zipping around is a lot of work, even with computerization. After all, a good inventory system knows where the plastic pellets are, but it takes a salesman to negotiate a good contract price to buy them at. Especially if/when your starting to negotiate materials on invoice durations long enough to let them make and sell the product before they even pay for the feedstock. Same for all the human labor processing all that data to give the higher ups spreadsheets they can pretend to understand.
 
A lot of people are completely ignorant to the huge amount of white collar labor that factories can consume between regulation, operations and logistics. Documenting what you are using and how your disposing of shit, and keeping track of literal tons of raw materials and tooling collectively worth millions of dollars zipping around is a lot of work, even with computerization. After all, a good inventory system knows where the plastic pellets are, but it takes a salesman to negotiate a good contract price to buy them at. Especially if/when your starting to negotiate materials on invoice durations long enough to let them make and sell the product before they even pay for the feedstock. Same for all the human labor processing all that data to give the higher ups spreadsheets they can pretend to understand.
What’s funny is that labor is the least of the overhead. I’ve seen people make mistakes that wrecked the equivalent their annual wages in an instant and they don’t even get fired for it, because it’s hard to fill the spot they’d leave

The main problem with having factory workers is that people have been trained through public education to look down on factory workers

They turned every facet of the culture into a psyop to convince people we didn’t want to make shit anyways
 
If they cut the programs but not the taxes I think every notable government official would be hacked to pieces by a mob
I've said it before, I'll say it again. That's one of the things you never touch. The money the guns and the children.

If they got rid of the checks, that's when guillotines get brought out.
 
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