Ah; but that’s the beauty of it.

Trump has been doing the “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” thing so that others have to scramble to keep up.

If the courts start jailing everyone who follows his orders, someone has to fill out all that paperwork to get them released again. Meanwhile, those people go to jail too.

Ah; but they didn’t say that laws don’t apply to a sitting administration.

So don’t impeach Trump again. But jail everyone who followed his orders.

First off, I’m Canadian, and yeah, you’ve pissed us off.

Secondly, read the lnk I linked; before Trump did this whole trade war thing, there was already almost a decade of work going into rebuilding the knowhow and supply chains needed. It takes time, but there are already companies who have been ramping up over the past 5-10 years — they just haven’t been able to compete with China on price or quality.

But now they’ll get their chance, as the US is running out of other options.

Meanwhile, the rest of us will hopefully also wean ourselves off of Chinese rare earths too, now that we’ve seen them actually weaponize them against the US.

Then again, rare earths processing is very environmentally destructive; there’s a reason China is doing it in Jilin and Mongolia.

Really?

Here’s a good summary:

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/9/8/china-maintains-dominance-in-rare-earth-production

I lived through it while it was happening. Where were you?

Well, that’s a good thing in a way; china was previously selling at a loss to put the competition out of business. Now the other refineries have a reason to start back up again.

Ukrainians have been buying John Deere tractors for years… and reprogramming them.

No reason why they couldn’t do the same with Teslas.

Your comment is so much better than the article in every way. Thank you for it.

They never said what he was fully fit for.

Depends?

American voters like someone to blame. In a good economy, that could be about all sorts of things. In a bad economy, it’s about the economy.

As a Christian, I have a problem on at least one level with how people treat Christmas and Easter.

For something similar, imagine if instead of Christmas and Easter, the celebration was of your parent’s birthday and that time they flatlined but recovered in the hospital.

And people you didn’t know were celebrating it years later, trying to sell you festive decorations and fighting with each other over whether others were trying to ban the celebration, making it all about some mythical doctor and nurses who once threw a party when your parent survived, talking about becoming a doctor being the true purpose of celebrating your parent’s birthday.

That’s about how messed up this all is.

No good replacing them with yourself….

Unfortunately, that’s not true.

Also unfortunately, a LOT of people are treated as if they’re on a watchlist, even when they aren’t.

If everyone is on a watchlist, that means everyone is being watched so they can be punished if they do anything that could even be remotely considered outside the law.

Pulled over for speeding and you’re on a watchlist? Off to interrogation for you.

Would people on the spectrum actually have an advantage on an IQ test? I usually think of those as being “able to synthesize social knowledge and logic” tests… and while most autistic can focus on things they’re interested in, the lack of the social aspect is kind of what defines autism.

Seems to me these people grew up hearing they were special, but didn’t have to put in any work, and were given excuses for why some people may not pander to their wants.

In India, they’re still useful; just make sure you use the horn too.

I’ve only been driving for 33 years, but I try to signal every turn.

Because the signals are for those situations where you don’t see something you should have AND those situations where someone else didn’t see something they should have.

Takes a flick of the pinky to do something that could save you thousands of dollars and wasted time, or even save someone’s life. So why not do it?

Except delivery people are registered and tracked. Someone would notice the first time someone died… or possibly even the first time someone got sick.

Unless it was a toxic buildup over time.

More likely to be the person bagging the delivery, because anyone on shift could do it there.

Just to note, it could also be other people’s lives.

Just don’t get her started on the topic of why HP pencils are so important to education.

Video memes. Another place I keep the sound at 0.

Keep it private by encrypting it.

But torrenting isn’t an appropriate tool, as it’s designed for one -> many distribution.

Are you wanting go transfer gigabytes of photos and documents from one computer to another, or back the stuff up to offsite storage?