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Should be a wild four years.

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Frankly I'm surprised we don't have a proof of concept where you could have one wall be a massive high resolution screen that you can basically have streams or HDMI inputs displayed as windows on the screen you can drag around, resize, and overlap.

We have the technology and there's at least one or two rich fucks that would buy one.
Wall-sized multi-panel TVs exist but the real problem for having them in residential housing is how much power they use. Linus Sebastian has a mansion that he's set up to not only have multiple cooling units, but each cooling unit's ducts are set up to service multiple thermostats where they dynamically open and close vents so that the cooling ends up where it needs to go and when he was looking at putting in one of Samsung's TV walls he would have had to redo his HVAC with commercial units to deal with all the heat they put off. Even with standard large OLED TVs they have to balance how much power they draw by dimming the brightness if there's too much white on screen at once. To make them work they need their own dedicated high amperage circuits with dedicated cooling capacity that turns on when you turn the screens on.

It's the kind of thing you have to build/remodel a house around and generally not a value-add for prospective buyers because they're so much of a hassle to keep up compared to a projector that's 90% as good, a tenth the cost, minimal upkeep, and if you decide you want to do something else with that space you can just pull the projector down and repaint the white wall
 
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America has a 5% unemployment rate. Most of which is kids, retired people and the rest is druggie criminals you don't want to be around. Who is going to work in these factories Trump wants to build ? The birth rate is low so it's not like we have more factory workers coming down the pipes.
I think we all know the answer with the H1B freakout from musk
 
Trump gave an interview about the tariffs on Air Force One:
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In it, he says that he's not going to make any deals with other countries that don't lower our trade deficit with them.
Lol, that optimism. "We're going to make a trillion dollars off tariffs, and companies are going to bring manufacturing to the US." I'd settle for an either/or, seems much more realistic, especially if we're also using them as a stick in negotiations.
Idk why I can’t reply to the post
It's too long, you can only have quotes up to a certain length. Highlight a portion and then an option to reply/quote will pop up dynamically.
Yes, he is a retarded pedophile
Proof, nigger?
Hectic times we are living in, Fuck.
Yeah, may you live in interesting times is a curse. I guess the argument in favor of the disruption is we'd already been sleepwalking through interesting times...well, it seems history's not over yet either way.
 
I think we all know the answer with the H1B freakout from musk
Since factories are one of the only places you can start making over $20/hour with no experience, some of the government workers Elon fired would work in factories

Factories give you stability that’s usually reserved for office people, like the same shift every day, weekends off, employer sponsored benefits, some kind of profit sharing or retirement account matching, etc etc etc

That’s even now while we keep fucking the industry over
 
Thats the thing the confounds me, who really wants to work in factories with long hours in probably shitty wages unless they literally have no other choice?, do we need to accept more immigrants to make up for this?

In much of the developed world, there's this cultural expectation from society that landing a comfy white collar job means you're successful, to the point that we now have a shortage of blue-collar jobs, even despite having decent or sometimes better salaries than some white-collar professions, its not like you'll be shunned, but there's definitely this undertone people will see you as "lower", "less intelligent", and not as deserving of the same level of respect if you decided on a more physically-laborious career, which is in my opinion is bullshit and we would be better off if we got rid of the stigma.

How can we undo this norm that has developed in the decades following de-industrialization, because this is probably one the biggest hurdles against bringing manufacturing back home?
Factories need White Collar “officer” staff to run them, perform R&D. I’m one of them here.
 
I echo that. This is the first time in ages that I've been in a cash position right as a downtrend has happened and I'm really fighting the urge to start buying in again.


It’s been years since I saw that. I’d have sworn the song was “Sinnerman”, from the end of the Thomas Crowne Affair remake (rare remake that’s better than the original).

My favorite little musical moment of the show was Kosh bringing Sheridan to the secret alien monks.
It's about time we replace Captain Planet posting with Babylon 5 posting. To captain planet spergs, as the humans say "up yours, die!"
 
Since factories are one of the only places you can start making over $20/hour with no experience, some of the government workers Elon fired would work in factories

Factories give you stability that’s usually reserved for office people, like the same shift every day, weekends off, employer sponsored benefits, some kind of profit sharing or retirement account matching, etc etc etc

That’s even now while we keep fucking the industry over
I wager there are a good many Americans who are listed as "employed" who would much prefer working a single 9 to 5 factory job with benefits over the two or three part-time retail and delivery jobs with no benefits that they're working now.

Most of the people I know are working in a main underemployment McJob and have a side hustle to keep afloat, or they're disabled/retired, or they sell drugs or counterfeit/stolen items on Ebay. The drug dealers and scammers won't be interested, the disabled/retired are too fucked up to work the factories, but some of them wouldn't mind taking a part-time McJob shift. The multi-job/hustle crowd would kill for the opportunity for a nice clean factory job. There will be fewer Doordash and Uber drivers, but no dearth of factory applicants.
 
there is
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.
 
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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.
Well shit.
 
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