Ah! Thought it was Jack Handey.

“I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.”

Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts

Here’s what I would tell someone that thinks manufacturing is coming back.

Say you’re a factory owner and goods are costing too much to import from China. Your trusty Excel sheet tells you that, with the tariffs, you can make your widgets for the same price in America.

But you’re a smart capitalist! You know these tariffs are going to end up wildly unpopular and will be rescinded sooner rather than later. In any case, the economy may tank and no one will be able to afford widgets.

Yet another problem is that tariffs will make American widgets toxic on the international market. Canadians are already looking to shed American imports.

Now are you, Mr. Smart Capitalist, going to risk building an American factory and get left holding the bag?

Alternate:

“Know what the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was?”

I have a pet pig. Please come demonstrate.

You’re thinking of dogs, and to a lesser extent, cats. They evolved with us to be more communicative. For example, dogs have far more facial muscles and muscle types.

cracks knuckles

I’m fine with my 12-pack a day of Keystones.

Take it out and practice, test. Just move around while you do so.

If you’re in a situation where you have to you a jammer, you’re already in a lot of trouble. This is not a device for kids to fart around with at home.

Thank you! GenX is a unique generation. I often wonder what it was like at the dawn of the Industrial Age.

Styrofoam and unleaded make fair napalm. Doesn’t explode, but it won’t stop burning. Ya know, unlike a traditional Molotov cocktail.

And the joke is that it’s an utterly empty threat.

Yeah, but they’re not going to deploy expensive tech to low-end stores. Margins at places like that are so thin, I’d guess running this system would break the bank.

I’m 54. We built this shit from the ground up. We went from zero internet to dial-up as we went from teens to young adults.

We installed the first DSL and cable lines, mitigated Y2K in the field and on the keyboard.

We straddled the digital divide. We’ve seen it all.

tl:dr; Lawn. Off of it.

Call your local Habitat for Humanity, go to the next meeting. That’s how I got my mortgage, changed my life forever.

a jump from an estimated average of 2,179 to 3,246 posts containing hate speech per week

Either way, that’s a drop in the bucket of total weekly posts for a global, popular, social media platform. I must be missing something dumb, help?

“Preaching to the choir” means to try to convince people of something they already believe, essentially wasting time by expressing an opinion to those who already agree with you; it implies talking to a group who is already persuaded and doesn’t need further convincing.

My 2004 F150 rocks out, except for the mileage.

I’d argue the CEO is the most important person, usually. We see dipshits like Musk and turn around and bag on all of them.

Think of a business, doesn’t matter if it’s local or national. How do the employees act? Are they happy and seem to be doing useful work? Are they downcast and depressed looking?

Sometimes it’s the local manager staving off corporate bullshit, but company culture mostly rolls down from the CEO. They saying, “Shit rolls downhill.”, works both ways.

Well, yeah, because the United States Geographical Service is the source of truth for geographical names. No surprise Google and Apple follow it. There’s a little more breakdown than that, but that’s the gist of it.

https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/domestic-names

The change is fucking stupid, you know it, I know it, we all know it. Save your fucking ire for all the real shit going down. In comparison, this doesn’t rate a single breath.

OK, fine, Central America. OP’s point still stands.

Stop 👏 Buying 👏 New 👏 Shit 👏

I could run a whole community on how to recycle, reuse, repurpose. Why the hell are people buying new cars?!

You can still take it from Harvard I think?