AmericanEconomicThinkTank

It’s almost funny seeing the unblinkimg sycophants working the same idea across the media spectrum the past few weeks in preparation.

Honestly primary these guys.

Pretty much.

Interesting comparison though, sad to say my understanding of old world economics is too low to give a real answer in that regard lol.

I try to find even 10 minutes alone to decompress and watch what little nature I can. Usually helps a bit.

That or a short walk or stretch, both good.

Honestly it’s mostly unconscious for me, the brain just does it’s thing sometimes.

Well to give you a real answer that would depend on how you look at it. Transport industry tends to favor east coast, but that’s mostly thanks to legacy infrastructure.

On the other hand, the past few years of infrastructure bills promoted southwest manufacturing uptick due to easier tax rates, preferred interest from government structures, and as well lower cost workforce that require lower per capita investment for bringing training up to speed.

California had a whole bunch, between strong port access, strong technical expertise, the whole Silicon Valley thing lol.

But given current administration policies, attitudes towards education achievements, and importance of targeted subsidizing, nevermind everything else the past 40 or so years of privatization. It’s a lot to catch up on, most of which requires long term planning.

Of course then you could get into the economics side of things, and that the amount invested through our own foreign direct investment brings about greater income in the long run. Basically by subsidizing foreign production of different goods, we don’t bear the cost of better research and investment in the future, we can use trade agreements to purchase, say computer chips to keep things consistent, which have stipulations that the exporting country purchase mass quantities of lower trade goods at a price advantageous to us.

So uh, it’s pretty much a loose loose situation here lol.

Surely you couldn’t expect our representatives and congressmen to be motivated to work by anything other the big bucks.

Of course, it’s been their weekend fun for a few centuries now.

I miss when life was boring.

Considering everyone in the room knows the Commander in Chief wouldn’t be able to pass the basic reading tests for recruits, I’d say this just doesn’t hit home as well as they all hope it does.

Like much of the administration, incompetence and yesmenship is what you get when you hamfistedly shove a junior statesmen into leadership.

Shit like this is why I spend time volunteering with potential candidates nationwide.

So I’m going to toot my own horn here lmao but personally? Mine lol. Sure, technically doesn’t precisely fit the bill for 20 years, given it’s changed domains, content and the such while I was ironing out my interests in life and future expectations.

But I’ve had variations of the site for different projects, purposes, employment needs, and more recently the whole starting my own organization thing lol. All in all however, I’d compare it to those 3 generation soups that are a big selling point in family shops throughout the Asiatic, sure nothing of the original exists per se, but the spirit is there.

I do have such a soft spot for the old ascii and plaintext site design, I’ve never really left the scheme since I first learned html. To me, the more basic a site has made it’s web design the more likely I am to trust it. Something about corporate web design just never sits right with me.

Lmao sure there are folks with all kinds of expectations of relationships, but that’s part of the fun of getting to know someone.

I’ve personally seen things from many sides, my exes have been first generation Americans, deeply religious one way or another, girly-pop fanatics or outright amazonian greasemonkeys. Way I see it, enjoy the process of meeting someone new, enriching your life and or course you enriching theirs.

Of course being online alot doesn’t do you any favors, try dropping into a few mixers, ask friends to set you up with someone, just put yourself out there and see what sticks.

And they say taking up D&D as a hobby is weird lmao

Man? Lmao this isn’t the lucky chance of single person.

This is decades worth of work by thousands upon thousands to bring about political change and opportunities for their varying ideologies, albeit central around profiteering, control, and unitary power.

Not even nearly the end of their work either.

I like a challenge as much as the next guy but damn is it disheartening at times.

What did anyone expect anything different?

I’ve been lucky enough to see the real deal in deposition layering testing and research for chip making. From clean-room methods stricter than bio and radiological test lab standards to seeing the wafers with a shimmer even more gorgeous than diamonds to me. It’s so far beyond

We just ain’t going to manage to make that a nation-wide mainstay. We might be able to have started to approach the technical side of things if investments and education were started in the early 90s, but our culture just isn’t up to snuff to keep it going. So much of a society’s culture bleeds into business, and damn do they have it locked down where it needs to be.

You know, from a policy and leadership standpoint I can sort of enjoy the process behind working to combat racially prejudiced policy, adopting new and better cultural shifts in existing organizations, being able to foster real appreciation for the American ethos of appreciation of our neighbors, the real melting pot our society is.

Being able to meet someone where they are and enrich their lives through real exposure of different ideas, these their beliefs, and work with them to bring themselves into the modern world is an honestly wonderful experience. One of my favorite memories was a student I had helped to learn half a decades worth of missing reading skills. Young man went from constantly belligerent to anyone and everything around him, slowly to being self confident, more open with people around him, and just be himself. Sure, not the universal experience with the ignorant, can’t teach and old dog new tricks and all that.

But this shit? It’s just so deeply demonstrative of a small man.

Nothing like 40 years of political maneuvering and policy influence throughout a system of government to unravel.

Small consolation, while many work to also influence local offices and political bodies to properly prop up their power, it’s also some of the easiest areas to get your foot in the door and make change yourself.

Hell, even under the Putin regime, opposition thrives in areas like schoolboards and townhalls, they tend not to be the ones thrown out windows. Just high enough to make a difference, too small to be noticed.

Lol unless the industrial complex keeps growing surveillance and monitoring without hard laws put in place, in which case oh well.

Haha helps not viewing it dead tired. Totally see where you were coming from there. It is an interesting point to make, especially given most view the need for IP protection for an individual or firm to extend only within reach of that party. Some are often enforced where common overlap occurs, like I could build surfboards under the name Tide and the soap people can’t do jack.

Yet, books long out of circulation and print are still given full protection. If copyright technically allows home movie showing to extend to streaming, why isn’t allowing home vcr recordings of tv movie broadcasts extended to downloading online streams given the actual method of data transfer is indistinguishablen from just watching it.

Shame that general priorities in law and policy are uh, what they are, I honestly would’ve loved seeing this stuff explored in the courts more, over just giving priority interest to corporations lol.

I once had a conversation about economics with a different person. Just something clicked in some other guy and sent them down a spiral.