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Go to your local big box store and find one of the aisles that's got pallets loaded up on the upper shelves.

Those pallets are 48" square and the shelves are generally 36" tall though sometimes they're taller.

A pallet of 100 dollar bills, stacked neatly and put in one of the 36" shelves would be about 125 million dollars.

You'd need 8 of them to get to a billion.

Fun fact, because of the sheer quantity of fucking people over Gates is guilty of in his time at Microsoft, we can assume that at least a handful of the people he screwed died prematurely as a direct result of Gates' actions. Something about every 1% increase in unemployment sees an accompanying increase of 37,000 deaths by various means.

Bill Gates killed people, is what I'm getting at.

Got lots of 65 year old factory or construction workers, do ya? And I’m talking about laborers, not supervisors etc.

Yes.

The oldest guy on our seniority list has had one job his entire life, he's 72. He refuses to retire. The entire first page of seniority is guys in their 60's. To be clear, if they're on the seniority list, they're not supervisors, they're machine operators, welders, paint line guys, and tradesmen.

I, at 40, am one of the younger people in the building.

We recently started sucking up as many students as we could for the trades jobs because of how dangerously close to retirement most of the workforce is.

These jobs are not nearly as bad as people think. It's not construction, which absolutely can and does destroy bodies. Factory work is engineered around being ergonomic and safe. If for no other reason than there simply isn't the workforce available to replace people that leave young. But there's actually lots of reasons. It's legally required, it's watched closelt by more than one federal agency (at least it WAS....). The factory literally can't make money if these guys are getting injured all the time, and it's way easier to make something safe to do than deal with constant injuries.

You'd be surprised. Most industrial jobs are not all that physical anymore. I felt the same as you did at your age and I spent 20 years grinding jobs I absolutely hated because I too had no ambition coming out of high school. I ended up bouncing around call centers while trying to find something I enjoyed at college enough to be successful at, all the while being passed over by people who actually enjoyed what they were doing.

I'm a tool maker now, I do a little troubleshooting, a little machining, and my job is immensely satisfying. It's not for everyone but that's every job.

Honestly even if you're opposed to industry, I wouldn't bother with an expensive education until you have some idea of what you want to do. Find some place that'll give you an entry level job and provide tuition reimbursement, get your core studies out of the way while you figure stuff out.

What? Intelligent people get fooled all the time. The NXIVM cult was made up mostly of reasonably intelligent women. Shit that motherfucker selected for intelligent women.

You're not immune. Even if you were, you're incredibly dependent on people of average to lower intelligence on a daily basis. Our planet runs on the average intelligence.

I WISH. hahaha I'm in danger

I love eggs. I eat an omelette every day. Lots of butter. Yumm

Once a week, when she's gone, lower the saturation on her monitor by like 2%. After a few months the colors she picks will be so different it won't really matter anymore.

Printing off a single webpage that contains a recipe for a peanut butter sandwich.

The best times I had with any PVP shooter were always in the middle of the day on weekdays. It was always a bunch of working age guys like myself and that was the only time they had to play. Dudes were always friendly, games were always fun. 3pm Eastern hit and the fun was over, if it was Friday you were done playing for the weekendb unless you stayed up really late, even then, it was never as good.

Chinese made parts are generally worse. At least industrially. We buy a few things from China that we need in high volume and we have to go over every single part because inevitably 25% will be out of spec in one way or another. We've bought Chinese steel a few times and about half of that material was basically useless.

We avoid Chinese tooling, parts, and steel as much as we can. We will buy used Western made machinery before buying new Chinese machinery for the same reason. The two Chinese made presses we have have had to be rebuilt twice, and were only ever used for light duty stamping. Those presses, only about 20 years old are being decommissioned rather than repaired any further.

Most of what we use is American or German made. German parts generally hold tighter tolerances but they seem to last about as long. We have a few French made lasers that work really well until they don't, and then they're a nightmare to service.

None of that matters. Because we cannot function without these things coming in from overseas. I don't know of any industrial building in my city that can. We make a lot of stuff in this town you need that you'd never think about. Conveyors, refrigerated trailers, the hydraulic fittings and irrigation systems that literally supply the entire agricultural sector, all of it depends on a vast intercontinental trade network that is actively collapsing. The latest order of punches and die inserts we ordered are sitting on a boat in Schenzhen and have been for weeks. Because even though we're willing to pay the tariffs on the few things we order, the ten thousand other customers may not be. And until they can fill a boat with goods people are willing to pay a premium on, that boat isn't going to leave harbor.

Empty shelves are only the beginning of how irrecoverably fucked we're about to be.

Satanic schools here we coooome

The man loves 3 things. Beer, himself, and trucks. He's clearly drinking the first and fucking the other two, hard to judge a man who's obtained the kind of success in live that allows him to indulge in his hobbies.

I'm forming a new party called the "Guillotines for anyone with more money than me party"

We'll guillotine anyone with more money than me. That's my whole platform. I don't have a lot but I'm comfortable. If you also don't have a lot but you're comfortable boy do I have the party for you!

A guy with literally 0 State department experience, and a single term in any elected office.

Like, dude probably has some contacts in China but this appointment makes no sense.

Yarr, thar be an alternative. Though some might'n be thinking acquiring such booty be illegal.

This was a safe democrat seat, Ramirez is replacing guy who was a union organizer before becoming a state senator. Cedar Rapids is a fairly liberal area, it's one of 3 to 5 blue dots in Iowa every election. The other two being Iowa City and Des Moines.

This isn't a clear rebuke of anything, of anything it's an omen when so few people even bothered to vote.

The uh... The rookie....

You still using pyramids bro? What the fuck get with the times. It's all about healing with 4 dimensional bottles and tesseracts

Record. Obstruct. Defend.