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Sure, if the money is put toward that. And if people can afford to buy what are now more luxury goods. On top of things domestically produced with now being more expensive due to the necessity of importing raw materials. And if a lot of the manufacturing investment doesn't just vaporize like the PPP loans or broadband investment.

In a few years that manufacturing could get spun and match a portion of the rest of the world's production capacity.

Of course this time most of the world isn't flattened by WWII and they'll actively be looking for alternatives to trading with the US.

Tarrifs in general aren't good or bad, they're a standard mechanism every country uses. "Hey steel from over there costs less. If we tax it, it will be at a similar/higher price than our steel and our factories will stay in business producing steel here."

But what Trump is doing is blanket country based Tarrifs. Instead of using a scalpel he's using a nuke.

The retaliatory Tarrifs aren't against everyone. They're against the US. So American companies have to pay more for electronics, steel, bananas. And when they try to sell their products on the global market, which is what everyone's been trying to do since the 90s, it costs more in China for American goods. Why buy Ford when you can buy a Chinese vehicle that has local support, is an EV that fits on your road, and costs half the price. (There's a recent Wendover Productions video about how much Volvo is struggling the last few years, and that's without a Tarrif war making buying materials and selling product harder.)

The goal of a Tarrif is to get people to buy domestic because the foreign thing is now expensive. When there is no domestic, because it's all been moved to foreign factories, it just makes everything more expensive for the purchaser.

China isn't paying for a price increase. You're paying more tax to the US government for the priviledge of buying goods from China.

China is comfortable being retaliatory to the US because they're where the US was in the ~90s and selling to the rest of the world. And they have all the (for them) domestic production and market because we outsourced it to them.

And a 4tb SSD is the same price as a 16tb HDD.

If that trend continues, when you get to a 100tb of SSD(s) the equivalently priced HDD(s) will have 100x the capacity.

And it was kind of a shit show for awhile.

There's obviously overlap between military and civilian controllers, but it's not the same job. The volume of traffic alone at a busy hub makes most air force bases look like quaint backwater airstrips.

There's also just not a lot of "extra" military ATC.

Garmin Instinct ticks those boxes.

They're what I switched to when my pebbles died. Backed everything but the Round. The fitness stuff is a bit overkill but can turn it all off. If you have one of the solar Instincts and don't use GPS you'll get significantly more than a week battery life.

They do, but I've also seen it the other way around, where the price on Amazon is the price on the manufacturers site plus shipping. Usually for more reputable/niche products. IFixit I would've thought would be big/popular enough to do that but I guess not.

IFixit is generally good quality/value in my experience if it's actually them and not some knockoff/drop shipper. Granted haven't had a need to buy anything of theirs for years because the one I have keeps being great.

That kit is $40 on their site. Weird that it's cheaper on Amazon in the first place.

Neat!

One of my few remaining Google dependencies is maps and timeline. I just like having that data somewhere and most of the FOSS stuff I've seen previously is piecemeal at best. Will have to play with this.

You just described a water heater.

One that would potentially store heat at super dangerous pressures of steam granted.

Starlink sats

Ja der Typ.

Yeah that'd be brutal on the battery chemistry, probably need a wired sensor. Doesn't get that cold here but was having similar issues in the negatives. Unfortunately there seem to be less options and they're more expensive for wired last I looked, but it's been awhile.

FWIW with zigbee I've had better luck with zigbee2MQTT and then using MQTT. If nothing else it made it a lot clearer what was/wasn't a router and what was just and end device than the native zigbee integration. ( I was getting very frustrated with a less capable no-neutral wall switch. )

Might just be placebo but it feels like there are cheaper/longer batterylife zigbee sensors than there are zwave.

Will anyone be better than Tom?

Became everyone's friend, became a millionaire, retired, (so far?) avoided falling off the right wing conspiracy cliff. Kind of just a quiet dude.

No the idea is the Left has a long history of infighting over which cause is most worthy or which step in the direction of progress to make to the detriment of making overall progress or actually working against the Right.

Letting "perfect be the enemy of good".

Yuppies are weird because it was originally just a way to keep them in the news ("new movement! new group! news at 11!") and be ridiculous. They got the DoD to sign a contract about exactly how high they were permitted to levitate the Pentagon.

And then it had it's own Eternal September moment. But everything seems to.

Disney hoped the clause would be enforceable. At least part of the reason Disney settled out of court was because they didn't want to challenge that assumption.

You can put whatever clauses you want in a contract. The law still trumps those contracts if it ever comes to enforceability.

By that logic signing up for Selective Service in the US means the US doesn't have a volunteer military.