JasonDJ

We can determine, easily, exactly when and where every solar eclipse ever will be or ever was.

That means calculating the position of the earth and the moon, very accurately.

The universe is math. It's absolutely real.

Not possible.

Most manufacturing of things like computer chips (just the chips themselves) require raw materials from all over the world. You can't just use any sand. 10M people is just a little more than the population of NYC.

Amateur. I've been experiencing physics for nearly 14 billion years.

In the air shows around here, they used to have a semi truck with some rockets strapped to the back that they'd race against a fighter jet.

The jet would come in low and when it crossed the starting line, the truck would take off from it.

The truck usually won.

Air shows might be big oil and military propaganda (that truck was owned and sponsored by Shell, iirc)...but damn if it wasn't cool as hell.

I don't know why but I thought that said "Archie" instead of "Arthur", and read that as Archie and Edith Bunker....and it kind of worked. From the later seasons, when Edith was getting sick of his shit.

That's exactly the problem. We don't, and in many places can't, make things here.

A lot has to do with access to resources. China is dominating in electronics in part because they essentially (but not really) colonized most the world that has good silicon.

But moving manufacturing around the world, to a place where literally everything is more expensive, is an costly endeavor that simply won't be worth it for most businesses.

That's the point of tariffs...to give domestic supply a shot.

It's stupid and short-sighted in a modern economy. It's not worth it for any manufacturer to shut down existing mega factories and build new ones here. They won't find enough people to do the jobs (especially if we deport/denaturalize a ton of people) and the costs and re-investments are huge.

Plus the only places that are left to build giant factories are distant from population centers. And I doubt there will be mass transit into them. So more pollution from personal transportation. And more pollution from local factories. Ripping the EPA to shreds will help with that, and that's a part of agenda 47.

And you just know the ones that choose to come and build here are gonna get really nice tax breaks to do so, so there won't be any real return for the community for a long time, if ever.

The end result is either they pass the costs into consumers, or they cut costs by laying off their expensive state-side employees and moving their positions abroad. American middle-class loses bigly either way.

Even Trump loved ranting about his stock market.

Stock markets are just one measure though. Just like you don't know the weather by just looking at a thermometer, you don't know the economy by just looking at the stock market.

I'm sure Trump will get his DOJ right on it.

I think you are answering your own question as to why young men voted for Trump.

Because they possess 0 critical thinking skills making them unable to consider that there may be ulterior motives until someone tells them so...and the only people they listen to, won't?

Ulterior motives for preventing pregnant women from getting a divorce are pretty easy to understand. Try it. I'm sure you can figure it out for yourself. If you start smelling burnt toast in the process, maybe I'm wrong.

It's not their fault. It's the fault of defunding public education for so long, mixed with a culture that promotes loud ignorant fools as long as they are good looking.

Trump learned how to win friends and influence people from Carnegie. People just want to feel heard, doesn't matter what you say back to them. It's essentially slight-of-hand, but for feelings and emotions.

All those other guys know a cashcow when they see one.

For some reason now I wonder what Reading Rainbow would be like if hosted by Samuel L. Jackson.

You don't have to take my word for it...motherfucker.

What is this gif from?