TigerHornII

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“Tariffs on the competition”? You realize Ford and Chevy pay them too, right? Over 60% of an F-150’s parts comes from outside the U.S. For a Silverado, it’s over 70%. Slapping a big 3 emblem on the grill doesn’t exempt the supply chain from tariffs..

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All cars and trucks are globally sourced now from the same top 30 or so global suppliers. The most American content vehicle you can buy, the Tesla Model 3 Performance, is only 75% US sourced parts. F150s are a mix depending on options, can be up to 60% US parts or as low as 24% (Lightning).

FWIW, of all automakers, Ford employs the most people in CONUS. IIRC GM is second, and one of either Toyota or Honda is 3rd. May be wrong on #3 but you needed a HW assignment. :spank:

WRT to tariffs, the main focus has been on assembled vehicles for two reasons:
1. There is presently a ruinous price war going on between the 100+ Chinese OEMs that will probably leave no more that 2-3 of them standing. Any market that doesn't block that spillover will end up with a massive junkyard of cars from long gone OEMs in 10 years and no domestic production to speak of.

2. The Euros charge a higher tariff on a Mercedes made in Alabama than they do on Chinese vehicles made in China, which has needed correcting for decades.

Some key parts such as electronic control modules are being forced back onshore via tariffs and other regulations to avoid things like Chinese SW backdoors in US vehicles. Other parts chains are gradually being pushed back here because we're going to need the jerbs when AI puts all of you out of work.

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I need a shirt of all the end of world events I have survived.

Apocalypse Prediction Hall of Fame (Last 50 Years)

For those keeping score, here are some of the more famous "the world is ending" predictions from the last 50 years:

1975
• Many followers of Jehovah's Witnesses expected Armageddon around 1975.

1982
• Pat Robertson predicted the world would end in 1982.

1988
• Edgar Whisenant's bestselling book "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988" predicted the Rapture in September 1988.

1994
• Harold Camping predicted the end of the world in 1994.

1997
• Heaven's Gate followers believed Comet Hale-Bopp was tied to an end times event and that a spacecraft would save believers.

1999
• Nostradamus enthusiasts claimed his writings predicted global catastrophe in July 1999.

2000 (Y2K)
• Many feared computer failures at the turn of the millennium would trigger societal collapse, infrastructure failures, and global chaos.

2003
• Planet Nibiru believers predicted Earth would be destroyed by a collision with a hidden planet.

2006
• Another major Nibiru apocalypse prediction came and went.

May 21, 2011
• Harold Camping predicted Judgment Day and the Rapture.

October 21, 2011
• Camping revised the prediction and moved the end of the world to this date.

December 21, 2012
• The famous Mayan Calendar apocalypse. Predictions included planetary alignments, solar flares, pole shifts, and collisions with Planet X/Nibiru. Nothing happened.

2015
• eBible Fellowship predicted final judgment associated with September 2015.

2017
• David Meade predicted an apocalypse involving Planet X/Nibiru and astronomical alignments.

2018
• David Meade revised his prediction. The world again declined to end.

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How could you leave off all the global warming.....errrr climate change doom events? Ice caps and polar bears should be long gone by now, Louisiana under water up to Shreveport, and general total environmental collapse fully underway.

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It's lowbrow and cheesy because it relies on maximum bombast, theatrical excess, and pop-infused commercialism rather than understated artistic grit. The opening keyboard fanfare is repetitive, leaning closer to a carnival or circus calliope than gritty rock-and-roll. It's superficial, over-produced, and style-over-substance. While intended as a dramatic, atmospheric reflection on humanity leaving Earth for Venus, lines like "We're heading for Venus" strike many listeners as melodramatic, simple, and overly earnest. It's mainstream ear candy.

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Hey, look, an AI agent got loose and is not $hitposting about pop music on TD.

Rover licensed that Buick V8 back in the 1960's and used it in a wide variety of their Land Rover SUVs and cars.

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As I recall, Rolls-Royce had Chevy 350’s and transmissions. Rolls blue printed them and got a minimum of 500k miles…

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They used GM Turbohydramatic transmissions (along with Ferrari, Jag, and a few of other EU automakers who needed a high torque capacity state of the art hydraulic automatic back in the 1970s).

I was not aware that they ever used SBC's

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Out of curiosity, how many other Ford chassis codes can you name offhand? I would guess it is one at most. That one being a furry, omnivorous mammal.

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Taurus. It was the only one to ever make it from platform name to marketing name.

The Panther moniker is pretty well-known though because they were produced for so long, tended to last a very long time (I have seen examples being parted out with >800k miles on them), and were in such visible applications.

Texas has a loan program aimed at upperclassmen in a list of STEM and accounting type professions that are at 3.3% interest, Check to see if your state has a similar program.

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Wouldn't those transponders eventually be turned back on?

You have ships on one side of the strait. One day they aren't there anymore and the trackers can't see them. They eventually show up on the other side of the strait when they turn their transponders back on. At that point it is just putting 2 and 2 together. Unless the tankers just turn their transponders off forever, which I doubt.

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Transshipment is a thing. Dark tankers come out, offload into other tankers - a more common practice than you might think for a litany of reasons - and the other tankers carry the crude on to its destination.

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Depending on the metrics used, we won in Vietnam and Afghanistan. We killed more of their guys and left their economies in shambles. But we didn’t overthrow the enemy’s government, nor forced them to capitulate and become our allies, like we did to Japan and Germany in WWII. So, congrats on the victory, I guess. We’re all paying for it.

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Winning ain't what it used to be.

The real goals with Afghanistan were to find and kill as many of those responsible for 9/11 as possible, which we did, and to kill enough jihadis that they could not pull off another 9/11 style attack here again, which 25 years on, seems to have worked.

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In fact flight anywhere in SE Asia is an experience, Asians are the worst at airports,


Strongly disagree.

Stop spreading generalities of the less traveled.

Below are three examples of international Asian airports that I’ve spent time in.

They were all spotless.

Hong Kong.
Singapore.
Kuala Lumpur.

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Been to Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, and about half the airports in Japan, all very clean and orderly, but I think the post you replied to refers more to SW Asian than SE, in error.

Demographics for the county in 2000:

No amount of editing will fix the formatting. 1st column is total population, 2nd column is incarcerated population, third column is non-incarcerated population.

Reported in
Census 2000 Incarcerated
Total 217,955 1,506 216,449
White 160,128 521 159,607
Black 42,062 943 41,119
Latino 12,493 57 12,436