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bAGginsAGinbarry
| Favorite team: | Texas A&M  |
| Location: | I live in the 90s |
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| Number of Posts: | 9 |
| Registered on: | 8/15/2013 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Anti-American sentiment surging in India. Has to do with us sitting on AZ vaccine
Posted by bAGginsAGinbarry on 4/24/21 at 8:49 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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For some reason, we aren’t sending them to India
Didn't India ban exports of medicines to us for a while to hoard it for themselves?
frick the curry munchers.
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PSA: Despite making up 17% of the population....
Posted by bAGginsAGinbarry on 4/24/21 at 8:48 pm
China accounts for 28% of global carbon emissions.
LINK
And they aren't required to even stop increasing for 5 years.
LINK
And they aren't required to even stop increasing for 5 years.
re: 1yr ltr: computer modelling projections of COVID deaths were 937020%+ actual in somecases
Posted by bAGginsAGinbarry on 4/24/21 at 8:44 pm to AUstar
Right, only 95% off. That looks pretty close when compared to the others.
re: George Floyd is basically Jesus Christ
Posted by bAGginsAGinbarry on 4/24/21 at 8:43 pm to Bunk Moreland
Jesus destroyed the shops of the money lenders in the temple, so basically the same thing.
re: Any truth to this vengeance against white women thing?
Posted by bAGginsAGinbarry on 4/24/21 at 8:42 pm to IceTiger
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They gettin' vengeance this weekend on white women (sexual assaults).
Well, unmarried white women are the root of almost all our social progressive ills.
re: TWEET TWEET TWEET
Posted by bAGginsAGinbarry on 4/24/21 at 8:40 pm to DuckTalesLOL
Social isolation has hit some of you hard, I see.
re: What's an exciting classic book you would recommend?
Posted by bAGginsAGinbarry on 3/25/20 at 1:46 pm to Boo Krewe
Watership Down.
Writing an Alt History WW2 book. Posting chapters here for comment
Posted by bAGginsAGinbarry on 3/25/20 at 1:40 pm
triangle-tangerine-t4az.squarespace.com - my blog where I am writing.
I figured the book board would be the best place to get feedback, specifically the critical kind.
I post regularly on the PT, for obvious reasons I'd rather keep my real name apart from my politics.
I've got about 1/4 of the book written out, with the outline done. Its a WW2 alternate history. I've posted the prologue and a brief intro (back of the book as it were), I'll add additional chapters if anyone is interested in the story and finds it worth the read.
Edit, guess I can't post links. :lol:
I figured the book board would be the best place to get feedback, specifically the critical kind.
I post regularly on the PT, for obvious reasons I'd rather keep my real name apart from my politics.
I've got about 1/4 of the book written out, with the outline done. Its a WW2 alternate history. I've posted the prologue and a brief intro (back of the book as it were), I'll add additional chapters if anyone is interested in the story and finds it worth the read.
Edit, guess I can't post links. :lol:
What will manufacturing & the economy look like under a 'reshored' world?
Posted by bAGginsAGinbarry on 3/25/20 at 11:38 am
Thought experiment here:
So say we do move industry back through some kind of regulation or decoupling, and now things are made in the USA again. Your TV, lawn mower, North Face jacket, whatever. Prices will necessarily rise. Just from what I know on the cost difference, it would probably be 20-100% more expensive depending on the item.
What changes about our daily lives when people have to pay twice the price for goods?
- My first thought it that the profession of repairman will return. Now a days, if your TV breaks, its cheaper to get a new one than repair it. Ditto for a lot of household items. Would people start to pay $150 for a repair instead of $400 for a new item, when they used to get a cheap replacement for $200?
- Second: It makes more sense to move back to riverine and rail transport for goods under this model. Costs will have to be cut, and a big expense is shipping. The cost to move goods, especially raw materials, via river barge vs truck is huge. The Mississippi connects a lot of the midwest towns to the ocean very cheaply, and our rail transport system for freight is still pretty good. If you're shipping bulk goods for intermediate value added manufacture, we could see a renaissance of river transport, and in NOLA specifically, a boom.
- Less military spending, more tax revenue generated from internal manufacture. With less connectivity economically with the rest of the world, the American Military Empire's raison d'etre dies out. More focus on protecting American shipping exclusively. The American Navy probably ages into mass obsolescence, focusing on drone carrier capability to protect our merchant vessels.
- Automation, automation, automation. The American factory of the future will be one of two things: a large central warehouse of robots/3d printers, or a disconnected 'cottage factory' made of people working from home as an almost remote assembly line. I've already seen this in action in Houston, and it's a concept that will blow up. A 'factory owner' gets a contract to make 200 shirts, and he sends orders to a dozen or so stay at home moms who take the raw materials and make portions of the order. Each of them has an industrial sewing machine set up in their house that the factory owner provides.
So say we do move industry back through some kind of regulation or decoupling, and now things are made in the USA again. Your TV, lawn mower, North Face jacket, whatever. Prices will necessarily rise. Just from what I know on the cost difference, it would probably be 20-100% more expensive depending on the item.
What changes about our daily lives when people have to pay twice the price for goods?
- My first thought it that the profession of repairman will return. Now a days, if your TV breaks, its cheaper to get a new one than repair it. Ditto for a lot of household items. Would people start to pay $150 for a repair instead of $400 for a new item, when they used to get a cheap replacement for $200?
- Second: It makes more sense to move back to riverine and rail transport for goods under this model. Costs will have to be cut, and a big expense is shipping. The cost to move goods, especially raw materials, via river barge vs truck is huge. The Mississippi connects a lot of the midwest towns to the ocean very cheaply, and our rail transport system for freight is still pretty good. If you're shipping bulk goods for intermediate value added manufacture, we could see a renaissance of river transport, and in NOLA specifically, a boom.
- Less military spending, more tax revenue generated from internal manufacture. With less connectivity economically with the rest of the world, the American Military Empire's raison d'etre dies out. More focus on protecting American shipping exclusively. The American Navy probably ages into mass obsolescence, focusing on drone carrier capability to protect our merchant vessels.
- Automation, automation, automation. The American factory of the future will be one of two things: a large central warehouse of robots/3d printers, or a disconnected 'cottage factory' made of people working from home as an almost remote assembly line. I've already seen this in action in Houston, and it's a concept that will blow up. A 'factory owner' gets a contract to make 200 shirts, and he sends orders to a dozen or so stay at home moms who take the raw materials and make portions of the order. Each of them has an industrial sewing machine set up in their house that the factory owner provides.
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