

J Bird
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@JustinDel
That's the thing about the present, you only appreciate it once it's the past.





Why does it cost less to build a base on the moon than high speed rail from sf to la


Mike Rowe: “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code.” “Well, AI is coming for the coders.” “It’s not coming for the welders, the plumbers, the steamfitters, the pipefitters, the HVAC, or the electricians.” “In Aspen, I sat and listened to Larry Fink say we need 500,000 electricians in the next couple of years—not hyperbole.” “The BlueForge Alliance, who oversees our maritime industrial base—that’s 15,000 individual companies who are collectively charged with building and delivering nuclear-powered subs to the Navy … calls and says, we’re having a hell of a time finding tradespeople. Can you help?” “I said, I don’t know, man … how many do you need? He says, 140,000.” “These are our submarines. Things go hypersonic, a little sideways with China, Taiwan, our aircraft carriers are no longer the point of the spear. They’re vulnerable.” “Our submarines matter, and these guys have a pinch point because they can’t find welders and electricians to get them built.” “The automotive industry needs 80,000 collision repair and technicians.” “Energy, I don’t even know what the number is, I hear 300,000, I hear 500,000.” “There is a clear and present freakout going on right now. I’ve heard from six governors in the last six months. I’ve heard from the heads of major companies.”




@BarstoolBigCat You’re always in Ricos hole but he’s never in yours


Trump with German Chancellor Merz next to him: "My father was born -- he knows all about my father -- my father was born there. These are places you automatically feel warmly about."



Chinese High-Speed Rail Built Since 2008, Overlaid on the U.S. and Canada


Thomas massie was maybe the most hated Republican in congress by democrats when Biden was in office.


I guess it’s the capitalist in me but I think Sturgill Simpson can release an album however he feels best. The market will let him know if that model was interesting or not. He will have to decide if it was economically viable. But my gut says the profit metrics yall are trying to discuss aren’t the metrics Stu cares about. If he cared only about that, he’d have made meta modern 5 times in a row and cleared $80M+ (his words, I’m paraphrasing from memory from a Joe Rogan interview). But he didn’t.





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@MikeMitchNH I have this argument with folks constantly. Yeah your grandparents could buy a house on one income, but they had one car , 5 outfits for school, a 1300 sq ft home for 4 kids sharing bedrooms. Cooking for EVERY meal and that means from scratch not chips, frozen meals and such.





@BudElliott3 Genuinely how bad is the SEC this year?




Side note - the college football playoff seeding is a joke. No more gimme cupcake games. Record or not some of these teams shouldn’t be in. It’s a different class of football.