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But that’s the way of the future. Manufacturing in 2025 is not the manufacturing of the 1950’s. “Lights out” manufacturing employees robots and a few humans. Bringing manufacturing on shore is a boom for job opportunities — if you are a robot. I don’t see a way for it to rebuild a middle class.

The Blue Alliance Watch webcasts and get team information, competition results, and more from the FIRST Robotics Competition.

It’s the middle of First Robotics competition season— HS kids who have worked for months to be ready for regional competitions in hopes for a ticket to worlds. The next gen of STEM. Check thebluealliance.com and for team 2530… Have fun storming the castle!

Anyone who has spent time building towers of blocks with a toddler is well aware of this.

Gulf Coast shrimpers are celebrating the tariffs as they think it will save the industry in the US. As a GenX-er I remember when shrimp was fancy. If tariffs cause food budgets to tighten and shrimp becomes a luxury once again then it’s not clear they can raise prices anyway. Second-order effects?

I don’t see it as 1A. Cutting off the funding is not telling the plaintiffs not to exercise free speech. The fascinating part is using the third clause of the 5th — no arbitrary government action. If that holds there may be a flood of cases — esp if DOGE doesn’t net any savings.

Healthy is a temporary condition.

This is so cool. I made up bedtime stories for my kids about Octar the Octopus and Fred the Shark. Friendship stories with a rotating ensemble of minor characters. Octar, you guessed it, rode Fred’s back on their adventures. No idea this was real.

Top 10% of earners are 50% of spend. Assume 1%ers won’t change and wealth $$ don’t circulate anyway. 2-10% ers contract 25% (they can without feeling real pain, $250k/year households will cut discretionary spending). This is probably where trickle down actually works — prepare for the recession.

Half of spending in the US is by top 10% of earners. Let’s consider the Fortunate 5% who are in that group but not ultra-wealthy and admit success=opportunity+work. Those are the folks who will contract their spending. 1/2 x 50% x (hypothetical 40% shrink by cutting discretionary spend)=recession