Peter Zaback

Lol

Good timing here:

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People LOVED their factory jobs back in the 60s / 70s.

That's why there were so many songs about how they wanted to stay on the production line for all time and never, ever leave their hometown.

The Onion: Are you excited about the new generation of Democratic leaders? Schumer: The 65-year-olds coming up have really impressed me in how quickly they fall in line.

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Chuck Schumer
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grocery store is ripping me off. it should be buying an equal amount of stuff from me as I buy from it

The headline is absurd but I _do_ think we should get rid of the electoral college

With these clowns in charge, you still have faith those obligations will continue to be honored unaltered?

I can’t compete with this

These are the things that endeared him to Trump

Chemical manufacturing The tariff discussion is driving significant uncertainty and a negative outlook. Project costs are increasing immediately, with significant rises in equipment and piping costs. Computer and electronic product manufacturing Tariffs and the economy may be a drag on business. Tariffs are a constant and increasing source of uncertainty. We do not know what prices we will have to pay for components, and we do not know how customers will respond to increases strictly related to tariffs. Also, it is unknown how the market will change in response to the tariffs and higher costs. We know we will lose opportunities to build products used for other countries because we already have, but will tariffs bring new opportunities from foreign companies wanting to build in the U.S.? That remains to be seen, but the known risk currently seems to outweigh the unknown opportunity. Despite all of the doomsaying in the press, we are not seeing any drop in orders. We have invested heavily in equipment and production capacity in the last 12 months and are seeing the benefits from that now. While a short recession is a possibility due to the reductions in government spending, we view this as a net positive for the economy and our business in the medium term. Trump, tariffs, massive uncertainty—how can you do business planning with all of this uncertainty and the daily changes in direction made by the Trump administration? We have seen a decrease in sales and a lot of external demands. I am thinking of closing the company. The cyclical recovery looks like it is continuing. There is lots of noise and uncertainty with tariffs and rumors of trade restrictions. Fabricated metal product manufacturing We still have some orders that have been on hold, including one major job on hold for a year and a half from a large public company through a good repeating customer contractor. This one job represents almost half of our backlog, but we continue to be assured the project will go …

Miscellaneous manufacturing We are currently working to expand production efforts in Texas. It is very costly and only getting more expensive. We have a long road ahead before we see it having a positive ROI [return on investment]. Raw materials metals prices are surging. Continued uncertainty due to Trump tariffs and chaotic economic and immigration policy is putting downward expectations for sales beyond March 2025. Forty-six percent of our sales are in automotive OEM [original equipment manufacturer], and of that, most parts are shipped to Mexico for further assembly. If tariffs remain in place for a prolonged period of time, the automotive part of our business may dwindle further. Tariffs [are an issue affecting our business]. Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing Tariffs! We need to make decisions, but the ball is constantly moving. This is truly ridiculous. I have been in business for 50 years as of next year, and never have I seen such uncertainty in the market. It is very difficult to plan and make decisions. Paper manufacturing It has been very slow since Jan. 2, and there is continuing slowness that is starting to look longer term. We are starting to plan accordingly. Primary metal manufacturing My company is the beneficiary of steel tariffs, which should, but has not yet, create a tailwind for a short time until our customers adjust to tariff-induced higher prices. Printing and related support activities The craziness over tariffs is very painful as I'm confident this is a reason for a general malaise we are sensing in our customers. If not for some specific work we do this time of year, we would be stupid slow and in stark contrast to where we were 12 months ago. I'm very worried about what the next six to 12 months will look like, especially if these goofy tariffs become a reality. Uncertainty due to tariffs is the wild card. Imports from Mexico and Canada are vital to the business and the industry. U.S. suppliers cannot supply quantities required. …

Dallas Fed Manufacturing Activity Index for March comes in at -16.3 vs -5.0 expected and -8.3 in Feb. And now for the comments section.
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Another alternative there is

Must read, and I especially wish conservatives I once considered friends would do so

FWIW, Skadden represented Musk in his attempt to get out of the price he offered to buy Twitter

"The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions - even when that is exactly what they have announced they will do."

- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

A recent Nature poll has found that 75% of researchers surveyed are considering leaving the United States for jobs abroad, with a higher percentage among early-career researchers.

Many are actively looking for jobs in Canada and Europe.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has made it to the White House pool — someone from his “Timcast” channel will be part of today’s pool duty covering the president.

Last year, DOJ revealed Pool was receiving millions of dollars from the Russian gov. Pool says he didn’t know where it was coming from.

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:

Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

I can't wait for one of them to claim this was genuinely the cause, rather than rank incompetence

Holy fuck, they really are this inhumane

This just can't be real, right?!

I'm not surprised CNBC keeps airing this schlock, but I expect better from Bloomberg than to keep covering her inanity

Presidential Pardons don't cover crimes tried at the Hague just saying

this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news

Are you a US scientist thinking of quitting the States for Europe? Would you be willing to talk about it — anonymity is possible? Send me a DM.

(Please reskeet if you have US contacts!)

Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.

If Trump is serious about shrinking the trade deficit, he should start with changing the rules that allow US multinationals to sidestep taxes at home.

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I believe that deliberate ignorance requires one to be at least somewhat malicious

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