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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • If the US tariffs stand, I think the chance of recession during this year already is near 100%.
    So my guess is that the financial analysts are betting that there is a good chance like 50% that these tariffs are removed very quickly. And by very quickly I really mean VERY quickly, like in a matter of a couple of weeks.

    The economy in many places around the world is already shifting away from USA. The obvious boycott by Canada and also in Europe by consumers, is only the surface.

    To run a company you want stability, and companies all over the world are already seeking alternatives to USA, just as American companies are already seeking alternatives to imports, seeking stability at the cost of profitability, making price increases inevitable either way.

    This will stall economic progress, it will create jobs and take away jobs in USA, but the jobs created will be lower wage than the ones that are lost. American production will take over low wage jobs from abroad, and despite the tariffs making competition easier on those jobs, it will not make them high wage jobs.

    It will make US trading partners poorer, so they can afford less US imports. And companies are already looking towards ways the highest profit US exports can be replaced. Those are all in services, something not even considered in the moronic US trade deficit calculation. But the area where USA actually has huge surplusses, and at profits often nearing 90%!! Those jobs are at risk now!

    All in all it will make both USA and trading partners relatively poorer. But probably USA will be hit the hardest, as the outside world has a more than twice as big trading block than USA has with itself. If that scales linearly, USA will be hit twice as hard by their own tariffs than the rest of the world.

    Personally we’ve stopped buying everything American that we can. And as the one who does most of the shopping, I was actually surprised by the amount of American things we used.

    The failing stock market will make it harder to find venture capital, and investments will go down. This too is guaranteed to slow down economic growth.

    On a side note, USA has now forced EU to cooperate with China more on trade, something we held back on for security reasons.
    But now that security balance has changed dramatically. USA is no longer a more secure partner than China is.
    For instance USA is aligning more with Russia now than even China is!!

    I don’t see how this will not end with a recession for USA maybe already for 2nd and 3rd quarters, which I guess is the soonest possible actual recession (2 quarters of negative growth).










  • It’s way faster than most cars can drive. Even high end performance cars often have a limiter at 250 km/h.
    Here in Denmark, the legal limit on high speed roads is 130 km/h,and if you drive 200 or faster, your car is immediately confiscated, and you lose your drivers license.
    Many electric cars are limited to 160 km/h.

    So in short 300 is about twice what most would consider responsible. The breaking distance is 550 meter or more than half a km, in ideal weather with no slopes, and a response time to push the brakes of only half a second. That’s almost 5 times the breaking distance compared to driving 130 km/h (113 m).
    Just in the half second to respond, the car will have moved 42 meters at 300 km/h!!

    https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/stopping-distance





  • It’s a Victorianism syndrome,

    https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195176322.001.0001/acref-9780195176322-e-1665

    Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834—were introduced for the moral reform of paupers

    Where morality has nothing to do with actual morality like in whether it is doing harm. But everything to do with government making decisions over your private life and your body.

    This mindset is disgusting, immoral and childish. And it so permeate everything about most English speaking countries culture for some reason.
    It’s a kind of a thought police, that has no base in actual morality. But in bodily inhibitions and insecurities, supported by superstitions about an old man in the sky who disapprove.

    So anything having to do with naked skin and sex is a nono. Even if it’s not actually sex but only loosely related to it, like being gay or trans.

    If they were really serious about this sex thing, stating to be CIS should be exactly as problematic, and pushing the thought of marriage on children would be extremely immoral, because that too indicates sex. Which has almost become the sole purpose of marriage under the moral standards of Christianity, as it’s the only allowed form of sex.

    So in short, the answer to your question could be boiled down to “brainworm”.
    There is no logic or moral explanation, that doesn’t boil down to inhibitions, control and religion.


  • I only see length on that box???
    What the fuck use is that?
    Also the image shows th plug sticking out, and as (2)40 mm, with something else that is unclear to me as (2)35mm.
    Personally by the quality shown, the illustrations are useless to me.

    The plug is 6mm meant for 4-5 mm screws, there is no indication of drill sizes that I can se.

    There is also a measure on the right of (2) 12.5 mm which is completely unclear what is for?

    I don’t get you point.
    In the old days we got rawlplugs in plastic holders, with holes for the size of drill to be used. The hole for the drill is ALWAYS smaller than the plug (obviously for the previously mentioned reasons)