Macron Touts EU "Strategic Autonomy" in Beijing, De-Dollarization is Far Away, Israeli Judicial Reform & Its Models/Enablers, Golden Age of Aerospace, Camps for Witches
Ghana has a very good reputation in terms of law and administration, especially when compared to neighbours like Nigeria. I know investors who have invested there and have done well.
Back several jobs ago when I got my start out in the working world, I used to manage Ghanians (large facility with an almost-entirely new immigrant composition) and they were the most wonderful people to deal with on a daily basis.
I recall you lived in Britain so you’ll know The Guardian isn’t worth bothering about.
Characteristic of the EU under present leadership that it says nothing about the U.S. getting ready to sanction a member state while it’s sending billions to a country it previously classed as too corrupt for membership.
Apparently they have all the carrots to get things moving, but they stick to sticks.
Not a wise strategy in East Europe. We respond so much better to carrots. Just ask Soros, he came here with a big bag of them, and in Niccolo's color revolution series, Budapest is the nexus of the whole operation, and a few million bucks topple governments.
If sticks worked, we would never wanted to get rid of the Soviets.
TFW when your autistic talent is making YouTube vids about guessing locations on google maps instead of rockets.... seriously though, a good friend of mine’s great-grandfather came to the US via paperclip.
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"When Viktor Orbán was elected prime minister in Hungary in 2010, he quickly enacted a constitutional amendment to change the nomination and election procedure for constitutional court judges, as well as changing the number of judges on the court from 11 to 15."
Ok? Btw, some countries in the EU don't even have constitutional courts (way ahead of us in the Freedom Index or whatever)
(Fidesz replaced the whole constitution in 2012, and guess how much it impacted the judiciary? Yeah)
"Fears of zombies, evil factories, possessed politicians, ambulances roaming at night stealing blood, Satanic murders, ritualistic killings for company profit, the international trade in body parts, digital curses and hexes, penis-snatching, killer mobile phones and more proliferated under what scholars called ‘occult economies’. "
Okay hear me out, maybe they're on to something? Just looking at Uganda for example and America, I can't help but think we're the insane ones and we need to pray that Africans be left alone.
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"Gábor Halmai of the European University Institute in Florence"
Here's an old furniture from the extended Soros universe. Nice gig in Florence. These people never land hard. Permanently angry since his access to hard power was cut in 2010.
"said Anna Wójcik, a Polish legal scholar"
I wonder.. never mind
"Anna Wójcik is Re:Constitution affiliate researcher at the Democracy Institute, Central European University"
The heads of the same hydra telling you how your democracy is backsliding, because people don't want the hydra in power.
There are worthy critics of Orban's state out there. Truly independent people. The keepers of democracy kind. Sadly, they don't make it into the Guardian. These people up there just want power.
Here's a great article on what could happen if the dollar is no longer the global reserve currency. It's not a bad thing. In fact, it will stop this ridiculous behemoth of finance capitalism that is a huge parasite on the working class.
The Global South hear of England and think of Boris Johnson and Winnie the Poo...not Henry V or Lord Amherst (best remembered for the smallpox infected blankets).
It's interesting watching Israeli and American Jews go such separate ways. I get to see a microcosm of this with my family, with the older members being 100% ethnically Jewish and by the same amount committed Zionists, while my cousins kids are only 25% and if they care about Israel at all it's only in regards to the treatment of Palestinians.
I guess it's not surprising, despite what certain ethnic lobbying groups say, America has been extraordinarily good to Jews. There just isn't a lot of hostile outside pressure forcing Jews into enclaves or mafia type protection organizations or such. There is some advantage to a Jewish last name in American society, but that doesn't require going to temple or having been part of Alpha Epsilon Pi.
Miami is very close to Cuba and functions as a gateway to Latin America. The retention of Spanish as a lingua franca within the community would do a lot to fortify ethnic identity.
Re, Ukrainian Canadians I recently saw a video about globalisation starring Chrystia Freeland. There was a scene in which she was talking to her very young son in Ukrainian. Extraordinary that anyone would take the effort to teach an obscure E. European language (to the point of fluency) to a child in Alberta (3rd generation born in North America). It suggested a considerable degree of commitment to the cause (that being the OUM-B, since Freeland has been seen in public fondling party regalia).
The existential contrast between conditions in the two countries guarantees a fair degree of political divergence. Israeli Jews will prioritise their own survival, while US Jews will prioritise the game-playing and virtue-signaling of Western politics. It will be instructive to see how US Jews react to the next stage of the managed decline of the US.
I get the impression that the social and political priority for American Jews lies in maintaining the great 'liberal' coalition of Jews, blacks, white liberals, Latinos, Homos, Muslims, etc. Consequently, they can't really be seen to be supporting an increasingly nationalist (for want of a better term) Israel without risking expulsion from the progressive club.
I read the other day that more Democrats sympathise with the Palestinians rather than Israel for the first time, so it's obvious which way the wind is blowing.
We'll see how far that strategy goes. The latest iteration of the New Deal (embodied in Biden's administration) lasts only as long as the money-printing. The next crisis in monetary policy could well set off a socio-political volcano.
The American habit of using foreign policy to mobilise political support within US communities is going to backfire on everyone. The Democrat base are in for a few surprises on the foreign policy front. The old narratives and the experiments of the Clinton era are not so impressive now (South Africa most spectacularly, but also NAFTA, WTO, the Palestinian Authority). The winds are blowing it all away.
Quite interestingly a lot of "equity" has been achieved in progressive organizations by shutting out or removing Jews, because many of the white people at the top of universities, etc. were in fact Jewish. Curious if they're able to reclaim their position in the progressive hierarchy and if not how long they let this persist
Hashem has defeated many challengers across the centuries but he's going to have a hard time fighting the new, strong and righteous god of Intersectional Victimhood.
A desert god with a long list of Thou Shalts and Thou Shalt Nots vs a caring and compassionate god who tells you the customer is always right and who just wants everyone to feel "safe and included". And the 10 Commandments never even mentioned George Floyd or preferred pronouns!
Hashem may just have to die so the children of his tribe can get into the Ivy League...
Not 10... 613; and not solely categorized by "Thou Shalts and Thou Shalt Nots" -- there are Time-Bound vs. Non, Men vs. Women, In-Israel vs. Outside, and Man-to-Man vs. Man-to-God. If you look at the other 603 commandments, you'll find that many (if not most) are "caring and compassionate".
But yes, none of them "mention[ed] George Floyd or preferred pronouns".
That is the beauty of organised religion...it is flexible and suitable for all occassions. Wrath and justice one minute, mercy and loving-kindness the next. No humanist ever understood human nature half as well and philosophers object to paradox only because they find life problematic.
I appreciate the aerospace essay but think it suggests a gloomier takeaway than reality. US dominance in space remains (mainly due to SpaceX) and the idea that their suppliers are retirement age machinists is not true (I actively work with aerospace suppliers). Collocating production and engineering is a strategy still in use in aerospace though likely not enough by the big defense contractors who have seemingly lost their edge. Top aerospace talent doesn’t go to Lockheed anymore because the skunk works minded individuals are jumping into the scrappier aero startup space
I hear a lot about "the guys who know how to run things and fix things are now close to retirement". How much of this is true overall, and not just in aerospace?
My impression is that, like basically any field, the most experienced tend to be best at things and closest to retirement. That quote suggests there is some dearth of middle experience people to backfill the high experience people. This could be the case, but my personal experience in manufacturing doesn’t support that theory. Lots of young people run machines, the best of them become supervisors, best supervisors become managers or start their own shops. Working on the procurement side of things, you don’t want to walk into a machine shop and realize there’s one 60 year old guy who does everything - a shop operating like that will naturally get less business if its customers take the time to look into them.
Apr 16, 2023·edited Apr 16, 2023Liked by Niccolo Soldo
The problem with de-industrialization is that while "the most experienced tend to be best at things and closest to retirement" still remains true, in the background there's a major difference, compared to growth or stagnation: the stop of hiring new talent.
The Germans have just shut down their nuclear plants. Imagine if they decided tomorrow to reverse course: all that old talent is still out there that ran the plant yesterday. The problem is that nukes were being poo-pood for so long, since 1986 and increasingly after 2011, that for young people to seek a career in the field, in Germany, must have been as wise as becoming a copywriter today, when we have ChatGPT.
Hungary has a huge deficit in physics teachers, as anyone who can qualify to complete the university course is better off choosing a different profession. This was evident 20 years ago, to me, this sudden "hiring stop" in the field, as fresh graduate. But there were plenty of teachers around to make the problem go unnoticed up until today.
That’s fair and those examples clearly demonstrate the element of professional and training momentum of certain industries - it just doesn’t click with me for a lot of blue collar manufacturing. Machine shops today are so fundamentally different than they were when America began industrializing. A few low skill machine-tenders, a CNC programmer, and a few admin roles can achieve the same output that once took dozens of trained machinists. A lot of shops run “lights out” and double their total material output without any requisite labor force addition. Other manufacturing niches are similarly evolved.
Americas work is cut out for it in re-industrializing silicon and electronics manufacturing. With aerospace, GE has been building jet engines in the US continuously and has a majority of the worlds wide body aircraft market. Manufacturing jobs are down in the US as a whole but we don’t need to replace the same amount of jobs to get the same amount of output in modern manufacturing.
This guy made a USB-C iPhone. I guess he's American. He ordered the custom PCB from China.
Jet engines were one of the last things China had to get from Russia for their military jets. Those industries are resilient, for sure. But Brazil has its own aircraft manufacturer, Embraer. You can have most of society living like Brazilians and have an aerospace industry.
Disagree on the CNCing necessarily being done in Asia. They have the low labor costs and subsidy benefits of federal governments wanting to suck in that work, but they lose on quality and transit cost. In low and medium volumes, the price differences of going to Asia vs. keeping machining domestic are less than a lot of people think. While it is the exception, I’ve seen shops in Ohio offer lower prices than shops in Taiwan/Thailand. In the world of aerospace-type volumes and part sizes, it doesn’t make the same economic sense to move to Asia that it does for high volume consumer electronics. Simple cost analysis drives different rationales for 1000 engine frames per year vs. millions of phone housings per year. Particularly in hardware development mode, the cost to fly the thing from Asia is absurd but less absurd than waiting 3 months for it to come via ship and delaying months of development. Domestic manufacturing options are and have been fundamental for low and medium volume products, the hollowing out of these skills have not been as dramatic as in electronics.
Completely agree that a society could be living like Brazilians and still maintain aerospace manufacturing. Producing iPhones and jet engines are governed by different economic decision making.
There are a lot of middle experience people in my field who are locked out of the top levels due to the Boomers never retiring. There will be a learning curve but they can fill in those roles well enough imo. I do worry about the subsequent generation though as I've seen direct evidence that standards from the universities are dropping
This has happened to a large extent but the best firms with the best geographic locations kept their Boomers as long as possible. As for the field I try to remain vague as my Twitter account is moderately sized and I have seen smaller accounts than mine face serious consequences for poasting
Macron's statements are a sop to protesters, enraged that they must delay their retirement, while the government lavishes funds on the Ukrainian regime.
Ignore what Macron says. Pay attention to what he does, which is drop to his knees when the Empire snaps its fingers.
Of course, that's not enough for the Empire. They want Macron to demonstrate submission by words as well as deeds. "I'm your little bitch, Daddy!"
Basically, Henry J. Kaiser built five shipyards and surrounding infrastructure and a city out of a mud flat, then cranked out oceangoing cargo ships faster than the Axis could make torpedoes. All in a couple of years. BTW, Kaiser had no shipbuilding experience when he started.
I don’t know if it’s prejudice (from me) but it’s been on my mind for a while a suspicious number of ‘hawks’ seem to be female - von der Leyen, Truss, Nuland, Kaja ‘brainwash the Russians’ Kallas, Gavrilita, Marin, Freeland (surely Niccolo’s second-favourite politician), Wong, Zourabichvili. Apart from Morawiecki and the seemingly identical Baltic men their male counterparts seem dopey nodders-along by comparison.
In the cases of von der Leyen and Freeland there’s some potentially dodgy stuff in their bios which say conflict of interest to me.
Maybe Freeland’s previous offences were adjudicated in an earlier post.
"a suspicious number of ‘hawks’ seem to be female"
Well naturally---the Party line in Washington is hawkish. And female passivity is a myth.
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.” -Orwell, 1984
I see the Polish (the same applies to the Baltics) position more as a kind of prostitution. Instead of making money the honest way they make money by housing US troops and fueling russofobia. The worse the image of Russia is the more money flows in their direction for military bases and exercises, Poland based support projects for Russian opposition and fences, not to mention extra subsidies from Brussels. As a bonus they get VIP treatment by US presidents.
But just as with sexual prostitution they pay a price. They could play a role as interface between the EU and Russia. That was the role they played in Soviet times quite successfully. By gradually closing the border with Russia they put themselves in the periphery of the EU. In the long term that will mean poverty and emigration.
Unfortunately it is a self-reinforcing policy that makes Poland more and more dependent on the money that those dirty games bring in.
The irony is that, take away Russia and Poland would go from America's Special Little Buddy to a loudmouthed middling satrapy of no particular importance, sort of a Colombia with delusions of grandeur but no cocaine.
Ukraine would go from The Outpost Of Freedom And Democracy to a pariah state.
Looks like the Poles will have to learn the hard way that Washington has neither friends or allies, only vassals and enemies. And you're either one or the other. For now, Poland is America's f*ck-buddy but the second a sexier proposition comes along, she'll be dumped like cold pizza. In the meantime, Poland will be heavily infected with doses of DIE and trannyism which will render her sterile and single-for-life.
I don’t think so about the trannyism. Someone got arrested a few years ago for depicting the Black Madonna of Częstochowa with a rainbow halo. Really Samantha Power ought to be in Poland right now talking about human rights and challenges to democracy, but military considerations preempt it.
Imo Poland has more in common culturally with Russia than it has the U.S.
Good point. The Poles have a more traditionalist culture and US genderbeasts may be locked in a cupboard for a while the Poles are prepared to march into the Russian meatgrinder as the next proxy-du-jour.
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“Not only were women being killed as witches in higher numbers than expected...”
“Than expected” caught my eye. I wonder how many “witch-killings” we were expecting?
Lots of great stuff to read here, thanks for posting!
Ghana has a very good reputation in terms of law and administration, especially when compared to neighbours like Nigeria. I know investors who have invested there and have done well.
Back several jobs ago when I got my start out in the working world, I used to manage Ghanians (large facility with an almost-entirely new immigrant composition) and they were the most wonderful people to deal with on a daily basis.
Fascinating!
The aerospace essay was a very enjoyable read.
"Netanyahu’s assault on the judiciary reminds many of the first steps taken by “illiberal” governments in Hungary, Poland and elsewhere."
Thanks, Guardian. In Hungary the judiciary is famously unmolested, not a single pinky finger was laid on them even when Socialism ended.
They'll have to wait for justice in the next life.
And because of them, so do the rest of us :(
I recall you lived in Britain so you’ll know The Guardian isn’t worth bothering about.
Characteristic of the EU under present leadership that it says nothing about the U.S. getting ready to sanction a member state while it’s sending billions to a country it previously classed as too corrupt for membership.
Apparently they have all the carrots to get things moving, but they stick to sticks.
Not a wise strategy in East Europe. We respond so much better to carrots. Just ask Soros, he came here with a big bag of them, and in Niccolo's color revolution series, Budapest is the nexus of the whole operation, and a few million bucks topple governments.
If sticks worked, we would never wanted to get rid of the Soviets.
TFW when your autistic talent is making YouTube vids about guessing locations on google maps instead of rockets.... seriously though, a good friend of mine’s great-grandfather came to the US via paperclip.
"When Viktor Orbán was elected prime minister in Hungary in 2010, he quickly enacted a constitutional amendment to change the nomination and election procedure for constitutional court judges, as well as changing the number of judges on the court from 11 to 15."
Ok? Btw, some countries in the EU don't even have constitutional courts (way ahead of us in the Freedom Index or whatever)
(Fidesz replaced the whole constitution in 2012, and guess how much it impacted the judiciary? Yeah)
"Fears of zombies, evil factories, possessed politicians, ambulances roaming at night stealing blood, Satanic murders, ritualistic killings for company profit, the international trade in body parts, digital curses and hexes, penis-snatching, killer mobile phones and more proliferated under what scholars called ‘occult economies’. "
Okay hear me out, maybe they're on to something? Just looking at Uganda for example and America, I can't help but think we're the insane ones and we need to pray that Africans be left alone.
Yeah, now that you mention it...
"Gábor Halmai of the European University Institute in Florence"
Here's an old furniture from the extended Soros universe. Nice gig in Florence. These people never land hard. Permanently angry since his access to hard power was cut in 2010.
"said Anna Wójcik, a Polish legal scholar"
I wonder.. never mind
"Anna Wójcik is Re:Constitution affiliate researcher at the Democracy Institute, Central European University"
The heads of the same hydra telling you how your democracy is backsliding, because people don't want the hydra in power.
There are worthy critics of Orban's state out there. Truly independent people. The keepers of democracy kind. Sadly, they don't make it into the Guardian. These people up there just want power.
Oh look. It’s the 16:19 project.
On Sunday.
British Summer Time.
Here's a great article on what could happen if the dollar is no longer the global reserve currency. It's not a bad thing. In fact, it will stop this ridiculous behemoth of finance capitalism that is a huge parasite on the working class.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/04/de-dollarization-and-trade-be-careful.html
Globalism as an ideology has captured the minds of many in the Global South.
Yes, and very foolishly the Global South from greed turns to 🇷🇺 and China 🇨🇳.
Globalist trade is the US Navy, neither 🇷🇺🇨🇳 can protect Global South.
🌎 south does not realize the 🇺🇸 Empire having destroyed the Republic now destroys its own Global rules and will sail fly and march against them.
The Global South hear of England and think of Boris Johnson and Winnie the Poo...not Henry V or Lord Amherst (best remembered for the smallpox infected blankets).
A mistake.
You may be interested in this.
https://marhobane.substack.com/p/cape-to-nato
Ernest Hemingway siad he went broke "a little at at time then all at once"
de-dollarization is like going broke,
particularly as reality is not supportive of the american empire.
Excellent and informative as always.
It's interesting watching Israeli and American Jews go such separate ways. I get to see a microcosm of this with my family, with the older members being 100% ethnically Jewish and by the same amount committed Zionists, while my cousins kids are only 25% and if they care about Israel at all it's only in regards to the treatment of Palestinians.
The story of assimilation in one post.
I guess it's not surprising, despite what certain ethnic lobbying groups say, America has been extraordinarily good to Jews. There just isn't a lot of hostile outside pressure forcing Jews into enclaves or mafia type protection organizations or such. There is some advantage to a Jewish last name in American society, but that doesn't require going to temple or having been part of Alpha Epsilon Pi.
Wonder why this hasn't applied to Miami Cubans or Ukrainian Canadians.
Miami is very close to Cuba and functions as a gateway to Latin America. The retention of Spanish as a lingua franca within the community would do a lot to fortify ethnic identity.
Re, Ukrainian Canadians I recently saw a video about globalisation starring Chrystia Freeland. There was a scene in which she was talking to her very young son in Ukrainian. Extraordinary that anyone would take the effort to teach an obscure E. European language (to the point of fluency) to a child in Alberta (3rd generation born in North America). It suggested a considerable degree of commitment to the cause (that being the OUM-B, since Freeland has been seen in public fondling party regalia).
So totally obviously not Nazi.
The existential contrast between conditions in the two countries guarantees a fair degree of political divergence. Israeli Jews will prioritise their own survival, while US Jews will prioritise the game-playing and virtue-signaling of Western politics. It will be instructive to see how US Jews react to the next stage of the managed decline of the US.
I get the impression that the social and political priority for American Jews lies in maintaining the great 'liberal' coalition of Jews, blacks, white liberals, Latinos, Homos, Muslims, etc. Consequently, they can't really be seen to be supporting an increasingly nationalist (for want of a better term) Israel without risking expulsion from the progressive club.
I read the other day that more Democrats sympathise with the Palestinians rather than Israel for the first time, so it's obvious which way the wind is blowing.
We'll see how far that strategy goes. The latest iteration of the New Deal (embodied in Biden's administration) lasts only as long as the money-printing. The next crisis in monetary policy could well set off a socio-political volcano.
The American habit of using foreign policy to mobilise political support within US communities is going to backfire on everyone. The Democrat base are in for a few surprises on the foreign policy front. The old narratives and the experiments of the Clinton era are not so impressive now (South Africa most spectacularly, but also NAFTA, WTO, the Palestinian Authority). The winds are blowing it all away.
Quite interestingly a lot of "equity" has been achieved in progressive organizations by shutting out or removing Jews, because many of the white people at the top of universities, etc. were in fact Jewish. Curious if they're able to reclaim their position in the progressive hierarchy and if not how long they let this persist
Hashem has defeated many challengers across the centuries but he's going to have a hard time fighting the new, strong and righteous god of Intersectional Victimhood.
A desert god with a long list of Thou Shalts and Thou Shalt Nots vs a caring and compassionate god who tells you the customer is always right and who just wants everyone to feel "safe and included". And the 10 Commandments never even mentioned George Floyd or preferred pronouns!
Hashem may just have to die so the children of his tribe can get into the Ivy League...
Not 10... 613; and not solely categorized by "Thou Shalts and Thou Shalt Nots" -- there are Time-Bound vs. Non, Men vs. Women, In-Israel vs. Outside, and Man-to-Man vs. Man-to-God. If you look at the other 603 commandments, you'll find that many (if not most) are "caring and compassionate".
But yes, none of them "mention[ed] George Floyd or preferred pronouns".
Sounds like Hashem got feminised.
desert god is for strong people and hard times
blue-haired They/Them god is for weak people and good times
Hashem will come roaring back w a vengeance someday, maybe around the same time as when the dollar gets dethroned.
That is the beauty of organised religion...it is flexible and suitable for all occassions. Wrath and justice one minute, mercy and loving-kindness the next. No humanist ever understood human nature half as well and philosophers object to paradox only because they find life problematic.
I appreciate the aerospace essay but think it suggests a gloomier takeaway than reality. US dominance in space remains (mainly due to SpaceX) and the idea that their suppliers are retirement age machinists is not true (I actively work with aerospace suppliers). Collocating production and engineering is a strategy still in use in aerospace though likely not enough by the big defense contractors who have seemingly lost their edge. Top aerospace talent doesn’t go to Lockheed anymore because the skunk works minded individuals are jumping into the scrappier aero startup space
I hear a lot about "the guys who know how to run things and fix things are now close to retirement". How much of this is true overall, and not just in aerospace?
My impression is that, like basically any field, the most experienced tend to be best at things and closest to retirement. That quote suggests there is some dearth of middle experience people to backfill the high experience people. This could be the case, but my personal experience in manufacturing doesn’t support that theory. Lots of young people run machines, the best of them become supervisors, best supervisors become managers or start their own shops. Working on the procurement side of things, you don’t want to walk into a machine shop and realize there’s one 60 year old guy who does everything - a shop operating like that will naturally get less business if its customers take the time to look into them.
The problem with de-industrialization is that while "the most experienced tend to be best at things and closest to retirement" still remains true, in the background there's a major difference, compared to growth or stagnation: the stop of hiring new talent.
The Germans have just shut down their nuclear plants. Imagine if they decided tomorrow to reverse course: all that old talent is still out there that ran the plant yesterday. The problem is that nukes were being poo-pood for so long, since 1986 and increasingly after 2011, that for young people to seek a career in the field, in Germany, must have been as wise as becoming a copywriter today, when we have ChatGPT.
Hungary has a huge deficit in physics teachers, as anyone who can qualify to complete the university course is better off choosing a different profession. This was evident 20 years ago, to me, this sudden "hiring stop" in the field, as fresh graduate. But there were plenty of teachers around to make the problem go unnoticed up until today.
That’s fair and those examples clearly demonstrate the element of professional and training momentum of certain industries - it just doesn’t click with me for a lot of blue collar manufacturing. Machine shops today are so fundamentally different than they were when America began industrializing. A few low skill machine-tenders, a CNC programmer, and a few admin roles can achieve the same output that once took dozens of trained machinists. A lot of shops run “lights out” and double their total material output without any requisite labor force addition. Other manufacturing niches are similarly evolved.
Americas work is cut out for it in re-industrializing silicon and electronics manufacturing. With aerospace, GE has been building jet engines in the US continuously and has a majority of the worlds wide body aircraft market. Manufacturing jobs are down in the US as a whole but we don’t need to replace the same amount of jobs to get the same amount of output in modern manufacturing.
I'm sure those multipliers don't hurt, yet if you want to have something to be CNCd, you order it from Southeast Asia.
They have the know how, and the same multiplier applies to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yudWXta6dM
This guy made a USB-C iPhone. I guess he's American. He ordered the custom PCB from China.
Jet engines were one of the last things China had to get from Russia for their military jets. Those industries are resilient, for sure. But Brazil has its own aircraft manufacturer, Embraer. You can have most of society living like Brazilians and have an aerospace industry.
Disagree on the CNCing necessarily being done in Asia. They have the low labor costs and subsidy benefits of federal governments wanting to suck in that work, but they lose on quality and transit cost. In low and medium volumes, the price differences of going to Asia vs. keeping machining domestic are less than a lot of people think. While it is the exception, I’ve seen shops in Ohio offer lower prices than shops in Taiwan/Thailand. In the world of aerospace-type volumes and part sizes, it doesn’t make the same economic sense to move to Asia that it does for high volume consumer electronics. Simple cost analysis drives different rationales for 1000 engine frames per year vs. millions of phone housings per year. Particularly in hardware development mode, the cost to fly the thing from Asia is absurd but less absurd than waiting 3 months for it to come via ship and delaying months of development. Domestic manufacturing options are and have been fundamental for low and medium volume products, the hollowing out of these skills have not been as dramatic as in electronics.
Completely agree that a society could be living like Brazilians and still maintain aerospace manufacturing. Producing iPhones and jet engines are governed by different economic decision making.
There are a lot of middle experience people in my field who are locked out of the top levels due to the Boomers never retiring. There will be a learning curve but they can fill in those roles well enough imo. I do worry about the subsequent generation though as I've seen direct evidence that standards from the universities are dropping
Interesting, what field is that? I would expect modern middle career folks to jump to another company if they are boxed out of upward progression
This has happened to a large extent but the best firms with the best geographic locations kept their Boomers as long as possible. As for the field I try to remain vague as my Twitter account is moderately sized and I have seen smaller accounts than mine face serious consequences for poasting
Macron's statements are a sop to protesters, enraged that they must delay their retirement, while the government lavishes funds on the Ukrainian regime.
Ignore what Macron says. Pay attention to what he does, which is drop to his knees when the Empire snaps its fingers.
Of course, that's not enough for the Empire. They want Macron to demonstrate submission by words as well as deeds. "I'm your little bitch, Daddy!"
Also, it ain't just aerospace. Want to blow your mind? Watch this, about the Kaiser Shipyards at Richmond, California.
https://youtu.be/LUm6xjXq3MU
Basically, Henry J. Kaiser built five shipyards and surrounding infrastructure and a city out of a mud flat, then cranked out oceangoing cargo ships faster than the Axis could make torpedoes. All in a couple of years. BTW, Kaiser had no shipbuilding experience when he started.
Borrell can keep his trap shut. He’s got Covid.
I had a good lol at ‘Europe’s most stupid woman’.
I don’t know if it’s prejudice (from me) but it’s been on my mind for a while a suspicious number of ‘hawks’ seem to be female - von der Leyen, Truss, Nuland, Kaja ‘brainwash the Russians’ Kallas, Gavrilita, Marin, Freeland (surely Niccolo’s second-favourite politician), Wong, Zourabichvili. Apart from Morawiecki and the seemingly identical Baltic men their male counterparts seem dopey nodders-along by comparison.
In the cases of von der Leyen and Freeland there’s some potentially dodgy stuff in their bios which say conflict of interest to me.
Maybe Freeland’s previous offences were adjudicated in an earlier post.
Clinton, Hillary Rodham.
I understand that von der Leyern was appointed to her present position without the support of the German government. Says it all.
Another case of "failing upwards".
"a suspicious number of ‘hawks’ seem to be female"
Well naturally---the Party line in Washington is hawkish. And female passivity is a myth.
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.” -Orwell, 1984
I see the Polish (the same applies to the Baltics) position more as a kind of prostitution. Instead of making money the honest way they make money by housing US troops and fueling russofobia. The worse the image of Russia is the more money flows in their direction for military bases and exercises, Poland based support projects for Russian opposition and fences, not to mention extra subsidies from Brussels. As a bonus they get VIP treatment by US presidents.
But just as with sexual prostitution they pay a price. They could play a role as interface between the EU and Russia. That was the role they played in Soviet times quite successfully. By gradually closing the border with Russia they put themselves in the periphery of the EU. In the long term that will mean poverty and emigration.
Unfortunately it is a self-reinforcing policy that makes Poland more and more dependent on the money that those dirty games bring in.
The irony is that, take away Russia and Poland would go from America's Special Little Buddy to a loudmouthed middling satrapy of no particular importance, sort of a Colombia with delusions of grandeur but no cocaine.
Ukraine would go from The Outpost Of Freedom And Democracy to a pariah state.
Looks like the Poles will have to learn the hard way that Washington has neither friends or allies, only vassals and enemies. And you're either one or the other. For now, Poland is America's f*ck-buddy but the second a sexier proposition comes along, she'll be dumped like cold pizza. In the meantime, Poland will be heavily infected with doses of DIE and trannyism which will render her sterile and single-for-life.
I don’t think so about the trannyism. Someone got arrested a few years ago for depicting the Black Madonna of Częstochowa with a rainbow halo. Really Samantha Power ought to be in Poland right now talking about human rights and challenges to democracy, but military considerations preempt it.
Imo Poland has more in common culturally with Russia than it has the U.S.
Good point. The Poles have a more traditionalist culture and US genderbeasts may be locked in a cupboard for a while the Poles are prepared to march into the Russian meatgrinder as the next proxy-du-jour.
If Kurds had their own nation, would they behave like the Poles?