Why are you so scared of China?

I can only guess you have not been terribly observant since at least the 60's....

China is antagonistic towards the US, and our enemy.

One generally does not aid and abed their enemy who is actively seeking to undermine and destroy them.

US wants rare earth minerals, China wants NVidia chips [reuters.com].

The US has PLENTY of rare earth minerals on our own land...we just need to open it up to domestic mining and processing.

Wut?

Are you having arguments with me in your head, where you make something up that I said, then utterly demolished my ignorance with your rapier wit and undeniable insights?

I double dare you to show where I said that these two jobs were for out of work people.

Your utter dishonesty might be fooling you, but how do I put this.

either show where I wrote thartn. to be exposed as a pathological liar, for those made up arguments are more important than the truth. Because Yoiu were the one posting that

"I have seen many people's bodies wrecked by doing a trade. I have never really seen anyone make a lot of money."

And you apparently took great umbrage when I mentioned two jobs that pay well. You didn't like that did you? Somehow in your twisted mind, you made that me saying that all out of work people should become one of those only two jobs.

That's it - Now I think we've seen enough that your truth is only the truth in your mind, actual facts are irrelevant because you are a pathological liar.

Answer if you feel like it, you're just a random troll on the internet. I have no further need to interact with liars. Keep on dissembling though, dig that hole deeper.

Yup, and always will be. 8^)

Thanks so much for that link, I watched every second of it - and it is ten years old! But it is correct, and interesting that they put stats to it.

Considering the media today, we here in the west have gone backwards, and those Chimpanzees will have a much better score. I was a bit surprised about how poorly Sweden did.

I just gave hints to see if others would watch it and perhaps get their worldview altered.

I'm not certain why you are fixating on machinists. Of course there are only so many machinist careers. And to become a master, you have to go through several stages, like apprentice, and journeyman before becoming a master. And that does not fit in with present day demands of getting top dollar immediately. They would also probably find the work too stressful, and not high enough on their list of socially acceptable work.

And frankly, a lot of present day college graduates simply aren't capable, they are not intelligent enough, nor have the top notch mathematical skills needed, or the ability to work calmly while dealing with a process that can destroy millions of dollars with even a tiny mistake. So the supply vs demand calculation is always going to favor the adroit.

But I don't recall me saying that there were some huge number of machinist jobs. I noted that the finish carpenters are doing over 100K per year - btw, that's around 167 percent of the US median salary.

Perhaps unlike those who have bought into the College degree is the calling card mantra of the Übermenchen, and without one, you are subnormal, I've worked with enough to know many are pretty sharp people. I also know that showing respect is a great way to ensure the job is done right.

Why do you ask, if I called him a loser, when I most very specifically called him a loser? His mentality is what shows he is a loser.

Standards. Well homie, you can demand utter perfection if you feel that is the path forward, and anything less must be rejected. Those are perfectly legitimate standards. because a person's standards are their own.

Even when they might be so unrealistic they guarantee failure.

You cannot legislate morality. You cannot legislate love.

And can you give me a scenario of how a person who believes completely that as narcc wrote:

We're staring down a global recession, possible nuclear war, and watching the leader of the free world build concentration camps. If that wasn't enough, isolationist policies are creating a power vacuum that the most dangerous actors are best positioned to fill. Oh, and fascism and authoritarianism are making a comeback. Maybe you can find a story about a police officer not shooting a puppy when responding to a welfare check, but I doubt it.

Narcc obviously hates the USA, just as his words say. Any incident just reinforces his deep abiding hatred.

So now that the cases he focuses on his hatred, Tell me how a person with that level of hate can even start to fix the thing he hates. Hatred eliminating hatred - tell us how that works.

By the way, I work with a lot of police. Funny we live in a world where they universally love shooting puppies and are utterly evil, while my personal experience with hundreds of them is that most are a decent sort. If we are holding all police to a few problematic ones, doe it not mean we have to be holding others who hate them to those high standards?

Now get to your safe room - there are people who don't agree with you. A trigger alert for a trigger alert, and we don't want you getting traumatized.

So, exactly who thinks this is a good idea selling any tech like this to help the Chinese?

Why are the feds lifting this ban?

I cannot for the life of me, think of one positive thing this will lead to....

Well, never discount the lazy motherfucker factor.

Plenty would never work, no matter how high the pay or how small the effort.

Well, I'm old enough to remember times before the overwhelming flood of illegal migrants into the US, lowering wages, etc.

As a kid, if you went by a construction site, it was at least 98% Americans working....building houses, etc.

You heard English being spoken, etc.....regular US citizens did this kind of work.

Now, if you combine opening those jobs back up, better wages AND you cut out the ability for people to sit at home, not work and get benefits like welfare and Medicare....at some point people are going to have to eat and have shelter.....they'll work.

It has always been a highly technical trade. You might sign into Wikipedia to correct their mistake of calling them tradesperson or reference it to a trade.

It is also a great trade job for women, as they perform equally to men, even better in some respects. Women certainly did good machine work in WW2. It can be a little dirty at times, which might turn some off, no matter what sex.

My writing habits are based on spending a lot of time thinking, while at the same time being a fast typist, so it's not a big deal to whip off a lot of prose quickly.

And here's where I differ. At this point, I've met a few transgenders in the past, and in recent years met a few more. My honest opinion is that there is some dysphoria and dysmorphia going on. Some of the guy to gal transitions are pretty nice folk. At this time I don't personally know any FTM trans.

But back to the dysphoria and dysmorphia. There is a relationship between that and anorexia. They don't feel right in their skin. And yet we don't encourage those poor souls to stop eating or become bulimic in order to express their state.

Which brings me to the part I don't like. It isn't the souls with gender dysphoria, it's the people who encourage it. It's the people who want that transitioning to start before children even reach puberty. And who want to surgically alter them before they can even reach the age of consent. I don't hate trans people - I utterly, totally and truly do hate the people who did that to this young person https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Poor kid, still hasn't recovered completely from where they amputated her breasts - at 15 years old. Some people of course, consider her plight to be just collateral damage to be ignored. It is pretty easy to talk little children into things, and if you might remember that there are all kind of mood swings and other stuff in teenagers as they grow into their final mental form.

Which is why I believe that if a person wants to transition to a different gender, it shouldn't happen until they reach adulthood, when they can give informed consent to the procedures needed to physically alter their appearance. At that time, I have zero issues. If they decide a couple years later they want their penis or breasts back, it's a problem, but they knew that going in.

As I noted, I've met a few. Even back in the 1970's College campuses have had transgender people ever since I''ve been on them. It's no big deal.

Nuance is now considered evil. A person who thinks about issues and does not see all issues as black and white soundbites is immediately labeled as something phobic. And the replies to my posts on this issue just might possibly tell us something more about the poster than me. They read the parts and whatever they don't like causes them to ignore the others. Yes, a person who thinks that children should be transitioned as early as possible, and that having gender or sexual dysmorphia must be acted on ASAP will think I'm a bigot of the highest order.

I don't care about them, because they have their minds made up just like climate or vaccine denialists. There is a interesting connection between those groups.

I have long posted that I don't care about adults transitioning. I have also long posted that I do have an issue with children doing this. Consent about matters tied so intimately to sexuality should be just as legally constrained as consent to engage in sex.

So if you want to believe I hate transgenders, that of course is your right, and you are welcome to think so. Is that hate? I suppose to some of the people who really want as many people to transition, who demand that their opinion must be strictly obeyed, and if one does not 100 percent agree, they are a bigoted phobic - yeah, they would claim so.

Or is it more an idea that consenting adults should make their own decisions? Is there a phobic word for that?

There ya go! That's the positive outlook I was hoping for! ;^)

Okay - here's one.

Whoosh. But perhaps I erred in not making my reply simple enough.

He whine and bitch and moan about how fscking tough it is.

Me say - it's always been tough.

So off to your safe room to cry, or take on the day, and make the best of it. Your choice, sweetie.

Okay loser.

And you have proven yourself beyond a doubt to be a racist bigot.

So they just won't make the things their companies need to make money.

You must not have heard of supply and demand. I have a skillset that is in really short supply. So I'm paid well. Would they pay less if they could? Duh! But they need what I do done, and pay me according to my worth. If as you claim, they only wanted to pay minimum wage, they'd be closing their doors.

I've seen ads for finish carpenters at 50 dollars per hour. And possibly you've never seen a master machinist's pay. Ours were well over 100 k. You don't work on million dollar plus pieces of metal that can be reduced to scrap if you make one tiny mistake and get paid minimum wage for it.

Once upon a time people didn't expect to start at the top. And they didn't think that tradespeople were Low-IQ dullards that couldn't get a college degree.