Who let China into WTO with "Most Preferred Status?"

It wasn't Tricky Dicky.

It was Billy Bob Clinton.

Nixon opened the door, but Billy Bob Clinton took the door off the hinges.

Wherever you're getting your talking points from is failing you miserably.. you should really return all the yuan they're paying you to shit all over this site.

Manufacturing in the US didn't crater 'til after China was let into WTO. Fact.

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Now. Would you care to re-assess your statement, or are you gonna be a bitter clinger and hug your pillow stuffed with yuan?

Toxic empathy at work, yet again.

Bad results, yet again.

The very definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over, and still get the same, shitty results.

Can't seize what was willingly given away.

Sony chose to give up the market to others.

So did Panasonic

Sad to see, but as they say, "all good things.."

Company staffing the place was already Indian. All he did was stand up the new building, connections, lines, etc.

Paperwork is dispensed with, if you have the right "government forms." DD Form 100 is universally accepted.

Old boss once told me, he'd set up a complete call center for a US client in India, for less than he paid any one of his engineers, maybe 10 years before he and I worked together.

Just move to India already, Google. It's cheaper, and no burdensome regulations. You'll be free to exploit your workers far more than you do here.

I mean, that's Google's purpose, right? Pay as least as possible for everything, including people and talent?

Ageist much, you little poltroon?

Why not post it with your username? Oh, I got it... no balls.

Yep, no balls.

Apple will be around a lot longer than you will.

With the projected RAM price increases this year on just about any device that uses it, I bet many buyers bought "out of cycle" to beat the increases.

I'm trading one asshole for another. AT&T is currently ripping up my neighborhood, laying fiber. Nearly 20 years after they said they would.

They likely won't lose the elderly, inertia and all that. But I'll jump ship the instant it's declared 'stable'

Exactly what happened to my 2nd IT job. Clipboard-bearing suits came and were shown everything. 2 months later I left. 2 months after that the announcement came that the company had been sold off to a PE firm.

That PE took a 50-year old, money-making medical firm (billing, staffing, etc) and promptly ran it into an iceberg. After the carnage, it was sold yet again.. and one more time.

Now they exist in name only, a sub of a sub of a sub of some other company.

Getting bought out is almost universally undesirable. Happened to my 3rd IT job, and now they don't even exist any more, not even as 'just a name.'

The morning we all walked in and all the door signs showed the new owner's name was quite demoralizing.

Left not too long after that.

Yeah, and we did we found massive fraud from 2020-2024.

Am I a traitor? Am I a spy?

If anything, the people who orchestrated the 2020 election should be shot as traitors, and the spies should be hung from the neck until dead.

They are the traitors. The people who stole our government, installed a puppet president, and again "fundamentally changed' this country.

Fixing it is putting panties in wads because each illegal deportee is one less Democrat vote, one less fraud recipient.

And fuck your incoming downvotes. Fuck them long and hard, with my favorite -- the splintered phonepole.

Fucking traitors. Fuck! Makes me want to throw up!

Two words that illustrate how badly "but but but what would the neighbors think?" that permeate government: TOXIC EMPATHY

Rule with cold hard facts, not feels.

This is an example of ruling with feels.

So's not clearing your brush and deadwood in California because it may impact some bird.

So's opening the gates at the border and saying 'no one's illegal!'

Downmod me all you want. Genie's out of the bottle. The sense that America jumped the shark is now quickly spreading, when it is readily found in comments in youtube re: current affairs.

You mean.. from "I only use you on friday night on a phone call with an old friend, and too look up how to fix my car / washer / dryer whatever" to "Not using you at all?"

Seriously. Slashdot Collective says 'eat the rich?' I say "fuck all the techbros."

Yes, I'm narrowing down the carnage to just the techbros (and tech sisters, like that nutjob that headed Theranos)

They've unleashed a new cancer on society, by amplifying voices that were best left handing out flyers at street intersections. Not everyone deserves to have the biggest bullhorn in the world.

all-or-nothing types, which .. I am one of. But I don't take full breaks from my devices. This is rather surprising, and i'm not sure if it's come about due to age and being worn down by time, or if I ran out of fucks to give about what others think.

What I dodo is take a break from the news. All news. From all sources. To me, they're all equally broken and suspect, every single one of them from A to Z an from east to west and north to south.

Once I do that, my "wellness" markedly improves, while I still use my phone as a camera, a texting machine (teletype, if you will?) a phone phone, email, etc. It is my walkman, my 110 camera, my little black book with pencil, and more. It's even a full-on movie camera, editing deck, and music maker. It's a library, with both local and remote books.

But I'll be goddamned if I let the newsman in, or the preacher, or the climate doomers, or any of the riffraff that currently is hell bent on telling me what to do. Fuck your rules. My toy, my rules.

Ultimately you are in control, the phone (at least the iphone) doesn't put tiktok in your hand and doesn't put a gun to your head while whispering "You will watch.. you will watch.. you will watch.."

Smartphone's too good of a toy to let go. You need discipline to use it in a way that doesn't rot your brain. Step #1 is stop the feeds, stop the scrolling, stop the news.

It makes me want to vomit, the way the United States and the United Kingdom have ceded production of raw materials to China and other countries.

We don't make new lead in the US.

We had trouble with copper until this one mine dared start up again.

Our steel mills have been sold off.

England can't even refine iron ore into steel anymore.

All of it for 'environmental' reasons.

Listen up, cupcakes: A country that can't work it's own raw materials will be subjugated by those who do.

Here endeth the lesson on national sovereignty.

Great, it works on depression. I can vouch for that.

So, how to get motivated to work out when the depression's got you by the yarballs?

Ahahha.... no answer for that one, right?

Now, find me one that works with PTSD.

Sometimes I feel the psychology and psychiatry fields are populated with naught but charlatans.