Our european overlords named Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, 400 years ago. 250 years onwards and as a superpower, it is time for a change.

What percentage of Apple products are made in the USA?

The vast majority of Apple products—including iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks—are assembled in China by major manufacturing partners like Foxconn.India and Vietnam:

Apple has shifted a growing portion of its assembly (especially for iPhones bound for the U.S. market) to countries like India and Vietnam to diversify its supply chain.U.S.

Component Supply While final assembly happens overseas, Apple does source some raw materials, semiconductors, and specialized glass from U.S.-based partners (such as Corning and various chip fabricators) and invests heavily in domestic supplier programs, but the end products are assembled abroad.

After 6+ years of these predictions, do you have any proof?

Outside of Mexico or Canada, power being sold to America is in the form of fuel, you are a fucking idiot. Lot of this the press cannot seem to get beyond TDS, most of this equipment type is supply chain certainty on cast AL, transformer cores and some switchgear. All that was made in America until outsourcing of the 1990s. This is big sweet kiss to General Electric, if they had not long ago shut down the US manufacturing base of cast AL parts base.

Datacenters should be net generators at the point the wholesale electric prices hit anything close to what a US consumer is actually paying for the power part of their bill in nominal circumstances. There is no point in participating in the global tech brah workload when the power costs are double, quad or 10x the normal rate, there is always somewhere cheaper in the world for the cost of Latency. The whole regulatory environment has large customers paying almost nothing for power consumption that is curtailable, tracked, watched and managed while the little residential customer has no way to save even while installing 10k in storage and inverters to move power consumption around 72 hour periods or greater.

Did the MAGA hive mind extend what was 2 weeks of flattening the curve to 5 years of isolationism? Were they the maskholes. Were they the trend blockers online. In covid alone the counter arguments are easy to make.

That battle is lost. Your usage of a public roadway on a licensed motor vehicle in most states clearly loses the individual the right to privacy and security of personal effects for anything exterior to the vehicle and exposes you to simple means of denying you right to privacy of things within with a very minor traffic stop. People walking on the sidewalk have just a bit more security but dare stumble in sight of police and even the walker is stopped. It is insane you need to be in leased or owned home to have the rights that are your birthright.

The science on the generation is not completed. Until we actually see how successful and well adjusted those people are at 50 we don't know, but I cannot really use those words with post millennials at this point. With the questioning and taking the troll in the basement king, taking the fifth about the real life social lockdowns, what liability does the media , pharma and medical industry have for their malpractice for releasing the social leaches and their useful mask hole idiots upon us.

The future method of Facebook protecting themselves is not to offer the service to under 16 or under 21-year-olds. So that crowd will move to newsnet, free republic, IRC and AOL instant messenger, and listen to conservative talk radio and podcasts. Surely there will be no trolls in that crowd. The world will get more generations like GenXers, productive and well suited human beings after we figure the impact of everyone being connected by trivial services delivered by insane amounts of network bandwidth.

Honestly everyone age 18 to 30 is probably owed tens of thousands in compensation by whomever supported the lab.

If you paid any attention to Sagan, Our entire existence is surrounded by a success story. Why life does not form is almost an abstract in our thought process, because every surface we interact with daily hosts life, because we have not stood next to a frozen lake of methane, or near the event horizon of a black hole we cannot comprehend the cold and empty of even the energetic places off planet. The rock we call earth gets a limited time hosting life, and our lifetimes are a comparable microsecond to a day of life, earth is still in midmorning.

I live in the tornado zone of the Midwest, on a tree filled high point for miles in all directions, all our power outages have been because of a pole down within sight of our home. In fact it has been the pole on the same landowners twice that has caused 24+ hour outages. Never has power failed to be produced in surplus from 350 mile footprint that I would call local, and delivered by the 3 national grids in the area. My area is dotted with the exchange points between the grids and is filled will epic number of data center projects. What the regulators in my state do not allow is the small customer to buy directly from a producer, so my single rate are x5 higher than the industries that choose to located in the area because of low rates. We have local solar projects that clearly state in 2026 are making nothing if they are properly maintaining their facilities because whenever Canada has wind and hydro power in excess, it is imported to the US at only the costs of grid transport.

If charging would be super centralized like data centers the cost would be minimal, one 100 bay charge center per zip code. Having several megawatts of optional demand participate in grid leveling would reduce the EV users end cost and help producers and grid operators. But lets face it, a 20 minute move and roll around a huge park is not what the EV crowd is looking for fast charging, they are looking for 20 minutes in one of eight minimalls depending on what fast food options they want that day.
Remember data centers pay for their own power infrastructure up front. They build their own substation, get approvals and arrange contracts with producers so they do not have to buy commodity power.

There is also now tech widely distributed to measure sound and pressure wave levels throughout the USA (https://www.earthscope.org/) along with every other parameter that might want to enter a survey instead of people talking out their ass. The military and the supersonic airlines for many years were paying for cracked sheet glass windows they never cracked. Along certain corridors the sound of all aircraft are monitored because in places that is only thing that can reach the location.

Your telling me there are jobs that the tooling, equipment used far exceeds the payroll costs. If you the same programmer can be x20 more productive while efficient and have some standard of QA this is code industrialization.


Airplane crews are Shocked
Machinists are Shocked
Radiologists are Shocked
Tower Crane Operators are Shocked.
Trading Firm Analysts are Shocked.
Garbage Men are Shocked.
Concreate Drivers are Shocked.

I know a ton of people who used a layoff from automotive plants as a springboard to something much more rewarding, it just does not fit the media narrative to say the world needs a doubling electricians, HVAC techs, manufacturing engineers and plumbers with the automation boom.

If you have looked at cars lately you will see that large castings to hold a collection of 100kg to 300kg subassemblies together while also being critical structural componets. While these result in lighter cars in total the subassemblies are even heaver, and where it use to bolted to a frame, a subassembly is welded or glued into its postion. While making the total package less serviceable in your zipcode, it certainly has reduced squeaks, rattles, corrosion (dissimilar bolts) at 100k miles. If we produced cars like we did in 1976 with modern designs in the US they would cost 3 times as much and be produced in very small numbers. There is little professional development for line workers putting assemblys into unibody. I would rather have 300 people doing QA, service on robots and feeding the pick and place machines, than 900 on the line stripping out threaded inserts in AL castings and pushing shopping carts full of bolts.