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  • Yes. By the time those come down to a per-unit cost, they’re something for sure, but nowhere near as large of a factor of cost of materials.

    Again, if we were talking a 5% cost increase in raw material input, then the ratio between additional unit cost of materials and unit cost executive salary would at least be closer. But we’re talking terriffs that are STARTING at 25% and god knows who’ll say the wrong thing to cause them to jump to 50 or 100.

    As exorbitant as they are, you are probably underestimating the volume of production and so overestimating the per-unit cost of those salaries.

    Ford, for example estimated a 25/10 teriff on steel/aluminum would add 1.6 billion to input costs in 2017. Now we’re looking at 25/25 so, I dunno, 2 billion per year (2025 dollars)

    You could cut all executive pay at Ford to 0$ and you’ll still be in the red by like 1.8 billion.





  • I’d thicken the bottom, and then have the interface have some pegs/holes to fit together like a puzzle. If you’re printing in that orientation the pegs should be unlikely to shear off. Then, lots of super glue and sand it down. As others have said, a lip underneath the interface would give you more surface for super glue as well.

    Because it’s going in your fridge, there will be inevitable spills that need cleaning. So I’d want to minimize the seam and complexity on the interior of the container.













  • When the Soviet Union collapsed, there was kinda a “fire sale” of government assets… They just got “sold” (effectively handed) to people who were favoured by the leaders of the time. This was how these Russian oligarchs came to be.

    I think this is where the wind is blowing in the USA. Tear apart anything the government does and hand the responsibility for those things as private contracts, and to just hand those contracts to whomever seems like they’d be a good soldier.

    Basically, rip all of the copper out of the walls, sell it at 10% market rate to the PayPal mafia, and then let them sell you copper-as-a-service.



  • No. But yes.

    Like pretty much every social construct, it only really exists as far as people have faith in it. Money only has value because we blindly assume that the grocery store will accept them. Any agreement only has the value of the belief it will be honoured. Law only has meaning if we believe they’ll be applied.

    In any coalition there will be participant members with disparate interests. Someone needs to speak for the whole to generate the faith that the collation really does have alignment (that the coalition truely exists). In turn there must be faith that constituent members really do support the direction-setter, at least in so far that they won’t leave the coalition given internal disagreement.

    It’s the “U” in USA. Without a federal government, without a leader, it’s just the SA.

    The USA was the de-facto leader of the Western world since about May 8, 1945. I think history will recall that reign ended Feb 28 2025. I’m not sure if it’ll be the EU body directly from here on out, or if it’ll directly be France or Germany who acts in the function of the leader of the free world.