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  1. Easy to win, so much winning.  This guy is going to try letting the machines run for 4 hours by themselves...

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/business/economy/trade-war-impact.html

     

    With tariffs driving up the price of stainless steel, the precision-part manufacturer Accu-Swiss in Oakdale, Calif., came up with a plan to save money: turn off the lights but keep the machines on.

    “We are being hurt because of the cost increase,” said Sohel Sareshwala, the company’s owner and president. To squeeze more output from existing equipment, he is “running the machines in a lights-out operation.” After his regular 10-person staff leaves for the day at 6 p.m., Mr. Sareshwala said, the plant is experimenting with slowing down the machines and letting them run unattended for four more hours.

     

    Accu-Swiss doesn’t use imported steel, but the tariffs have ratcheted up the demand for domestic steel, making it harder to find and afford. So far, Mr. Sareshwala said, his priority is delivering orders on time, regardless of the cost.

     

    Edward Farrer, director of purchasing at Principal Manufacturing in Broadview, Ill., which produces automobile parts, has felt the same effect. His company, which employs 330 people and has $50 million in annual sales, is a purchaser of imported steel and has not been able to find a domestic alternative.

    Even if one emerges, he said, “the tariffs have been a springboard for domestic producers to increase their price” — and those higher costs will put American companies like his at a disadvantage compared with foreign manufacturers. Moreover, he said, any change in Principal’s suppliers would require customer approval, an exhaustive process that would cause significant delays.

     

    Mr. Trump has promised that the tariffs will protect jobs in the steel and aluminum industries (as well as safeguard national security). Several manufacturers, however, said they were skeptical that domestic steel and aluminum makers had the capacity to meet the increased demand any time soon, and worried that prices would continue to rise — and even threaten jobs at their own companies. Mr. Farrer has halted all hiring, leaving about 30 positions unfilled, and has canceled, at least for now, a major capital purchase, two large machine tools.

  2. 41 minutes ago, 2user1cup said:

    Wait below 0 is GOP? Men are still favoring the GOP in both and over the phone by more... 

     

    Like... Maybe women can save us, they didn't save Hillary so..

     

    We'reeeeeeeee fucked! We're fucked. Fucked fucked fucked. It's doom and gloom we're fucked we're fucked we're fucked. :whistlin:

    If women vote anywhere near what either polling average shows them at its going to be a massacre, they're ~+10 and +15.

  3. So i bought a game, played it for an hour and refunded it cause it was boring, the problem with these sales is the game i usually want is too recent to be on sale, so in another month or so that will go on sale and i'll just buy it then.

  4. After my daughters first seizure and our local hospital doesn't have a pediatric neurologist to handle it they sent her 2.5 hours away in an ambulance and charged 8k to just drive her, they literally did nothing other than that because theres nothing to do for a seizure patient. Then between both hospitals it was another 32k for an EKG, CT, MRI, and three days in a room. My insurance is amazing though and i pay nothing for emergency care, but holy fuck.

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  5. Dems don't seem to be in danger of losing either MN senate seat, conservative pollster shows both with safe leads.  Its pretty telling they didn't even give Healthcare as an option for most important issue as they likely know they'll get hammered on this issue, so Economy/Jobs is top issue in this poll, at 22%, immigration was second highest at 13% while 28% either said something else or not sure, lol.

     

     

     

  6. I honestly don't think it matters how much NATO members spend, unless one of them ramps up spending into the hundreds of billions a year, otherwise i just can't imagine a scenario where it works without the US spearheading the whole thing.  By the time article 5 is declared and agreed upon whoever declared the article 5 would be toast let alone mobilization of multiple European militaries.

  7. The GDP thing is kinda silly, while Germany is spending like half of what its supposed to, its still 4th in overall military spending, while a country like Greece is hitting its requirement but is spending a fraction of what Germany is spending, and is still below Germany's per capita spending.  Its not crazy to ask Germany to spend more seeing they're one of the larger NATO nations, but its insane to threaten to abandon all of them if they don't.

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