Innovation: The KEY to American Competitiveness...(Part 1 of 3)
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2980406][URL]https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-openai-oracle-softbank-son-altman-ellison-be261f8a8ee07a0623d4170397348c41[/URL]
Trump got a commitment from private enterprise to spend $500 billion in Texas. Why are you griping about that?[/QUOTE]
Why? Because as your AP article says, [i][b]"The initial plans for Stargate go back to the Biden administration.[/b] Tech news outlet The Information first reported on the project in March 2024 ..."[/i]
So as much you as your American Fuhrer, Repub clown shit show and the "3-Tech Bros", would like to conveniently omit and wanna take credit for the Stargate Project, truth is, it was started by the great President Joe Biden. Not a grip, just the truth, something that rarely comes outta the mouths of Repubs.
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2980406]South Korea has partnerships with China. Average hourly wage for auto worker in China, Vietnam, and India is less than $7 an hour compared to $38 in the USA, and you had Biden pushing for higher wages to boot. So enlighten me, Spidy, how is voting Democrat going to fix that wage gap? And you brag about [b]not answering my questions.[/b][/QUOTE]
First, w/r to higher American auto workers, getting higher wages, I will say this; isn't it always interesting to note that auto execs/upper management, rarely ever take pay cuts or claw back their big-ass bonuses, as they simultaneously bleed the paychecks of their workers.
Your robber barons and American Fuhrer, have you MAGA gullible imbeciles, parroting about "wage gaps between American vs. Chinese auto workers", as the problem why American auto can't compete with China, all the while ignoring The Fuhrer's billionaire buddies and CEOs and top-execs making 200 times the salary of hard working Americans.
So when is that Repub shit show of administration, gonna fix the price of eggs and bacon, let alone soul sucking, widening pay gap that exists here in America, that almost 9 in 10 (87%) agree that the growing gap between CEO pay and worker pay is a problem in this country.
Second, oh, I answered your question, you just weren't listening (as usual)...YOU just need to learn how to listen better! [i][b]Less yapping, like a little Chihuahua and more listening![/b][/i] Again, I'll explain it to you, in my responses, to other questions in parts 2 and 3.
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2980406] Yes, but that is not really the issue. What is the issue is not falling behind in AI. AI trained fighter pilots are beating our best pilots right now. AI is going to rule everything, and we need to double our electrical output and get our industrial base back to compete.[/QUOTE]
Dude, I wouldn't worry to much about human fighter pilots. Any decent futurist, worth their salt, knows the next era of warfare, will be fought with smart AI unmanned drones (ie. just like our Raptor and Reaper drones, but smarter). Coincidentally, DeepSeek AI, is something the Ukraine, is now looking to implement in their drones.
Innovation: Biden's IRA/CHIIPs Acts, have always been the catalyst...(Part 2 of 3)
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2980406] So I will answer the question that you will not. How do you compete when workers in China make less than $7 an hour and those in the USA are $38 an hour? You do not have any workers. You produce the whole car with robots using AI and we can do it cheaper than China because our electrical costs are less and you know why? Because of drill, baby, drill![/QUOTE]
Once again, you Repubs and MAGA clowns, are NOT in the business of forward thinking or critical thinking. Let's face it, your American Fuhrer and the Repub clown shit show, that is currently in office (or any other time for that matter), has always been void of any VISIONARY thinking that propels the country FORWARD, but BACKWARDS instead.
Your American Fuhrer's style of vision, is to simply, [i][b] "slap his name and brand on anything of value and then call it his own...before turning it to shit...",[/b][/i] has pretty much always been his MO and the "Republican Way".
The "Stargate" AI project, AI chips/tech, battery, clean energy manufacturing factories and jobs success, is just the latest example of credit theft, that was started by the Democrat visionary IRA and CHIPS/AI bills and initiatives. And when your American Fuhrer/MAGA, can't take credit for it, you will either rebrand it as MAGA, or just blow it up as some "woke/liberal" conspiracy.
Having said that, your assessment of "Why American auto can't compete with Chinese EVs?", w/r to the [i]"U.S. vs. China wage gap",[/i] being the problem, is correct to a degree, but too simplistic in its approach and is perhaps only 33% to 25% of the answer. While, I still think, it comes down to American innovation, to make up the 75% to 66%, rest of the answer/solution.
If you consider the main 3-components for Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), raw materials, manufacturing and labor, I think you'll agree, America has some catching up to do, in the other two categories. This is exactly the innovation and infrastructure deficiencies that Biden's IRA and CHIPS acts/bills, was addressing and successfully accomplishing.
[LIST][i][b]Forbes (Dec 16, 2025):[/b] "Its an important step in the right direction that the Biden administration did pass three massive pieces of legislation funneling trillions of dollars and/or tax [b]incentives toward US innovation and industrial productivity, that have ultimately fueled a manufacturing renaissance across the US.[/b] Since 2021, over $2.1 trillion has been allocated by the government to pro-manufacturing initiatives through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, and the CHIPS Act.
And according to Blackrock, as of November 2023, the private sector has pledged an additional $614 billion towards the production of semiconductors, electric vehicles, and batteries."
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"But, it will require much more capital and investment to build up the US manufacturing ecosystem similar to the SEZ model in China, and it may take decades to develop. In the meantime, 'Made in China', whether directly or indirectly, is the sobering reality that we face."[/i] [URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/shimiteobialo/2024/12/16/heres-why-us-manufacturers-cant-quit-china[/URL][/LIST]
Again, this was the answer I give, but you, a MAGA knucklehead, weren't listening (as per frickin' usual).
You, just never wanted to give President Joe Biden, the credit for being a visionary, for reviving America's jobs, manufacturing, infrastructure, clean energy and AI & Chips industries growth, that was enabling the U.S. to compete with the China and their special economic zones (SEZs), that had begun in the 1980's to spur their economic growth and innovation.
The way I see it, [i][b]the biggest challenge facing the U.S. Auto Industry, is innovation.[/b][/i] Solving the wage problem, won't do you any good, if you don't have the vision to innovate build good products, control production waste and streamline manufacturing practices, to be more efficient, effective and thereby bring costs under control.
When countries are banning the sale of ICE vehicles (now or in the near future) and and sales are down, because people aren't buying "dated" over priced ICE vehicles, in a market that's offers better affordable EV/Hybrid choices, hopefully this should come as wake-up call.
As much as I dislike Elon, when Tesla innovated with their giga presses, giga stamps, car heat-pumps and robotics...etc, it was stubborn American, European and Japanese legacy auto, that pooh-poohed Tesla's EV innovations and it was China that EMBRACED such innovative manufacturing, that drastically lowered the cost/time to build a vehicle in minutes vs. hours, mainly because they were on the same EV visionary path to electrifying their auto industry.
So we'll see if the Repub clowns in office, continue to blow it up, sabotage and gets in the way of America's own best interests and all the good the IRA and CHIPS/AI acts have done, in order for the U.S. to compete?
Although, you should note, that as both the U.S. and China auto industries, move towards near 100% automation, using tech like giga presses and robotics, to the fullest extent of manufacturing, with very little worker/human interaction toward a truer "level-playing field" and less wages to pay workers (and hopefully CEOs/Exes), it will still come down to INNOVATION, to "kick-ass" and save the day
for American auto.
Lastly, don't let those fat, bloated and lazy auto execs or those robber barons, CEO/Execs billionaire slave masters and buyout private equity firms, tell you MAGA cult faithless, any different [i][b](...kkkk!)[/b][/i]
Innovation: MAGA ideology continue to rail their own best interest...(Part 3 of 3)
[QUOTE=Elvis 2008;2980406] You Democratic douches and your dumb shit windmills and solar panels good and oil and gas bad make me sick. You dummies think there is a choice. We need it all: solar, wind, gas, oil, nuclear, and everything to compete. You all need to wake up![/QUOTE]
But wait a minute, WTF is Texas doing?
[LIST][i][b]Environment Texas (Oct 23, 2024): [/b]"DALLAS: [u]Texas ranks first[/u] in the nation for [b]wind power[/b] generation, [u]second[/u] for [b]solar[/b] power generation, [u]second[/u] in the nation for [b]battery storage,[/b] and [u]third[/u] in the nation for the number of [b]electric vehicle registrations[/b] through 2023, according to the online Renewables on the Rise 2024 dashboard ..."
"This analysis comes as Texas is set to receive $360 million from the federal government to interconnect the ERCOT grid with other southern states, potentially bringing cheap, clean, Texan energy to hundreds of thousands more."[/i]
[b]New analysis: Texas continues dominance in wind and solar power generation ... [/b]
[url]https://environmentamerica.org/texas/media-center/new-analysis-texas-continues-dominance-in-wind-and-solar-power-generation [/url][/LIST]
Yeah, I know just what you mean Elvis 2008, ...take a minute and just checkout, all those dumbass, knuckle dragging, stupidass redneck, imbecile Texans, building more solar, more wind, more BESS and driving more EVs, than nearly everyone else in the country. My goodness, like how stupid can those Texans be? [i][b](...kkkk!)[/b][/i]
Golly...I mean, like where's the fun in MAGA, by building out, $360 million worth of worth of clean energy, with more of President Joe Biden's IRA federal government cheese? That ain't very MAGA? Doesn't that just spit in the face of your American Fuhrer and nullifies his battle cries of "drill baby drill"? As if any self-respecting MAGA, should ever adopt a silly [i][b]"woke/liberal"[/b][/i] idea like solar or wind power clean energy generation? [i][b](...kkkk!)[/b][/i]
Don't get me wrong, I love what Texas is doing and (reluctantly) following California's lead, by boosting their grid with more available solar and wind energy. Which, BTW, is some of the cheapest and cleanest forms of energy, right now, if saving tax payers dollars is still a thing for you Conservative Republican Libertarians?
But the hypocrisy and idiot notion that MAGA ideology/dogma, can't adopt clean energy, because it's some deep state "woke/liberal" idea, that is a conspiracy plot against right-wing MAGA Christian Conservative Libertarians ideals, is as delusional, paranoid and as nutty as your America Fuhrer, robber barons, vulture capitalists and private equity firms, want you to believe.
So that on the one hand, they continue to feed you, gullible clowns, the lies and the culture-war nonsense (mostly), while with the other hand, blindly pick your pockets clean.
Mount Rushmore and Most Americans Object!
[QUOTE=SubCmdr;2980887][U][b]Political Science 101[/b][/U]
Former Vice President Harris did not run the primary gauntlet. She was not chosen by the registered Democrats of the United States of America. In my opinion that made her an illegitimate candidate for President. Add to it she was not ready to sit in the [U]Big Chair[/U].
[B]The Prosecution Rests![/B] Is the [U]Defense Ready[/U]?[/QUOTE]None of the Presidents whose image is carved into Mount Rushmore ran for their nomination via primaries. By your reasoning, they and virtually every president judged by history to be "Great" was illegitimate.
[B]Until 1968, presidential candidates were picked by party conventions a process revived by Bidens withdrawal from race.[/B]
[URL]https://theconversation.com/until-1968-presidential-candidates-were-picked-by-party-conventions-a-process-revived-by-bidens-withdrawal-from-race-235082[/URL]
[B]A brief history of presidential primaries.[/B]
[URL]https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/a-brief-history-of-presidential-primaries[/URL]
Even today, polls show your opinion is very much a minority view in America.
[B]Voters have a dim view of primaries as a good way to pick the best candidate.[/B]
[URL]https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/04/05/voters-have-a-dim-view-of-primaries-as-a-good-way-to-pick-the-best-candidate/[/URL]
[QUOTE]Just 35% of voters say that the primaries have been a good way of determining the best-qualified nominees, a recent Pew Research Center survey on issues and the campaign has found. This is a smaller share than said so during the 2008 election but is on par with views of the primary process in 1992, 1996 and 2000.[/QUOTE]Had a relative handful of angry Muslims mobilized by that community's leadership in just three swing states not rushed to the voting places to vent their anger against Netanyahu by voting against the Biden Administration candidate in what will go down in history as one of the dumbest self-defeating blunders by any voter demographic ever, Harris would have won the election. Less than an average shift of 0. 75 point of a percent of votes from Trump to Harris in just those three swing states is all that was needed.
Considering Trump had been doing virtually nothing except playing golf, making horrible economic and national security decisions and campaigning for his 2nd term election since January 20,2017, that Biden and Harris had been very, very busy recovering America and the rest of the World from Trump's Total Shitstorm of an across-the-board mess of everything since January 20,2021 and the obvious gender and ethnic hurdles for her to surmount yet still coming within a pubic hair of winning the election in a global "change election" environment, Kamala Harris proved herself to be a remarkably good candidate.
Three weeks in, if a hypotherical "re-election" were to take place tomorrow, I dare say that relative handful of angry Muslims across those three swing states would most definitely return their votes to Harris instead of Trump and she would win handily.
And the millions of 2020 Biden voters who were apparently so satisfied with their financial situation and so unbelieving that it would matter all that much who won the presidency that they didn't bother to vote last November sure as hell would get off their satisfied butts and vote for Harris as well.
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Wow. You touched bases on every MAGA idiocy on this issue. Congratulations!
[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2981000]You completely miss the point. I don't care who you or anybody else fucks. Fuck an antelope for all I care. I was merely pointing out the Left's and specifically BKK Bob's hypocrisy. Woke doctrine states that anyone can be a girl at any time and same same for a girl who wants to be a man. What's her fucks name, you know, the Biden Supreme court appointee who could not answer the simple question: what is a woman? I think you can. I know I can. I am pretty sure BKK Bob can because he does so every time he hits Soi 4 looking for a hot date. 555. BUT nobody attending the last Democratic convention could or would answer the question 'what is a woman' and that is a problem. For example, are you in favor of the practice of mutilating a child's body or giving female hormones to young boys? Are you in favor of the practice known as "grooming" our children? Do you approve of having a man compete with a woman in the Olympics' boxing tournament or swimming tournaments? I haven't heard anything about this from any of you ISG lefties. WHY? And why couldn't any of you guys admit Joe Biden was suffering from some form of dementia his entire term in office?
So, I understand why you and other lefties hate the word WOKE. Too fucking bad! You guys are stuck with it around your necks until you are willing to disown it. And except for your recent post entitled "Typical European anti-Semites" I haven't heard you say anything negative about the Woke agenda including Woke antisemitism, the open border policy, giving the vote to illegal aliens, rewriting history and destroying our education system, DEI which is total racism, censorship of opposing viewpoints, lawfare against your political opponents, gutting the constitution and creating a one party state like California, not making the streets safe by not arresting repeat criminals especially if they are of certain skin shade or re-releasing violent criminals with a no bond requirement, ill management of the homeless, and the worst of all, and yeah, I am not going to let this one go, the sexual mutilation our children. [URL]https://www.instagram.com/p/DFqd3OgzDOT/[/URL].
You got it? You want a definition? Here it is: Woke is Mao's cultural revolution cleverly adapted for the American population.
As to your claim that I call anyone who disagrees me a Marxist; I think you are wrong there buddy, for example, I do not recall ever calling you a Marxist. Rather I think you fall into the lost liberal category. You have been a democrat or a liberal all your life and you just do not realize that today's Democratic party is a long, long way from liberalism. Hell, I hope one day the liberals ARE able to take back their party because in the long run America needs 2 viable political parties.
But that ain't happening right now because the WOKES are still running the Democrat Party, and they are going nuts over Trump 47. Great! Did you know that Biden's approval rating on the day he left office was lower than Nixon's on the day he left office? That's astonishing. Meanwhile Trump's favorable rating is the highest it has ever been. HAHAHA. How you like me now! So, unless the moderates can take back their party you better get used to Republican majorities for a long time to come. Make America Great Again! 555![/QUOTE]None of the phony "outraged" Wingers and MAGAs have ever met anyone who doesn't know what a woman is as you appear yo be so confused and uncertain about it.
Nor have they met a family whose son was dropped off at a school, got "mutilated" and came home later as a daughter.
Nor have they ever net anyone who thinks a man can get pregnant.
Nor have they met anyone in Democratic Party leadership who has proposed legislation or a law to make it so.
Don't worry. Your genitals are safe. You can remain whatever definition of a man or woman you think you might fall into. If you were born a male there is very little chance, more like zero, that you will get pregnant no matter how many ladyboys or outright butch male homosexuals you have sex with.
Relax.
Your and the rest of the world's much bigger health worry is what form Trump's Pandemic Part 2 will take this time.
Pay more attention to that.
I didn't choose BTC, BTC chose me!
My first crypto currency buy ever was [B]ETH[/B].
[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2981130]Hey SubCmdr, how are you doing?[/QUOTE][B]I'm balling like a Gents Club Pro[/B]
[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2981130]I am glad you took a look at Fama's comments about Bitcoin. There 2 things of note in what Fama said. 1. he describes the weakness or rather the vulnerability of the construct leaving it open to manipulation by the big traders and 2. That he lays it on the line when he said that if Bitcoin proves to be for real, he will have to question the very validity of his Noble winning monetary model.[/QUOTE]I see the big players in BTC have a unfair advantage. They buy over the counter and therefore the retail price does not move. The BTC market is pure sentiment. There are people in the market that are over leveraged with money they don't have.
[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2981130]I know you are a big supporter of Bitcoin. I just thought this article would be of some passing interest to you. Now if you are long Bitcoin at the price point I think you are long at which would be in the $16,000 to $20,000 price level (because that is where I was thinking of going long) between Nov 2022 and January 2023, after Bitcoin had sold off from its old high of $64,000 (approx.) back in late 2021, then congrats to you on your foresight and trading skills.
The question now is, where is Bitcoin going? It's current high is around $106,000 and I do believe there is great potential that the next high (resistant point) will be around $200,000 and $240,000 level. But Bitcoin is highly volatile as I am sure you are aware. I see current initial support at around the $50,000 to $60,000 level and absolute support around the $25,000 to $30,000 level which is the price point that I see as a real buying opportunity. Unfortunately (for me and other risk averse investors) Bitcoin may never test this support level. Such are vagaries of trading in an uncertain world so I may have missed the boat and that's the way the cookie crumbles. But like I said, if you are long where I think you are long then, my sincere congrats to you. If or when bitcoin hits $200,000 I will meet you in Pattaya and we will celebrate your deserved good fortune. I love a good trade. I will bring the highest quality booze, weed and I will book the penthouse suite at the Hilton, and you can pay for the girls. 555! And we will party![/QUOTE]BTC.
Yes [U]Axel Heyst[/U], the Bitcoin trade caught my attention at the exact point you described. [B]I deserve NO credit[/B]. It was a move of desperation. Cash piled up with no place to put it. So I [I]aped in[/I] as they say with all the cash on hand that I didn't need. Side story. I told ten friends I was buying BTC and none of them bought in with me. Except for one. I learned that he had bought after it double and he told me he wish he would have bought more.
My trading style is to pull my original investment out and ride the wave on house money. I call that a no-risk trade. That is where I am at today. I see BTC peaking at 130 - 135 K with possible extensions to 150 K. Then a mind numbing drop that will test to see if your sphincter is working because it will have to keep your spine from dropping out of your ass and most likely crossing your legs like you got to go when you were a kid. There will those bruising their knees on the ground. Then there will be me. Chilling in Pattaya. [B]ROTFLMAO[/B]. I expect the pull back to be between 50 - 30 K. Where I will ape back in. BTC has no fundaments other than being hardest money on earth (21 million cap). BTC is not fulling its role as currency. It is WAY to volatile. But it has worked well for me as a store of value. That is why I am buying Gold and Silver also. Now with all of that said, if the United States of America announces they are going to actively buy BTC, I am going to grab my balls and squeeze hard to make sure I am not dreaming. LOL!
Because I cannot take it with me, I am consuming a lot more. [B]BTC at 200K party[/B]? No thank you! If I was really going to celebrate and spend some money I am going to Kyoto, Japan, or on one of those around the world cruises.
A quick review of my preferences in Pattaya will find us at a table at Heaven Above, or maybe you can take me to your favorite top tier Agogo on walking street. You know with the [I]knock kneed bimbos walking like hos[/I] those who post in the [B]Pattaya Reports[/B] thread seem to like so much. There is a much better value hotel (Than the Pattaya Hilton) with ocean views in Jomtien (reported on it) where I do my Long Times.
[B]I'll certainly get the first bottle of Goose at Heaven Above![/B]
