This whole list amounts to $729 million. That is 20% of the $3.5 billion in additional money we sent in one month to Israel to buy bombs and missiles. You can see what kind of goodwill our government is really interested in “spreading”. Maybe the USAID money was well spent and we could do something about the money that is going to death, misery and creating more hate against us? Crazy talk, I know.

I just remember the drunk suburban girl who would load up the jukebox with Creed and Nickelback at the bar. Nothing kills a good Friday night at the bar faster than that.

No problem. I have seen a lot of people think that the army was just tossing huge chunks of uranium around. The actual core made of depleted uranium is quite small, I believe it is less than 300grams in an Abrams 120mm shell. The cores are encased and not very radioactive, but I would bet they are still an environmental hazzard long after they are used. The US started using it when it proved harder of a penetrator than tungsten, and since it is a waste product, it was far cheaper.

I thought Kendrick was very good, and I don’t listen to him or very much of that style music. He is amazingly talented and I thought a top tier showman. In the article, Jack Posobic said that he wished it was Creed (like In the 2001 half time) instead. Since this was the Apple Music streaming halftime show, I looked it up. #1 Streamer of last year was Kendrick, I didn’t see Creed in the top 50. Also Billboard has Kendrick at #4 all year for Streaming, also no Creed. I know Creed had a big resurgence last year touring, but I was around listing to music in 2001 and we all voted that Creed sucks. I didn’t like those people who liked Creed then, and even more so now.

You are correct on the Penny. The military still uses a lot of copper and zinc, just not how you are thinking. The “depleted uranium” rounds you are thinking of are anti-armor rounds. This is a fin stabilized sabot round that has a core penetrator made of DU instead of Tungsten, like the Russians use (we use some tungsten core rounds also). The US used these for the Bradley’s main 25mm Bushmaster auto cannon, M1 Abrams tank, 30mm fighter jet cannons and the big boy A-10 Brrrrt gun. Almost all small rounds, think infantry, use full metal jacket rounds. The core of the round (back then, now mostly steel) is made of lead. Then the lead is encased ( or jacketed) with copper. This would apply to 9mm pistol rounds(not used much in combat, if so, it is a bad day), M-16 5.56 rounds, .30 caliber machine gun, and .50 caliber machine and anti material rifles. Copper is used a lot in other areas also, primarily motor windings and generator windings. Zinc is used is almost everywhere as a galvanized coating on ammunition that is not jacketed and other things that have bare steel. The Bradley fires a standard round that is used more often than the DU sabot, called HEAT. This is an explosive round covered in steel with a jacket of zinc for corrosion resistance.

Yeah, but those guys use facts and figures and stuff. This way, Elon can manipulate anything he wants to do whatever they want. Much easier way to allow a fascist takeover.

Hey NATO, you don’t have to send any troops. Just tell the Pentagon that you sent the Swedes and the Finns. When they say “Where? We don’t see anyone” Just respond"Exactly"

You are correct. I know it is a tax that will be paid by us. These will probably collapse the US economy. I give it 8 months. Then another 6 to start wiping out the rest of the worldwide markets. Maybe two years before we become a warring shithole with nukes.

We have always been at war with East Asia.

Some of us tried. I just hope that when it does crash, It doesn’t take the Great White North with it. I am on the west coast, maybe we can join Canada while the fascist idiots aren’t looking.

They sold out because there weren’t any. UFD tech waited in line at micro center, until they found out how few were available. I believe Steve has a video on calling it a paper launch. The alternative is to buy 4080’s and even 3080’s, until the price becomes too high on used and older GPUs. We saw that happen during covid. Yes, Nvidia makes all kinds of chips, GPUs and especially high end ones are a very small part. A very large and growing segment of Nvidea is also vehicles, which in America is now tariffed on Mexican and Canadian production an additional 25%. Almost all portable electronics have chips from Taiwan or China in them. We are already in a trade war with China, so now we are staring one with the alternative? OpenAI can move to Vancouver all they want, but I bet the 25% tariffs from there will hurt also. Plus, If AI firms don’t need as many of the AI chips, as recently shown, then that market goes down. Google makes their own server chips with cpus produced in… Taiwan.

These tariffs, if not removed, will crash the US economy and possibly the global economy with it. Good luck everyone! or as POTUS says " Jesus didn’t need electricity".

Remember, the tariff is 25-100%. Let’s just say it ends up at 50%. How many gamers will pay 3k for a 5090? It is a mediocre upgrade this generation anyway. Also, both AMD and Intel GPUs are made in Taiwan (TSMC). Nvidia’s profits lately have been coming via ai chips. The Chinese just showed us that those aren’t needed. Jensen and his cousin at AMD are 2 of the smartest CEOs in the country, they know that tariffs like this will crash demand, give China an opening, and possibly wreck the US economy.

Canada and Mexico should work together and add a 25% export fee to oil. I wonder how long these idiots stay in power if gas is $7 or more a gallon.

I would like to apologize to my Canadian friends, some of us are trying to stop this. I hope you guys can get through this okay. The America I grew up in seems to have spun so wildly off the rails, that I now consider us a wrecking ball to the rest of the free world.

Can we invite the Canadians to come burn the White House again?

I am pretty sure you can remove “federal prisons” from that title. They won’t stop until they kill/deport/force to leave, anyone who is an “other” to them.

I’m am pretty sure Trump was thinking that Obama hired Gimmly, and all he does is smash the console with an axe. Happens when half the country looks at Trump and thinks, " Oh ya, this guy is stable enough to run the country"

Hmmm. Sounds like if California can’t get aid from the federal government, then they will just have to use their own money. I would suggest the comptroller to order all federal tax money in the state sent to Sacramento for use as disaster relief. They can’t prosecute 40 million people not paying taxes.