But that’s the way of the future. Manufacturing in 2025 is not the manufacturing of the 1950’s. “Lights out” manufacturing employees robots and a few humans. Bringing manufacturing on shore is a boom for job opportunities — if you are a robot. I don’t see a way for it to rebuild a middle class.

It’s the middle of First Robotics competition season— HS kids who have worked for months to be ready for regional competitions in hopes for a ticket to worlds. The next gen of STEM. Check thebluealliance.com and for team 2530… Have fun storming the castle!

Anyone who has spent time building towers of blocks with a toddler is well aware of this.

Gulf Coast shrimpers are celebrating the tariffs as they think it will save the industry in the US. As a GenX-er I remember when shrimp was fancy. If tariffs cause food budgets to tighten and shrimp becomes a luxury once again then it’s not clear they can raise prices anyway. Second-order effects?

I don’t see it as 1A. Cutting off the funding is not telling the plaintiffs not to exercise free speech. The fascinating part is using the third clause of the 5th — no arbitrary government action. If that holds there may be a flood of cases — esp if DOGE doesn’t net any savings.

Healthy is a temporary condition.

This is so cool. I made up bedtime stories for my kids about Octar the Octopus and Fred the Shark. Friendship stories with a rotating ensemble of minor characters. Octar, you guessed it, rode Fred’s back on their adventures. No idea this was real.

Top 10% of earners are 50% of spend. Assume 1%ers won’t change and wealth $$ don’t circulate anyway. 2-10% ers contract 25% (they can without feeling real pain, $250k/year households will cut discretionary spending). This is probably where trickle down actually works — prepare for the recession.