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Europeans better hope Trump succeeds, in case they need another bail out when the German Russkie hoards descend on the continent. Again. Trump looked at recent history and figured out that American industrial capacity was key to winning WW2. That transcends economic (P&L) considerations and takes it into national security concerns. What's that worth?

Sorry I didn't bother to go too far down the rabbit hole. I figured it was intuitively obvious that a 10 year backlog wouldn't have been cleared after 2 years. So here's a January, 2025 update. 45 deliveries against a backlog of 6,236 planes. That's a 138 month backlog. Airbus, BTW, has a 29 year backlog. Make of that what you will... Edit: Oops. Here's my link: Airbus and Boeing Report January 2025 Commercial Aircraft Orders and Deliveries - Flight Plan

From investors.boeing.com: Full Year 2023 Delivered 528 commercial airplanes and recorded 1,576 net orders Total company backlog grew to $520 billion, including over 5,600 commercial airplanes For the arithmetic challenged, that means they have a 10+ year backlog. If someone cancels an order today, they won't feel it for years. They'll just deliver someone else's order that much sooner. And by that time, the "trade war" will have settled into a "new normal". As far as Boeing "absorbing it or passing it on to their customers", I predict they'll start buying more stuff from US sources, using US capacity with US labor to get around the tariffs. And that's the goal. Edit: And I'd add that anyone who thinks Airbus will be the big winner hasn't been following the C919 and C929 and CXXX.

Sounds like what the US lefties are doing to TESLAs. On an aside, I like his shirt.

They have a backlog of thousands of unfilled orders. If any one customer refuses delivery, someone else on their years long backlog will just get their's earlier.

Not to mention that crap like this has happened under every administration since 9/11. (And probably even before that). But when it wasn't Trump's term, it was widely ignored.

Perhaps ICE would have kept hands off had the school officers done their jobs instead of standing by and watching protestors make it dangerous, if not impossible for the students who were there for an education.

I wonder if anyone has calculated the costs of the health care they'll need over their lifetime, whether or not they change their mind later.

My problem with the freeware was that I spent so much time fixing the formatting of spreadsheets and word processing documents that even free, they weren't worth it for me. If you're in a personal environment and you start documents from scratch, they're probably great. But not if you're in an office setting and you have to open (and edit) other people's work.

I keep seeing offers for legitimate lifetime licenses for ridiculously low prices. On legitimate websites. I'm an Office (365) subscriber, but I may go ahead and get one of them because I'm so disappointed with Teams displacing Skype. They're definitely not equal. And I no longer use Office for work so I really don't get the value for the annual subscription any more. So I'm going to vote with my pennies... Maybe someone else can chime in with a link. I'm back in China and Googling is a PITA here.

I'd challenge characterizing it as "surprising". Disturbing, sure. But other than Iqbal, I don't think anyone else is surprised.

I wonder if that's one of the routes where they banned double deckers for this year's Songkran season? Anyone know?

Is double clutching a thing since they invented the synchro? I learned to drive our 1957 Ford firetruck, and that's the last time I recall double clutching.

Americans fed up with Trump Funny. Politico (that bastion of all things right wing and MAGA) says even Californians are tired of the anti-Trumpers. California voters have Trump-resistance fatigue, poll finds Ignore them at your peril, Dems. But, paraphrasing Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, they just can't. It's in their nature. Which is another way of saying that's all they have. No plan at all to address the debt, the border or anything. Just Orange Man Bad. Which worked so well in November. California voters have Trump-resistance fatigue, poll finds - POLITICO

And the sad thing is that even if all that was true, he was STILL better than the other choice.

You'd have gotten sad and confused emojis even if you got it right. They're inevitable on some topics.

I miss the olden days when I could hover over a feedback emoji and tell who sent it. The only emoji I use is "Like" Or none at all.

The town I grew up in had very hard water that we all just got used to. When we moved away and came back to visit, the water tasted awful. I don't know about Wongomat, but my water in Bangkok differed depending on tides and salinity and what they did to treat it. If you're only bathing in it, I wouldn't worry. (Poor taste trigger alert) If it's a metallic taste, you may want to check to see if the Burmese guy who drowned in the rooftop water tank was wearing fake gold.

I hate to admit that I do that occasionally, forgetting where I am on my monthly visa runs from China to LOS. The other thing I catch myself doing is negotiating in Chinese numbers. But I'm surprised at how many Thai vendors negotiate back in Chinese.

If you recall, the Houthis behaved pretty well under Trump 45, who had embargoed Iran to the point they couldn't afford to fund Houthi adventures. It was Bidenbucks that allowed the Iranians to fund Houthi fooknuttery. Someone's gotta put a stop to attacking ships in an important shipping lane.

Would you have preferred a 5 paragraph diatribe about how Big Ag (King Korn) and Big Pharma have been squelching this information for decades, wondering how many people have died because of it? I also wonder how many people have died because fast food went from cooking their fries in animal fat to cooking them in vegetable oils. Not just because of the oils, but also the other ingredients they had to add to make them palatable. All done under the guise of "healthier", but really not. It was to make them cheaper and appease Big Ag.

Another spoiler alert that's been making the rounds in the wingnut conspiracy environment for years, it not decades.

you do realize that it was in the midst of a nationwide water fight, yeah? If Mom had caught me out in public with no shirt like that, first she'd have decked me, then she'd have slapped me again for trying on that excuse.

If you want another one that's gone from wingnut conspiracy theory to bona fide spoiler alert, Google ActBlue and Okeefe. It's still percolating, but those of us who have been following it have been forecasting that it will be yuge. (unless, of course, the Dems got back in) Edit: Lefties may have to hold their noses and click on some objectionable sites if you want the true story. I'm sure the MSM and OMB team are carrying Dem water on this one. OMB: Orange Man Bad.

What is unclear about MAGA?