Meme #2 top row about Tampon Tim looking like a retard reminds me dino of when that jerk first appeared running for vice president behind Cackles Kamala Word Salad on sorta a runway kinda stage. He really negatively impressed me with his huge goofy grin while walking along waving his arms all over the place as if overjoyed for even being noticed.
Moving on to Meme #3 Top next door, last week I heard on my car radio that Minnesotans REALLY ARE driving by the Walz home screaming "Retard" at the retard who lives there.

Hoping some innocent laughter will help negotiate the evil goings on in Minnesota.
We could have got down into the weed with this one, not sure we needed to. We're well acquainted with democrat Business as usual.

great work, last panel of group 3 , right on !

We just thought they were full of shit, turns out, we were right but we had no idea the extent of it all.

I like them too. Me dino also likes seeing murdering fentanyl pushing scumbags coming in boats that are one by one blown out of the water.
Friday I heard on my car radio those scumbags have killed more Americans than were killed in Vietnam. Those greedy curs deserve no quarter al at!

I like them.

I believe I read the same thing somewhere. I was with Kodak when they built a plant in China. Kodak spent north of a half billion dollars on it, but I believe in the end it now belongs to China. A lot of tech went with it.

I love what Trump did for him during his first term.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

I miss him!

Ditto! ~~~What people who agreed with Rush Limbaugh used to say when phoning his radio show.

Yep. In my engineering work about three years ago I had to calculate a life cycle cost analysis for a project, comparing two different designs. In order to do that you have to go get the official, federal inflation. Of course, that's normally lower than reality. But, this wasn't CPI (which is just a big lie, really). It was the official inflation rate for energy. At that time...over 39%. I sat at my desk and realized that my compounding equations had been rendered useless. Almost 40% annual inflation for energy...This was under Biden. Now...as this article points out, they are certainly targeting the food supply - especially beef. It's criminal, in my opinion.

Being close to leaving the working world I have been paying very close attention to my bills - utilities, food, taxes, insurance... It is not good. The middle class can't survive this much longer.

I remember that phrase, too. It sums them up. They really don’t care about people… just power.

On the Chinese companies: I read somewhere that every corporation in China is owned at least 51% by the CCP, which gives the Party a controlling interest in everything they do. Add to that - Bill Clinton gave China the "Most Favored Nation" status back in about 1995, putting China on an even legal footing with all of our actual allies - Japan, Germany, France, the UK...
This NEVER should have happened, and has led to the trade imbalances and Chinese monopolization of industries, ever since.
With those two issues, the US is screwed.
Maybe Trump can put us back on an even keel, but he's working against not individual companies, but the entire God-damned CCP.

Thinking about that pope has awakened a memory.
Way back during the Archie Bunker Sixties, people like his hole in the head holiness were called "bleeding heart liberals."

Is everyone clear on what "rare earth" means? Those elements are common but widely dispersed and are difficult to separate from each other.

According to Wikipedia, "The term "rare-earth" is a misnomer, because they are not actually scarce, but because they are found only in compounds, not as pure metals, and are difficult to isolate and purify."

I do, too… I buy the party size box. At least now I know that I can substitute wicker furniture for them if I run out.

At least you tried. This pope might not be as bad as the last one, but he has no business telling our country how to conduct immigration policy.

Exactly! Manufacturers might set up returns to their recycling centers so they can add to their profit.
I probably have a couple dozen old pc boards lying around here.

I tried. But I couldn't get over the Vatican Wall.
And they had Gates I couldn't get through.

Also, keep in mind. Most machines are 3-5 year lifespans. While you are setting this up, get some "Electronic Recycling" Process going. So that 50% of your supply comes from recycling recently departed equipment, and 50% from the backlog.

The question really becomes... How fast will we run out of the oldest stuff?

I am reminded that you can have a LOT of "garbage" of some type (Kudzu). But the minute someone figures out how to run a CAR on it. You will have shortages! LOL

I love Triscuts! Cracked black pepper is a fav.

Should help a lot! Saw this the other day, from Epoch I think.
Nitron magnetics is working pretty hard to make rare earths irrelevant in magnets. Their magnets are in production, but small. They have issues with size, and larger magents have to be bonded, losing a portion of their properties. We are working with them on proper motor/generator designs to leverage them.

Perhaps with the exception of Fetterman, at least 99% has TDS. 99.5? 99.9?

Sounds like a process very similar to oil refining.

Great group! I'm going to have to vote for the Triscuit one and the idolizing a politician one as the top two.