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Here’s some interesting perspective in our new 25% tariff world! They actually were over twice that much in 1930, and over the years they got whittled down to virtually nothing. Now, suddenly, that almost century-long downtrend has ceased!
Good Lord. Would you like to see a post I did almost precisely one year ago? Here it is, verbatim, in its entirety, from January 15, 2024.
In case you aren’t convinced the world has lost its mind, I present to you the hiring policy of our own Federal Aviation Administration.
When I was a young lad in the southern wilds of Louisiana, I would love to grab a random volume of our World Book, flop on the sofa, and just thumb through it. I was a curious kid, and one of the entries I enjoyed was in the “C” volume – – Computers – – which at the time discussed these electronic machines that only governments and large businesses could afford.
One of the illustrations I vividly remember showed a very tall skyscraper next to a person, and the caption explained that a computer that equaled the thinking power of a human being would be 28 stories tall. God only knows who dreamed up that “fact”, but as a kid I felt pretty proud to be walking around with a squishy organ in my head that was just as powerful as a skyscraper-sized computer.
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