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10 hours ago, Sua Sponte said:

What happened is a fucked supply chain with microchips that run everything from phones, cars, to airplanes being in short supply due to the pandemic. The lack of microchips is affecting new vehicles inventory making them in short supply and raising their prices. People are freaking out due to the low inventory and now they’re having bidding wars between each other for used vehicles, thus driving up the prices for them as well.

The pandemic was NOT the sole cause of the microchip shortage.  I actually made some good cash tracking the chip market per-pandemic.  Poor planning, poor return on automotive chips (they use a different size), trade sanctions (thank Trump), and limited investment in production all combined to cause a perfect storm.  Intel TSMC and Samsung are all building new factories but they take up to two years to reach full production.  Intel alone is spending $20 BILLION to build two plants in Arizona.  At least one positive outcome it production is moving back to America.

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On 10/12/2021 at 9:13 AM, bfargin said:

It is many times, the bottom of the academic barrel who become teachers (I know there are exceptions). I'm constantly amazed at the unmotivated and/or substandard students who fail out of one of our business majors here at school who then goes over to the College of Education and gets a teaching degree. If pay is raised we might get better talent headed towards teaching K-12 as well.

Teaching AFJROTC at a high school and it's been an interesting experience.  I find it odd that despite the mountains of research into the psychology of how people learn best and the professionalization of the teaching profession (at least in an academic sense), we get much worse results than before all that started.  

I think part of it is that our culture doesn't value education and learning as much as it should.  For example, in a Korean high school (my wife is Korean and I was an exchange officer at the ROKAF ACSC), the kid in the school with the best math grades is as popular for that as the star football player is in an American high school.  I see a lot of parents of my students who don't seem to give a rat's ass about how their child is doing.  And other teachers are surprised when I show up to talk to them about my daughter (easy because she is at the HS where I work) and even more shocked when I take their side and get on her about her grades. 

On the other hand, I'm not impressed with some of the teachers I work with (and my HS is in the top 10% in the state).  They seem to wrap things up in a lot of educational jargon and fluff.  

COVID didn't help either.  The 9th graders I have act like 7th graders because they spent almost 2 years out of school and their level of attention and discipline is significantly lower than my 10th graders.  

I can see why the turnover is so high in the teaching profession.  I definitely have days when I wonder WTF was I thinking taking this job because of the behavior of the students.  And ~95% of my students took it as an elective and want to be in the class.  I can't imagine teaching math or English or something. 

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12 hours ago, pbar said:

COVID didn't help either.  The 9th graders I have act like 7th graders because they spent almost 2 years out of school and their level of attention and discipline is significantly lower than my 10th graders.  

My spouse is a HS assistant principal with over 3200 students in her school and says the kids this year while they are behaving well in class, they are like feral cats when they are out in groups (lunch, after school sports, etc.)  It is the worst she has seen in 26 years working in education.  In the first two  months of this year, she has been called the C and B words multiple times.  And their parents are no better.  If I had ever spoken to a teacher/adult the way kids talk to her, my dad would have hit me in the head with a shovel, buried me in the back yard and told everyone I had run away.  You could not pay me enough to deal with the things she has to put up with day to day. I'll be glad when she retires. 

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19 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

The pandemic was NOT the sole cause of the microchip shortage.  I actually made some good cash tracking the chip market per-pandemic.  Poor planning, poor return on automotive chips (they use a different size), trade sanctions (thank Trump), and limited investment in production all combined to cause a perfect storm.  Intel TSMC and Samsung are all building new factories but they take up to two years to reach full production.  Intel alone is spending $20 BILLION to build two plants in Arizona.  At least one positive outcome it production is moving back to America.

If only there was a huge facility being built in the US that had different initial plans (LCDs) that could be redirected towards chip production.

I introduce you the the Foxconn factory in SE Wisconsin, which isn't doing much yet. Initially slated to build LCDs, the infrastructure buildouts should enabled it to build pretty much anything high tech.  In the USA.

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Afghanistan, border disaster, inflation, massive supply chain issues, gas and oil at their highest in many years, IRS planning to spy on every American's bank account, underwhelming job numbers, and a new Presidential tradition of turning your back and walking away in silence every single time you speak.

Biden.webp

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4 hours ago, FUSEPLUG said:

Kids these days. Throwing the “Brandon” word around at school administrators.  Despicable. 

Let’s go Brandon!!!!

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17 hours ago, FUSEPLUG said:

Kids these days. Throwing the “Brandon” word around at school administrators.  Despicable. 

It's not Brandon.  And its not funny....

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4 minutes ago, HossHarris said:

 

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Having a 16 year old call my wife a "MOTHER F$$$ING BITCH" because she told him to pull up his pants or take off his hat is not funny.  It is not a subject I lighten up on at all.

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27 minutes ago, FUSEPLUG said:

I wasn't trying to mock what your wife has to deal with at work.  I apologize if it came off that way.

I was mocking the President.

My apologies for getting my hackles up and I appreciate your response.  And this is a bit off this thread's topic anyways 👍

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1 hour ago, FUSEPLUG said:

I wasn't trying to mock what your wife has to deal with at work.  I apologize if it came off that way.

I was mocking the President.

 

56 minutes ago, Darth said:

My apologies for getting my hackles up and I appreciate your response.  And this is a bit off this thread's topic anyways 👍

My compliments to both of you!  It's nice to see some civility on here!

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3 hours ago, Darth said:

Having a 16 year old call my wife a "MOTHER F$$$ING BITCH" because she told him to pull up his pants or take off his hat is not funny.  It is not a subject I lighten up on at all.

Ah yes, the only things I find funny are funny argument.

 

A true man of the times.

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8 hours ago, Darth said:

Having a 16 year old call my wife a "MOTHER F$$$ING BITCH" because she told him to pull up his pants or take off his hat is not funny.  It is not a subject I lighten up on at all.

What handle does your wife post under on this board?

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On 10/13/2021 at 9:50 PM, ClearedHot said:

The pandemic was NOT the sole cause of the microchip shortage.  I actually made some good cash tracking the chip market per-pandemic.  Poor planning, poor return on automotive chips (they use a different size), trade sanctions (thank Trump), and limited investment in production all combined to cause a perfect storm.  Intel TSMC and Samsung are all building new factories but they take up to two years to reach full production.  Intel alone is spending $20 BILLION to build two plants in Arizona.  At least one positive outcome it production is moving back to America.

Maybe Trump was on to something with the sanctions?  It wasn't exactly an even playing field with China.  I'm all for free trade but more-so if all players play ball. The more industry and manufacturing that moves back to America the better.

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On 10/30/2021 at 9:29 AM, arg said:

Curious what our resident democrats on the board have to say about this. You know who you are. If you voted for this administration explain what you think about its direction. 

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4 hours ago, VMFA187 said:

If you voted for this administration explain what you think about its direction. 

I think it's a train wreck.  No doubt.  Horrible.  I'm hoping Biden is a one-term president and we get much higher caliber humans to choose from.  BUT.... do I regret voting for him?  Nope. 

Because at least I don't have to fumble to quickly change the radio station when my kids are in the car and they start talking about how the President of the United States casually cheats on his third wife to bang porn stars and then pays them hush money.  For all his faults, Biden doesn't recreationally rawdog porn stars.  That's nice.  That does a lot for me.

And because at least no lunatics have stormed the U.S. Capitol and called for the murder of the VP and/or speaker of the house.  That's a win.  I really like not seeing members of congress evacuated and morons with zip ties trapsing around the senate floor. 

That was the last straw for me, and I don't understand how it couldn't be for other people.  I understood a lot of the mental gymnastics that people did to justify Trump's many shortcomings because, in general, they liked his policies, or more often, disliked Democrat policies.  But Jan 6th was unforgivable-- a national disgrace, and such a low moment in US history that I'm still glad I voted for the current administration, despite all it's faults. 

I just wish we had better choices to start with.

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50 minutes ago, SpeedOfHeat said:

I think it's a train wreck.  No doubt.  Horrible.  I'm hoping Biden is a one-term president and we get much higher caliber humans to choose from.  BUT.... do I regret voting for him?  Nope. 

Because at least I don't have to fumble to quickly change the radio station when my kids are in the car and they start talking about how the President of the United States casually cheats on his third wife to bang porn stars and then pays them hush money.  For all his faults, Biden doesn't recreationally rawdog porn stars.  That's nice.  That does a lot for me.

And because at least no lunatics have stormed the U.S. Capitol and called for the murder of the VP and/or speaker of the house.  That's a win.  I really like not seeing members of congress evacuated and morons with zip ties trapsing around the senate floor. 

That was the last straw for me, and I don't understand how it couldn't be for other people.  I understood a lot of the mental gymnastics that people did to justify Trump's many shortcomings because, in general, they liked his policies, or more often, disliked Democrat policies.  But Jan 6th was unforgivable-- a national disgrace, and such a low moment in US history that I'm still glad I voted for the current administration, despite all it's faults. 

I just wish we had better choices to start with.

You're right. Certainly don't have to worry about your kid's listening to Biden's sex scandals when the media covers it up. Or are we just not going to talk about Tara Reade? 

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