u/Mo_Jack

This is the transcript of a radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-95.

Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.

Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.

Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.

Americans: This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, the second largest ship in the United States' Atlantic fleet. We are accompanied by three destroyers, three cruisers and numerous support vessels. I demand that YOU change your course 15 degrees north, that's one five degrees north, or countermeasures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship.

Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call.

Some things discussed:

• Unfortunately, the irony here is that we are, in some ways, beholden right now to the Chinese factory in order to produce the munitions that we need to defend American interests from China.
• A controversial idea for Americans - for us to hear, their belief is that we have entered a kind of deep decline,
• [ Tariffs ] actually has had the reverse effect that Trump projected.
• China  is actually now selling more to other countries than it was before, despite these tariffs.
• Do you have any clues what the Chinese leadership thinks of Trump himself? OSNOS: Yeah. There are some indications... And the name of the report was "Thank Trump," by which they meant - and they spelled this out - that, in their view, he is hastening the twilight of an empire, as they put it, because he's attacking things like the independent civil service and America's scientific institutions, its leading universities. He's alienating allies like NATO and elsewhere.
• There was a study done by scholars in the U.S. that found that between 2010 and 2021, that 20,000 Chinese scientists left the United States
• The CEO of Ford Motor Company. When he visited China and factories like this, he came back and said it was the most humbling thing he had ever seen.
• In China, tech is tightly regulated. And in the U.S., as you point out, Obama had a regulation plan. Trump threw that out and instead is leaving it to Silicon Valley to regulate itself.
• there are parts of China today where there are cameras watching the trash bins in a neighborhood. And if you fail to separate your household waste from the recyclables, for instance, well, then you might find your face projected on an LED screen for the rest of the neighborhood to see.
• they're using similar technology to try to assess people in police stations. I mean, one of the pieces of technology that was being sold at a police expo in Beijing was a camera that could - from a distance, it said - assess people's underlying motivations and behavioral tendencies.
• The percentage of Chinese people who feel optimistic about the future has really sunk quite dramatically from about a decade ago. And you also see it among young people who are choosing not to get married or have kids. This is a really remarkable statistic.

People may want to listen NPRs interview with journalist Gil Duran about his book Nerd Reich. If you have struggled to understand what the end game is with this administration and the many silicon valley billionaires behind it, this might help you make sense of some of it. It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but what do you call it when several people conspire to achieve certain political goals?

I have been trying to figure out why this administration is doing what it is doing. Some of their actions are so obviously going to have disastrous consequences like hurting our economy, destroying friendships with allies, and removing America from a world leadership position. But what if those results were the goal?

For years, there have been some pretty nutty right wing extremists online, pushing ideas most people would consider to be crazy, and they have been gathering quite a following. In fact, they have become very popular with some of the wealthiest billionaires in silicon valley. The same billionaires that have been promoting this administration. With their wealth and technology, they have decided, or at least helped to decide, who our president & vice president are currently.

If anyone wants to elaborate on how these types of planets come into being, please feel free.

A good portion of the clothes has only one or two sizes. But they do have some tumblers, hats, and other stuff. If you select "Blues" then press "filter" and then scroll way down to "Sale", it will bring up all the sale items

Restaurant in Minneapolis blocks from where George Floyd & Renee Good were killed, decided to give food away for free and ask for donations. They are more profitable now than when they subscribed to the corporate logic.

While they are more profitable now, it does mention that they are getting donations from outside the state. I don't know how sustainable a business model can be, being dependent on charity or benevolent billionaires. Usually when the economy is at its worst is when charity is needed the most; but it is also the time that people are tighter with their donations.

In economics, it is precisely the bad times where the government comes into play, increasing spending, and hopefully stopping the economic backslide, even if it requires debt. If taxes were raised just a tiny bit on corporations & the wealthy, projects like this could be funded all over.

It would be nice to plan these when planning cities. To set aside space for food pantries, free restaurants, more parks, affordable housing, child care, job training centers, and mass transit when planning our cities. Instead everything is geared towards businesses & housing developments. We instead ask, "Where can we fit another strip mall or jam in a casino, or how can we trick the voters into putting a major polluter next to where they live?"

Typical of the psychopaths running Jeff City. At this point, I would expect nothing less. They seem to be on a mission to make Missouri the worst state in the union.

They are blaming it all on an "over surplus" of peaches. As a child, we bought Del Monte because they were a high quality product for a few pennies more in my family. Decades ago, I noticed that the quality was getting worse than the other name brands and the price was usually as much or higher.

Than about a decade ago, I noticed that the quality of budget labels was as good or better than Del Monte, almost across the board, and the Del Monte price was about double. That is when I stopped buying their brand.

This is another story about a corporation that chose enshittification. They tried to extract as much profit as possible at the cost of quality, their brand name, their relationship with suppliers, and the workforce that produced the products they sold.

They looked for any way to cut corners to extract more short term profits with zero thoughts of the long term. In other words, a typical decision by a large corporation. This is no longer a bug in our economic system, it is a built-in feature.

Of course, they are already talking about bailouts for the farm owners. I think it is safe to assume that the workers will get zilch, as usual.

One of the comments below the story is from somebody who lost their job when their company went bankrupt and they had to retrain themselves and take on $200k worth of student loans. And now their taxes will be spent to bail out the farm owners.

It should be noted that Del Monte filed for bankruptcy in July of last year and had problems way before that, so this is by no means a surprise.

They are also planning to destroy the 420,000 peach trees before harvest season. If they harvested the peaches and canned them, the peaches would be good for decades and be sent to food pantries or sold to offset the bailout money.

Obviously, the normal thing for a nation to do with a surplus, is to sell it to a trading partner in another country. But Trump's tariff war has been closing overseas markets for US products.

Now, who wants to bet that the price of peaches increases and the companies use the loss of 420,000 peach trees in California as an excuse? Who wants to bet that we are going to start hearing about a "peach shortage" in the marketplace?