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utee94

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  1. I have no love for Max but damn he's just so good. Like @aggie08 and @Burt Macklin already said, the car isn't great and he's been fighting it, and then he turns in an all-timer at the very end of Q3. The dude is a legend.
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    Damn I miss Mangia. I drive past that place all the time and have never tried it. Time to change that!
  3. They've turned the corner, they should definitely give Earley a raise and contract extension right now before someone hires him away.
  4. "Undo it" means unwinding our dependence on Chinese manufacturing. It has nothing to do with AI chat bots. And it's already happening for numerous tech companies in industries like computer and consumer electronics manufacturing. China is no longer a low cost manufacturing nation for many of the goods that American companies originally offshored there over the past few decades. So now it's not even low cost manufacturing that's holding several of our industries there, in many cases it's simply inertia. But as US companies work to move manufacturing out of China for their own reasons, it's possible that the increased tariffs on Chinese-manufactured goods will hasten those moves. Still, like I said, it took decades to get there, and it'll take decades to untangle it all. As I stated above, China is no longer a low cost manufacturing nation for many of the goods that American companies have offshored there over the past few decades. And also like I said above, American companies are already making moves to unwind. The supply chain issues highlighted during the pandemic were somewhat of a wake-up call to many American companies, but also the fact that China's just a real pain in the ass to do business with, and if they're not the lowest cost manufacturer, then there's no need to bother with it. Add increased tariffs on top and it looks even less appetizing to continue manufacturing there. I don't expect manufacturing jobs in textiles or shoes to return to the USA, but there's plenty of opportunity for high tech to do so. It's already in process for many companies. This has all been discussed at length on the China thread, which is probably a better place for this discussion, since the tariff thread isn't specific to China.
  5. 100%. And it wasn't just time that moved Texas in the right direction, it was finally getting a homerun hire for the AD position. How likely are the ags to find themselves another CDC? Actually, it would have to be someone better than CDC, since Texas' brand all on its own is extremely beneficial to our AD. While A&M's brand is... less so.
  6. I'm intimately familiar with Chinese manufacturing. I've set up global supply chains for a Fortune 5 company there. We don't "partner" with China. Nobody can "partner" with China. You can only submit to China, if you want to do business there or use them as a manufacturing base. American companies have sold their soul for scores of years, sacrificing themselves in an economic war that China began waging against us over 5 decades ago, and many Americans aren't even aware of to this day. But even before any of this, American companies had already begun moving some manufacturing out of China. It took decades to get where we are, and it'll take decades to undo it, but the trend is finally moving in the right direction. And I'll clarify here that I really like the Chinese people. This commentary isn't about them. It's all about the CCP.
  7. "We can partner with them, & with Mexico & Canada & China." Yes, yes, yes, and NO. The idea that anyone can ever "partner with China" is laughable and a complete crock of horseshit.
  8. I've instructed my servants to shop at Central Market rather than Whole Foods. I mean, for themselves, not for me. Because I'm cutting their paychecks.
  9. College Station.
  10. Some will no doubt consider China as an alternative. But China's longstanding anti-competitive practices are already harsher than anything the USA has ever done, including these new tariffs. Talking about turning to China is easy, doing it in practice is much more difficult, and more painful. Almost time to BUY!!!
  11. If anyone thinks China is going to be less heavy-handed than the US, they're kidding themselves. Rock and a hard place for those countries.
  12. So the choices are Virginia Tech on steroids, or Virginia Tech on meth...
  13. Among the scholarly community that studies economics, there's not a consensus on whether or not tariffs are effective. Their effects in the highly complex global macroeconomy are hard to measure and conclusions are difficult to derive. I'm not an economist but through my professional career I know a decent amount about international business and a great amount about global supply chains. In general I'm opposed to tariffs, I prefer to see policies that stress positive internal economic incentives to pursue the desired changes to national business policy, rather than negative external policy like tariffs. But I don't believe these tariffs are actually being put in place in the usual way, in an attempt to discourage general anti-competitive behavior on the part of other global players. Trump usually tells us exactly what he's doing, whether we believe him or not, and he's already saying that these tariffs are all about bargaining power. This is his usual MO and it's not at all surprising. So in this case, analysis of whether or not tariffs in general are effective, is irrelevant. Rather, the speculation and debate should be about whether or not this particular bargaining maneuver will be effective. There's already been plenty of discussion along those lines, on this thread.
  14. Nice. Add a chrome roll bar with some daylighters on top, and then we're talking.
  15. Many companies in my area started them over a month ago. Disti channel is already seeing it, direct routes to market will see it starting today. Average of 10% increase across the board, higher in cases where value is higher. There's been a flurry of customer buy-ahead activity, that should come to an end now.
  16. The "talking to him for 3 days" translates to "Beard is tolerating the ags' advances just enough to secure a large pay raise and contract extension from his current employer."
  17. Well that, plus, Texas absolutely did not have to fire him. Texas could have kept him, and then when the charges were dropped, acted like everything was okay. Which would have been the wrong thing to do. Just like the ags attempting to hire him was the wrong thing to do.
  18. Per the announcement a little while ago:
  19. Nah my aggie wife and her direct family are awesome. The extended family, on the other hand, not so much. But I rarely have to interact with them, so it's okay.
  20. One of my aggie inlaws' aggie cousins told me straight to my face that UT was a sleazy disgusting win-at-all-cost hellpit and there's no way we would fire a horrible person like Beard, when it would hurt our chances of winning. Until of course we did a couple of days later, but I don't recall him having anything to say about that. I haven't talked to him in months but I sure would be curious to see what he thinks about Beard these days.
  21. It all started in 1876. Texas didn't join the SEC until 2024.
  22. Used to be standard at so many Tex-Mex places. Memories...
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