Dan Sinker/notes

Most of the time my thoughts aren't long enough for a blog post. My shortform notes get posted on Mastodon and Bluesky, and also wind up here.

Everything is a hellscape but I've compulsively gone to the art museum more times in the last month than the previous five years so at least there's that.

posted at 1:38PM on April 6, 2025

People in the streets is unequivocally good.

posted at 4:20PM on April 5, 2025

If you've never taken apart a piece of electronics before, it's worth doing for a lot of reasons but today it's a good lesson in how every single piece inside it, and there are a lot, was manufactured separately, often by an entirely separate company in a different country, down to the screws.

posted at 9:29AM on April 5, 2025

The Verge completely owned the story of the last time Trump tried to bring manufacturing back to America. www.theverge.com/c/2150796... "The renovations never arrived. Neither did the factory, the tech campus, nor the thousands of jobs. Interviews with 19 employees and dozens of others involved with the project, as well as thousands of pages of public documents, reveal a project that has defaulted on almost every promise. The building Foxconn calls an LCD factory — about 1/20th the size of the original plan — is little more than an empty shell. In September, Foxconn received a permit to change its intended use from manufacturing to storage."

posted at 9:17AM on April 5, 2025

Every ad during the Premier League half is for a company that is now completely fucked.

posted at 8:12AM on April 5, 2025

Do you miss American manufacturing or do you miss large union memberships and income tax rates on the rich well north of 50%?

posted at 4:26PM on April 4, 2025

Sitting eating my little $1 packet of Indonesian noodles and realizing these tariffs are going to completely destroy H-mart aren't they.

posted at 12:26PM on April 4, 2025

I think reporting out how the unpopulated penguin islands landed on the tariff list would probably answer a lot more questions than just that one.

posted at 7:11AM on April 4, 2025

I'm not going to read your "how to defeat fascism" post if it's on Substack, a platform that actively supports fascists.

posted at 6:50PM on April 3, 2025

Driving the war rig to Costco.

posted at 4:04PM on April 3, 2025

Anyway I think the people that voted for this are bad, actually.

posted at 9:51AM on April 3, 2025

gonna try my hand at being one of those Great Depression guys that sells pencils out of a cup I guess.

posted at 8:41AM on April 3, 2025

Fixed the NYT headline. modified New York Times headline that reads 'Trump’s Tariffs Are Latest Sign He Is Fucking Insane'

posted at 8:11AM on April 3, 2025

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from? A tweet by "rohit" discusses the application of AI in geopolitics, specifically focusing on tariffs, and includes a table comparing tariff rates between China and the US.

posted at 7:32PM on April 2, 2025

personally I would like to no longer be governed by a mad king now

posted at 6:32PM on April 2, 2025

it's cool that I scrimped and saved a meager amount of money for my kid's college just to have this asshole light it on fire

posted at 4:26PM on April 2, 2025

I'm just a guy who has obsessively made things for 30 years so what do I know, but I'd think factories take longer to build than the President of the United States seems to believe.

posted at 3:13PM on April 2, 2025

Wisconsin fought and clawed to get out from under the thumb of the Kochs and Uihleins who had bought and paid for gerrymandered Republican dominance for years. And then another rich motherfucker showed up and the whole state said not today.

posted at 9:07PM on April 1, 2025

Take the wins when they happen. Have some hope.

posted at 8:57PM on April 1, 2025

I fucking love Wisconsin

posted at 8:55PM on April 1, 2025

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