I feel like those 80s motorcycle tariffs are why the US motorcycle industry is so uncompetitive today. In the 80s, HD got fat my making bikes that wouldn’t be viable anywhere else in the world. HD didn’t have to compete because tariffs guaranteed their market. Meanwhile Honda, Yamaha,. Kawasaki, Suzuki were developing a lean, lightweight model, we saw the convergent evolution of the Universal Japanese Motorcycle and lean production processes. It was specifically those tariffs that made the big 4 what they are today - basically unstoppable.

If Northern Ireland decided to reunite with the rest of Ireland it would solve so many problems… good luck trying to convince the Northern Irish of that.

Please don’t joke about stuff that could get people in trouble

Can you do a quick financial professional jargon check for us?

I have an accountant, and she’s employed for her expertise in the UK tax code as applicable to small businesses.

I understand that there are also accountants who work like financial engineers, trying to find tax-efficient schemes for large businesses. What’s your business?

Shareholders: Please don’t threaten me with a good time!

This is democracy manifest!

It’s called Mind of Steele. If you subscribe please say hello!

I make a YT channel about bizarre conspiracy theories. I keep coming back to the people who make videos claiming that 5G is actually a deadly weapon on their 5G Iphone 16. Nobody has more cognitive dissonance than these guys.

Can you suggest some artists to check out?

Can I recommend Meshtastic? The gear is all cheap. And it’s a fun collaborative project to try to build a mesh with other nearby users.

Don’t you mean Vodka?

You’re just experiencing the eternal cycle of social media, life, death and rebirth. any new social media will be predominantly, progressives and liberals. This steady state won’t last for long because eventually right-wingers and your mother’s friends will join in thus reducing the value of this new media to zero. by then, progressives such as yourself may have found an entirely new social media center to complain about.

Steaming was only cheaper because the streaming services never paid writers

Premiere is a crashy mess compared to Final Cut. Davinci isn’t open source, it’s just free unless you need to do 4k and some advanced colour stuff. Davinci is high end Hollywood magic.

Also describing an angry response as a “meltdown”