The authorities allege that he was doing it to obtain vaccine batch numbers needed for making fraud proof-of-vaccination documents.

Although I’m sure the headline is true, at least with my industry it’s a little misleading. All we did over the past few years was cut in Mexico as middle men.

There’s no cost effective domestic source of a particular raw material so it’s traditionally been purchased from China and turned into a product in the US. With various tariffs and labor costs it’s now cheaper to purchase the same raw material from China, turn it into components in Mexico (thus a Mexican product), and then do final assembly in the US. On paper we’re importing things from Mexico but the majority of the money still ends up in the same place.

I’m curious if that’s the case for other industries.

• Get in
• Start car
• Connect up bluetooth for tunes
• Wait for startup high-idle to finish warming the cats or whatever
• Drive

There’s a station I use regularly that has to have some sort of commercial plan. I regularly see cop cars, UPS trucks, and one time a yellow cab filling up there.

/r/mechanicalpencils

It’s a great place and I wish them well but I’m definitely not interested in being on reddit anymore.

I set up a new magazine here: https://kbin.social/m/mechanicalpencils