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Pivot to Iran?

Not to tout YouTubers, but Micheal Reeves literally had a goldfish do his trading and it made him more money than the average hedgefund manager.

It is absolutely true in spirit, Asia has always been at the forefront of quality engineering and lean manufacturing.

Because that would mean he is doing a bad thing and be obligated to stop or have to call himself a bad person, neither of which he is willing to do, so it must be the fault of the Chinese, even though they are clearly shutting down these factories who participate in these abuses, unlike in the U.S. where they will just be like 'how could we have known immigrant kids were working in our factories, all their paperwork that we purposefully didn't double check was correct! We need to change the laws to lower the legal working age, so that way poor innocent business owners don't get duped by malicious immigrant children.'

And that it was only possible due to the successes the Russians were having on the Eastern Front after the battle for Stalingrad a year earlier. Stalingrad is overwhelmingly considered the turning point in the European Theatre by historians, and the allies still delayed the operation beyond what was actually necessary.

Yes. Literally just talk about it as if it was gossip or celeb trash.

Aside from the romance issue, the problem is that Gale is a whiny douchebag who basically trips his way into higher power, ascribing many of your achievements to himself (even if you do not bring him along on quests) and thus thinking himself worthy of praise and other things that I will not reveal because of spoilers.

My friends and I were pissed that even after we made the choice to deny him one of these 'really bad ideas' he has, we were forced to see him achieve it in the post-game, and then were not allowed to kill him for doing something explicitly against our wishes, which we were entitled to make since we were the ones who actually saved the city, which he then seemingly forgot that we were opposed to because the BG3 writers aren't always to maintain coherent character emotional arcs and memory after Act 1 ( omg I love Act 1 though, so good), which can lead to some very funny story moments.

Perhaps he is better if you take him along (though he was already an annoying wizard to begin with) but if you are playing multiplayer and simply wish to save him by not dismissing him from your party, the story devs will still try to force him and his frankly absurd OC level goals down your throat because he is clearly one of their favorites.

Edit: That said, I am honestly not a huge fan of any of the NPCs especially compared to the interesting people you met in Divinity 2, which is the superior Larian game imo because it isn't tied to the exploitation strategies that plague D&D 5E as a system, so much so that bosses have to randomly lose status effects to maintain any level of difficulty.

That isn't to say BG3 is bad, just that, having played hundreds of hours of both, D2 is the more compelling game, in large part due to its much more difficult, and intricate combat system, which allows you to actually use status effects on bosses though they were a pain to get to stick, and encouraged you to really combo powers, rather than just have a couple one-trick pony styles.

Anyways, my point is that most of the characters are pretty meh, but Gale is absolutely the most annoying if you play the game not really interacting with him.

Edit the 2nd: Basically none of the characters are that great unless you want to have sex with them. Karlach was my favorite though, story-wise, because at least she has a character reason to be a dumbass.

"Where are all the games?"

We are already an industrialized country. The question is can we take back our seat at the head of manufacturing industry, which is maybe?

The main issue is a lack of workforce. The reason for the lack of workforce is two-fold. The first problem is that the U.S. is just now coming around on the philosophy of lean manufacturing, and actually focusing on improving the efficiency of their workforce and not wearing them down to nubs, but this adoption.is literally going company by company, with companies that have adopted it finding great success, but the monopolies are slow to pivot because they don't have to be quick on the draw. The second problem is that there are still more jobs that are lucrative and easier than manufacturing, which is a soul-crushing job at the worst of times, and a tiresome but simple job at the best of times. There is much more money in being a middle-man than actually producing something.

To elaborate, this is the main reason why the tariffs won't work. The problem is literally one of pay, prestige, and incentives, and what they should be doing if they want to bring back manufactured is targeting easy money flows connected to online advertising and entertainment, and raising the minimum wages on manufacturing jobs specifically. Basically, you have to tariff service, finance and entertainment profits in order to stimulate the real production economy. The issue is that all of that is an unlimited speculation gambit that, in theory, cannot be 'over produced', while manufacturing has very real diminishing returns and can lead to over production. This is something that will never happen with any modern politician at the head because they are embedded into the entertainment economy and media.

The U.S. absolutely can further it's industrialization, the issue is that the very political economy prevents that from happening in an actually useful way, so all that ends up happening is a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich with no actual production benefits, which works out for everyone in charge so they don't actually care if it did work or not, or they will lie and fudge the numbers to say it did work.

Depends on where they spray. Castings are particularly vulnerable during their pouring, but you can also sabotage the molds, or the sand used to make the cope and drag. That said, paint on the molds is easily gotten rid of, and paint in the sand can be burned away. Some castings require a clean room, so perhaps that is what they targeted. That said, knowing which line to target (which one specifically produces for the war machine) would be a huge pain in the ass without insider knowledge, as foundries like this usually make lots of different things, and for castings you really have to directly hit the molds and machines necessary for production as most production areas outside of the pouring zone tend to be discreet.