

My degree was a painful slog, but if you push through it, things do get better on the other side. I’ve got a fulfilling job that makes me happy, and a wife that keeps me from thinking about work more than I should. And those classes that you hate? You’ll likely never need to use them anyway. I’m back at it studying for my PE now. Any idea how to find the characteristic or mantissa?
We get 30% of our lumber from Canada. This is the inevitable consequence of shutting our borders to trade via tariffs - if these policies stick around for four years, sure, we may bring some manufacturing home at great immediate cost, but we’ll also be bringing home the environmental burdens of manufacturing (the negative externalities) which we’ve been pushing onto other countries and ignoring for decades. In the meantime, other countries have started to learn how to handle those externalities, like China’s big push for solar power. In America, we’ve got an idiot who is rolling back worker safety, health and environmental protections, the list goes on. So even if these tariffs worked, we’re going to be living in a less healthy place, all in the name of jobs…