Because this head prioritizes branding over utility, neither the bit nor the screw head can withstand the torque of a standard Torx or Hex fastener. The result? Broken bits, stripped screws, and more time spent on what would otherwise be a simple task.
The decline in manufacturing, however, is less a story about policy blunders than one about the long progress of the US economy, which has to a large extent graduated out of producing stuff like phones and cars and into the delivery of services, like finance and healthcare – a process similar to that followed by other countries that moved up the ladder of success.
Oh, ffs! You'd think that a British journalist focused on economics and politics would get this right, but apparently not.
The Republicans look back at America's manufacturing boom of the 1950's with nostalgia, and they completely ignore the reasons for the boom - namely, the devastation from WWII. South America, Africa and the Southern Pacific countries didn't have big manufacturing economies. A significant number of other countries (Russia, Japan, most of Europe, etc) were physically devastated by the war and needed to rebuild from scratch.
With China focused inward and India focused on independence (and both countries recovering from the war), there simply wasn't another large, heavily populated country to compete - New Zealand, Australia, Canada, etc, simply didn't have the population to build and staff factories to the extent that the States could. That's where the US post-war manufacturing boom came from: the war itself.
And the boom died out because other countries recovered from the war and built their own manufacturing bases. That boom was never going to last, and it's unlikely to ever be repeated, and I just wish that people would realize that and move on from that dream.
Look into adaptations! I have an electric jar opener and an electric can opener. After a friend got frozen shoulder, I got her a couple of rocker-knives and a pair of tong-spatulas (a pair of tongs, but with spatulas instead of grippers at the end). There are plates and cutting boards with little upright prongs on them, to hold things in place while you cut them with your good hand. There are also things like the slap-chopper or magic bullet, those box-dicers where you slap the lid down, etc.
Essentially -- you know all those late-night commercials with the weird kitchen gadgets? Those aren't actually weird, they're intended for handicapped people. But they know if they market them as being for handicapped people, sales drop. But if they market them as weird convenience devices, when someone needs them, they look at them in a different light and they make the sale.
I'd also suggest searching the web: I know I ran across some disability blogs, where people talked about their adaptation and techniques and where people discussed which products worked or didn't.
Oh - if you like wearing jewelry, they make little magnets that clip onto the ends of necklaces and bracelets and such, that make putting on jewelry one-handed easier.
a maintenance issue required a change of planes. [Noem's] personal blanket was not transferred [to the new plane].
How about you be responsible for your own fucking shit, Noem? What about "personal responsibility"? The pilot is there to fly the fucking plane, not be your personal body-slave.
They're having staffing problems in prisons because corrections officers keep leaving for ICE. And as prison guards, they're used to being able to freely abuse people and cover it up with the thinnest of lies. Actually being called out on it must be a shock for them
You know who the biggest welfare queens in the States are? Corporations who deliberately limit worker hours so that they'll never get benefits, and who deliberately underpay workers relative to their value and the amount of profit the company makes, and who deliberately arrange to underpay their taxes.
All of these things increase pressure on the worker and their desperate struggle to have just a little breathing room - and the government cheerfully goes along with all of this.
If any part of society was working as it should - if government represented the people instead of the corporations, if minimum wage had kept up with inflation, if corporations and the wealthy paid back into the system that has so vastly benefitted them - if any of that had happened, then you wouldn't be under the stress that you're under.
Go. Sign up for SNAP. Check with your county and see what other resources are available to you because you're on SNAP - maybe you qualify for reduced heating, or a free phone line, or seasonal credit at your local farmers market. Anything that you qualify for, take advantage of, because each program will get you a little more space in your life for yourself.
The people who shot Good and Pretti each had over 8 years experience; iirc, one had 12 years on the job. That's not lack of training, that's deliberate institutional oppression, and it cannot be reformed.
Driver's license. Credit/debit card. Library card. RFID blocker (if not built into wallet).
Health insurance card. Important medical information (like I dunno, "Diabetic" or "allergic to penicillin"). Contact information for next of kin [can be the same card as health information].
Funny how people keep passing laws that say one thing, and then Republicans find a way to "interpret" those laws into meaning someone entirely different ....
Ugh.