The Last Bass Outpost

Toyota is spear headinging changing their batteries from being cobalt based.

China has most of the lithium and neodymium mines as well.

Old people stacking up like cords of wood.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/world/asia/japan-lonely-deaths-the-end.html

With no families or visitors to speak of, many older tenants spent weeks or months cocooned in their small apartments, offering little hint of their existence to the world outside their doors. And each year, some of them died without anyone knowing, only to be discovered after their neighbors caught the smell.

The first time it happened, or at least the first time it drew national attention, the corpse of a 69-year-old man living near Mrs. Ito had been lying on the floor for three years, without anyone noticing his absence. His monthly rent and utilities had been withdrawn automatically from his bank account. Finally, after his savings were depleted in 2000, the authorities came to the apartment and found his skeleton near the kitchen, its flesh picked clean by maggots and beetles, just a few feet away from his next-door neighbors.

Hello dolly!

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/823088/Sex-dolls-Japan-Dutch-Wives-Senji-Nakajima

There is also black nickel.

The idiocrosy is it started about thinks that leech into the water supply that cause cancer, but then it was white washed to include everything, without giving exact details how.

So companies like ours have to figure out what any of this means. Our distributors are demanding we sign a letter that all our products meet prop 65 standards, and some of them won’t but anything that requires a sticker.

That combined with the new 25% tariffs, make business even more difficult, but at least it is difficult for everyone in industries effected.

So we will just switch manufacturing to Vietnam.

Companies like Mattel that own their factories in China, are pooched.

Guitars that have nickel plated/chrome hardware will have to carry a warning Label sold in California.

WARNING; This product contains nickel which in known to cause Cancer and birth defects in the state of California.

Are you going to buy your kid a guitar that says this guitar causes cancer?

In our day and age of Online sales where distributors do not want special labeled products for California only, they want everything for everyone labeled which is going to effect the sales of a lot of products, plus signed legal documents that say manufactures are compliant with prop 65.

The state is not enforcing it, but bounty hunter lawyers are, so companies fear lawsuits so they are enforcing it. The list has 900 + thing listed!
Lawyers typically threaten then force a settlement between $20,000 - $50,000.

We have to dispose of all our dimes, nickels, and quarters.

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/general-info/cancer-warning-labels-based-on-californias-proposition-65.html

Wow that’s really nice.

The coolest thing to due would to get Rob to build one.

I finally visited Rockford. Nice hearing from you.