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   Physfitfreak to Physfitfreak   
   Re: What Made My Day Today :-) (1/2)   
   05 Dec 24 01:30:49   
   
   From: physfitfreak@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/1/24 10:01 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:   
   > On 12/1/24 7:25 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> - News has it that it was "discovered" that a large number of Iran's   
   >> industries that directly deal with the first phase of a number of   
   >> processes involving gas, oil, agriculture, etc, are working much more   
   >> slowly than they were a few years ago :)   
   >>   
   >> This far, it already says enough about how two-bit managers are   
   >> working in Iran.   
   >>   
   >> Then a task force was created to investigate it. It turned out that   
   >> these industries have trouble receiving nuts! Yes, bolts and nuts that   
   >> they order from foreign countries...   
   >>   
   >> So the team did some more of looking and found out that all major   
   >> industries in Iran that used to make these nuts and bolts of various   
   >> sizes are down! ... Hahhahhahahh :) Talking about Mullah's placing   
   >> their sons at those positions.   
   >>   
   >> So they investigated farther and the reason was that a few key parts   
   >> in all of these machines are defective, and the European companies who   
   >> used to supply them to Iran have stopped doing that.   
   >>   
   >> So the machines stopped. Nuts and bolts stopped being manufactured.   
   >> And the effect of it fucked up major industries that need these nuts   
   >> and bolts.   
   >>   
   >> And guess what. Nobody was even talking about this :)   
   >>   
   >> That's what happens when you involve clerics into areas of activity   
   >> that should not be their business.   
   >>   
   >> This matter was reported to government and they sent their scientists   
   >> and engineers to check those machines out. They literally disassembled   
   >> these huge machines and studied every part of it; how they work, why   
   >> certain parts don't work, and found that the design of some of them   
   >> themselves were idiotic and would rapidly lead to some of their parts   
   >> getting ruined.   
   >>   
   >> So instead of reproducing these parts now that EU would not sell them,   
   >> they decided to redesign these machines!   
   >>   
   >> They did that, finished the job, created new machines with none of the   
   >> problems that the European ones had. They began churning out any nuts   
   >> and bolts ever needed, and this covered the 120 thousand tons of nuts   
   >> and bolts that Iran's industries needed yearly. So all those   
   >> industries began working as fast as before instead of waiting for nuts   
   >> and bolts to arrive from various parts of the world.   
   >>   
   >> What hit me when I read that is that nobody even was complaining about   
   >> this. It had to be indirectly "discovered" :-( Imagine how many other   
   >> defects in the fabric of industry in Iran is there sitting to be   
   >> "discovered." Cause sure as hell nobody talks about it.   
   >>   
   >> I think their owners aren't even in Iran. They're in California   
   >> perhaps, giving ass in San Francisco, and care little about what they   
   >> own in Iran. This can explain the comedy better than any other reason   
   >> one could think of.   
   >>   
   >> These owners may have been Jews or Baha'is, anybody who doesn't give a   
   >> hoot about any industry in Iran, be it their own industries.   
   >>   
   >> I hope by seeing the way this simple matter was discovered, the   
   >> authorities will get better at finding the rest of funny situations   
   >> like this and take care of them as well.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > A similar situation, which still exists, is the matter of spare parts   
   > for European cars that are assembled in Iran. These assembler companies   
   > by the contract they have with buyers must provide spare parts for these   
   > cars, and yet they have difficulty getting them from Europeans. These   
   > deals with EU were placed years ago, in some cases decades back, and now   
   > the political situation has changed and EU car companies do not want to   
   > assume responsibility for providing spare parts. But profit is still   
   > high enough to continue supplying stuff to assemble their cars (cars in   
   > Iran, especially European cars, are extremely expensive).   
   >   
   > Although this has created a local market for these parts, no investor is   
   > willing to risk his money on manufacturing them because the assembling   
   > contract might not last far enough in the future. Matters with EU can go   
   > downhill in one week without notice and the investors' parts company   
   > will suddenly be good for the life of the latest assembled cars only,   
   > and not more.   
   >   
   > So buyers have sued these assembler companies and now there is a "law"   
   > forcing the assemblers to provide spare parts. So for them it is a   
   > dilemma right now. They don't know what to do.   
   >   
   > This in turn has created obvious other problems. The prices of spare   
   > parts for these cars have skyrocketted, leading to yet another smuggling   
   > problem added to Iran's never ending smuggling issues. Also crappy parts   
   > now have popped into market (nobody knows from where) which are very bad   
   > imitations and are of low quality material and yet as expensive as the   
   > oem parts, and these parts sell too because no other options are readily   
   > available for customer. Many have their cars sitting and getting dust   
   > for months because the spare for them aren't found.   
   >   
   > I think EU companies have been ordered to do that just to create stress   
   > among Iranians. Same people who order them to conduct never ending war   
   > in Ukraine, also press them to do this with Iran, as right now they   
   > could make good profit selling these parts.   
   >   
   > But this issue is one of a consumer issue type, not one for countries   
   > major industries like what I described above. In fact it was in this   
   > context that the source brought out the nuts and bolts issue as an   
   > example of what government could do somewhere that it cannot do   
   > elsewhere for Iranians.   
   >   
   >   
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   Anyway, now you can imagine how "Europeans" look like to Iranians who've   
   bought their products :) Hehe :) Calling them "Bitch of USA" is an   
   underestimation indeed.   
      
      
   - Bitcoin has gone above $100k :-) It made my day :) I'm happy even as   
   I'm regretfully not benefiting from it. A strong Bitcoin is always a   
   good thing because it saves you against Banks that deal in Dollars.   
   Dollar is a political weapon. Bitcoin is something that shows the middle   
   finger to Dollar, because Dollar cannot do anything against it.   
      
      
   - In Syria the rapid spread of American, Israeli, British, Turkish, and   
   Wahhabi backed terrorists have slowed but not to zero. And if there was   
   such a plan as capturing Edlib while all terrorists were out and spread   
   away, the picture is now different. Assad's forces could not reach   
   Edlib. It got bugged down in Hamah and looks like Hamah is getting   
   surrounded by terrorist forces as we speak. If Hamah falls Syrians are   
   fucked.   
      
   Very poor fighting on the side of Assad's military forces. It must be   
   more a matter of what the tribes wish than what the military is ordered   
      
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