@OopsGuess Don't let @adcock_brett see this video. He'll claim it's fake news.
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Longstayed
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I'm a First Island Chain kinda guy
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China’s first automated humanoid robot production line is now operational in Guangdong.
Annual capacity: 10,000 units.
One robot every 30 minutes on average.
24 digitalized precision assembly processes.
50%+ more efficient than traditional manufacturing.
Mixed-model assembly.
Full safety testing.
The West is still obsessed with robot demos.
China is moving to robot manufacturing capacity.
That is where industries get rewritten.
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@teortaxesTex Every serious country need to start investing in analog.
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Very likely
Chyna needs to put their top brains on asymmetric defense
Others are screwed
Zephyr@zephyr_z9
US is going to get a major cyberoffense boost in the next 9-15 months And unlike nukes (used twice) or 5th gen fighter jets (deployed sparsely), they will be repeatedly used and deployed daily No other country has an answer to this (China will be 6-9 months behind if the current trajectory holds) youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26p…
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@HMBrough_ As someone who's familiar with Taiwan... no.
Taiwanese people don't have the same sense of caring for their environment as the Japanese. And many of them have the Chinese "good enough" attitude compared to Japan's obsession with perfectionism.
No country compares to Japan.
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From what my partner tells me, Taiwan is basically the cool version of Japan:
1) Less stuffy locals (nobody will care if you walk while eating or talk on a train)
2) SLIGHTLY more xenophilic locals (if you’re brown this is important)
3) Way less touristy, but just as cheap and orderly
4) Tastier (albeit fattier) street food
Aruvin 💊@aruvinchan
I spent a week in Japan last year. Immediately I knew it wasn't a place for living. Too conformist, too stifling, too much policing from other people. You can't talk loudly, you can't go here, you can't do this, you can't do that. Fuck that shit.
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@ShanghaiMacro People also need to understand that everything we see from China is still under "normal" peaceful conditions. They haven't gone all-in total war mode yet.
Imagine how many missiles and drones they can crank out if they actually focus on it.
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If a few thousand low-cost Iranian drones can effectively deter the US in the Strait of Hormuz, what does this chart below tell you?
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@Yussoonn_ population density as South Korea.
Now evict Spain from the EU, strip away all natural resources, and add a belligerent neighbor to the North that cuts you off from the rest of the continent by land. How well would the siesta-loving Spaniards fare?
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@Yussoonn_ People don't understand that a lot of East Asian countries like SK, TW, and JPN are overpopulated islands lacking in pretty much any meaningful industrial resources. They are playing on the hardest difficulty level.
You'd need to add 200 million ppl to Spain to reach the same
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This is another cope about Korea, and it reflects a very Western-centric, short-sighted way of thinking.
Korea has already overtaken Spain in PPP.
Boasting about such a figure to claim that Spain>Korea is like someone inheriting a house, looking at the monthly income of an over-indebted entrepreneur in an expansion phase, and concluding that he has "succeeded better."
Spain operates within a EU framework that is already wealthy, stable,supported by tourism, European integration,transfers, and geopolitical stability.
So yes atm Spain may slightly lead in nominal GDP but that does not prove that its model is superior, it only shows that an aggregate indicator can reward position more than effort.
Many people are ignorant of the fact that Korea is still catching up and that the country has productivity reserves that Spain lacks in the long term, which means that Korea will surpass Spain in terms of nominal GDP.
Liberite 🔶 🇪🇺@brownliberite
South Korea has a ~~52 hour work week and a lower gdp per capita btw
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@chinafutureclub In a way, electricity generations and usage hasn't stagnated in developed economies like Japan, they simply got offshored along with their industry.
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@fredsoda It was shocking how much Iran was willing to compromise on just before the war. With our bombings last year and success in Venezuela, Trump could have come out looking like an amazing deal maker if he just pursued diplomacy.
Instead, we're gonna get ejected from the Mid-East.
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victory for the U.S. would be defeating the Iranian military and its proxies in the surrounding region
it does not have the manpower, magazine depth, or political will to do so
Kevin@KevinIsRight99
@fredsoda What is victory?
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@Linahuaa At this point, his legacy isn't net worth anymore. People will forget the founders of microslop or some online bookstore because those things aren't interesting. Their stories don't inspire or spark anything in the human soul.
What Elon has created is legendary.
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Elon getting viscously bullied as a kid, and rejected by his father has created a deep wound he describes as "rage demon" that drives him forward.
Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos retired pretty early to play backgammon, party with Epstein, or court women with big celebrity parties.
Elon's hunger, on the other hand, is endless, and so intense, that he takes bigger risks and fakes it till he makes it harder than anyone.
In a different timeline, Elon might have gone bankrupt with Tesla at some point, with a damaged aura that would have stopped his ambitions.
But in this time line, he went all-in like 4 times in a row, and hit the nuts on the river every time so far.
However, among the top billionaires he's also the most likely to crash his net worth by 80%+
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🚨 Elon Musk comments on why the world doesn’t have more Elon Musks 💡 “If you think you want to be me or do the things I've done... I would say you're probably mistaken. Long periods of my life have been very painful and difficult. I'm not sure people would want to go through that. The amount I torture myself is next level. You need to have some kind of rage demon in your skull that drives you.” Source: The book of Elon
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@policytensor And we are just 1 month into this war.
A lot people don't realize that we can lose 0 air assets and still be in way worse shape than before the war because our air fleets are already very old. The more we use them, the more time consuming and expensive they'll be to maintain.
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The E-3s are big kills. Perhaps even bigger than the Ford. There may be 5 in theater. If they got 2, that degrades 40% of US eyes in the sky.
Kelly Grieco@ka_grieco
Look at what Iran has been hitting since Feb. 28: radar systems, SATCOM terminals, tankers, and now an AWACS. That's not random. It's a systematic attack on the infrastructure that makes U.S. air power function. Iran's running an asymmetric counter-air campaign. A 🧵.
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@teortaxesTex @l_snade So many of the most promoted voices on this platform are utter midwits completely incapable of connecting meaningful patterns to offer prescient insights.
They are like the McDonalds of "intellectuals". They'd tolerable if they weren't so falsely assured of their superiority.
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@teortaxesTex @l_snade I view this war as a critical thinking litmus test for anyone who comments on geopolitics or military affairs. If you didn't predict that America's bases and air assets would get wrecked by drones/missiles, you are not a deep enough thinker to be taken seriously.
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> let alone hardened shelters
Ah, THIS REMINDS ME of that discussion, about how the inept cowardly Chynese have to build expensive (Concrete!!) shelters for jets, whereas Air-Superior Americans can afford to store their planes in the open, balls aswing
@l_snade comment??
mattparlmer 🪐 🌷@mattparlmer
USAF brass is just incompetent, straight up Won’t park planes under camo nets let alone hardened shelters, won’t or can’t run B-2 strikes from runways near enough to the fight to keep strike tempo up, still releasing hype video of >$1m missiles hitting <$100k targets
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@mattparlmer I just don't understand how a competent military can watch Ukraine for the last few years and still have no gameplan for what Iran is doing. Everything happening to CENTCOM is just a repeat of what's already happened in Ukraine or Russia.
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USAF brass is just incompetent, straight up
Won’t park planes under camo nets let alone hardened shelters, won’t or can’t run B-2 strikes from runways near enough to the fight to keep strike tempo up, still releasing hype video of >$1m missiles hitting <$100k targets
Preston Stewart@prestonstew_
Need some airpower guys to help me out on this one. With B-1s and B-52s forward deployed, why are we still sending B-2s on missions from the US? Would the read be that stealth is still necessary over portions of Iran?
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@fredsoda It's hard to follow Peter Thiel's advice when the government is hellbent on clamping down on any rent seeking.
"Just be a monopoly, bro" doesn't work too well in the Chinese private sector.
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actually Peter Thiel is 100% correct, competition is for losers when it comes to capitalism
Joe Malchow@jmalchow
I am afraid that Peter's "don't compete" advice has gone much too far. In real assets – in manufacturing – you will compete. And if you don't, or lose, or lose before you start, you will end up a special pleader at the government trough – doing nothing, actually, to help your country.
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@levelsio You really tapped into something here.
Yeah, luxury in the West is in such a strange state in 2026. Once you go to the very high end in dining or accommodation, the service somehow feels worse than just the high end.
People can't authentically give considerate service anymore.
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It depends on the region and Asia is very different*
But in the West generally the best hotels are the simple functional basic ones at $100 to $300/night
High volume, no frills, things are basic but work
I think because the West is structurally unable to provide high quality service in 2026
*Asia, UAE, Qatar still have modern luxury hotels where you pay $2,000/night and actually get amazing quality of hotel and service that's worth every dollar more I think
Harry Burman@HarryCantein
@levelsio Where do you think hotels max out on the value scale? Marriotts? Park Hyatts? Moxy's?
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@longstayed Sounds like a long way of saying you're broke bro 👋
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@Michael96451896 @MenchOsint What is the point of this graph? It only tracks attacks on the UAE whereas Iran clearly cycles through targets in different countries. Also, they've explicitly stated their strategy was to exhaust AD with massive salvos of their outdated missiles in the beginning of the war.
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I still believe that US actions in Venezuela & Iran will eventually lead to escalation in East Asia.
When ? 🤷♂️ every day Iran depletes US interceptors & stand off weapons, hits radars, forces them to redeploy vital air defense systems from East Asia to the Middle East...
✈️ MiG-31 equipped with Kinzhal over the Sea of Japan.
Army Recognition@ArmyRecognition
Russian MiG-31s Armed With Kinzhal Missile Over Sea of Japan Underscores Maritime Strike Expansion
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@JuniorPartDeux @ianbremmer We haven't changed the regime, haven't secured the enriched uranium, haven't stopped Iran from being able to launch attacks against all our allies in the region, and haven't unblocked the Hormuz Strait. We can't unilaterally force a stop to this war.
We haven't won yet.
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@ianbremmer Ian. We’re winning. Some reason this bothers you.
Your entire generation failed and Trump is sticking it all in 2 presidencies
I’m sorry that that hurts you
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trump wants to wrap this up and move on to the next thing.
there is no next thing right now. there are 5,000 troops two weeks from the persian gulf and no off-ramp he can call a win.
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@cirnosad There's a distinct lack of competence, virtue, and wisdom at all levels and in all branches of government currently.
This problem is not getting fixed by voting out an administration, it's endemic. There's nothing better in the pipeline, we're strapped to this decline.
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