Manuel Felices

🇺🇸🇮🇷 200+ U.S. TROOPS WOUNDED ACROSS 7 COUNTRIES IN IRAN WAR The Pentagon released its most detailed casualty accounting yet. American servicemembers have been wounded in Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Most injuries came from one-way attack drones in the opening days. 13 killed in action. 6 more died in the KC-135 crash in Iraq. 10 seriously injured. More than 180 of the wounded have returned to duty, but traumatic brain injuries are still showing up days later. The U.S. has struck over 7,000 targets in Iran. Israel has hit another 8,000. Three weeks in. Fifteen thousand targets destroyed. And Iran can still hit American troops in seven different countries with cheap drones that cost a fraction of the missiles used to shoot them down. Source: Washington Post, CENTCOM

🇺🇸🇮🇷 200+ U.S. TROOPS WOUNDED ACROSS 7 COUNTRIES IN IRAN WAR The Pentagon released its most detailed casualty accounting yet. American servicemembers have been wounded in Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Most injuries came from one-way attack drones in the opening days. 13 killed in action. 6 more died in the KC-135 crash in Iraq. 10 seriously injured. More than 180 of the wounded have returned to duty, but traumatic brain injuries are still showing up days later. The U.S. has struck over 7,000 targets in Iran. Israel has hit another 8,000. Three weeks in. Fifteen thousand targets destroyed. And Iran can still hit American troops in seven different countries with cheap drones that cost a fraction of the missiles used to shoot them down. Source: Washington Post, CENTCOM

Ok things changed in the last few hours, and it’s not looking good for Trump Here's why: - Iran struck the Gulf countries hard tonight. I was not expecting that - The NYT just reported U.S. officials gave a closed door briefing to Congress estimating Iran still retains half its ballistic missile program and even more of its drone capabilities - The Strait of Hormuz is still shut, and if Iran can sustain this for another 3 weeks, the global markets won’t survive (and based on the NYT report, they should easily be able to) - The Iranian regime has not collapsed, and the new leader seems even more radical. Apparently the less radical alternatives the U.S. was eyeing to take power where ‘accidentally’ killed (likely by Israel) - The U.S. burned through 800+ Patriot interceptors in five days at $4 million each, and even before this war started, the Pentagon only had a quarter of the interceptor stockpile it needs to defend all its global commitments The good news? The war may end sooner than what officials are saying. Trump will need an off-ramp soon as energy prices spike, munitions deplete, and the Gulf burns. As I’ve said below, all Iran needs to ‘win’ is to survive long enough for the costs to become unbearable.

Elon Musk on why Optimus is so brutally hard to build (hardware side): “The hands are the majority of the engineering difficulty of the entire robot.” Human hands evolved insane sophistication — ~27–28 degrees of freedom, complex tendon web (mostly forearm muscles), crazy dexterity. No supply chain exists. Tesla had to design every single actuator, motor, gearbox & electronics from physics first principles. “Harder than Cybertruck or Model X… somewhere between Model X and Starship.” Optimus v3 finally aiming for true human-level hand performance. The “hands problem” is massively underestimated.