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@eigenrobot All the people saying it’s a rope a dope can only name a single instance of a successful rope a dope.

at a certain point i think one just has to conclude that trump and musk are not very good at running the country i'm not sure we're at that point yet. but signs are not promising

@eigenrobot It’s tone is written by an LLM

the tone of this piece makes me trust it less but every paragraph contains a jewel of an anecdote about the obama presidential library and i have to recommend it

@9mmsmg South Korea (martial arts training) or Poland (Mass Kicks Ass)

The toughest president post had me thinking about the physically toughest military. You have to choose a RANDOM sampling of 20 MEN from any modern military to fight any other military unnarmed. Fights are set up in elimination styles with the military with the most surviving members at the end victorious. Who are you picking? Bonus points, open it up to every military ever next.

@Molson_Hart This is a great counterpoint, anyone who can manage a restaurant location can probably put those talents to an even higher pay and more respectable job.

Younger people: Let me tell you the truth about this. 1. Few if any women respect fast food managers 2. Few if any men respect fast food managers 3. You will be grossly underpaid for your skills. The customers and employees of fast food restaurants are extremely difficult to manage. Those TikTok videos where someone throws a chair at you because you didn’t give them enough sauce are now your job. 4. Depending on the chain, you are selling poison which makes people sick. 5. Unless you work at a chain you have little to no chance of moving up in the world. You must graduate from the restaurant to corporate. 6. There are lots of reasons to work at McDonalds early in your career (you’ll learn a lot) but not forever. Interestingly the only people I’ve ever heard speaking highly of working in fast food, never themselves worked there. 7. The only way to make a career like this work is to be extremely judicious with your money outside your job eg investing it perfectly in Nvidia and Bitcoin. This is hard and not guaranteed. You’re better off finding a different line of work. The price of your hamburgers will rise faster than your salary and that is the main problem. I sincerely respect people who do this job because, despite the selling of poison, it’s a hard job and our society doesn’t run without it (also because I’ve done similar jobs). That said, to say it is a respected job is nonsense. America needs to get back to place where these jobs don’t just get paid lip service, they get paid a good salary. Until then, work in fast food to learn, but get out of that industry and into one that pays better asap.

@Empty_America I’ve known accountants who insist on working in the entertainment industry, not because of industry experience (though it does matter), but because of the associated prestige.

Replies to this again raise the question of whether the American Normie can be saved, should be saved, or even wishes to be saved.

@Molson_Hart Your product sounds like a good candidate for automation

We are buying the machines for US manufacturing now.

@Daniel_Spenrath What are they doing?

This is my latest interest since I already know about drill pipe and rotary shouldered connections.

@datarade @Molson_Hart Who’s the man with vitiligo?

@Molson_Hart kumarletter.com/posts/american…

In order to be profitable, almost every American business must outsource its employees and manufacturing to overseas. Reserve currency status has robbed us of our ability to build productive teams that can innovate.

@TheLastFarm @aspiringpeasant Most farmers are just regular people who happened to grow up in a family that farms, they didn’t get into it because of some intrinsic love for ecology.

@aspiringpeasant Urban and rural Americans both don’t care about the environment, but in different ways

@Molson_Hart @ErikKaiser Seems a difference in definition of innovation that does not differentiate between successful execution. Much of history we only remember the victor, not the originator of an idea or product. Facebook was not first. Kodak invented the CCD, so what? What good is Intel right now?

The king @ErikKaiser disagrees with me that we're going to see innovation come out of China over the next 10 years. My quick thoughts on this: 1. crazy amounts of educated people are entering workforce, some will be innovative 2. agree that american culture is better suited to innovation 3. China has already innovated: tiktok, DJI drones, the e-cigarette/vape 4. Chinese in American innovate like crazy 5. The incentives in China have changed. Before you could get rich copying. No longer. When the incentives change so will behavior.

@preston_holland The constant switching from accusatory to flattering and slightly conciliatory reminds me of his Dan persona when he was getting outed. I’m impressed by the occasional insight and just the sheer amount of orchestration in the background, wonder if he runs other ops.

@LPWhisperer @SMBDistribution How would they mess up industrial? Floating rate debt? Preferred equity dividends? Ground up construction?

@Empty_America Who’s an example of the broad faced autist?

The common narrow-faced autist is generally meek, introverted, harmless. The rare broad-faced autist is outgoing, extroverted, even socially domineering. Know the difference, it may save your life.

@rossiadam I remember hearing a comment that all the old schools Disney villains were gay and I’ve never been able to shake that. Aladdin (Jafar), little mermaid (Ursula), 101 Dalmations (Cruella Deville), Lion King (Scar)

Got in a fight with my wife today. She said that Jar Jar Binks was gay. I don't think so. Who's right?

@StevenGlinert These chips are not that expensive, USG can just buy 50 million of them and store them in the cheese caves.

What’s the solution? Higher penalties won’t work. We’ve seen that. Incentives are the answer. Make these higher node processes worth it. Give intel/global foundries/others money that goes toward these processes. Make it worth their time and money.

There’s a brewing crisis in the semiconductor supply chain that no one is talking about. For years, the race we all hear about is to lower and lower node sizes. China (SMIC) decided that competing on this was a fools errand. They are currently flooding the market with 28nm (and above), also known as “mature processes”. This is the same strategy they took in solar panels and batteries. By some accounts, they’ll have a third of this market in a few years.

@tylerguitar_ You don’t hold a vote unless you know you’re going to win, or a loss will serve some other political purpose.

@eigenrobot Arizona used to support a large dense population, they travelled along an ancient highway which is now the Grand Canyon. The population was so large it stripped the area of its resources, turning it into a desert along with neighboring states.

it makes sense right people walk around in cities constantly, forming ruts that widen and deepen when it rains, channeling more people downhill into the ruts, etc eventually, thermodynamically speaking, a river will probably end up manifesting

@Empty_America Even in an apocalypse people will be trying to time the bottom of the market.

I'm not sure there is any known level of apocalypse where gold has lost value. If you were to be thrown out of an airplane into a random "bad" spot anywhere on earth, what do you bring? Gold, paper USD $100s, or Euro notes. Might just get robbed but that can't be helped.

@rishmishra Lots of sand?

@rishmishra Ceramic tiles, or put the thermite in a pot with hole in it