@minemoto_jun Yes, this is the only reason I am not rich yet... no other reasons...
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Chuck
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@thedimitri Making Japanese men talk to white women would be equivalent to a war crime. They do not deserve that
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日本の友人の皆さん、こんにちは。
お互いのツイートを目にできるようになった今、私からささやかな提案をさせていただきたいと思います。
白人男性である私について、これだけは知っておいていただきたいのですが――私は日本人のことが大好きです。しかし、一つ懸念があります。日本の合計特殊出生率が低下の一途をたどっていることです。経済的な事情、子育てにかかる費用、独特な労働文化、あるいは晩婚化や現代の恋愛事情など、原因は様々でしょう。しかし、単に子供が十分に生まれてこないという理由だけで、日本が誇る文化的な成果や美しい歴史が失われていくような事態は、どうしても避けてほしいのです。
アメリカでも、私たちは全く同じような問題に直面しています。経済状況は厳しく、男女間の関係も……控えめに言っても、「ギスギス」した状態にあります。
そこで、私の提案です。
私たち双方は、それぞれのやり方で――他に適切な言葉が見つかりませんが――「自分の女たち」にうんざりしているのではないでしょうか。
ですから、今こそ「全国規模の交換プログラム」を検討すべき時なのかもしれません。いわば「リセット」です。新たな忍耐と、未来への希望に満ちた前向きな気持ちで、新しいパートナーシップを築き直すのです。
理想を言えば、この取り組みを通じて子供が増えることです。その多くは日本とのハーフ（混血）となるでしょうが、それは世界全体にとって、極めて素晴らしい「アップグレード」になると感じています。
どうかご安心ください。私たち白人系アメリカ人は、日本人の皆さんに深い敬意を抱いており、日本の生活様式を守り、その良さを大切にするために、全力を尽くすことをお約束します。
ぜひこの提案をご検討いただき、両国政府の最高レベルでの協議を開始できるよう、ご協力をお願いいたします。
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@bFOLcxUvunVVmca @Retae_Dog I would agree with this if it was steak, hamburgers, or hot dogs being grilled; rice does not add much to the dish. But in a real BBQ with smoked meats and brisket, I think it would be a solid optional addition.
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@Retae_Dog まあ、まずはアメリカ式の食い方を堪能してから次は日本式も味わってみてよ！が正解やろな
いきなり他国に行って自国文化を押し付けるのはあまり良くないしね。
アメリカニキ達はガハハ！うめぇな！って言ってくれそうだけど日本人として他国文化の尊重、郷に入っては郷に従えを忘れちゃいかん
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@akevittnvg @perryonxdotcom It's an accurate image, but I wouldn't say that there is a poltical divide between Americans when it comes to the electronics they use
Conservative people who live in the city (and liberal people who live in the country) are often unique people due to their ideological isolation
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@russianblue2009 Do American tweets show up more often on your feed? Or just more Americans replying to Japanese posts?
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「日本人のXにやたらアメリカ人が現れてないか？」
正確な観察です。偶然ではありません。
Xは2025年末にアルゴリズムをGrok（AI）主導型へ全面移行しました。
「おすすめ」フィードは今や、あなたがフォローしていない投稿を約50%含む設計です。
そしてGrokは言語を超えて「興味の類似性」でマッチングします。
あなたが政治・テクノロジー・地政学について日本語で発信すれば、同じテーマで活動する英語圏のアカウントと同じ「関心クラスター」に分類されます。
そこに入った瞬間、国境は消えます。
さらに決定的な非対称性があります。
Xのアメリカ人ユーザーはPremium加入率が日本より高い。
Premiumには公式に2倍〜4倍のアルゴリズム優遇が確認されています。
フォロワー数が同じでも、Premiumの側が圧倒的に遠くまで届く。
2026年にNature誌に掲載された研究はさらに踏み込んでいます。
Xのアルゴリズムは日本を含む複数国で、保守系コンテンツを伝統的メディアより優遇する傾向があるとされます。
「アメリカ人がXに増えた」のではありません。
「アルゴリズムが特定の属性のアメリカ人を日本人の画面に送り込んでいる」のです。
あなたのタイムラインは、あなたが選んでいません。
Grokが選んでいます。
その設計に、気づいていましたか？
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@poronpa @ringo_yakuri Yes. Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers had this mindset and did well in life. It is obviously important to understand the underlying motivations to our beliefs, but to question every social tenet of an already successful society strikes me as arrogant and naive.
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このトレンドを真面目に分析してみると、単なるネタ以上のものがありそうな気もします。
バーベキューは本来かなり“アメリカらしさ”の中核にある文化ですが、国内では文脈によってはそれが少し居心地の悪いものとして扱われる場面もあります。肉食の環境負荷だとか、男らしさの押し付けだとか。
大きくて、強くて、寛大で、気前良い。そうした、本来ほとんど無条件に美徳とされていいはずの性質に、いまはどこかアスタリスクが付いて、文脈が乗せられてしまう。
日本人の反応が心地よく受け止められているのは、その“身構え”がほとんどゼロだからではないでしょうか。でかい肉を焼いて、みんなにふるまう。それをただ「美味しそう」「量がすごい」「かっこいい」と素直に受け取る。余計なノイズがほとんど入り込まない。それでいいと思うんですけどね。
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@ringo_yakuri I find it amusing how conservative men from rural and urban America eventually come into agreement on what is important in life. The urban man finds his ideology superior because it has been crafted through years of debate, yet the rural man is the one with the house and family.
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In hindsight, America probably should’ve held off on that whole “nuking Japan” thing and just let them have their way in China.
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@AuronMacintyre Have worked with some awesome women, especially those who joined male fields 20+ years ago. But hearing the way some of the most incompetent gen z women i went to college with (who got their jobs through DEI) talk about their males peers with zero self-awareness is infuriating
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Because we literally made it illegal for corporations not to favor them
Saved you the click
Axios@axios
Women now outnumber men in the workforce. Here's why. trib.al/x85KtOw
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@jjkaplowitz Knowing that you can permanently lower your ceiling for relationship satisfaction through certain choices (even if you make perfect career choices) is probably an infohazard
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I would strongly recommend that you don’t put off dating until you “make it” or “have time.” I have known a lot of guys who were 35+, successful, great shape and millionaires but could not get a date to save their life.
The reason being, is that dating and relationships are a separate skill. It’s not just “going to happen magically” one day.
As a guy you need:
1. Social skills and be able to hold a conversation
2. Know how to dress
3. How to lead
4. Be emotionally intelligent
And a whole host of other things that you only learn about by dating/being in a relationship.
Imagine you see the perfect girl on a walk, and you don’t say anything because you lack the skills to talk to her and plan coffee/drinks date. Nothing will ever happen.
Paying $49K for a matchmaker is crazy. She is not going to be able to give you all those skills. She’s just going to find matches.
Dating is different for men and women but I would suggest that no one put it off. Trying to figure it out at 46 is going to be so difficult.
Xanthippe@BoredXanthippe
A self-made, successful 46yo man with >$5M net worth can get an attractive 38yo doctor/successful professional or he can get a hot 28yo model/actress/bartender who hasn’t been able to make real money and has no reasonable path to do so. However, he’s almost certainly not getting a hot 28yo doctor. 🤷🏼♀️
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@aphysicist @dieworkwear BTW if someone wants to spot me a couple mil for a flax wet spinning mill we can have lots of beautiful USA-grown linen shirts and pants in our future
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@aphysicist @dieworkwear You need to be able to pivot and find your niche; they were not cost competitive at all with the actual MIUSA options. If you are doing glorified dropshipping, and no production in-house, your options are going to be limited. "Designers" and fashion students never understand this
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>croatian teams up w sf investor
>enthusiastic about making a clothing brand for tech world
>non-american wants to create american propaganda, based
>no one cares until they drop a reindustrialize sweater made in portugal
>@dieworkwear and others pile on
>was trying to move fast and break things
>we all know how hard it is to make anything in the US (use your reindustrialize homies next time)
>lost life savings and shutting down brand
>this is what makes twitter/X mobs insufferable
not sure about everyone else but i say don't shut it down. learn and keep grinding.
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I'm sure X will be thrilled to hear that we're going to shut our brand. Yes, we made a mistake in launching a Reindustrialize sweater that was made in Portugal, but we truly did look for 3 months for a factory in the US that would make it at 50 MOQ and couldn't find one. Our plan was to launch it and see if there was enough demand for it to justify a larger MOQ. Also, we thought that in the process of doing this, there was a good chance we'd unsurface a factory that could do it. (Which we did. It seems the only factory in the US that can do this has a website that says they're a fabric company.) Our brand was about a love for technologists and wanting to make them look better. All the nastiness of the past week destroyed that for us. Tech bros are clearly not supportive of anyone else but other tech bros in building start-ups. Instead of a positive, constructive, builder-supportive, "Hey, here's a US factory that can make your next run," we were subject to a slew of abuse. I lost my life savings doing this, which should make everyone happy. (Yes, I'm Croatian.) I need to go get a job now. We have piles of inventory: all the next planned drops of clothes we made to honor tech culture that we're now just going to give away. Doing a thread of the clothes now. DM us your size and address if you want something, but please say something kind. We don't want to contribute any more negativity to the world.
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@Dylan_Morri Wasn't the whole "team" Eastern European grifters? To call someone dropshipping clothes an entrepreneur or builder is a stretch- and cut and sew isn't "basically impossible" lol. If you really think there's only 2 companies you haven't enough experience to tweeting about this
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This is not how this should have ended up. I’m pretty ashamed we treated this entrepreneur so badly.
This could have been handled by them a little differently, sure but a young entrepreneur isnt always great at crisis comms. And The first launch is always tricky.
This reads like someone who actually loves reindustrialization, loves to build, and was dragged for trying. Not the precedent we should set for our culture.
Eagerness and agency is where all of us come from. How we all got to be part of this community, and to see it so ruthlessly ridiculed for being slightly misguided is pretty discouraging.
That being said, the fact there’s 2 companies in America that can make it is abysmal. We should fix that and @DenverRayburn is. Im sure hed be happy to take the next order, but cut and sew is basically impossible in America. We need to jump start the cultural movement, and we will have to borrow from overseas factories to do it.
It’s pretty telling that all the haters are fucking capital allocators or SaaS hypemen that have never had to source a niche material or process. Supply chain is the most opaque line of business, the fact we are smearing an upstart because of it is pretty fucked. Only noobs think “you should have just looked harder”, or even stupider “it was a choice to go to Portugal”. An allied western country is 100x better than China or India (it’s an obvious departure from the status quo). The departure shows they legitimately tried to find an alternative.
Also, there literally is no way to look hard, look where? The websites are 50% correct and even the best webscraping is incorrect or inexact most of the time.
SOURCING IS FUCKING HARD, and it’s impossible to know if you have the best deal, and it’s impossible to know if you have talked to everyone.
On the bright side, looks like we found a few factories in the US, lets go make these clothes there. I know im buying one of each, I think you should too. Give this guy a second chance, to buy from an American Factory. And Make Reindustrialization Great.
Look at the rest of the line, it’s really badass. My wife is a fashion designer, even She loves them!
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Skill Issue - clothes for technologists@skillissuesf
I'm sure X will be thrilled to hear that we're going to shut our brand. Yes, we made a mistake in launching a Reindustrialize sweater that was made in Portugal, but we truly did look for 3 months for a factory in the US that would make it at 50 MOQ and couldn't find one. Our plan was to launch it and see if there was enough demand for it to justify a larger MOQ. Also, we thought that in the process of doing this, there was a good chance we'd unsurface a factory that could do it. (Which we did. It seems the only factory in the US that can do this has a website that says they're a fabric company.) Our brand was about a love for technologists and wanting to make them look better. All the nastiness of the past week destroyed that for us. Tech bros are clearly not supportive of anyone else but other tech bros in building start-ups. Instead of a positive, constructive, builder-supportive, "Hey, here's a US factory that can make your next run," we were subject to a slew of abuse. I lost my life savings doing this, which should make everyone happy. (Yes, I'm Croatian.) I need to go get a job now. We have piles of inventory: all the next planned drops of clothes we made to honor tech culture that we're now just going to give away. Doing a thread of the clothes now. DM us your size and address if you want something, but please say something kind. We don't want to contribute any more negativity to the world.
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@zanehengsperger Not to mention, there are actual grifters now, who are becoming more and more noticeable. It’s a mess. There are obviously good people here, and posting can be a flywheel sometimes. But don’t let people convince you that X is a real gamechanger for reindustrialization
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@zanehengsperger And for every one person that has gotten something built on their own, you have multitudes of VC honeypots filled with guys promising to one shot capex-heavy industries in the private sector while tweeting 10+ times a day.
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there are too many reindustrialization tourists
we have to start building physical capacity now
the *main* difference between china and usa is capacity (of course it is more nuanced)
we can also achieve capacity with advanced technology
but go do the thing now
Zane Hengsperger@zanehengsperger
you can start reindustrializing america today! your 2 best starting options: >buy a used machine and start manufacturing things >join a manufacturing company you can avoid all the tweets, the chats, the thinking, the podcasts, etc… just actually start reindustrializing
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@Topcat1350 @GearGryphon @AmericanLictor @ExUmbrisDesigns @dukeanddrummond All good, thanks for the info. I think a cylinder bed would work but would be slightly less easy than a post bed
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@preschuck @GearGryphon @AmericanLictor @ExUmbrisDesigns @dukeanddrummond At one time it would be relatively easy for me to do it by hand, but
im not certain I could do it right now.nfortunately, it would increase your labor costs
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—Begin Rant—
Just as you call out grifters you need to be grilling the opportunists and vultures
My entire feed all day long has been AI slop and foreign made bullshit from ‘Reindustrialize’ tech bros who for all their talk of ‘revolutionizing American apparel manufacturing’ cant even make their own apparel or even have a print shop run USA made ones for them
If you want American Made apparel please just ask us, we will help you find it (always and for free) so you can support those ppl (actually doing stuff) directly
If you want to make something here we will help point you in the right direction.
You do not need a billion $ automated robotics factory to make apparel. American products without American workers is just a different problem.
For an MOQ of 50 buy a damn sewing machine and do it yourself or get on facebook and hire any of the dozen nice retired ladies in your community who sew for fun, many dry cleaners and alterations places can often do this type of work as well for low qty runs
—end rant—
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Chuck retweetledi
@dukeanddrummond @AmericanLictor @GearGryphon @ExUmbrisDesigns @Topcat1350 @nixieworks Sneakers are a double-edged sword for sure. not a ton of domestic competition, but thats for a reason haha
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@preschuck @AmericanLictor @GearGryphon @ExUmbrisDesigns @Topcat1350 My friend @nixieworks has had success with home industry sewers in the US as he scaled but for nylon gear so yes, they exist. Best of luck man, shoes always seemed very cool to get into!
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