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@Ravenismeee Alibaba (and ebay and amazon)selling total junk Cina cheap

Who brainwashed us to think MADE IN CHINA means low quality 😭

@DesireeAmerica4 On the other hand maybe surge pricing would stop people hoarding toilet paper when the next storm is coming and the people that are actually out will be able to find it.

Wendy’s CEO was ready to drop $20 million on new digital menu boards. ​The goal? To change the price of your burger in real-time. If the drive-thru got busy, your lunch suddenly cost more. ​They called it "dynamic pricing." We called it what it was: a $20 million investment to price-gouge the consumer. ​But then the internet exploded. The backlash was so fierce and so fast that Wendy's folded almost overnight. ​They tried to play us, and we shut it down. Never forget who actually holds the power. ​What corporate giant needs this kind of reality check next?

@simongerman600 Great! Welcome in legally, everyone welcome as long as they get in line and follow the legal path. At any rate de-Chinia'ing the supply china to South America is going to reduce illegal immigration.

The very conservative Cato Institute shows that immigrants generate more income and taxes than the average US-born person. From 1994 to 2023 immigrants generated roughly $100,000 more in taxes per capita than the average US-born person (17% more over the period). Source: ow.ly/IHce50YKFMv

@athenaeumbc Because they would rather sweep America's failing expensive education system under the rug.

About 54% of U.S. adults (ages 16-74) — roughly 130 million people — read below a 6th-grade level. Why does nobody talk about this?

@XH_Lee23 Better get a really big fire suppression blanket off Alibaba, when that thing goes she is going to flame good.

Even container ships in China are going electric. China’s massive 10,000-tonne fully electric smart container ship has begun commercial operations, capable of carrying 742 containers. It's the world's largest pure-electric container ship.

@coaiecrete yeah where with massive taxes and higher population density the economics are different, not necessarily a better system, especially if you are the one paying the taxes.

in Europe we have this thing called public transport

@KoruturkBey Shouldn't have bought your car from Alibaba

Elektrikli araba yangınlarını söndürmek için Türkiye’de kullanılan yangın söndürme yöntemi dünya gündeminde.

@DrKristieLeong @robertlufkinmd fair would be everyone paying their way, not charging some more and grifting others in, either doing squat or doing squats,

@robertlufkinmd Love it! Short bursts of lower‑body effort like this increase glucose uptake in muscle within minutes, making it one of the fastest ways to improve metabolic health in the real world. And the fact that seniors and people with disabilities still ride free keeps it fair.

In Cluj-Napoca, Romania, riders could pay for a bus ticket by doing 20 squats. A device counted the squats and then issued a ticket valid for one trip on the CTP Cluj-Napoca urban transit network. Seniors and people with disabilities could still ride free. What do you think of this idea?

Well of course not considering Carnegie died in 1919, but they have a lot in common actually, whatever company you are referring to that is making 50% in profit, it still pales in comparison to the paper Elon is best at selling rather than any products. Carnegie was good at that to (admittedly not Elon level good), made his second fortune selling paper/bonds to Euorpeans building (waaaay over building) America's railroads.

@wvrailforge @aakashgupta @SpaceX Clearly he's not met Elon. $16 bn in revenue and 50% profit. Oh and a 1.5 Tn market cap, it definitely does pay.

Blue Origin just compressed one of the most important learning curves in aerospace history by 3x. First Falcon 9 landing: December 22, 2015. First reuse: March 30, 2017. SpaceX took 15 months to go from "we caught one" to "we flew it again." First New Glenn landing: November 13, 2025. First reuse: April 19, 2026. Blue Origin did it in 5 months and 6 days. That compression is the entire story. The second mover in platform-scale physics businesses gets the expensive lessons for free. SpaceX ran 611 public landing attempts so that every aerospace engineer on Earth could watch the failure modes, the thermal protection trade-offs, the grid fin geometries, the refurbishment cycle. Blue Origin replaced all seven BE-4 engines on this booster before reflight. They didn't need to discover reuse was hard. They needed to skip to the part where you know which parts to replace. Run the numbers on the gap that's still there though. SpaceX has 598 booster landings. Blue Origin has 2. SpaceX has 565 successful reflights. Blue Origin has 1. SpaceX's fleet leader has flown 34 times. The record for Blue Origin's reused booster is today. Dave Limp said the goal is a 30-day reuse cadence by end of 2026. SpaceX's fastest turnaround is 9 days. Bezos caught up on the milestone that mattered and is still a decade behind on the cadence that actually prints money. Both things are true at once. Reusability is no longer a moat. Cadence is.

@DeepTechManu @aakashgupta @SpaceX Andrew Carneige said "pioneering doesn't pay"

This is a silly take given that Blue Origin did this a decade after @SpaceX and the landscape had evolved so much since. All the hardwork was done by SpaceX, they only needed to copy it and/or hire a few of the bright Spacex engineers, and it still took them 10 years - that should be your take for the day.

I am sure it just old Gen x'er mechanical engineer mind, but has the wording on everyone's posts gone mad? Platform scale physics?? How does that compare exactly to micro-scale physics? Isn't physics, physics? That compression the entire story?? You forgot REAL TIME man, how about real time compression of platform scale physics??? Go viral with that junk.

@ArizonaJTG @planesanity @grok Not bad for DHL, sounds like maybe the packages at least weren't lost, I'd call that within nominal range for them considering how much of a disaster they are.

@planesanity @grok When did this crash happen and what are the latest updates?

DHL plane breaks in half after crash landing in Costa Rica

@martinvars Maybe the Wuhan flue didn't work out quite as well as they hoped for?

The United States has a habit of watching its rivals shrink. The Soviet Union collapsed. Japan, which was supposed to own America in the 1980s, is now a far smaller economy. China looks set to follow. In 2021 China's GDP reached 76 percent of American GDP, and the consensus was that it would pass the US before 2030. That consensus has collapsed. By 2024 the US economy was 29.2 trillion dollars against China's 18.9 trillion, a gap that has widened for three straight years. China's working-age population is shrinking. Its fertility rate has fallen to roughly 1.0, half of replacement. There is no immigration to compensate. Yet America benefits from believing it faces a formidable rival. The belief is what keeps it competing.

@trajektoriePL And the union guy making $500k to take 6 hours to plug it in for recharging that takes who knows how long, I doubt container shipping costs are going to go down no matter the level of automation.

This isn’t China. It’s the Long Beach Container Terminal in California. These green Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are manufactured in Europe. They are battery-powered, zero-emission, and operate entirely without a driver.

@UziCryptoo If a city of 15000 doesn't miss 53 mill for 20 years, it's a clear sign government has too much money floating around it's coffers.

A single accountant stole $53 million from her employer over 20 years and nobody noticed Rita Crundwell was the comptroller of Dixon, Illinois with a population of 15,000 She opened a secret bank account called “Reserve Sewer Capital Development Account” For two decades she transferred city funds into it while filing fake invoices She used the money to become the most successful quarter horse breeder in America Owned 400 horses, multiple farms, a custom bus, and a $2.1 million motorhome She won the World Championship in quarter horse breeding four times while actively robbing a small town Only got caught because a substitute accountant covered her desk while she was on vacation The city had been cutting firefighter jobs and road repairs for years while this was happening $53 million. One woman. 20 years. One vacation.

@MichaelCoffey1 @sentdefender Yeah like the first two times of impeachment accomplished anything.

@sentdefender Trump is going to get impeached after midterms and no one on the right is going to give a shit because of the last 6 months.

In a long ranting post earlier on TruthSocial, President Donald J. Trump launched a brutal attack against some of previous strongest supporters, including Conservative commentators Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones, who have recently begun to criticize Trump for the Iran War, Epstein Files, and other moves that they consider against his agenda of “MAGA” and “America First.” President Trump, in the post, call the above named commentators, “Low IQs…stupid people..NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS,” who he says have, “Third Rate Podcasts, but nobody's talking about them, and their views are the opposite of MAGA - Or I wouldn't have won the Presidential Election in a LANDSLIDE. MAGA agrees with me, and just gave CNN a 100% Approval Rating of "TRUMP," not Hand Flailing Fools like Tucker Carlson.”

Now that's progress

@ZombieIsland5 @akafaceUS You obviously haven't tried the beaver balls.

@akafaceUS I agree with her. What a trash culture if people get excited about this. They built one not far from me. There is always a line just to get in the parking lot. What an idiot society. If I do end up leaving the U.S., I'll just say I'm from Canada. 🤣

Woman is having a bad time at her first time at Buc-ees.

@lizzz_818 @lwil_1371 @BohuslavskaKate You must not know a lot about forging machinery, cwru class of 1999, mechanical engineering.

@wvrailforge @lwil_1371 @BohuslavskaKate Lol. You sure don't know much history! What universities did you attend? I do like your profile picture. I've never seen a penis smasher before.

Vance: ​“What I would say to both Russians and Ukrainians is we're talking about haggling over a few square kilometers of territory. Is that worth losing hundreds of thousands of additional russian and Ukrainian young men?" Vance is once again failing to distinguish between the aggressor and the victim, attempting to convince you that it is acceptable to pressure the victim into complying with the aggressor’s demands. He fails to recognize that he is not only urging Ukraine to surrender territories, but also the people who live there, our homes, and our most fortified defense lines dooming us for future attacks, because this war is not at all about territory, but about Ukraine existence as a state.

nah its more complicated than that, peace through strength and right now Ukraine isn't very strong, the war has taken its toll, got to get to the point they can rebuild economy to help build defensive strength, how many young men can a country sacrifice, they are in a tough situation, no winners in the grind,

@wvrailforge @VlaamseTijger @BohuslavskaKate So you just think the world should abide by “might is right” and all smaller states should forfeit their land to more powerful nations because they can’t defend it? Hitler only wanted Austria. And then the Sudetenland. And Belgium. Maybe it’ll get better if we keep surrendering.