The Unknown Postdoc

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When it was clear Trump would make the DOJ his own personal law firm, and I’d be forced to do his bidding, I resigned. Now I’m running for Congress - to drag this rot into the sunlight, and make sure people like Pam Bondi face real accountability. No more cover-ups. Let’s go.

@TheRabbitHole @fentasyl that is the most deceiving way you can make a chart. Put the middle 30% in there and you will see how the top 5% actually cheat the system.

The rich actually already pay more than their fair share of taxes.

@DMBrookfield @splendid_pete memes really work.

The thing is, most Americans don't believe that Europe has anything to offer America! Genuinely believe that Europe does nothing we produce nothing and we have nothing America needs. American exceptionalism which is a byproduct of its schooling has created a group of people that can't even understand the basics of international trade.

What many Americans don’t seem to grasp is that in Europe, the damage to US–EU relations is no longer a historical debate. It’s an ongoing reality. Trust collapsed before, and now the same patterns are back: tariffs, hostility toward allies, threats to NATO commitments, and open contempt for European institutions. Public trust in US leadership across Europe remains extremely low. Polling shows widespread skepticism, and European governments openly talk about “strategic autonomy” because reliance on Washington is seen as politically unstable. That conversation didn’t exist at this scale before. Trade tensions are back, diplomatic rows are back, and even visa and regulatory disputes have returned. European businesses and governments are openly planning around the assumption that the US may again act unpredictably. This isn’t anti-American sentiment. It’s damage control. When the same behavior repeats, people adjust accordingly. And the longer this goes on, the harder it becomes to undo. Trust, once broken twice, doesn’t reset easily. Even future administrations will inherit skepticism, contingency planning, and a Europe that no longer assumes the United States is automatically reliable. You can say “fuck off” if you want, but the consequences don’t care: Europe will keep hedging, diversifying alliances, building autonomy, and planning as if US support might disappear again, because that’s what repeated instability teaches allies to do.

@MichaelAArouet @woodson_spring Money came from exports. And they also exported technology/knowledge - which was quickly taken and improved. That falls back onto them now.

@woodson_spring Nope, they sacrificed their industry and prosperity on the altar of the green religion. Money comes from "tax the rich", until all the rich emigrate.

While German and European carmakers are laser-focused on gender-neutral corporate speech and Pride months, Chinese BYD is building a factory that will be larger than San Francisco when completed. Most Germans don’t yet understand what’s coming their way. Good luck.

@taherxn @astro_greek "the only person better than me" in fact says a lot.

@astro_greek I think it says a lot about Elon that he was willing to admit someone was better than him at his favorite subject because that kind of intellectual honesty is exactly how you build a team that actually solves the hard problems.

One of Elon's closest friends was Robin Ren, who had won a Physics Olympiad in his native China before coming to Penn. "He was the only person better than me at physics" They became partners in the physics lab, where they studied how the properties of various materials change at extreme temperatures. At the end of one set of experiments, Musk took erasers from the ends of pencils, dropped them into a jar of super-cold liquid, and then smashed them on the floor. He developed an interest in knowing and being able to visualize, the properties of materials and alloys at different temperatures.

@astro_greek wow, erasers into liquid nitrogen. wow, he is so smart. I can totally see that there are no smarter physicists.

@ChrisRMcGuire @ManusAI that might be true from a perspective where money is the primary driver. But don't underestimate the Chinese patriotism. They will return if the time is right.

This is a very interesting development, which potentially demonstrates the power and strategic impact of U.S. outbound investment restrictions into Chinese AI firms. Here's a brief history of the saga of @ManusAI: - Manus began as a China-based start-up that makes AI agents, which reportedly utilized Anthropic's Claude models. In April 2025 Manus raised $75 million from U.S. investors at a $500 million valuation. - After news broke of its April fundraising round, Manus abruptly moved its headquarters from China to Singapore--presumably to avoid running afoul of U.S. restrictions on outbound investments into Chinese AI firms, which likely would have required the U.S. investors to divest from Manus following an inevitable investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department. - Over summer 2025, Manus reportedly shut down all its China operations: it closed its offices in China, stopped its work with Alibaba on new AI agents, and abandoned plans to release a version of its app in China. - On December 29, 2025, @alexandr_wang announced that @Meta is acquiring Manus. If the reporting is true that Manus completely abandoned its ties to China (a critical "if"), this story shows the power of U.S. outbound investment restrictions: they not only stop U.S. investors from supporting China's AI ecosystem, but they also incentivize sophisticated AI firms like Manus to abandon the Chinese AI ecosystem in favor of the U.S. AI ecosystem, which has access to deeper capital markets and more AI computing power (the latter due to U.S. export controls on AI chips). Neither the U.S. government nor the Chinese government would have permitted Meta to acquire Manus if it had remained based in Beijing. But once Manus fled China, likely as a result of U.S. outbound investment restrictions, the Chinese government lost its influence over Manus and its say in the transaction.

@WR4NYGov @simonmaechling @grok @grok without judging safety of this complicated issue, what do you know about fluorination with respect to Europe, US, as well as Asian countries?

@simonmaechling @grok which has cleaner tap water? - US or Europe (best estimate on average for both)

I’m European. Apparently my life is bad. In reality, I have: Vaccines. Clean tap water. Public transport. Enforceable rights. Food safety as a baseline. Healthcare that doesn’t lead to bankruptcy. And I don’t need to carry a concealed weapon to walk my dogs.

@jenzhuscott USB-C as an universal standard is actually one of the best things to happen.

US 🇺🇸: foundational models, frontier AI, semiconductor, space, genetics China 🇨🇳: robotics, open-sourced AI, AI fusion, EVs, batteries, renewable energy, biotech, high speed railways, new materials. EU 🇪🇺:

@mert and after the 100% signal Elon writes all his (somewhat questionable) X posts in the 61. minute?

one of the biggest mistakes you can make is confusing people optimizing for signal as "not a nice guy"

@jenzhuscott but that is more than the job market can swallow. Germany has a similar problem.

This is the real gap to close - engineering education. ~40% high-school graduates in China go to univ, vs 10% in 2000. (The rest go to vocational schools or workforce) Engineering is by far the most popular major for post-graduate studies. Btw 2000 - 2020, the number of engineers went from 5.2m to 17.7m; in 2022, 47% of the world’s top 20th percentile AI researchers finished their undergraduate studies in China, way above the 18% share from the US. Also, I don’t see gender studies in the chart.

@michelleefang I will show my mum how to vibe code

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@alz_zyd_ but who wants sandwiches in the first place?

American sandwiches are the best in the world. Nobody else comes close. As an American on vacation, there is no point ordering sandwiches anywhere, you will just find that they are worse than the American version

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The so-called "price gouging" Trump’s targeting isn’t theoretical—it’s systemic. The End Price Gouging for Medications Act (H.R. 3391) directly attacks Big Pharma’s global racket where Americans pay 10x more for the same drugs as Europeans. This bill forces U.S. prices to align with the lowest international rates, slashing costs by 59-90% overnight. For example, Gilead’s hepatitis drug Epclusa drops from $24,920 to $2,425 under MFN pricing. The real scandal? Foreign governments have weaponized price controls for decades, forcing U.S. patients to subsidize their socialist healthcare through inflated domestic prices. Trump’s MFN policy finally ends this exploitation—no more American wallets funding Europe’s cheap meds while our own seniors ration insulin. Pharma’s stock surge post-announcement proves they know the jig’s up: either comply or face extinction via market forces.

Trump: We’re bringing down drug price by 1000%, 1200%, 1300%, 1400%. A drug that sells for $10 in London is costing $130 in New York. We are bringing it down to $20. You can do your own math. But it’s 2000%, 3000%

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@clashreport Since nobody seems to know the context of this, I’ll give it a shot, but it’s likely gonna take a few tweets. American drug companies do R&D (research and development of new drugs) this is expensive but once the drug is made it is cheap…

Trump: I spoke to a very good man, Macron of France. Then I said, “Emmanuel, you have to raise your drug prices.” He said “no, no, no.” I said, you have to. If you don’t do it, I’m going to put a 25 percent tariff on everything France sells into the United States of America.

@clashreport I just want to leave this here.

@Linahuaa the top crop get 100 millions in the US (see the Meta hires). And this comparison is not relevant for most people anyways.

@UnknownPostdoc But they aren't top of the crop Chinese engineers. For average Chinese it's easier in Europe, yes

Palmer Luckey: "We can easily get China's best engineers- we just give them an American life and an American wife" Uhmm... no, Chinese life and Chinese wives at top engineer level are WAY better. I mean, Chinese wife is a nobrainer... American women are disgusting and useless, and they aren't into Chinese guys anyway. Most Chinese engineers are already importing wives from China, but it's getting harder to get visas. How super wrong can you get on this topic??? Embarrassing. As for Chinese high-earner life: Earning $300k in America is just slightly better than middle class lifestyle. And you are still considered second-class citizen. You still get robbed by Blacks. You still get owned by Jews. You still get exhausted by yapping Whites and Indians. You still eat disgusting food on a daily basis. What's the fucking point?? In China, if you earn half that, you're PRIVILEGED and date HOT girls. If you want top Chinese guys, give them an actual TOP life. Your current American dream is mid af and will only get you Indians.

@Linahuaa ... but in China they wont "date hot girls". They will pick one, get married very soon, and she will take care of finances. Can work pretty well - but only if you choose right. Otherwise it is a marriage of sacrifice.