The most fascinating thing I heard a while ago was that like 60% of readers will stop reading a text if they suspect or discover it’s written by AI.

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

Though looking a bit deeper just now it does seem he has backpedalled his stance after the backlash. So who know what the current state is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyPeWSLbdjw

I think this video is very telling. It looks all very ceremonial, but presidents of other nations are dropped off and have to hoof it along the empty red carpet by themselves surrounded by Chinese soldiers.

The cybertruck doesn’t pass a multitude of safety regulations. And is therefore not street legal in the EU. But there are ways around that by directly importing it from the US. The Dodge Ram is not street legal in the EU either but has been making use of an importing loophole to get on the streets.

Tesla stock was enormously overpriced anyway. The product is not that good or worth that much. In the very beginning there was a lot of disrupting the incumbents. For better or worse. Now it’s all worse.

2 ways to get superglue out of a lock, acetone or heating it up with a torch and make it melt. So make sure not to put some solder inside the lock before you put the superglue in. The solder would melt and get stuck inside everywhere and be impossible to remove.

China is looking to replace the Pax Americana with the Pax Sinica. But where the US and Europe at least had cultural and ideological overlaps. This doesn’t exist between China and Europe.

Just make a list of allies of the US or the EU, it’s massive. A list of China’s allies… North Korea maybe? China doesn’t want equal partnerships, it wants to lead and the others to follow.

It’s a start. But take Proton, sure it’s based in Switzerland, but the CEO is also MAGA. So is Proton good or not?

It’s a common myth, that some people believe that the US can already make everything it needs but is not doing it because China is cheaper. So now that China is more expensive thanks to tariffs, all these US factories are going to boom and create millions of jobs.

Except a lot of these factories don’t exist in the US, at all. For reference, the whole US has only 1(!) rare earth refinery. Meanwhile China has 90% of the global refining capabilities.

Zelensky has the most to lose. And even he is not doing anything that could be construed as “ass kissing”.

So it’s a total fabrication, which is not odd coming from a guy who ordered a 4 mile military parade to celebrate his birthday.

Especially long range. International/Interstate high speed rail should be the norm.

From their website:

“We will only be working with factories that pass a series of internationally-recognized certifications and audits.”

“We produce items in the US as well as abroad”

Why would a US factory need internationally recognized certifications? That kind of thing is meant to prevent unsafe sweatshop conditions in South-East Asia. Also they’re not specifying how much of their products are made in the US. If I went through the trouble to make 90% of the products domestically I would like to share that. So the balance is most likely leaning towards the other direction.

Oddly enough very product I checked said it was handmade in the US. So which products are made abroad?

I don’t want to be a A-hole over this. It’s cool they’re doing this, and seem to have their hearts in the right place. But I’ve seen too much shit in this space to believe things at face value.

They literally can’t. The US has only 1(!) rare earth refinery for instance. And only 3 copper smelters. China isn’t just cheaper, and that advantage is going away as well anyway, but it also developed enormous amounts of capabilities and expertise in the last 20 years that no once can match.

And even if that’s the goal, slapping giant tariffs across the board is not going to help. Some of these industries take years if not decades to develop, specifically educated staff and billions of dollars worth of investments.

Look interesting, thanks for sharing.

When the first Model S came out. It was rave reviews across the board. Breaking safety score records. Making electrical sexy. Even if it didn’t have the finesse and durability of the incumbent brands.

The idea was they should’ve gone up from there, not down. And they’ve gone down by a lot.

Having to pay tariffs. Sending money to a country with an adversarial government. And it’s not even made in the US.

Not anymore, but at the time it came out it was.

That’s why I think your being naïve. Backed by science, sure. But the link between autism and vaccines was also backed by science. Despite it being false. And who is funding the science? And who is deciding what get’s published? And who is peer reviewing it?

Science is a messy human process. And can be misappropriated by those in power.

That’s probly 1 million job vacancies that regular Americans don’t want to fill. What was the point of this again?