UnderpantsWeevil @ UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world

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…made in 2018 by a Russian team. Way before the whole Ukraine war thing, you understand

Flipping through a history book on Russian/Ukrainian relations in the 21st century

Closing the book, putting it back on the shelf, whistling, and walking away

More seriously, I'll never understand folks who hear "So-and-so is from Nationality X, so now I must/must not purchase products from them because of their bloodline."

I am a professional encoder and I always put all my codes in a single big file marked EXE for faster execution.

Have a friend who was a sort-of perpetual grad student - bouncing from Sweden to Italy to Australia - over about ten years, pursuing a degree in marine biology. Along the way, she contributed thousands of hours of labor to various research teams. Eventually, she got burned out, married a neurologist, and moved to a small house in Queensland. Now she mostly just gardens and raises bunnies, which she is extraordinarily good at thanks to her education.

Was this money wasted or did the universities get exactly what they paid her for? Idk. But it seems a far better way to employ people than what we've done with The Pentagon or ICE.

"I graduated high school, got a good job at the Mill, married my high school sweetheart, had five kids, bought a second house with a boat, retired at 60, went insane reading Facebook memes and watching FOX News, then decided to shoot up the Harvest Music Festival in 2017. Why can't you young people do that?"

My wife graduated law school in 2010, Summa Cum Laude, and just barely got a job at a low rent firm.

Five years later, she's earning twice the money at a much nicer place for not much more work, because the glut of students from '08-'10 caused grads in '11-'14 to look elsewhere. Suddenly there was a huge supply gap and you could write your own ticket.

Moral of the Story: Get good at something and stick with it. Markets go up, markets go down, but skills pay the bills in the end.

Reminds me of the movie "A Serious Man"

Larry Gopnik: A divorce-what have I done! I haven't done anything- What have I done!

Judith Gopnik: Larry, don't be a child. You haven't "done" anything. I haven't "done" anything.

Larry Gopnik: Yes! Yes! We haven't done anything! And I-I'm probably about to get tenure.

Judith Gopnik: Nevertheless, there have been problems. As you know.

Worse ways to get rolled.

Really says more about the disdain for western public transportation.

I'll take coach seats on the Shinkansen over the driver's seat of a Ferrari.

its gross how people were convinced millions of immigrants were here causing issues but as soon as a few thousand are exported everything is a-ok.

Media cycles have flipped from "MIGRANT CARAVAN! KUNG-FLU! TOOKER JERBS!" to "Those ICE agents are being a bit too rough, COVID is solved/not-real, AI will replace you anyway so migrants aren't really an issue."

oh yeah, and now we get spend hundreds of billions of dollars now not feeding people but ‘watching’…

Now that we have the eugenics focused government that the media industry lobbied for, we can pivot towards the liberal technocracy that makes the brutality cheaper and more efficient. Amazon / Facebook / Palantir will join forces to deliver a new era of Smart, AI-powered Population Management that can deliver the same gestapo-like tactics for a fraction of the price.

Just like with Clinton after Reagan/Bush and Obama after Junior and Biden after Trump, we're going to get a new Tough On Border Crime democrat at the top of the ticket (maybe even Harris again, she was great at telling Guatemalans fleeing a civil war to go home) who will campaign on Trump's ICE doing a bad job according to the deportation counting spreadsheets.

And we'll get an earful about spending, too, of course. Never a bad time to take another big chunk out of the Entitlements in order to balance your books for National Security.

chinese companies are notorious for stealing IP

American companies sell the ip to China in exchange for access to capital and labor, then claim they've been robbed when the Chinese firms innovate and expand on the patents they've acquired.

The end result is a car company that produces better vehicles than anything an American or Japanese or German company can manage.

Curiously, these superior vehicles are "stolen" while the Teslas keep exploding under home grown technology.

Holy shit, are we still on Grey's Anatomy?

The difference between "believable" and "logical" is as wide as a cardboard box with a cat in it.

Mamdani's Jihadist plan to open municipally run grocery stores will destroy NYC with Shari Onions.

NASDAQ is up 6.8% ytd and 12.7% yoy. This "drop" didn't even bring it below the 5D low.

Very possible some HFT was in the know and did a bunch of day-trader shenanigans in the ten minutes before the announcement. Possible this was just speculation on the eve of the announcement because "Trump opens his mouth" is typically bad for the markets for a day or two. But this is a 0.59% drop that you've got zoomed in. It's nothing, in the context of the 3 year Bull Run that's doubled the NASDAQ's valuation since the '22 low.

I mean, unironically, this is what polygraphs exist to accomplish. They aren't reliable instruments and a lot of the "results" boil down to a technician trying to figure out if your heart rate increase or sweaty palms are a result of you lying or the AC in the room not running properly.

By the time someone's decided to strap you into a ploygraph machine, you're already "guilty" in their eyes. They're just looking for an excuse to slam the book on you.

I've yet to see evidence to this effect

A lot of these subsidies (both in the US and China) are implicit. Chinese state rail networks operate at cost, allowing cheap transportation of materials and labor. American borrowing is heavily subsidized through the Fed Credit Window, which keeps rates in the low single digits while corporate bonds and consumer loans can be 2x-30x as high. Both countries cut corners on environmental enforcement and subsidize waste management. Both countries subsidize education and incentive R&D through their university systems.

The real benefit BYD enjoys - even above its Chinese peers - is vertical integration. They own everything from mining interests to technology patents to dealerships. This is a deliberate consequence of Chinese trade policy, which requires foreign investors to partner with Chinese nationals in order to own and operate capital. Consequently, Berkshire Hathaway - a large early investor in BYD - cannot dictate Chinese vehicle manufacturing policy from a private office in Omaha. Chinese locals benefit from the innovation, the domestic capital, the experienced labor force (which can migrate to local competitors), and the increased economic activity it produces.

China is insourcing it's wealth aggregation, which has a cyclical compound benefit over time.

Yes, but all of these are bound by fundamental physical laws. Cause and effect. You are a deterministic machine.

You are a meat mech that operates on congruent biological principles. Therefore, everything you do is de facto "logical".

If they play a system, they probably like that system

I don't think you've ever actually gamed before.

Don’t forget the Lt governor has more power than the governor

That stopped being true decades ago, when Perry was granted a bunch of appointment power under the Republican legislature.

The Lt. Gov set the agenda in the State Senate, which made the position a bottleneck in the legislative process. But Senate Republicans are in total lockstep. The real legislative power rested with the House calendars committee for a few sessions, as the legislature was only in session for a few months every few years and the House could kill a bill by timing it out.

But of late, Abbott has excercised his ability to call "emergency" sessions liberally. And since he can get the agenda in these sessions, he can bully the House Reps into compliance by dragging them back over and over again until they concede.