It literally looks worse than microwaveable meals.
There is one from 2023. Looks even worst lol. The poster said it is a $35 steak dinner.
It literally looks worse than microwaveable meals.
This one I don't believe. This one looks like he ate most of it.There is one from 2023. Looks even worst lol. The poster said it is a $35 steak dinner.
This one I don't believe. This one looks like he ate most of it.
>Potato still in its ice cream scoop ball shapeThis one I don't believe. This one looks like he ate most of it.
Steak looks like more than half of it was cut off or torn from the angle hidden from the camera. Steak juice everywhere around the steak in a jagged pattern that suggests shifting instead of just liquid expanding from the center indicates the steak had been moved around and messed with. That the 2 scoops of mash are stacked vertically indicates tha plate likely had no extra space or they'd be next to each other to reduce empty space. Vegetable portion looks very small when restuarants usually increase that as a cheap way to make the overall food quantity look larger.>Potato still in its ice cream scoop ball shape
>No cut marks on steak
Plausible.
There is one from 2023. Looks even worst lol. The poster said it is a $35 steak dinner.
There is one from 2023. Looks even worst lol. The poster said it is a $35 steak dinner.
Yes - this checks out. China has thin technological advantages and is competitive in a narrow number of market segments, but has faster catch-up than most everyone else, which over enough time, turn into pushing the technological frontier in a growing number of fields (fast catch-up growth is of course, uncertain).Playing catch-up is not shameful or unexpected. 20 years ago, China was not really leading in anything, and 30 years ago was definitely without-doubt behind.
If we look at a simple consumer product, the robovac, iRobot was peerless 20 years ago. Today they are a horribly indebted company that was counting on Amazon's lifeline before being quashed by regulators.
In the face of mounting debt and diminishing revenue, the survival of the company is in question.
Why is the revenue diminishing? Basically the low end is dominated by white label Chinese goods on Amazon or whatever platform, they lost this market a long time ago. Their bread and butter, the high end, has basically been absolutely destroyed by new Chinese competition such as Roborock and Ecovacs.
Roborock's pace of innovation has allowed it to raise prices on the newest models and now command a hefty premium over a comparable iRobot model which has cut prices to try to compete. Customers' have spoken and prefer LIDAR based navigation over Visual. 20 years going and bumping into furniture is still a major complaint of iRobot's Roombas.
Leading to the next point. LIDAR technology is simply maturing in China much faster than in the West. 10 years ago, Velodyne was the unquestionable market leader. Today, Hesai is simply better and cheaper. In the Automotive market alone it commands a 47% market share.
Velodyne was acquired by Ouster and recently lost a patent infringement case against Hesai in US Court.
Meanwhile US Congress-critters are relying on jingoistic reports with outdated information in their decision making process that have a national impact.
- Note they already lost by August 2023 and this report was updated in May 2024.
Particularly head in the rear-ended quote. The reality is that the LIDAR market has grown with the EV market in China and Chinese automakers are increasingly looking at domestic suppliers in the face of US government interference.