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FriedButter

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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.

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manqiangrexue

Brigadier
>Potato still in its ice cream scoop ball shape
>No cut marks on steak

Plausible.
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.

I'd say it's fake.
 

chgough34

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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.
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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.

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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.

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Velodyne was acquired by Ouster and recently lost a patent infringement case against Hesai in US Court.

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Meanwhile US Congress-critters are relying on jingoistic reports with outdated information in their decision making process that have a national impact.

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- 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.
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).
 

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General


The end part where where the Electric Viking says Ford can't admit to reality to the public because Ford's stock value will crash is an example of the US overall. Who says the US can't lie about how well the US is really doing? Some people only have those lies to claim the US is in command.

The US will never be able to make equivalent EV to China's because they can't add all the features Chinese EVs have without it costing more than a Chinese EV. That's why I have to laugh every time the West thinks they have found an alternative this or that from China. Yeah it'll still cost you more. There's only two ways the West can beat China. Enslave a country to have them do everything for the West for free or they have to let China rise and have their economy do better than theirs so that they become the cheap source of labor around the world. Neither they can't do hence why the West is in deep doo-doo.
 

FairAndUnbiased

Brigadier
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The pathological drive to look "objective" has downgraded the overall level of this thread and even forum as a whole.

In a space about African defense affairs, someone who openly cheers for Rhodesia, apartheid South Africa and the KKK would be banned instantly. In Russian spaces, cheerleaders for Nazis and NAFO trolls would be banned instantly.

Is it fair? IDK. Maybe some would argue that even voices for Rhodesia and Nazis need to be listened to because of a misguided sense of freedom of speech, objectivity or open mindedness. But it is punishing to the well behaved to tolerate the intolerant.

Yet only in a space about Chinese do we allow far right neolibtards to exist and freely disseminate disinformation.
 
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