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He is pretending not to know that there is a factory in Shanghai.
I am reading up that Japan's manager Moriyasu is in talks to be replaced after being eliminated again rather early. Even if they made it to the next round, that good feeling lasted only a few days at most before reality came in.
Seeing both Japan and Korea act like this reminds me of whenever the Chinese team screws up, there is loads of blame and insult hurled towards the players and the manager asking them to all lose their jobs. Turns out Japan and Korea aren't really different from China at the core. They just had more success in getting to the world cup but once disappointment comes from their first hurdle on the global stage, they end up reverting to the same way as China.
Maybe it really is better to be the best at more niche stuff rather than trying so hard to be the best in the most crowded sport in the world. But thats a quitter's mentality I guess.
i remember reading tameichi hara's memoirs of his experience as a ww2 destroyer captain and one thing that jumped out at me was how they'd keep sacking captains after each failed operation. how are you supposed to develop capabilities and build institutional experience when your only response to failure is not learning from the experience but instead resetting all progress? the asian response to failure's role in learning is quite different than western attitudes, and i think it inevitably plays a fundamental role in contests of systemic resiliency.
Pretty minor piece of news. Trump is trying to blow up his own trade agreement because he wants more tariffs as it gives him more direct power (mostly).
EV circles have speculated if and when this happened it'd be final deathblow for the US automotive industry. American legacy auto companies have tried and failed at every opportunity to build their own domestic EVs. Ranging from simply not knowing how to domestic Americas going mask-off racist at every opportunity ( or ).
Meanwhile Canada and Mexico don't have domestic auto industry, acting as extensions of the US. As Chinese auto companies expand they'll build out the supply chains and infrastructure for other EV companies to break into North America. If (admittedly big if) they succeed, then US auto industry will be boxed into just the US. If Americans decide to narrow their racism to just Chinese EVs and allow everyone else, Ford and GM will still get smashed by all the other auto companies who cross-pollinated with Chinese auto companies anyways (, , , ).
EDIT: Small update on the woman to called ICE on HyundaI, .
Justice Thomas Clarence wrote a 91 page dissent blasting the other Supreme Court Justices for their rejection lmao.
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This is an example why this new phenomenon of tech bros in the military space is just a huge scam. This guy must’ve heard Palmer Luckey talk about how underground is the next battle space and dived head-in. Underground infrastructure is not knew but this guy is talking about soldiers having some sort of new weapons tech that will burrow underground to targets to destroy. Something that soldiers that can carry personally…? The guy argues that you can drop 30K lbs. MOABS on underground infrastructure and you can’t assess if it did any damage. But a small enough device that burrows underground that can be carried by a soldier will do a better job…? Let’s forget how most important underground critical infrastructure will be located in the enemy’s country. You know why the US cancelled the airborne laser program to shoot down ICBMs? It’s because the only way it would work is if they can get an airliner sized aircraft literally flying over the enemy’s ICBM silo and lazing it right when it’s launching in order to have a chance at working.
But somehow this guy thinks it would be easier where you would have to send in troops into another country so they can use these drillings weapons? And let’s not forget how he argued that “sub-Terra” is the new battle space because fighting above ground is so dangerous now especially because of drones. That’s why these military tech bros are just scamming using children’s fantasies and the movies they’re watching to sell their product.
These military tech bros are just hoping to get contracts for millions or they wouldn’t be trying to sell a Hollywood movie as realistic. They need money in order to develop it. That’s the catch. And that’s the playbook of Silicon Valley these days. They’re not making money from selling proven products. They’re making money from selling ideas of the future from getting it through government contracts and investors that buy into it. It’s like the controversy over Polymarket and Kalshi. It’s not considered gambling by legal definition but it is. And the same goes with what Silicon Valley is doing as their main business model these days. And now who’s getting into the Polymarket and Kalshi game? Mark Zuckerberg.
Old people are drain of society no matter which country.