A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
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China doesn't export raw/barely processed materials (like steel) but finished goods. Chinese steel is turned into cars, ships, airplanes, buildings, tools etc.
The Chinese government is directing economic expansion in new directions, now that physical infrastructure's mostly been built out cheaply. Local steel demand is falling a bit as things rearrange themselves, leading to an increase in Chinese steel exports (to Africa etc.) but it's not even 10% of production. Indeed, exports make up less than 20% of the Chinese economy overall.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10mo ago
Brazil's the size of the continental US and Mexico combined. Consider the "impassable" areas like uninhabited Alaska.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10mo ago
Does anyone know why that account was suspended?
It happened quite recently. His wife was active a few weeks ago, it says deleted here: https://old.reddit.com/r/LessCredibleDefence/comments/1egsd44/air_force_makes_big_changes_after_the_osprey/
every series is Ming-era drama, Ming-era xianxia,
WW2 dramas, with the occasional modern series.The most recent Chinese films I watched were a 3D animated story about Tang-era poets for a family audience
This is greater praise of China than DeepSeek. May we regain our own high culture.
Perhaps https://youtube.com/watch?v=ecDlMymLt6E is the cartoon in question. It's great. I'll start cramming Mandarin vocabulary immediately. Thankfully I already have Pollard's book.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10mo ago
I'd like to point to this post about the V-22, illustrating the very same decline in engineering culture and institutional accountability which matches what we see almost everywhere else we shift our gaze. This becomes more egregious when:
Contrasting the Official Report of this Osprey crash with the NTSB Incident Report (PDF warning) of the 1991 Los Angeles runway collision makes the emphasis placed on pilot error look even worse.
The traffic controller made mistakes that directly lead to the crash and accepted responsibility for the accident. Despite this, the actions of the traffic controller are positioned as the inevitable result of a flawed system. Compared to this, the actions of a flight crew following procedures and encountering an unknown mechanical fault should barely warrant a footnote in the accident report's conclusion.
The culture war is a war between collapse and the the truths which maintain industrial civilization.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
10mo ago
You're taxed on income, the business is taxed on profit, then you're taxed again on dividends or capital gains...
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
11mo ago
Two women have two bosoms.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
11mo ago
I liked this! It's a shame about the other responses.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
11mo ago
Tradition is acknowledgement of eternal truths and their practical, moral, social and metaphysical requirements
@hydroacetylene recently wrote:
every society in history has figured out that harsh views about people who are merely unfortunate is a necessity of having a functional society. You can have the public and public institutions be unfair to people- indeed, it's impossible for them to be perfectly fair- they just need to work.
What other eternal truths build and uphold society?
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
11mo ago
The hollowed out ruins that were Western civilization
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
11mo ago
Highways are cool! But they demolished beautiful buildings downtown instead of building highways in less dense areas.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
11mo ago
blame car culture
American cities were bulldozed for cars in the 50s. American cities looked like European cities: https://i.redd.it/mn45jsmhowna1.jpg https://www.vox.com/2015/5/14/8605917/highways-interstate-cities-history
Never forget what they took from you.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
11mo ago
For what its worth, for me the autocomplete's also purged for Trump.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
11mo ago
you would expect it to be mostly younger working-age people
I don't know the demographic breakdown, but many coming to New England are in their 50s.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
11mo ago
security monoculture?
Tangential, but it's shocking how much small differences can impact results. In my industry, people decorrelate WTI from Brent, and then Brent from other Brent, by using4% instead of 5% stoplosses. They then make the full range 1,2,3....% on each, then bottle them up into different ensembles, and after a few days they show massive divergence.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1yr ago
La Perla at South Coast Plaza, one of the premiere malls in the US, had people constantly complain about haughty staff, informing them their goods were more expensive than it looked like they could afford etc. The store then left the mall. My uncle mallwalks there in ratty t shirts with holes, which saddens me.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1yr ago
Interviewee says he saw the guy on a roof and reported him: https://x.com/SharpFootball/status/1812265909727396107
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1yr ago
shooter mag dumped after
I think that was (multiple members of) security. The shooter's reported dead.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1yr ago
a right winger shooting at Trump
Right wing friends think it was antijewish right. Many others have been antitrump for a while, calling him prochoice now.
remote encampments
Structures in encampments (not tents but e.g. wooden shacks) should be considered homes, allowing them to invest further in their structures etc. Adverse possession already exists on the law books. Private citizens may push them off. Then, on government land, why not let them homestead it?
Indeed, LA's "rivers" aren't used. Why not let people build structures in them, open insurance policies etc. If it does rain and flood, the government's already subsidizing housing in landslide and wildfire zones. At least peasant hovels are cheap to replace.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1yr ago
theater got very bawdy very quickly,
To illustrate the point: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Farce_of_Sodom,_or_The_Quintessence_of_Debauchery
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1yr ago
Purchase price and rental price are often strongly disjointed:
https://www.newsweek.com/real-estate-map-where-cheaper-rent-versus-buy-1896130
There are only two countries where buying is cheaper than renting. Average mortgage payments of $1,258 in Finland are 2.1 per cent cheaper than rent of $1,285. The other is Italy. Mortgage payments of $997 are slightly lower (0.9 per cent) compared to rent of $1,006.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/realestate/buying-vs-renting-home.html
Of course there are further considerations (like mortgage payments building equity.)
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1yr ago
yt-dlp downloads a song in about 3 seconds. On telegram, vk music bot lets you do the same.
A_Wee_Hearts_Toll
1yr ago
Adding to this with one of my favorite subjects
How can I nerd snipe you into sharing favorite anecdotes, intriguing obscure bits etc.?
That's when the tax change came into effect.
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