Commoditizing something is harder than showing a demonstrator (even if it’s less cool than the demonstrator)

Musk is really good at headhunting and cutting through middle management cruft. He’s actually really good at being a CEO, he’s just also… y’know

Switzerland lifts ban on the development of nuclear power plants due to geopolitical tension and climate targets

In more local news, Falcon ends B.C. United campaign, throws support to Conservatives

Dude who literally kicked the BC Conservative leader out of the party is now supporting the BC Conservatives (apparently without consulting his candidates). Now BC United candidates are stuck up shits creek, meanwhile the party that Falcon said was “too extreme to govern” is now the party he supports.

Oh, and BC just approved single-stair apartments.

Wouldn’t explain the pilot death so it doesn’t work

I honestly don’t understand what the US obsession with low-ROI government spending is. Like, it’s not that hard to spend money so that a dollar in leads to multiple dollars in future cost savings or multiple dollars in economic growth.

I guess it’s because the US doesn’t price in the cost of healthcare? Maybe the zero-sum global perspective? The high cost of war?

Build a subway. Build climate mitigation infrastructure. Plant trees. Feed children. Give people doctors. Education for all. There’s this whole individualist “fuck you got mine” mentality that seems to completely stall progress in the US and blows up the cost of doing anything that benefits other people to the point of it not being worthwhile.

Basically all Western reporting on China is hampered by having no native speakers on the journalism or editorial team.

Wait, what happened in Minnesota? I’m out of the loop.

Ok but can we talk about how insane Pan Zhanle is?

Dude breaks his own 100m world record and gaps the rest of the field by a bodylength… Then a few days later, takes the 4x100m home by making up a 2m gap and then some… And in the process, does the whole leg in sub-46 seconds.

The guy is straight up 2-3% faster than everyone else. It’s insane.

As for complaints about the pool being slow? Americans set new world records for the 1500m free and women’s 4x100 medley, so that argument doesn’t work anymore. Plus, the fastest recent 50m free is a 21.04, so it’s not like it’s impossible for someone to swim a sub-46 100m.

At this point the US should really consider planting some drugs on him because otherwise they’re so fucked… This is as Chinese athletes are being tested as much as 7 times a day by WADA.

Asian markets are bleeding.

RMB is at 7 month highs.

US recession fears seem to be triggering a flow of money into China.

Constraining exports is a way to artificially introduce oversupply.

All you’re saying is that the US intentionally put Intel in a position of oversupplying the semiconductor industry… Which would be sort of funny if it didn’t cost 15000 people their jobs.

So anyone want to tell me why Intel laying off 15% of their staff isn’t an indication of how the CHIPS Act introduced state-sunsidized oversupply into the semiconductor industry?

No? American companies can’t possibly contribute to oversupply? I see.

Meloni had the quickest image rehabilitation in a while

So, looking at China’s GDP/capital growth rate relative to representative Asian economies, it seems like the construction glut was actually a net drawdown on GDP growth? Growth rates fell in 2011 and have only recovered in the 2021 era (coinciding with the rise and fall of China’s real estate market).

This intuitively should make sense given how China imputes rent, but it’s still surprising.

I hate how elections work in Canada man.

So Trudeau’s been getting absolutely terrible poll numbers, but the Conservatives have basically no platform except “Trudeau bad pt. 7”…

But anyway, now that the Conservatives are gaining support federally against the Liberals, they’re also gaining support provincially against the BC NDP (which by all accounts is doing a pretty great job at actually getting stuff done).

But of course, the provincial Conservatives used to be called the Liberals, but now they’re the Conservatives because the provincial Liberal party imploded.

So anyway, now there’s not terrible odds we’ll get put under a Conservative provincial government because the federal government can’t get their shit together.

I mean… Canadian education really isn’t that great on global affairs lmao

His last ounce of resistance was to force them to DocuSign that shit lmao

Canada one was out of negligence, this one was out of willful ignorance.

Politics is about power and, well, how do you compete with the kind of power that can flip a country in an instant?

Bernie has no competence in foreign policy, but seems like it would be decent for domestic issues?