They have these values tied to their identity, their ego. It’s hard to change that. Hard to admit you were wrong if being wrong means having to become someone else.

This is also a problem on the left though.

Long long time ago someone wrote on Reddit that the best post-apocalyptic place to stay would just be a small town. With a dentist, a doctor, farmers and builders. Where everybody knows each other. The interdependence of skill and need for cooperation would keep the peace.

https://www.hetregentbijnanooit.nl/site/totaaloverzicht-van-10-meetjaren-het-is-volbracht/

Though it seems I’ve got my numbers mixed. Must’ve read 7% before instead of 7 times.

I’ve had limited success. The best thing I’ve found is asking to generate example texts using certain vocab or context.

Why? All the reviews I’ve seen so far are bad. It’s barely scoring 5/10.

Asymmetric warfare has been a game changer. It’s all about “mass” on target. It’s more effective (and possible) to build and fire a 100 rockets that cost a 1000 dollars to make. Than fire a single 100.000 dollar one.

Back in 2002 the US navy found out that just overwhelming defences with a large amount of projectiles could sink an aircraft carrier. In this case a in a wargame which led to some controversy after they covered it up.

None of the countries is going to back down. Because the all know the minute they do, the more shit Trump is going to pull. At this point it’s basically extortion.

But it only rains about 7 times a year during normal commuting hours. Most rain the Netherlands falls at night.

English is too engrained. Even if the US falls down to some impoverished dictatorship. English will remain. The cost of switching now is just too great.

Wait, isn’t this just extortion? Smashing in a shop’s windows and telling the owner if he wants to put in new ones he needs to pay the guy with the bat first.

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/

Though looking a bit deeper just now it does seem he has backpedalled his stance after the backlash. So who know what the current state is.

The cybertruck doesn’t pass a multitude of safety regulations. And is therefore not street legal in the EU. But there are ways around that by directly importing it from the US. The Dodge Ram is not street legal in the EU either but has been making use of an importing loophole to get on the streets.

Tesla stock was enormously overpriced anyway. The product is not that good or worth that much. In the very beginning there was a lot of disrupting the incumbents. For better or worse. Now it’s all worse.

It’s a start. But take Proton, sure it’s based in Switzerland, but the CEO is also MAGA. So is Proton good or not?

Didn’t Nintendo rollback US Switch 2 pre-orders for this very reason?

It’s a common myth, that some people believe that the US can already make everything it needs but is not doing it because China is cheaper. So now that China is more expensive thanks to tariffs, all these US factories are going to boom and create millions of jobs.

Except a lot of these factories don’t exist in the US, at all. For reference, the whole US has only 1(!) rare earth refinery. Meanwhile China has 90% of the global refining capabilities.

Zelensky has the most to lose. And even he is not doing anything that could be construed as “ass kissing”.

So it’s a total fabrication, which is not odd coming from a guy who ordered a 4 mile military parade to celebrate his birthday.

Especially long range. International/Interstate high speed rail should be the norm.

From their website:

“We will only be working with factories that pass a series of internationally-recognized certifications and audits.”

“We produce items in the US as well as abroad”

Why would a US factory need internationally recognized certifications? That kind of thing is meant to prevent unsafe sweatshop conditions in South-East Asia. Also they’re not specifying how much of their products are made in the US. If I went through the trouble to make 90% of the products domestically I would like to share that. So the balance is most likely leaning towards the other direction.

Oddly enough very product I checked said it was handmade in the US. So which products are made abroad?

I don’t want to be a A-hole over this. It’s cool they’re doing this, and seem to have their hearts in the right place. But I’ve seen too much shit in this space to believe things at face value.

They literally can’t. The US has only 1(!) rare earth refinery for instance. And only 3 copper smelters. China isn’t just cheaper, and that advantage is going away as well anyway, but it also developed enormous amounts of capabilities and expertise in the last 20 years that no once can match.

And even if that’s the goal, slapping giant tariffs across the board is not going to help. Some of these industries take years if not decades to develop, specifically educated staff and billions of dollars worth of investments.