China doesn't have enough prison / slave labor to scapegoat for everything they win at (which is nearing everything.) metaphorical slaves-- we have those too. Oh no, they have some tiny portion done by prison labor... the USA has prison labor too; actually slavery is still legal in the USA (just not private slavery, go read the amendment.) What is worse than slavery is desperate serfs - prison slaves are more like serfs but slightly better. A slave has ownership responsibility costs. prisoners are slightly above that. Serfs, they are zero responsibility, fire them get another - their well being is not your problem -- you just need a pool of starving people willing to take the abuse. China has a large pool of desperate hard workers, the USA does not. yet.

What China does do is competent centrally managed support systems; INFRASTRUCTURE! The USA can hardly talk about it and almost never does it except when a bridge collapses or a Biden gets into office... it's almost never enough to progress, just maintain at best.

Police, Fire, roads, water, educated workers (socialized universal mandatory high school,) legal system... all are critical for a well functioning system and ultimately CHEAPER end result. There are African countries lacking all of that which nobody will invest in or if they do, it'll not pay off in the end and is more like charity.

China has free healthcare (just like roads are "free") and free electricity (as in, non-profit or subsidized) and city planning a sim-gamer would kill to have; zero NIMBY. Their postal system will run at a loss because it's critical infrastructure while we have to make ours pay for itself with high costs and 3rd party competition and contractors which actually drive up shipping prices for everything (and has a huge wear on our roads...plus we lack trains...) Back to healthcare; that "unfair subsidy" China has-- removes what is the #1 cost for your Ford: employee healthcare benefits. Not steel, not electronics, the top cost of your truck is insurance; then it's probably wallstreet... (include healthcare then wallstreet is easily #1) and the management wages are maybe #3 or #4 on the list of bloat... heavy marketing is 1/3 of the budget as well. autos are super corrupt. dealerships are marketing overhead and many states have auto sales as a top tax income (helping defend industry status quo.)

Then you have USA auto industry sucking and just blackmail & bribing their way to survival since the 80s almost killed them. Their loophole for trucks created the SUV which is a "truck" and heavily promoted because it's the only thing that keeps them in business - the rest the world doesn't want the things but then they are not heavily marketed either... and gas prices are always low in the USA (even now; reality check! look it up. if you think gas costs you too much, then you are poor and just don't realize that yet. sad.) Do they make an affordable truck that lasts and just works?? nope. have to go back to the 80s for that... luxury "sports" trucks are all they sell with 100s of pounds of wires in them. Only amazon's Slate sells a basic truck without crap you don't want to jack up the cost... but then marketing tells you that you may as well double the price to get shit you don't need...

The US stock market's viability should be judged severely if they allow such a crazy move like that. It gets more like a casino all the time but this is getting like an Atlantic casino on the bring of bankruptcy.

It is almost like the movie, "Brewster's Millions" where he had a difficult time purposely trying to lose his money. All you have to do is listen to some smart people you hire and diversify.... and have a ruby mine in a trust that keeps you from ever fearing from being middle class. Gamble like crazy and your employees will work hard to try to keep their part in the bet working; to keep their jobs. Or in the case of a mobster, to stay out of jail or get protection for shielding the boss later.

Any greedy corp who can manipulate government and the public to this extent during unprecedented corruption would try move for grossly unwarranted expansion.

The richest known man had THE oil monopoly and every connected business with that. Yet we rank this mild-fraudster higher because of his crypto, over-valued stock in non-essential, not even dominating companies?! Musk's business could fold over night and it would be a blip impacting very few people.

Oracle on the other hand, powers infrastructure and is designed to be entrenched within it like a Candiru fish.

The record expensive satellite (James Webb) runs on JavaScript. and it's a 20 year old version of it.... so it probably will work quite well until it suddenly reboots.

What is worse is that next time they "vibe" code it... or replace code with a chatbot due to sposorship from OpenAI (because it's the only way they can burn money faster.)

The real enemy of evil criminals is TRUTH and even a flawed media has some truth. This is why they are at war with media, science, education, academics, facts, etc.

Every mistake, every lie from not being 100% perfect just allows them cover for people wanting to believe their lies and even 100% perfect, the audience makes more mistakes and will judge from their flawed judgement to rationalize what they like. So you they just have to maintain some ridiculousness to trigger people's irrationality; like being outrageous and constantly contradicting themselves.

Not when Trump does it. You'll change your position when Trump does it; like everybody else still stuck up his ass. Those children deserved to be raped by Trump, they should be grateful.

Communism brings the survivor conditions to you!
no need to travel.

You might be fine with a dark alleyway in a bad area. A rape victim or soldier might be hugely traumatized and unable to cope with that same environment. Pain tolerance also... well everything.

Then you have gut biology... just traveling somewhere and getting exposed to local bacteria in the food/water can make you incredibly sick for quite a while until your biology adjusts. This example is not psychological, just to point out other relativity. Medical?? Your job doesn't require navy-seal intro classes so then you've got fat cubical workers who'd never be hired for a physical job even close to that...and you switched their job requirements for "fun" team building. You know, while some traumatic shit in the military may bond some people for life, it also fucks up a lot of people as well and makes them antisocial... plus not a lot of love for the leadership behind those "bonding situations."

Hellish is correct. Making you eat very disgusting food for a job is a lawsuit begging to happen. The whole point of that "challenge" is to force you far far outside what is acceptable. The challenge fails if you are open to eating it - to really work it has to be something only the chance of winning ton of money or some fame would make you do it. So for you a giant spider isn't bad enough; it needs to be something you fear and wrench at the thought of eating.

Low information people don't see anything getting worse because for them nothing has changed; they were ignorant before and they are ignorant now it's 5000% worse, they can't see any difference in the 2% of information they ingest.

So much widespread corruption so frequent that not only can't the media report on it fast enough (even if they were fully and honestly doing their jobs) it's also so much that it is just like the big lie psychology from the Nazi era -- people can't believe it's possible to be so extreme. They can't be lying that much... so they can't be corrupting that much... but it's that and more. We're all being reduced to low information with this DoS on our society; and technology is at the heart of all the problems helping force multiply evil.

If this was a REAL national security threat like they claim in order to ban them so extremely, this would be a huge scandal because the company had it's hands all over government already. We know it's all BS and so do the judges and the burden should be on the crooks to prove their dishonest decisions. This reminds me of how Amazon cloud was kept out of government out of spite and MS was chosen when there was obviously no contest which service was superior (putting critical infrastructure on a cloud service being foolish is a whole other subject... don't give me that "but my bucket is encrypted", when you seriously shouldn't even put the system online at all.)

EXACTLY! They have so much of a bandwidth issue that they need old slow GPUs in space to compress data that much?? Sounds to me if you were going to replace the thing often with newer hardware it might make sense if you are worried about signal jamming and getting data quickly to some point on the ground that is portable and under powered... It might give you fractions of a second; but the real world physical actions are not as time critical as people tend to think.

So your missile response might fail to be quick enough that this matters; however, that is not likely a common situation and better planning can have more impact -- such as not blowing money on crazy expensive solutions than simply building a few 1000 more cheap drones... (which is where this might help those since they'd not have the compute but again, so what if they are a bit slower; plan around their limitations and throw more at it.)

I'd rather have a digital lying machine than the sub-human one we have right now. At least people will be more willing to ignore criminal orders because they are not in an AI cult. The AI do really like to start nuclear wars but nobody would follow those orders... But given how much AI produced slop from the White House already, we might just end up with a nuclear war... like we did tariffs against penguin island.

So we cut down on methane? oh yeah, that is massively expanding as a doomsday problem when the arctic starts melting...

Another fact: If we replaced all that stupid ethanol corn production (which Trump just boosted) that is more than enough LAND for solar to power the whole nation.

Another fact: go look up the list of biggest power plants. Most of them are hydro (actual baseload) and not nuclear even (which doesn't ramp up/down like hydro does; sadly, it's the one being slowed down not gas etc. because it's so easy and the others cost money to adjust.) Build more hydro and don't go small if you are going to bother with it. Even add some water pumps... though battery tech should be better by now.

What storage problem? This is a jet. They burn fuel like crazy; you don't need to store it for years on end. Just for the length of a flight and somewhere at the airport. Expensive vehicle with very limited and expensive fueling locations. already.

A Hydrogen ECONOMY is still idiotic. We need a mix... we already have a mix, they don't run jets on gas, it's "jet fuel" which is different. Same basic source, but then hydrogen can be differently "refined" solar.

The problem is we didn't invest to make this happen DECADES ago. we could have. After 9/11 showed how huge the impact is, we should have learned something and acted. Solar is the cheapest power today (despite all the effort to hold it back) and the waste of making hydrogen becomes less costly; not that jet fuel is cheap to begin with. Oh and making jets "cheap" so people can afford to fly so much--- too bad. the 3% are robbing most the middle class to the make everything too expensive; if you even noticed the massive theft going on? Doesn't matter what is done, the stuff is moving outside your reach anyway.