Getting dozens of vendors to start sourcing thousands of parts from the USA is going to take years. Because nobody in the USA makes most of these parts. Supply chains will have to be built to source the materials and factories will have to be built to do the manufacturing. And the whole thing will be an inefficient mess because the losers running GM don't understand that they need to vertically integrate to compete with the Chinese car companies that will inevitably open their awesome dark factories in the USA. What a bunch of clowns.

The C in Tim Cook stands for "Can't innovate anymore."

Probably not the bankers, the big banks aren't dumb enough to have lent huge amounts of money to companies in the tech bubble. And they're much better capitalized than last time. The investment firms with large holdings in the magnificent seven have lots of other holdings and can afford to take the hit when things go to shit. But the government will bail out all the stupid VCs who kept pouring money into tech bubble 2.0 companies. “We have to save them so they can invest again or we'll lose the AI war to China!”

There are lots of good Android tablets on the market. But you need to make sure that they support the software you want. There's lots of good, even important, software that doesn't run on Android. Do your homework.

Chinese industry is like this. Lots of companies pop up doing the same thing, most of them fail, the best ideas are scooped up by the companies that remain, and a few strong sustainable companies survive. This is not just a Chinese thing. It happens in the USA, too. Most American tech startups fail; 70% fail between years two and three and most fail in the first five years. China will take an economic hit when most of their car companies tank, but they’ll weather the storm better than the USA will when the AI bubble bursts and the US stock market loses a huge chunk of its value and doesn't recover for years.

Simple, let GPT5.1 Thinking do it.

For an additional fee.

THAT, I believe, is the main part of this change. Ryan Air already doesn't even break even on the pure ticket cost. It's the horrendous extra fees that make it profitable.

Which cost, exactly?

We are speaking about paper boarding passes the customers themselves print. The gates read the barcode and don't care if it's on paper or a phone screen.

So which cost, exactly?

That's putting it mildly.

Smartphones can crash, run out of battery or any number of problems. On important trips I usually have a paper boarding pass with me as a backup. Only needed it once, but I'm just one person with fairly normal travel amounts. Multiplied over the number of people flying Ryan Air, statistically speaking this happens constantly.

Frankly speaking, I think it's a gimmick to milk the customers for more money. Someone at Ryan Air has certainly done the calculation, estimated how many people can't access their boarding pass at the gate for whatever reason, and how much additional money they can make by forcing all these people to pay the additional fee for having it printed.

All that money for data centers full of cutting edge hardware that can't be turned on because nobody in tech thought about building the nuke plants ten years ago. By the time they finally get all four of Stargate's reactors online the computers will all be obsolete and it will cost another trillion dollars to replace them. The next round of data centers will be fuzz of empty racks awaiting the arrival of their own nuclear reactors. Assuming that the entire bubble doesn’t pop first.

Meanwhile China already has AI datacenters running on nuclear, solar, hydroelectric, and WtE power. Huawei’s chips are slower, but in the ten years it will take the Americans to get their shit together SMIC will be producing badass chips with a 4nm process.

Because someone still has to take time to read the slop. Over and over. That's the kind of thing that makes volunteers go volunteer somewhere else. And this shit is going to snowball; if Google keeps getting away with it so will other companies, then it will be students testing out their AI hacking skills. It’s better to send a public message to Google before the situation gets bad.

China's government prioritized green energy in the 1990s. They've mastered manufacturing and deploying solar panels. They crank out a new nuclear plant every 8 months and have developed a thorium breeding reactor. Their hydroelectric plants are many, massive, and keep coming. China has even mastered waste to energy; they build incinerators with clean emissions that run on solar panels. And their electric cars are better than the internal combustion cars anyone in the world builds. Everything you've been told by western news outlets about China not cooperating with the world on carbon emissions and green energy is a lie. The truth is that they're years ahead of everyone else and the industrialization of the global south will be powered by Chinese technology, engineering, and construction.

I bought an iPad Pro last year for the screen. I didn't care about storage or the M4 CPU, because there's almost no software for the iOS that benefits from the CPU or storage space. What I bought it for was the screen. I'm a designer and I wanted something to draw on. The big, high quality screen combined with an Apple pencil is great for that. It replaces all the pencils, pens, markers, and paper I would otherwise need. For artists and designers who spend hours a day drawing the iPad Pro will pay for itself by replacing those art supplies. If I want to sit on the couch and draw the iPad Pro is awesome. The same goes for traveling. Everyone I know with an iPad Pro bought it for the same reasons.

All that said, what I really love it for is reading The Economist without having to sit at my desk. A big tablet is perfect for that app. And I believe that if Apple sold an iPad with a cheap CPU and the same screen nobody would buy an iPad Pro.