100%, although in raw numbers Chinese manufacturing jobs are still a major factor in their job market. Getting direct numbers of manufacturing jobs in China is much harder than it was a decade ago, but estimates are around there being 100 million more manufacturing jobs in China compared to the US. Not a great comparison based on the overall population of each country, but still telling. The wage gap between China and Western countries for manufacturing jobs is still massive. (Chinese workers earn about 20% of the pay that US workers get).

I stay away from books and assessments written or argued by political activists (and no, I would not use the views of a conservative political activist either). They tend to have major blind spots based on their own biases (the whole being human thing). A reasoned discussion between people is more helpful, but polarization has made some people unwilling to discuss differences. For example, look into the reason there will never be a debate between the two people you listed.

Yes, Chinese labor is still very cheap. India is cheaper, but to say that Chinese labor isn't cheap is just untrue. China's vastly lower wages for manufacturing labor are a major advantage. From the link I included above "Manufacturing wages in China are now 20% of manufacturing wages in the US, and manufacturing wages in India are 3% of US wages,...." This is as of 2024.

You have to look at how this happened and project the future conditions. The rapid creation of new factories will slow as labor costs increase. Regulatory challenges and "operational" costs were factors in the failure of Northvolt AB. I honestly don't care much about the assessments of some VCs rolling around China and explaining their opinions. Their goal is never efficient production of quality products.

Yikes, I didn't know they were bringing new reactors online that fast. In addition to permitting delays, almost every new nuclear project in the US also gets delayed through lawsuits. I don't really see a way around that here.

The more they modernize in China, the more expensive their labor will get (without some heavy handed pressure from the Chinese government). Will it be fast enough or significant enough to make domestic production viable without tariffs? Who knows...?

Good news! /s

The solution is obvious. AI robot coral! You can program them to do the work of crappy living coral. So it'll only take a year to do the work of flawed organic coral take thousands of years to do!! (now we just need to include bitcoin mining in the proposal to bag us some good venture capital)

They exist in forests. It's been one of the newer trends. There are a few in Germany, and at least one in Australia that is trying to get a new one going.

Also, switching from iPadOS 18 to 26 just felt odd. I know they changed their version style, but it seems unnecessary. So it fits in well with the UI flip-flop.

That was pretty much my experience. My wife and I used insurance for the birth of our first kid. We ended up paying about $3,000 out of pocket. For the second baby we decided to not involve insurance in the process . For everything we paid $900.

They say they don't want to use a USB hub, but they make USB hubs small enough that it should be trivial to travel with them. It's really the easiest solution to the "problem".

I still use a DB9 on both hyperterm and putty almost weekly.

I've never been very cultured, so that probably explains my disdain for the movie "Ass".

I'll take that show over the movie "Ass" that won 8 Oscars...

That would explain celebrities. I always wondered how they got to be famous... 27 club forever!