It still could be made in china, but passed thru Vietnam to escape tariff.

Iran isn't as dumb as the US trump supporters. A quote,

"The deputy speaker of Iran’s parliament ruled out negotiations with Trump. Fars quoted Ali Nikzad as saying Iran would not negotiate “with someone who is a liar and in whom there is no sign of honor, humanity, or conscience.” from https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

Correct, wind is at 40GW nameplate and solar is 37. Power storage is also ramping up and now just shy of 17. Although never figured out if it is 17GWh or max output of 17GW. I do regularly see around 8GW in/out of the grid via power storage lately. I do think they have been throttling wind/solar some this spring. Too much and nowhere to put it. I'll see the projection line for the day and w/s under performing by 5-8GW if fossils would have to drop below around 15GW. I think the way it is setup they need some fossil gen to set the frequency and then the renewables all follow the curve set by the fossils. Looks like the baseline is around 15GW of fossil to make that happen. Come summer, that will stop. Load will consume all the w/s plus 15GW+ of fossils.

This seems to be the thing no one is paying much attention to. Massive increase in oil trades immediately before trump made the false announcement that we were negotiating with Iran for a cease fire yesterday. Absolutely massive. And we know why, Iran also made an announcement I think an hour or 2 after trump's saying completely false. But mission accomplished for trump, market's moved massively for a few hours and profits collected. A few hundred mil if I remember right.

Nope I hear the woman seeking men show was cancelled this season. Turns out she was abusive and liked to throw chairs at her boyfriend while her child was nearby. Quite the catch she was going to be.

Well your argument is weak if it is principled in CCP doesn't care about me. Trump doesn't care about me, gm doesn't, ford doesn't, toyota doesn't. It is capitalism, care is not part of the equation, profit is.

The second part is also a fail, that China is heavily subsidizing. I don't think they are. Razor thin margins yes, cut throat competition (ironic eh, real capitalism in China) yes, with too many brands and not enough sales. Their latest thing is actually boosting the price to the EU to satisfy the EU's they are just too inexpensive problem. The automakers should be afraid, very afraid. They are sourcing many of their components from China and assembling the car from sub-assemblies made in China and tacking on a huge profit margin.

As to good product the Xiaomi SU7 has gotten rave reviews. Most like it better than the 150 grand porsche, and its around 65. I'd be very interested in one at that price. A guy living in China traded his porsche for one, he preferred it to his porsche, called it a better car in every respect.

One could take a slightly different view. Training is teaching. And I don't know about today, but back in the day of books, they were expensive. My college book costs were hundreds per semester. There was no fair use. There was buy the book for class. Even high school grade school books cost and either parents or the school district pays. Knowledge costs money, even digital books cost money. So slurping every book ever known to humanity for teaching should cost money, and if my college text books are any sample, a great deal of money. And even as an adult, those O'Reilly books on X, Tcl, Python, ... were not free either. Actually quite a bit more expensive than any paperback fiction book I've purchased.

States rights was important back before Roe V Wade was overturned. Now it is federal rule all the way, have to forbid the states that allow abortions to continue. And certainly as you say, donnie the diktator wants absolute control, and is doing quite well at getting it. I expect short lived though, well another 9 months. Iran is blowing up and I expect it is a long long long way from over. 5+ buck average gas price in rural areas with big SUV's are going to feel that pain and take their own revenge. donnie could get convicted at his next impeachment.

I see this here too. I walk my dog daily and almost all adults, even those with dogs that should be paying attention, are glued to their phone. I think the biggest loss that cell phones have made is people do not spend those moments alone in thought, they spend it watching cat videos. Humans seem to have lost the ability to entertain themselves without external stimulus.

Here is a study of Florida's ban. https://www.nber.org/system/fi...

My general read of it is, first year is small improvement in test scores, but elevated suspensions. 2nd year suspensions fell back to what they were pre-ban, and scored ticked up a point to a point and half. Not bad for two years. I imagine over time, scores may come up a bit more. I think it said that unexcused absences decreased some too, not sure what caused that.

Or Secretary of defense oops I mean war in the US. https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/03...

Now you'd expect the officer to be dismissed and he may well be since he is a pleb, and I would have expected hegs to be dismissed, but yet here we are a year later where orangey still denies it was even a problem.

Well I did say 500 tops. I agree, probably less and much less. My point was even at 500, the math is just awful. But then politicians usually suck at math. They like presents though.

I'm not sure. I've many friends from TW, and the consensus is that TW will just be absorbed. China does not want to lose the chip making that TW has via a war. And I expect it may take a bit longer than 2027, maybe 2030 or a bit sooner depending how the orange diaper behaves in the coming months. I mean if orangey really does try to forcibly acquire cuba and greenland, if I were TW, I might prefer China.

How long before they realize humans just aren't needed.

Everybody loves a discount. I just marvel at furniture ads where they are slashing prices 70%. Like I believe they are losing money with 70% off. I feel sorry for the schlup that paid full price. Gouged or even gored might be more appropriate.