Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
18hr ago
Our factory is trying to behave as our equals[1]. Must be taken down a notch or two.
[1] Not residing or being US citizen. just talking from hegemon point of view
Cheap labor is not an advantage. Better technology is.
There is nothing that prevents you from making better mixer than Hobart while playing by even stricter rules than USA as Electrolux professional series shows.
Lizzardspawn
22hr ago
If you want to make domestic manufacturing more competitive, you need to stop burdening it, not protect it -- protecting it just makes the manufacturing companies and unions rich at the expense of the customers.
US companies are forced to comply with EPA, OSHA, ACA, ADA, Civil rights act, unions and minimum wage.
Tariffs could be used to make the playing field equal to account for those costs. And probably we don't want more pollution and work accidents. If US company has to buy filters for their chimney - make sure that all the factories that want to import goods into US also have filters. And if they don't tax them the cost of the filter. And that they pay their labor at least as what US do.
And if they do and make a better product - well it is US problem then.
Lizzardspawn
22hr ago
But there is something else here. USA has shown to be more resilient economically than both EU and China. A policy that hurts USA but devastates Europe and China makes a lot of sense. It is better to rule in hell after all.
Lizzardspawn
23hr ago
but I don't know what that reward is and what it would look like when we finally see it.
Decoupling from global trade leads to antifragility.
Lizzardspawn
23hr ago
- Last time that happened, we got FDR and then leftist politics for 2 generations.
We also got Hitler, Franco and Mussolini. So we may be lucky and not get FDR.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
I think that elon has become too unhinged lately. Trump/JD Vance know that they have to deliver big on at least one of the two things they got elected on - culture war or economy. And Elon hasn't delivered big wins on the CW front - it seems that the authors of Project 2025 seems to be quieter but more effective on that front.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
Alfred Nobel begs to differ.
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
Technical text sure. But literature translation is more closer to writing the book anew. I really appreciate the exemplary work the early 90s translatiors did with Wodehouse in my native language. You could feel in your bones the interwar period.
And when I read it in original - to my surprise some of the puns were less funnier in the original.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
They're going to win, because the organization has no defenses against it
You expel from the organization everyone that takes position A with the "Everyone that doesn't believe in due process is not someone we want here"
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
Yes yes ideally they would not be discussing this on their extremely difficult to secure smartphones and instead followed official guidance to use MS Teams with whatever dumb compliance features Microsoft added but we all know C level execs aren't going to listen.
Willing to bet that the teams solution is less secure than properly updated iphone or android with signal.
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
Like the outsider added to the chat just so happens to be a journalist? What are the odds of that?
Not low. Vance's phone will be full with high profile beltway people. As will everyone else's. A nice chunk of them are journalists.
If US allies are not worries about their secrets being leaked on warthunder discord, they should probably also sleep tight for some adversary being invited in signal group chat. I doubt that Ayatollah Khomeini is on Walz or Vance shortdial unlike the chief editor of the atlantic. Everyone is pearlclutching because they hate the current admin.
When it comes to fuckups - i would say this is run of the mill one. As a person that has dealt with security and opsec - at some point you just accept that C level people will do stupid stuff and move on. That secrets will be sent in plaintext. That passwords will be written on post it stamps or spell to the secretary in the cafeteria where everyone can overhear.
It's not a nothingburger, but it is a veggieburger. It is humiliating, but not terribly dangerous.
Btw - if some high level Trump admin person is reading this - check threema. The great part about it is that doesn't require any kind of id, and the id themselves are just hex symbols. it is open source and a proper audit of the clients by the USG will be great for everyone.
Lizzardspawn
10d ago
It is 50 years old. So there may be something better out there.
Lizzardspawn
10d ago
We had a university annul Erdogan's main rival's diploma, so by turkish law he can't run in the upcoming elections, also he got him elected. Also erdogan has had constant purges of the judicary, military since he came to power and threw around 30000 people in jail after the coup.
Lizzardspawn
10d ago
A single Nigerian phishing scam cannot compromise the White House network because POTUS clicked the wrong e-mail. We hope, at least.
They prevented one Hilary from becoming POTUS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_emails
Any system with good enough opsec doesn't have the needed throughput to be useful.
You are absolutely correct. But if you want to gather
Secretary of Defense, Vice President Vance, Tulsi Gabbard. In total, "18 individuals were listed as members of this group, including various National Security Council officials" in a room,
you will have a single meeting for the whole term of the president.
To me this is kind of funny given the enormous discrepancy in power between the USA and the Houthis. It's kind of like if a grown man prayed for victory just before getting into a fist-fight with an infant.
The Houthis need to be lucky only once for the US to have a massive egg on their face. People are still talking about the downed F-117 in Serbia. Also realistically I would bet that if a carrier is sunk quite a lot of the people on board would drown. There is air of invulnerability over US Capital ships so some of them being lax on evacuation procedures training is not unthinkable.
Lizzardspawn
10d ago
Signal security was not compromised in any way. And moronic endpoints are a flaw in any messaging system.
Using non secure messaging platforms is reckless, adding people to the chat they shouldn't have access to is incompetence. There is difference.
Signal is probably at least as secure as everything else the government has in its toolbox. Moxie is the real deal.
Lizzardspawn
10d ago
So was Putin.
Lizzardspawn
10d ago
For a what counts as "complete collapse" of eastern ukraine
Collapse by it's nature is impossible to time right. The USSR caught by surprise everyone. So did Arab spring. It came to Assad after he had won ... Ukraine collapsing or Russia is both in the cards in any moment. Or even Turkey.
Lizzardspawn
10d ago
Not an immigration lawyer, but I am fairly certain you can come to US for business purposes on the waiver program. You just can't be paid paid or compensated by US entities for your time and services.
Lizzardspawn
11d ago
Psychological torture also is effective in breaking someone's spirit. And I think that the resistance know in their bones that this time the price they will pay will not be symbolic.
I think that part of Trump strategy is just to teach them learned helplessness
Gunboat diplomacy is brilliant negotiating tactic if you have gunboats and the other side don't. Now I think it is stupid for trump to try and fight so many economic blocs at once. He should have chosen EU or China for destruction and let Vance finish the other in 4 years. Not both at once.
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