Despite all the data about climate change, the thing that is actually shifting us away from fossil fuels is that solar panels are cheap.
Solar panels WERE cheap until 145% tariffs were applied
Readit NewsThis isn't just ego. This is an impending existential issue.
America needs to increase manufacturing capacity if it wants to maintain hegemony and possibly world peace.
China will soon have the ability to take Taiwan and Korea and Japan. If that happens it's game over for any American interests and perhaps democracy as a whole.
Wargames[0] paint a grim picture of an upcoming conflict between China and America over Taiwan with the US barely winning at a great cost including the loss of many ships, aircraft, and the depletion of missile stocks.
The Chinese have a naval production of 260 times that of America and account for an ungodly amount of global steel production so they'll be able to bounce back faster than the US can. With a lead time for producing American missiles measured in months and years it will be just a matter of time before they take the countries in the region that are critical to American manufacturing if they're so inclined.
[0] https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites...
I don't know why people keep thinking that China will attack Taiwan. It took HK and Macao without a shot. I think China is following Sun Tzu.
"subduing the enemy without fighting," is the epitome of strategic thinking in his book, The Art of War. This means achieving victory through cunning, deception, and maneuvering, rather than through direct confrontation and bloodshed"
They are increasing their military knowing that US military costs 4+x as much. It might be 4x better so don't fight. Just bankrupt the US. Trump wants a $1T military budget next year.
Why would China want to conquer the West? Buying what it wants is cheaper than an uncertain military battle fought with Nukes.
Be careful extrapolating based on China's current population and demographics. Too much of our armchair assessments of China's velocity is based on their meteoric rise on the backs of a historically large working-age population—a population that is now rapidly aging out of the workforce with nothing to replace it thanks to the one child policy. The US's demographics aren't stellar, but they're a lot better off than most of the developed world.
It remains to be seen how different 2010's China—with 90% of the population being under 60—is from 2050's China—with only 69% of the population being under 60.
China installed more industrial robots than the rest of the world combined.
https://ifr.org/downloads/press2018/2024-SEP-24_IFR_press_re...
https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/global-robotics-race...
newuser94303 commented on Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web chriscoyier.net/2025/03/1... · Posted by u/OuterVale
I love Chromebooks. Windows is tras. Even if you buy a MacBook, Apple is able to reconfigure your machine at will.
newuser94303 commented on Why do transit agencies keep falling for the hydrogen bus myth? cleantechnica.com/2025/03... · Posted by u/guerby
Plenty of this in Europe. In my country there's less km of rail now than there was in 1910.
which country?
newuser94303 commented on The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment collegetowns.substack.com... · Posted by u/trevin
What about the people that report parents to the police for endangering their children by allowing them to walk/bike to school?
> U.S. export curbs on chip technology have spurred China to become more self-reliant in producing semiconductors.
everyone needs to be more self-reliant in producing semiconductors
how far behind is the US on TSMC? because I want that Arizona supply chain to be up and running Chairman Nao!
literally nobody should be basing any of their decisions on the possibility of China invading China. No wonder TSMC makes up dumb excuses about their issues deploying in the US, they need to stall and delay the obvious, that's the only... chip... they have.
TSMC is stalling to get more sweet US tax dollars.
> What better way to restructure debt than a war?
This is what concerns me. War has often been used as a distraction from domestic issues.
Way more concerned about the US starting a new war to force China to buy some US crap.
Some of the Google errors are caused by malicious people doing user-generated nonsense. There is a parking lot next to water in Foster City called boat park. Inside the boat park, there was a dog run. Someone relabelled boat park into dog park and moved the boat park several hundred yards inland. I corrected it but it kept changing.
Japanese, Korean, and European brands already make a lot of vehicles to get around tariffs, although it makes sense for some sedans to be made abroad given American lack of interest in them (so economy of scales doesn’t work out), and sedans typically not being tariffed as harshly as trucks.