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Tesla spent 2 billion dollars to develop an $80,000 car that can't function in anything but perfect summer weather, and even then has a chance of locking itself for reasons that no one can figure out.

Meanwhile, a high end electric car in China has all the same features at less than half the price, and with the bonus of everything working properly.

Will Trump actually be allowed to destroy NAFTA?

I know the people around him just want to do a smash and grab for themselves, but that's a small circle of people, and the USA is a very large country.

Well, Biden had only a tiny 5% margin in the popular vote , he had to listen to the parliamentarian and couldn't change anything. Trump, on the other hand, got a massive 1% margin in the popular vote. It's a Reagan style mandate, they can't fight that.

more than a decade of the US trying to "pivot to Asia" to contain China , and it all ends with the US disembowling itself while China watches and wonders why the fuck they did that.

Well, that's NVIDIA fucked, since they get their chips from Taiwan.

I'm sure Intel will take up the slack... you know, the company that completely abandoned working on the leading node , and has a massive, mutli billion dollar judgement hanging over them from selling chips that they knew were shitty and busted. Of course they already got 8 billion or so from Biden to improve production a few years ago, and did fuck all with it.

They're fucking delirious with joy that the tech bubble popped in Trumps first week and can be blamed on him.

That said, I knew Trump would be a disaster , but I had no idea he would be able to go full Yeltsin in a way that hurts absolutely everyone, even his biggest backers.

That means an immediate price increases on oil, coffee and fruit, and anything made with oil, coffee or fruit.

This is amazing. I thought US hegemony was going to drag on for another twenty years, but we're really fucking blowing it all up.

I'm starting to wonder why the US ever thought it could it hold an edge in all these fields without ever investing real money into education.

China graduate 5 million STEM students a year and actually invest money into research and pushing technology instead of just finding new ways to extract rent. They were always going to be able to catch up and then move ahead.

This has been the official US and Israeli policy for Palestinians since the creation of Israel , they're just not supposed to say it out loud like that.

I was mostly looking to see if it would answer questions without huge HR style disclaimers , but yeah , it doesn't like to generate responses on current world leaders

tried this now and it just generated a biography titled "Chinese Revolutionary Leader"

I've been messing around with deepseek, and I can already tell it's much smoother and more coherent than chatgpt or gemini.

It also doesn't have the limiters of the American LLMs, where they accidentally generate a true statement about history or politics that doesn't show the US in a good light, and then have to stop and argue themselves back into the neoliberal / US state department position.