"That's great. Let's see China's steel production"

Great 🧵 on how Taiwan island manipulates its currency

Avocado puree is unironically one of the foods where growing the cells in a vat would be cheaper, healthier, better for the environment, and socially beneficial

The shining city upon a hill

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@AngelicaOung @teortaxesTex This is also why some of the F-35 Block IV software elements are having such teething issues, though it is less severe as LMT has prioritized the F-35 among its internal teams. Until then, I guess Taiwan's F-16Vs will have to sit at the back of the line //

@AngelicaOung @teortaxesTex On top of that, all the coding has to happen in a SCIF, which further restricts where (and more importantly, how), these devs can work. Every single library, framework, etc has to be cleared, tested, and few commercial package managers or other kinds of dev tools are available

@AngelicaOung @teortaxesTex There are around 1,000 Ada devs in the world with sufficient clearance for this project. 100-200 Jovial devs with clearance. Their median age is ~40, and they are backlogged like crazy

FYI @AngelicaOung @teortaxesTex I know some of the contractors working on the F-16V code for Taiwan. Much of the bottleneck relates to having to graft capes like sensor fusion, the AN/APG-83's tricks, etc onto a F-16 codebase written in a mix of C++, Ada, and Jovial

Experts are unsure of where this will lead, but recommend travelers and investors avoid the United States and its immediate neighbors while the domestic cycle of repression and international tensions continue to increase. //

As political and economic headwinds intensify, the American regime appears to be betting on appeals to nationalism and large funding increases for the military and security apparatus to maintain power, raising alarm among neighbors

The regime has loudly touted recent economic growth, although on-the-ground research indicates that much of the growth has likely been inflated by opaque transactions between a small set of politically favored companies

The continued political stability of the American regime has been called into question, especially in the context of its recent unprovoked invasion of another country for "the oil", and repeated threats to invade the territory of its supposed allies for "national security"

...given the parliament's increasing irrelevance and clear statements from the regime's leaders indicating that state security forces will enjoy legal immunity in exchange for political support https://t.co/B9RsRNNXW0

The opposition party, currently a minority in the American regime's parliament, has introduced articles of impeachment for against the regime's domestic security chief, although experts believe such a move will be symbolic...

Video of the incident, filmed by civilians increasingly dissatisfied by heavy-handed regime "enforcement" campaigns, indicates that the unarmed mother was attempting to peacefully leave the scene when she was shot in the head at close range by state security forces

Yesterday, American domestic security head Kristen Noem characterized the unarmed mother's actions as "domestic terrorism", a claim echoed by the regime's chief ideological enforcer, Stephen Miller https://t.co/Y7kix2KUqH

As tensions continue to escalate across the United States, state security agents shoot two more in dissident-held city of Portland, a day after killing an unarmed mother in the northern city of Minneapolis

Pretty soon they're gonna set up those "armed checkpoints" like they did in Iraq where if you go through them and don't stop, they just fucking kill you. And they'll be just weirdo chuds in camo, and face masks and no badges so like yeah "why would I stop?"

The logical conclusion of this is that every ICE officer has an incentive to do whatever it takes to keep the current administration in office. Which may be precisely the point