Seldon
@seld_on
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Amphetamine nationalist and orbital mechanics enjoyer
Joined March 2020
I would like to know what it feels like to be that kid. Must feel pretty nice to land a job like that.
Nothing feels better than helping a young kid get a job. Some of the most meaningful interactions I had on this app isn't talking to VCs or founders but just helping out the little guys break into the field. I hope one day when I am old and grey I can look back on all the
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To survive for hundreds of years, sure. To remain the dominant power for hundreds of years, lol no.
The United States has the human capital, the energy, the industrial potential, the intelligence - to be the dominant power for hundreds of years. The problem is the temptation of some prominent people to sell the entire country down the river for short term gain.
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This is an example of what I mean by conflation of military and economic strategic imperatives The US already produces 45,000 tons of rare-earth materials (p.a.) and consumes 6,600 tons; the apparent shortfall is because most of the production is exported The MIC can always get
@BasedBeffJezos China’s Rare Earth Stranglehold and the U.S. 15-Year Climb Just to be Self-Sufficient and Independent China’s dominance in the rare earth supply chain is no accident—it’s the result of decades of strategic investment, environmental trade-offs, and industrial policy. Today, China
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While everyone else wrings their hands about layered air defense and survivability and SEAD, the Taliban are brazenly flying light turboprop ground attack planes deep into enemy airspace. It turns out the only thing holding you back is the fear of death!
Video reportedly of Afghan Super-Tucano aircraft bombing the Pakistani city of Lahore tonight. Afghanistan A-29 Super Tucano aircraft were provided by the US before Taliban takeover. The aircraft can be armed with two 500-pound bombs, twin .50-caliber machine guns & rockets.
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The most depraved, evil, and inhuman regime in the history of mankind
UK government outlaws free drink refills on hot chocolate, mocha and Coke Cola
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The main preoccupation of the British state over the past two centuries from the C19th to today in its various iterations has seemingly been in transporting large amounts of South Asians into increasingly more and more territories
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Really wish more people would understand this "China v. US rivalry" is useless and ultimately futile dickswinging nonsense. Like picking a fight with an 800 lb gorilla while you have stage 4 cancer. https://t.co/Kb3R0oyndt
@seld_on Dude can’t keep his eye on the ball. Our enemy is DOMESTIC, not some Chinese boomer ideologue trying to LARP the Japanese-East-Asian-CoProsperity-Sphere
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This guy is such a coalposter now. This mindset is just this with extra steps. Until the Left is finally eradicated for good, which is not even 0.1% done, the expected outcome of Amerikwan supremacy is gay Bantuworld
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Some people on our side think it's possible to have mutual coexistence with the PRC but that's just wishful thinking. Eventually, one of us must go.
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The real "arbitrage" here is not really environmental regulation, it's not even labor; it's "not having the global reserve currency"
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One thing often conflated in discourse is strategic military importance vs. strategic economic importance. The former is an easy problem to solve, the latter is almost impossible; ceteris paribus the Chinese can do everything cheaper
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Creating independent supply chains specifically so that the US MIC doesn't get cut off from vital equipment and replacement parts is relatively trivial to implement but extremely expensive, as the firms involved will be running on subsidies forever, leading to inefficiency creep.
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The US already has enough to meet its present needs, but it presents a future bottleneck if you want to bootstrap a domestic electronics industry to decouple from global trade. A world in which that occurs is one where a US-made smartphone would still be 2-3x more expensive, not
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The problem is not simply a matter of getting this infrastructure built, it is a question of what it is being utilized for.
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Hahaha oh wow we are actually speed running this now
Rapid Rare Earth Reshoring Much of the problem around rare earth processing is entirely fictional, China’s dominance in RE is not technological, it is merely environmental legislation arbitrage. The West can almost immediately rebuild China’s reprocessing capacity in a
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Whenever I criticize the Right it is always on grounds that they are not nearly as right-wing as they ought to be Their cultural memories are often too short, too selective and limited in scope - philistines who have internalized liberal and left-wing narratives fully but simply
Intentional obliviousness to cultural relativism is one of the ways that "Cthulhu swims left" even among rightoids. Oftentimes, some practice in a foreign culture which is not as far up the modernity gradient is derided as "savage" (not talking about PNG btw) even though Western
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Also, there is this. I've come across too many Liveleak videos of US/UK troops murdering puppies and kittens (tossing them off cliffs, etc) to fool myself into believing these were rare and isolated incidents. https://t.co/xOJhSAWf3l
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Idiotic, mouthbreathing rightoids in the US are claiming that dog-hating is a part of Turkish culture "because of Islam" when the problem is entirely the opposite. People in Turkey are apparently feeding feral PIGS now, ffs.
Köpek bulamazlarsa yaban domuzlarını besliyorlar ! Domuzları şehirlere ve insana alıştırdılar, sonuçları korkunç olacak. @ibrahimyumakli @TCTarim
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