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[Crom @4thbx]

@curtis_yarvin Less powerful. You've defeated your enemy if trading positions would make you less powerful.

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock

my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive

when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost

what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise

I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily

the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…

China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally

so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine

the gap is ARCHITECTURAL

it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks

it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…

and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now

BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee

I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one

Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name

it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

[Crom @4thbx]

@DDGSarah If this is intended for use in a court proceeding I believe it would be expected to edit, format, and even "normalize" the language for clarity with care to keep the meaning.

If it's just fake, it'd be quite a conspiracy to plant it as evidence.

[Crom @4thbx]

@MattWalshBlog You're giving them way too much credit.

[Crom @4thbx]

@bog_beef doxxed
https://t.co/L9oQuMqXNR

[Crom @4thbx]

@PhilippusArabus The Valhalla line was especially cringe

[Crom @4thbx]

@NoFakePatriots_ @CharlieK_news Epstein's project is emblematic of a larger pattern of heinous crimes and no accountability. Most of the time the populace are divided which frustrates justice, but nobody likes Epstein. If we can't get the truth on this it feels like everything is corrupt.

[Crom @4thbx]

@L0m3z You'll also have a much better time getting lights and optics on the G20 if you decide that's important.

[Crom @4thbx]

@L0m3z If you're going to shoot > 100 rounds per year get a Glock 20. If you're not really going to train, a .357 revolver is just easy to own and very safe for the super casual. A big benefit to the G20 is that you can safely chamber and fire .40 S&W which is much cheaper range ammo.

[Crom @4thbx]

@BobMurphyEcon Of course?

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@AuronMacintyre If Biden were going to die of a degenerative brain disease, they would 100% say he has prostate cancer. Every old man has a prostate full of tumors. When he dies, autopsy his brain.

[Crom @4thbx]

@BowTiedRanger Oblivion NPC wood elf face. And name.

[Crom @4thbx]

@default_friend The meaningful difference is that the neoliberal moderate technocratic centrists have power.

[Crom @4thbx]

@MorgothsReview @johnwes17620009 China will turn 59 years old in May

[Crom @4thbx]

@elonmusk Rope is really inexpensive and can be a highly effective at reducing corruption.

Seriously though, without accountability for corruption you can never pay them enough. The job inherently gives them infinite favors to sell.

[Crom @4thbx]

@default_friend would not

[Crom @4thbx]

@Villgecrazylady I appreciate your craftsmanship on this tweet

[Crom @4thbx]

@TheWorthyHouse Instead of $500 they can have a Palmetto State Armory and two full magazines. Go fix your shithole please.

[Crom @4thbx]

@AuronMacintyre #2 but more importantly they're primarily jobs for teenagers.