It is because they don’t know that Iran produces the vast majority of its food, including wheat.
We should also remember what the former Israeli minister of defence said when they started the genocide in Gaza: "no water, no food, no electricity". It is a war crime and earned him an international arrest warrant.
Unsurprisingly, Billingslea is a fervent supporter of the genocide of the Palestinian people.
@Aminekakakaka Your understanding of human capital is a little odd.
I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you.
Let’s leave it here. Take care.
The economic D-Day is coming for the United States of America.
Bessent knows it. Trump knows it. The Iranians, the Chinese and the Russians know it.
Can Iran survive 12 more months of American economic warfare? Yes.
Can the US survive 12 more months of economic pressure due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz? Very doubtful.
This is the first time I read that Tunisia doesn’t have a strong human capital. That’s literally the only thing that Tunisia excels at.
You are underestimating the quality and the quantity of Tunisian talent at home and abroad.
The environment that allows this talent to thrive is not there, but the talent is definitely abundant.
@OlivierRimmel Personne ne va les prendre. Ils vont s’effondrer économiquement. Sachant qu’ils ont plus d’armes que de citoyens, ça ne va pas être beau à voir.
وشهد شاهد من أهلها.
عينة مما ستواجه تونس بعد رحيل سعيد، و هي نفس المتاهات السياسية التي شهدناها منذ 2011.
تونس ابتليت بطبقة سياسية فاشلة و المسرحية ستتواصل إلى ما شاء الله.
ربي يصبّرنا.
At the robot games in China, the machines are running faster than humans
Western mainstream media will treat this as major news — not because “machines can physically surpass human limits,” but because bipedal humanoid robots just crossed an engineering threshold with enormous industrial and geopolitical consequences.
Cars, trains and quadruped robots outrunning humans is trivial.
A humanoid robot standing upright on two legs, alternating airborne phases, maintaining dynamic balance, sustaining extreme stride frequency and correcting posture in milliseconds is not.
That is one of robotics’ hardest control problems.
A few years ago, humanoids from Boston Dynamics, Tesla and others still moved with the caution of machines negotiating every step.
Now China’s humanoids are running stably under high dynamic loads — and breaking the human 100-meter record.
Tiangong Ultra ran 9.39 seconds in the 100-meter preliminary round at the Beijing World Humanoid Robot Games.
Last year, the same robot ran 21.50 seconds.
Another robot ran 9.47 seconds.
In testing, another reached 9.32 seconds, with a peak speed of 14.5 m/s — 52.2 km/h.
That is not incremental improvement.
That is an engineering curve going vertical.
The real story is not the stopwatch.
It is what those numbers imply about high-torque-density motors, reducers, lightweight materials, real-time dynamic-control algorithms, perception, balance and systems integration.
And this is where Western nerves begin to twitch.
Because China did not showcase one expensive laboratory prototype under perfect conditions.
It brought more than 2,000 humanoid robots into an Olympics-style event.
That scale matters.
Silicon Valley is accustomed to PowerPoint decks, carefully edited demos and multimillion-dollar prototypes.
China is building the supply chains, factories, components, algorithms and manufacturing ecosystem capable of turning embodied AI into an industry.
We have seen this movie before.
Solar.
EVs.
Drones.
First the West laughs at Chinese products.
Then it dismisses the scale.
Then it screams “overcapacity.”
Then one morning it discovers the industrial center of gravity has already moved.
So yes, to an ordinary reader the headline is:
“Robot runs faster than Usain Bolt.”
But the strategic headline is much larger:
China is compressing the distance between robotics research and mass industrial deployment at extraordinary speed.
The race is no longer about whether humanoid robots will surpass human physiology.
They will.
The race is over who gets to define, manufacture and scale embodied intelligence first.
And that center of gravity is moving east.
@andreas_krieg Don't look at the speed, look at the robot mimicking human movements. The goal is not a fast robot but a human-like one. Making a robot run like humans is an incredibly challenging engineering task.
@NicoleGrajewski@BrettErickson28 It was the right opportunity to apologise, but you chose to double down.
Are you writing your posts with AI and projecting your own sin on others?
I think what is important in the story of Karbala is what led to that battle and what happened between Imam Hussein and Yazid in the day of the massacre.
Following the death of Muawiyah, his son Yazid assumed power and demanded immediate allegiance from key Islamic figures, especially Imam Hussain, to legitimize his rule.
Imam Hussein refused to obey the tyrant Yazid and accept him as the ruler of Muslims. He said his famous words:
"مثلي لا يبايع مثله"
"Someone like me does not pledge allegiance to someone like him."
This is a key statement translated today in the refusal of Khamenei the father and the son to even exchange letters with Trump, let alone meet him and shake his hands. Trump is seen as the Yazid of our time.
On the day of the battle, when the army of Yazid surrounded Imam Hussein and his 72 companions, he asked them to completely surrender or face execution. Imam Hussein replied with his most famous statement:
ألا وإن الدعي ابن الدعي قد ركز بين اثنتين، بين السلة والذلة، وهيهات منا الذلة
"The illegitimate, son of the illegitimate, has forced me to choose between two things: the sword or humiliation. And far be it from us to accept humiliation!"
In today’s war between the US and Iran, understanding this declaration is key to understanding how this conflict will evolve. It basically means that the Iranians will never surrender.
Imam Hussein and his companions were killed, but their memories remain until today. Karbala was the victory of blood over the sword.
"انتصار الدم على السيف"
Without studying the battle of Karbala and the events that preceded it, it is impossible to understand the Iranians’ position in this war and how far they are willing to sacrifice for victory.
Karbala was not a defeat.
This must be understood. Without understanding this, you cannot understand anything about why Iran fights the way it fights, with the commitment it has, in the face of what it faces.
In 680 CE, Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet, took a small group of seventy-two companions and family members to stand against the army of Yazid at a plain called Karbala. He knew he was going to lose. He knew most of them would die. His companions knew it too. He gave them every opportunity to leave. Some did. Most stayed.
They fought. They fell. Hussein was killed. His head was taken. The women and children were taken prisoner.
By every conventional measure: a defeat. A massacre.
And that defeat has been burning in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people for nearly fourteen hundred years.
Not as a wound to be avenged and then forgotten. As a permanent reference point. As the axis around which a certain understanding of justice and resistance and the willingness to stand for truth regardless of the odds has organized itself for fourteen centuries.
When an Iranian soldier goes to war, he understands himself in relation to Karbala. When an Iranian martyr falls, he understands his fall in relation to Karbala. When the movement suffers losses, it understands those losses in relation to Karbala.
The defeat at Karbala became the spiritual engine of a resistance tradition that has not stopped running since.
The empire has no historical reference point that functions like this. It has no equivalent depth of motivational infrastructure. It has soldiers who are paid and trained and equipped.
Iran has soldiers who believe. These are not the same thing.
I doubt this information is accurate, especially as reported by The Telegraph.
Officially, the UK is not involved in the war. The British took no military action against Iran. They are probably spying and providing some support to Israel and the US, but not enough to be considered taking part.
The Iranians have no reason to target British power plants.
If this attack truly happened (doubtful), it is better to look in the direction of Ukraine-Russia.
As reported by The Telegraph, the new British regime might have started preparing the public for possible entry into the war alongside Israel and the US.