Matt

The superior man is distressed by his want of abilibity.

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@KSTP A tour of Detroit, and the empty buildings, is something all politicians ought to have to do.

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@eigenrobot Buy old cars.

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@cicero_mn My school can’t get the $50,000 it would take to restore the gifted and talented program.

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@AlphaNews One of those is one of the best attorneys in America.

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@pietercleppe Perhaps it’s because there aren’t rotating doors. The weak system can’t deal with the doors opening and closing all the time? Not apologizing for anyone. But I know most people aren’t tyrants.

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@ChrisMartzWX I used Claude to do an analysis of snowfall over the last 40 years using actual data from local weather resources. Answer: noise. No discernible signal.

That’s not to say we shouldn’t still be good stewards.

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@JC_Hathaway @nytimes International law at present has a credibility problem. Favorite example was Universal Postal Union (UPU) “terminal dues” system whereby China could ship products to the US for way below cost because of “international law” engineering.

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@sparbuchfeinde I see many comments, none about the sudden collapse of the market for VW cars in China. You are told it’s because “Chinese cars are better and cheaper”. Really? Cheaper yes. The government of China has told its people that buying western cars is frowned upon. Then collapse.

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@unusual_whales German technology is still superior. China started to make cars that weren’t horrible ~5 years ago. Shortly after that the government let it be known that it was preferred to buy Chinese cars. The entire import market almost instantly collapsed after that.

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@HedgieMarkets What Germany was surprised by was a rug pull. As soon as the cars weren’t terrible the government started suggesting that good Chinese only buy Chinese cars. This resulted in an almost instant death of the market for western cars. All brands.

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@HedgieMarkets “Better technology” is almost entirely propaganda and the internet fell for it hard. The blinking lights they fit on cars, which some associate with “better technology” aren’t legal in most of the west. Because you don’t want your roadway looking like a pachinko parlor.

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@HedgieMarkets German cars are still far better. What happened is China went from terrible cars to acceptable cars because they worked through covid. Quality for some brands is similar to Mexico.

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@CL207 A triumph of privacy law.

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@TheBabylonBee I sometimes suggest this to people saying “we’re all in a simulation”. Often results in a genuine pause.

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@KSTP Detroit was one of the best cities in America before it wasn’t. Highest value homes/resident iirc.

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@Schuldensuehner Did people really believe the Chinese market would hold up after China started selling their own cars?

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@indexnforgetit Arcane laws

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@billglahn I kind of miss when people used to just steal checks.

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@LayoffAI How many people are working in software versus 1995?

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@AlphaNews I moved to Minnesota from Detroit in 2000 for a higher quality of life. I can say I see patterns matching everywhere.