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
Today, the Estonian Police and Border Guard detected an illegal crossing of a temporary control line between Estonia and Russia on the Narva River breakwater by three border guards of the Russian Federation. The Estonian border guard patrols responded to the border incident. After a short time the Russian border guards returned to Russian territory.
Estonia will request an explanation at a meeting of border representatives tomorrow, and the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will summon the Chargé d’Affaires of the Russian Embassy in Estonia.
@baha_jam Der Take ist Quatsch, Arbeit fällt an, auch ohne Arbeitgeber (z. B. Kinder wickeln, Bau und Instandhaltung von Gebäuden und Maschinen). Für Arbeit brauchen wir keine Hierarchie; gerade weil auch das Abhängigkeitsverhältnis zwischen sog. Arbeitgebern und-nehmern wechselseitig ist.
Update #Ukraine
Im Überblick:
- russ. Truppen rücken im Gebietsdreieck Zaporizhya-Dnipro-Donbass weiter vor;
- Halbkessel von Pokrowsk engt sich zu, ukr. Reporter fordern den Rückzugsbefehl;
- warum US-Medien zunehmend von Realitätsverlust bei Selenski sprechen.
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This evening, Russian military planes violated Lithuanian air space. This is a blatant breach of international law and territorial integrity of Lithuania. Once again, it confirms the importance of strengthening European air defence readiness.
@LithuaniaMFA will summon Russian embassy representatives to protest against reckless and dangerous behaviour.
@TarjaD@renitenterRonny Ist in Japan auch heute noch üblich und da ist keine Übersterblichkeit bekannt. Was aber bekannt ist, ist die Sauberkeit in der japanischen Öffentlichkeit.
Ungewollt stellt sich hier die Frage, wie weit eigentlich die Bundeswehr bei dieser Technologie ist.
Sandalenkämpfer in Sahel übernehmen bereits den Einsatz von Glasfaserdrohnen.
Die BuWe scheint diesbezüglich etwas schwerfälliger zu sein.
vlt kommt´s ja noch. Mal schauen.
(9/25)
Update #Israel#Iran
Im Überblick:
- Israel attackiert Iran in einer mehrstufigen Luftoperation, iran. Armeeführung zeitweise lahmgelegt;
- schwere iran. Gegenangriffe: zahlreiche ballist. Raketen schlagen in ISR ein;
- was folgt: langer Krieg oder baldiger Deal?
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@aeneaseas@wenig_worte Angemessener wäre wahrscheinlich etwas wie "Meine Damen und Herren, ich begrüße Sie zur heutigen Bundestagssitzung" gewesen. So klingt es halt nach Dienstag, 8.45: Mathematik bei Frau Klöckner.
1/7 Hass auf Bürgergeldbezieher!
Ich werde 67, brauche Bürgergeld um Überleben zu können. Zur Zeit kann ich gerade mal existieren, von leben können keine Spur. Kino, Theater, soziale Kontakte oder mich gar gesund ernähren, geht alles schon ⬇️