Shipping stuff is cheap if you have alot of it for example
https://freightify.com/ship-containers/china puts a 40ft container at max $6000, which in practice can fit around 26000kg, so per kg you are paying around 26 cents per kg shipped. You would get even better deals I assume if you had contracts setup to do bulk business with freighters
I wonder if its due to how closely Anime attempts to animate Manga? I feel like you can kind of "explain" what happens in text alot more smoothly than on a TV show due to how much faster you ingest knowledge.
You can get Chinese prices if your citizens are willing to work like the Chinese, no one in the West will.
Autarky is also largely a degrowth argument, most Westerners already feel like they should consume even more so it's impossible to win unless your voters fall for Donald Trump esque arguments. The modern Westerner lives one of the most opulent lives in the world history on the back of cheap third world labor.
edit: If you believe the Trump admin has a plan, they are trying to thread needle by devaluing the US Dollar just enough to incentivize manufacturing, but keeping it high enough that the average US consumer doesn't feel the hit. They then leverage tariffs for preferential trade deals with other countries. I don't think its really working but its the only way you could revitalize manufacturing in the west at this point
Similar to how China let Tesla in to force its domestic market to compete (Which now makes the best EV's in the world) America should do the same. Let BYD or Xiaomi sell cars in the states, Musk and co. can then compete or lose to the Chinese. With musk's close ties to the admin I doubt this will happen.
You can split your ssd into a bunch of partitions install different distros in each, edit your bootloader config to make entries for the other partitions
Baudrillard has a (3?) part essay on how the gulf war never really happened, which by that he meant how we in the West understood the war is that of a media event rather than that of real war. At least that's the heavily simplified version of it. Alot of people's imagery of a war is essentially like drone footage and headlines about Gaza, Few of us can comprehend the idea of being in an active war. I have relatives who have and their anecdotes make war seem more normal and scary the same time.
We really do not know what we are getting ourselves into.
lol all the people in states ini housing crisis will just complain about rich companies by housing, or even the Chinese buying houses. No one just wants to build housing
I agree theirs a big difference, mostly from the fact they are using the tool bad (Just writing make me a pop song does not inspire) but to me this is the same as good hip-hop versus people who just rap random shit over premade hip-hop beats. It's "art" but its just no high quality (which makes sense why sense why would we want to limit it on a site).
One thing I wonder is if you make a recommendation system that generates new music purely based on what previous music you liked (That was also generated by AI) who is the artist? Think like spotify but the AI keeps creating new music based on what you like from it. In the end I feel you are the artist of that song then no? Your recommendations then created whatever final song you listened to. Just something I was thinking about
Ik im suppose to be scared about ICE raiding my home and deporting me, but I feel so smug seeing the people who laughed at caring about privacy finally realizing the whole point.
Shipping stuff is cheap if you have alot of it for example
https://freightify.com/ship-containers/china puts a 40ft container at max $6000, which in practice can fit around 26000kg, so per kg you are paying around 26 cents per kg shipped. You would get even better deals I assume if you had contracts setup to do bulk business with freighters