would still get restricted because they’re contentious. Like if you start talking about how you believe in equal rights, that’s something most people agree with (at least in principle,) and it shouldn’t be political. But it’s going to ruffle some feathers anyways (especially if you get any more specific than that,) so it’d be restricted.

If this is the best example you can come up with, it is fairly unconvincing that any mainstream political will be restricted.

*cheapest and the best

Fast-travel

Bong Joon-ho said it best. We live in one country called capitalism.

Essentially the goal is this: to use a giant electromagnetic launch track to accelerate a hypersonic aircraft to Mach 1.6. The aircraft would then separate from the track, ignite its engine and enter near space at seven times the speed of sound.

Does no one read the article anymore before commenting? I’m not responding to all the comments here since it’s clearly a waste of my time, but every single one of the concerns that people mention in this thread so far has been acknowledged in the article already.

Works for me

Market analysts said that there is no relief as of yet from this difficult period. They urged the government to play a role as a mediator, so companies can map out more specific investment plans by clearing away any lingering uncertainties.

“The government is advised to stand at the forefront in discussing subsidy-related issues with its U.S. counterparts, so local chipmakers and battery firms’ uncertainties can be alleviated,

Give more money please lol. These global companies just keep a train of endless grift going.

We’re not paying Dalai Lama to stay quiet. Have him say “to the last Ukrainian” immediately!

There goes Gaza…

For the last couple of years, a few North Korean vloggers – Song-Ah, YuMi, and Un-A – launched their YouTube channels. These three vloggers gave a glimpse of their everyday lives, from what they eat to their hobbies to their travels. They also have videos that showcase the infrastructures in North Korea, such as the Hwaseong Apartment Complex, Pyongyang Metro, and Kim Il Sung Square.

In June 2023, however, YouTube announced that it had banned these YouTube channels “to comply with US sanctions and trade compliance laws, including those related to North Korea.” The videos disappeared for a while but many of these have been reuploaded by other YouTube users.

It doesn’t feel fair to label North Korea “secretive” when the rest of the world bans them from even using Youtube and even hides their videos.

Makes sense. It’s communism when tanks don’t run over people, so the inverse must be true as well.

We also saw something that really stood out, which is that the PRC believed the United States was in terminal decline — that our industrial base had been hollowed out, that our commitment to our allies and partners had been undercut, that the United States was struggling to manage a once-in-a-century pandemic, and that many in Beijing were openly proclaiming that “the East was rising and the West was falling.”

Sullivan can’t get away with this. He can’t just say a banger line like this and continue on without addressing it.

They’re not even going to stop buying Russian gas & oil lol.

No more landlords? That sounds like communism.

“We will make efforts to see outbound shipments of semiconductors, the country’s No. 1 export, reach $120 billion this year,” Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Ahn Duk-geun said. “The new mega cluster’s success will further spread to other parts of the nation and become the world’s leading chip hub.”

To whom can they sell? China was their biggest customer but now the USA is not letting South Korea sell to them. It’s not like demand for raw chips magically spring up just because you make more of them.

No need to panic - it’s a Boeing. They’re supposed to do that.

I thought that they were supposed to greet us as liberators.

Chinese censors deleted an article on Wednesday that reportedly leaked full-year population figures for 2023, revealing a plummeting birth rate despite ongoing efforts by the ruling party to encourage people to have families.

How would you have full population figures for 2023 before the end of the year? And if it’s an estimate, why bother releasing it now instead of waiting a week for an accurate number?

None of this makes sense. It’s nonsense.

Samsung should be able to cover the tab in the interim if they really wanted to build here

That’s the whole point. Samsung and TSMC never wanted to build American plants due to their history of stealing IPs, but the US government strong-armed them into building them. The subsidies were meant to smooth things over but now it’s not being doled out.

Never trust Americans to pay what they promised. This is a business lesson that you learn again and again in the real world.