Accusations of dumping are an easy political attack based on lower costs than you. A good response to any imagined dumping is to buy it as a strategic reserve. Subsidizing domestic production can have a national security benefit to have plants exist, but it is actual steel that is national security, and cheaper steel makes better manufacturing inputs. Buying “their” steel makes their manufacturers pay more for it.

Need to dump US$ too.

Power delivery by itself could be a useful standard for ebike and power station charging (battery to battery charging too). 480w is most I’ve seen, but maybe USB is working on better, or 240w and more flexible/cheaper cables can work. HDMI providing 54v output would be great for most common battery system charging, and dual/triple BMSs for 2x and 3x ports/charging would be awesome.

Trump had threatened to impose 200 per cent tariffs on EU wine and spirits after Brussels warned that it would include bourbon as part of €26bn in goods it would hit with retaliatory duties in response to Washington’s levies on imports of steel and aluminium.

One option is to have strong boycott/shame for buying US goods and weapons from US, but

But the only way out, is for political rulers, not just citizens, to treat US as Europe’s biggest enemy in the world. Europe needs to assist in destroying US economy to both get regime change, stop further EU extortion, and setup to be in a better position to help/profit from US reconstruction after its collapse. The US agents in EU rulership positions need to be exterminated from policy influence, because EU sycophancy to US is the root cause of their stagnation.

Russophobia and Sinophobia programming needs an awakening to see bigger enemy.

Cutting off weapons and Boeing from Europe is the threat that should be made.

Boeing, Caterpillar, Deere, agriculture, energy, and weapons. Anything “creative” is avoiding a direct response.

Consistent declines for all 3 months of 2025, yoy.

This is a tech/manufacturing challenge issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel

The main premise of the book is the rise of a socialist mass movement in the United States – strong enough to have a real chance of winning national elections, getting to power, and implementing a radical socialist regime. Conservatives feel alarmed and threatened by this prospect, to the point of seizing power and establishing a brutal dictatorship in order to avert it.

It also inspired the national socialist party of Germany to “redefine socialism” as fascist oligarchism.

We should wonder if we want t be this dependant on one country for all our tech needs. I think the answer is no…

It’s also by far the biggest market for those materials, and a massive scale industry there. The IRA did incentivize local supply chains for many materials, but the high ROI scarcity model in US, had many announced projects cancelled, and new administration’s love for fossil fuels and funding sources for tax cuts for the rich, threaten other projects. The reason projects were cancelled is that price, even after subsidy, would be horribly uncompetitive relative to China, and includes further uncompetitive processing industry requirements, that aren’t usually the same expertise as a mining operation.

trade dependence is bad

is something you can say only when global peace is impossible, but also when your country is the one that fully decides global peace or war. War is not a path for shared prosperity. Trade dependence can be very prosperous (PPP GDP is far more important measure than nominal). Markets usually function because sellers are not forced to hate buyers, instead of trying to usually be their friend.

Far crazier than OP high tech industry suicide, is food and apparel. 1930s Smoot-Harley tariffs didn’t just amplify great depression, they directly led to global famine. Farming bankruptcies and low global trade means planting less, if surplus can’t be sold anywhere. No one will import avocados or apparel this week, and that has a bigger short term impact on lives.

Is Turkey part of EU, but got a lesser rate?

Any benchmarks? Seems like it bundles NN acceleration that competes with GPUs, but benchmarks/price matters.

best i got

RIVAI claims that the Lingyu processor’s computational performance rivals that of major international server chips from Intel and AMD.

future of air conditioning stocks, which it provided to clients on March 17. A 3 degree warming scenario, the analysts determined, could more than double the growth rate of the $235 billion cooling market every year, from 3 percent to 7 percent until 2030.

This is not banks preparing for catastrophic warming. It is the stock brokerage division of banks giving their boiler room reps a “hot tip” lead.

Banks should be worried about their fractional reserve lending (about to be deregulated to a lower fraction requirement) in housing, and the affordability issues created by tariffs, high interest rates from government debt unsustainability, and importantly insurance.

Poor insurability of housing and farmland is incompatible with high property values. Tropical Atlantic temperatures are already extreme, and forest fires/flooding all going to intensify.

Having 2 phones is much better in every use case, IMO.

follow up on this… xAI appears to have raised $18B in funding rounds. But November 2024 was at $50B, December 2024 was $40B. X’s ownership of xAI, caused its interest expense on high debt levels to rise to $1B/year (debt levels approaching close to $20B estimated)

It is a major stretch to value xAI higher than the $50B peak. Chinese open source models released have depressed overall US AI stocks, and xAI has major cash burn in implementing its model, and Musk has ever increasing brand hatred culminating in government persecution threats to anyone who could say something negative about him or his companies that becomes propaganda fuel for actual damage to his vehicles/dealerships.

He said the deal values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion.

Not sure Musiks ownership level in both. xAI being worth $80B is a stretch, in that it certainly doesn’t have profits or revenue to justify it, and has competition that could end in it being a loser. X value is also high though. Whether it is an unfair transaction depends on which is more overvalued. Transaction is same as if xAI were value $8B and X 3.3B.

To be able to force a surrender, you’re asking this drone to do a whole lot…

My point was to force surrender, you need tanks, ships, infantry. Drones prevent surrender, by being effective against those deployments.

A drone doesn’t force surrender either.

High hopes for this vehicle. Reaching peak of 545w solar charging is good. Lighweight EVs have big advantage, as does aero. It’s taken much too long so far though.

don’t even compare to real weapons like a tomahawk

You can’t surrender to a tomahawk. Drones are extreme counters to tanks and warships that could get close enough to force a surrender.