It can be since it’s more socially acceptable, and then people start engaging with new ideas which can lead them towards more rigorous analysis.

there seem to be a whole a bunch of these projects now

oh I didn’t even consider the last bit

The whole premise behind private enterprise is that it was supposed to be more efficient than state planning. If we’re saying now that state planning works better, then maybe the west should think about abandoning the dogma of letting private businesses run wild. It’s also worth noting that the US also gives massive subsidies to their car companies. Tesla wouldn’t exist without decades of government grants for example.

Steam Deck is a really under appreciated Linux machine in my opinion.

Iran makes it pretty clear just how bad US/Israeli intelligence is. And the US is no longer in any position to do escalation in China because they shat the bed in Iran. They’re literally out of weapons at this point, and their economy is collapsing because of oil prices. Cost of filling up your care basically doubled now, and you can’t go anywhere without a car in the US. This is the biggest crisis since Vietnam.

There is no other path for Russia or China today than what he says. Neither Chinese nor Russian leadership is stupid, and they can see that the only way they survive is by working together. And their economies are complimentary on top of that, they have nothing to fight about. Russia is a resource economy and China is a manufacturing one. It’s the exact same situation as the US and Canada.

I honestly don’t think China cares what US thinks because they have Americans by the balls. The US economy cannot function without Chinese exports. Period. Did you see how Trump was behaving in China? That tells you everything. Not only will China be testing their AI for drones in Ukraine, they will also continue to cut off rare earths supply to the US which is what you need to make components for these drones.

And I expect there will be strikes coming. I also don’t understand Ukraine’s strategy. It’s important to remember that Putin is a moderate, and if he lost then it would almost certainly be somebody much more hard line, and then gloves will come off fully.

I agree with Mearsheimer, the strike on Kiev doesn’t really mean anything at this point. There will have to be sustained escalation now.

If Russia was intentionally going to do an attack outside Ukraine they would do a bigger one, likely with Oreshnik and on a military target. I think two most likely possibilities here is either a stray drone or Ukraine using a scavenged one to try draw NATO in.

Actually, I grew up in USSR and frankly, I was shocked when I saw at how much worse the propaganda in the west. Most people in USSR understood there was domestic propaganda and were able to think critically about it. Meanwhile, Westerners gobble their propaganda up completely uncritically, and many don’t even realize they have domestic propaganda.

like moths to a flame

clearly not when the purpose is to merely indoctrinate people as opposed to actually teach them to think

That’s basically why anarchism only really exists within the imperial core as an ideology. It’s really just liberals being edgy and pretending to be on the left without actually wanting to make any systemic change. That said, I do think a lot of ideas from syndicalism are genuinely good and should be applied within a socialist society. However, building such a society in the first place requires Marxism.

https://dashthered.medium.com/where-do-tanks-come-from-8723ff77d83b

I’ve already explained how this same argument was made about BYD, and that within a few years it leapfrogged the best western EVs. Exact same thing is happening with Huawei right now, except they literally just started doing this stuff only a few years ago when the heavy US export bans on chips started. Yet, within this very short period they already make phones that are functionally comparable to the best Android or iOS phones. While the hardware is a bit slower, it’s compensated for by a more lean software stack, and the end user experience is not actually all that different. That’s what I meant when I said you obviously have not used one. So, while Apple might have better specs on paper, it’s the entire stack and the end experience which actually matters. Now kindly gtfo with your own shit.

the simple truth is that you haven’t actually used a modern Huawei phone

That’s some adorable cope there. I’m old enough remember people making exactly same snide comments about BYD and Tesla a few years ago.

Is Global Times blocked by the German regime?

here’s the content for people living behind the great firewall of Europe:

China achieves full-chain mastery in aero-engine material manufacturing technology: report Photo: Screenshot from China Media Group

If the aero-engine is hailed as the “pearl in the crown of modern industry,” then the single-crystal turbine blade is the “diamond set upon that pearl.” At present, only five countries — the US, the UK, Russia, France, and China — have independently mastered the complete technology chain for single-crystal turbine blades, covering the full spectrum from materials research and development and precision casting, to engineering application, China Media Group (CMG) reported on Tuesday.

The essence of an aero-turbine engine is that of an energy conversion device. It converts the chemical energy of aviation fuel into high-temperature and high-pressure thermal energy through combustion, then drives the turbine to rotate, transforming it into mechanical energy, and ultimately into the kinetic energy of the aircraft, said the report.

The higher the temperature that the engine’s hot-section components can withstand, the higher the energy conversion efficiency, resulting in greater thrust, lower fuel consumption, and superior overall performance. Therefore, single-crystal turbine blades operate under extremely harsh conditions. They are a critical factor determining the engine’s performance, reliability, and service life, and serve as an important benchmark for measuring a country’s aviation manufacturing capability, CMG reported.

Li Jiarong, chief engineer of the AECC Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, along with his team, has developed a single-crystal superalloy with completely independent intellectual property (IP) rights that has reached the international advanced level.

The report quoted Li as saying that “we have achieved the independent development of single-crystal turbine blade materials in China. Our second-generation single-crystal superalloy, DD6, offers performance that is superior to or equivalent to the second-generation single-crystal superalloys widely used in Europe and the US.”

Moreover, the superalloy has a lower production cost. DD6 has become the most widely used single-crystal superalloy in China and has saved the country a large amount of strategic resources, according to Li.

Over the years, the single-crystal turbine blades developed and delivered by the institute have been applied in multiple types of advanced aero-engines, providing strong material support for military and civil aircraft — represented by advanced fighter jets — as well as helicopters, said Li.

According to CMG, the core mission of single-crystal turbine blades is to operate safely, stably, and reliably for long periods in extremely harsh environments involving ultra-high temperatures, high pressure, high rotational speeds, and corrosive gas erosion. Single-crystal turbine blades operate at temperatures that already exceed those of ordinary steel and even approach the melting point of their own alloy — so why can they still maintain long-term, stable operation?

Yue Xiaodai, a researcher at the institute, said in the report that nickel-based single-crystal superalloys use metallic nickel as the base. Researchers scientifically design and precisely add a variety of alloying elements according to multiple performance requirements, including high-temperature strength, creep resistance, and high-temperature corrosion resistance.

Although these elements have vastly different physical and chemical properties, the research team, through repeated experiments and persistent efforts, has not only achieved uniform melting and fusion of all elements, but also effectively controlled impurities, according to Yue.

Since the 1980s, the institute has taken the lead in developing single-crystal superalloys with IP rights, along with China’s first single-crystal turbine blade and first single-crystal hollow turbine blade, among others. These achievements have filled multiple technological gaps in China, according to CMG.

The manufacturing of single-crystal turbine blades, from alloy smelting and preparation to final product delivery, involves more than 10 major core processes. Each of these core processes is further subdivided into dozens or even tens of precise, detailed sub-steps. China has become one of only five countries capable of independently mastering the complete technology chain, CMG noted.

38 now 🤣

They’re not even that behind in semiconductors at this point. https://pandaily.com/huawei-kirin-9050-surpasses-apple-a18-may2026