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I know I know but in my heart I still think: Surely something of this much size and importance has at least a facade you gotta get past and doesn't run, explicitly stated, on the idea that a wizard will do it

This is meant as no discredit to his work but a surprising lot of his research is just being like the only guy who actually reads the "gajillion dollar investment into AI" stuff on a contract level to find out it's "we're going to build 8000 datacenters that'd use up more electricity in a month than has ever been produced"

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So this is going to end up with them using lots of public transport budget to build the dedicated high speed bus freeways, the idea immediatly falters for reasons obvious to anyone that hasn't been kicked in the head by a horse and then ah well, since we have the dedicated bus highway network but no busses might aswell open it to cars

They still make It's Always Sunny lmao

serious question since the article doesn't go into it: can't they buy eurospec stuff or is there another law that they have to buy these things from the oligarchy

Shimano Tourney derailleurs are just genuine garbage and I don't come at this from an elitist standpoint, I've spent a lot of time fixing those into somewhat-workable for friends cheap bicycles and they're the only one I've come across that manage to warp out of true while sitting unused in a shed. Definitely not low maintenance at all and especially not if you've never even adjusted a properly working derailleur you're gonna pull your hair out especially with that insane ratio drop on the first hill gear OPs picture has going on.

Also that website has to be wrong, they're listing an SRAM MRX twist shifter and the tourney derailleur. They have incompatible pull ratios, that'd never gonna work out. I'd assume it's just a tourney twist shift on OPs picture there and honestly those are garbage, too and a PITA in to service.

That says "critics warn" and they do do that a lot. The FT doesn't really have the kind of anti-china slant that those critics do honestly, their audience is basically people so wealthy national states don't particularly concern them and if there's money to be made in china that's fine. I mean look at this:

Woke Bond would end up like the Tomb Raider remakes where what that character is and does is so un-uniteable with a concept of woke you'd get an "I'm Bond, James Bond, he/him" before he sexually assaults a nonbinary person

The zizek gnome is a pretty fun marxist look at the fantasy parts of the world

trying to do representation or whatever with the character i think is a weird move, since he's basically the personification of empire. it makes sense, because how is the character going to stay relevant as the literal west collapses? post soviet collapse, they did a lot of bond villains critiquing arms proliferation, wealthy moguls, and even some blowback with Bardem's villain. but i think they're stuck in a self-eating loop and they know it, so this is their "shake it up" play.

what if he just becomes asian again

this is why we need the 3 day weekend, one night of gettting sploinkered off the yoinky, one day to recover and maybe mild chores, one day to appreciate sober and not hungover