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Think, if they started from the top they could retain talent and remove the easily replaceable dead wood. Based on the chairman apparently having a $1.1 billion net worth, I'm pretty sure he doesn't need any further income for instance.

Not sure how my experience stacks up but I have been getting performance equivalent to the Bambu PETG out of the Elegoo I have been buying recently on my P1S. A little bit of stringing but that seems to have a lot to do with recent humidity as a pass through the filament dryer has been rectifying it. Just ran 2 rolls of the Red PETG Rapid through for my mates packout accessories, and before that I did a bunch of cleats for his tool wall in some Black PETG.

Did a good enough job that he rather kindly bought his wife a P1S for her birthday when the Black Friday sales hit. She has turned that around and run the printer non-stop since it arrived and only about 40% of that has been prints for him. 😆

So to maintain AI supremacy the US will now phase out all climate targets and begin the great AI vs Climate Collapse race.

People around the world will be on tenterhooks as they see AI get out to an early lead as politicians fire anyone who can call out the ever so subtle "Unprecedented Events".

Gaze in wonder as climate strikes back by disrupting society with apocalyptic weather events to attempt supply chain disruption.

Watch in rapt disgust as the AI instructs the puppet like mouth pieces to pay lip service to citizens while doubling down on supply and logistic support while restricting the publics access to the same.

AI vs Climate Collapse: No matter who wins we lose

So I ask out of serious curiosity, when you say over regulation, are we talking safety, environmental, financial?

I ask because the willingness of companies to pay workers in another country to engage in practices that are prohibited in the first country seems like corporate exploitation.

If it's due to environmental regulation that seems to be a case where often an environmentally friendlier way of performing a lot of processes exists, but it costs more money, so companies choose to exploit weaker regulation somewhere that hasn't caught up to not poisoning the planet to benefit companies. Plus a lot of companies hate being told to clean up after themselves and would prefer to simply leave an area once they have extracted maximum value from it.

As for financial, look, I am Australian, here we have historically benefitted from a strong labour movement that has granted us livable wages, paid sick leave etc, however our rich people are doing everything in their power to roll back and undermine that.

In each case the problem seems in my opinion to revolve around a class of extremely wealthy shitheels who want to make all the money and they will take the path of least resistance to make that happen. Perhaps, Internationally we need to view the existence of billionaires as a critical failure of our systems and either legislate to prevent them from occurring, or find some way to drastically increase the hazard levels associated with trying to gather that much wealth in the first place.

I personally doubt that Tariffs will meaningfully change the manufacturing landscape internationally, I think Trump tanking the US economy will however increase desperation and lead US citizens to compromise on the conditions they will work under, in effect lowering the expectations of US workers to the point they will be willing to compete with off shore workers.

You and I define mixing pot radically differently.

I have nothing but sympathy for the country as it was the victim of imperialist games being.played by much larger nations. However I am already outspokenly critical of the government of my own country where some legal safety nets exist to protect me from government reprisals. I am not the sort of person who could easily remain uncritical of an authoritarian regime, visiting would likely be bad for my health.

I am not basing this on being propagandised to or swallowing a line, I am basing it on a series of conversations I had with a Korean I found sincere and believable, certainly to a greater extent than randoms on here.

I have deep seated reservations with the Kim family, I don't blame the people of North Korea for them but I personally would not visit without radical social change.

Ironically this is EXACTLY the stance I take on the USA and the Trump family, which I am sure a lot of people in this community would agree with.

I don't claim the cuisine is Israeli, I had a friend who went to Israel in the 90s and remarked that there were places where she could get food from just about anywhere in the world, usually prepared by people from that region. It's a shame that such a diverse culinary experience is something I will never experience as I never want to visit the country for reasons of culture, religion, politics etc.

Over here in Australia the government is being told that the equivalent that we are having foisted on us lacks key supporting measures (like an equivalent of GDPR, actual hard and fast laws to penalise the misuse or failure to adequately secure citizens data, etc).

In spite of this and genuine commentary from children's advocacy groups saying the legislation is not fit for purpose it is being steamrolled through because "won't somebody think of the children".

It does make me wonder how many children are going to be cut off from their support networks and escape routes that this might harm, potentially fatally. How much blood of Australia's youth is our government willing to have on its hands so that our intelligence community (and we are part of five eyes so it doesn't stay on our shores) can have a shiny new toy?

You know I completely missed which community this was. Let's just agree that your perspective and mine will never align on certain topics and leave it on an amicable note.

You know I completely missed which community this was. Let's just agree that your perspective and mine will never align on certain topics and leave it on an amicable note.