maxglute

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by maxglute 2mo ago
>within the Five Eyes Not sure if serious. You mean the organizatin literally used to circumvent domestic surveillance laws via intelligence swapping and jurisdictional arbitrage? Do you really think most FiveEye citizens would agree th
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by maxglute 2mo ago
Needs a TLDR Canadian winter generally: less snow, milder, above normal temp South ontario/quebec more snow.
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by maxglute 2mo ago
Did you know the founding fathers slaughtered indigenous and enslaved blacks, or women couldn't vote? With respect to modern discursive, who cares. It's 2026, only LIOtards still grasping at lame Tiananmen shit from ~40 years ago.
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by maxglute 2mo ago
PRC slapping fraction of % dissidents is magnitude more benevolent than US incarceration complex. Authoritarian system that delivers is better than sclerotic "democracy" that doesn't. Just throwing this out there because appa
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by maxglute 2mo ago
This 2026, PRC small parcels been routing through local EU warehouses for years now. Guess what, IT'S STILL CHEAP. This isn't complicated, mainland PRC has efficient logistics, they can haul shit from any producer to bulk air frei
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by maxglute 2mo ago
No free weekly quota reset this time unlike 3.6, anyone know when that happens?
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by maxglute 2mo ago
IMO this is old man yelling at clouds mindset, which is fine, but losing battle. Asia went HAM on face filters day one and never turned it off, aesthetics > reality, and that mindet always existed in west but gaining mindshare in new gen
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by maxglute 2mo ago
LIOtard
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by maxglute 2mo ago
I've been following PRC CT-X for few years, downstream effects still getting missed by analysts. At over $60/70 CT-x become profitable, CT-x build out last decade can only be rationalized as parallel strategic tech stack (i.e. blo
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by maxglute 2mo ago
USD exorbitant privilege is mostly just exorbitant now that sanction evasion solved problem due to US going ham. Central banks pulling out of treasuries, rates increase selling to institutional vs marginal buyers, USD just terminal debt ser
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by maxglute 2mo ago
TikTok keeps pushing me those person item hack jackets with tons of pockets where you can stuff clothes, one of them even folds up into a bag with handle, seems not entirely stupid idea, for cooler weathers, but I've never seen it in t
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by maxglute 2mo ago
>Strained interceptor stocks != Iran denied US air superiority. You still need evidence that US overflights stopped because Iran made the airspace untenable. Every analysis is inference - evidence is US stopped overflight/airspace c
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by maxglute 2mo ago
Reminder PRC refines MORE oil than US. US produces more oil, but PRC massive SPR = PRC functionally a larger supplier by being able to release more, at drop of hat, than US aggregate supply lever [drilling + spr]. PRC simply storing a fuckl
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by maxglute 2mo ago
E: below comment dead. >You still haven’t shown evidence that Iran denied US control of the air. You’re inferring that from force preservation and munitions usage. The evidence is drumroll, US no longer overflying Iran, when in every oth
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by maxglute 2mo ago
In terms of attrition, its like 10% of reapers - 20-30% of operational fleet. 4% of CSAR MC130s, 5% of E3 AWACs, 2% of KC135s. Yes single digit %, but relative to timeframe not nothing for high value air assets/force multipliers that p
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by maxglute 2mo ago
Iranian friction created prohibitive operating environment that made US abandon air space dominance - that is literal loss of air superiority. There was enough manned and unmanned airframe losses over the first few weeks that it was no long
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by maxglute 2mo ago
And immediately lost it after a few weeks, hence current detente. A maximally preopositioned/prepared/postured US + Israel suckering punching Iran was able to briefing maintain air superiority through select regions, but the minut
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by maxglute 2mo ago
Bad bet, wanking about TW blowing up their golden goose fabs is US hopium/threat - literally US Army War College insinuated US would blow up fabs to deny PRC while TW politicians/defense minister retorted under no circumstances w
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by maxglute 2mo ago
USN on paper not capable of blockading PRC anymore, refer to latest Pentagon China Power report, PRC missiles coverage up to west CONUS, likely further, which means USN is globally vulnerable. Iran's shit tier A2D2 can push USN to stan
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by maxglute 2mo ago
This interesting way of saying PRC distant fishing fleet fishing in international waters. Geopolitical drama aside, DWF is like 3% of PRC fishing catch, much of it just luxury consumption or resold globally. Reality is PRC more or less abso
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by maxglute 2mo ago
@cmxch [dead] >Sure about that? Give the US a permissive RoE and the ability to ignore the CNN/MSNOW peanut gallery and then get back to us about that series of claims. Reasonably sure given US RoE vs Iran has been extremely permiss
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by maxglute 2mo ago
Old man yell at cloud. I suppose it matters as long as old man cohort with purchasing power.
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by maxglute 2mo ago
TBH can't wait for consoles / console exclusives to die, as long as there is piracy (and steam) pc gaming prices stay reasonable, hardware pricing will eventually sort itself out.
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by maxglute 2mo ago
PRC export tit/tat vs west export controls.
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by maxglute 2mo ago
LBH US hasn't been in position to defend 1st island chain in a while, US performance vs Iran just made that obvious. The one thing we have learned in recent wars is highend hardware can shoot down subsonic munitions reliably, highend m
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by maxglute 2mo ago
Yield is determined by market demand, overwhelmingly by institutional (central banks) who were marginal buyers, i.e. when USD was geopolitically safe, countries/central banks would buy without question for liquidity which artificially
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by maxglute 2mo ago
Direct DC/AI capex lower bound ~2.5% gdp already comparable to dotcom / dark fiber. Include down stream supply chain / infra and its ~5% - railway territory. Either way relative magnitude of AI financial footprint is systemic
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by maxglute 2mo ago
Basically game over for compute wars in ~5 years if PRC serious, PRC doesn't need EUV to win compute game. If they hammer DUV tools and commoditize semi (i.e. remove 50-80% margins along every step of supply chain) they will simply be
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by maxglute 2mo ago
You're making a classic logic error by accidentally equating corner bodega with trillion dollar keystone industry. Business models fail all the time, trillion business models that underpins entire macro economic growth engine exploding
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by maxglute 3mo ago
Companies are run by people, 100 billion dollar companies are ran by people who want to stay billionaires and will street accordingly. But I'm not sure what we're disagreeing on, yes the talent will migrate, AI industry will event

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