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Not just yet. Pretty much everything the US is doing right now is to reduce that risk, reduce the leverage that China have, and deter or delay them from taking action in Taiwan. It will take time to bring large scale chip manufacturing back to the US, but it is happening. The same with rare earth minerals (see: Greenland). There is some time to achieve these things, it's not like the US is just giving up.
-Tom
My reasoning was that Trump is all about optics. He doesn't mind the optics of rowdy protests, since I think that on net it hurts the protesters more than him. But it's gotten to the point where he can't control the optics, and now American citizens have been killed.
I disagree with this, or, currently I do at least. The scenes of chaos and violence only help the far-left, and as such I place a lot of the blame on them for the recent deaths. I'm not by any means justifying the deaths, but the far-left's rhetoric of fear and 'everyone is a fascist' is at an all-time high and those that succumb to it are putting their bodies on the line and getting hurt. This shouldn't come as a surprise after the literal calls to put "bodies on the line" from Dem officials recently. It's very sad, and worrying, and I don't know where it ends.
-Tom
So everything in the FAQ about referrals is still correct?
- Referrals
Another way to earn sats is via referrals. If a stacker signs up through one of your referral links, you will earn 10% of their rewards in perpetuity. A referral link is any link that ends with /r/<your name>. Your posts, comments and profile are also implicit referral links. They don't need to have the /r/<your name> suffix.
To make referring stackers easy, clicking on ... next to a post or comment and selecting 'copy link' will copy it as a referral link by default. You can disable this in your settings.
When I send someone a referral link or copied link it shows no reference to my name at all.
I know where you're coming from. I've had a similar awakening myself, albeit while on a different journey so to speak. It's got me really concerned about things I never thought I'd be concerned about – quite an unexpected a flip in my thinking that I credit to spending time on X. I'm grateful for the rewrite, or at the very least just being more open to other perspectives.
-Tom
As of today, Robotaxi is now live in Austin without the safety drivers, so there's literally nobody in the car at a much cheaper rate than Waymo.
-Tom
Following. Every time I have tried to set up a dedicated wallet for our kid (8), they are required to be 18. I just want a custodial account that's in their name which I can manage. Is that too much to ask?
-Tom
Good to see this. It's come a long way since this was published and will be rolling out in a bunch of cities this year, with the dedicated Cybercab vehicle entering production too. Having used FSD in my car, it's genuinely mind-blowing that it's a consumer product and so few seem to know what it's capable of. Hopefully that will change soon and a meaningful amount of lives can be saved.
-Tom
I don't think it's inevitable China will retake Taiwan. The operation in Venezuela will have given them cause for concern with regards to US capabilities, and now China, Russia and Iran no longer have ready access to Venezuelan oil.
You make a good point about refining rare earth minerals, but Tesla just put a lithium refinery in Texas online in 2.5 years so I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that the US can up its game here. That is, if a trade agreement is not reached between the US and China – which it easily could. Neither party wants war after all.
I don't think the US is reacting defensively per se – Venezuela was a very forward move for example – but I appreciate the steps finally being taken to reduce leverage and the potential risk to the US economy from a move on Taiwan. I also disagree the US is leaving the rest of the world to defend itself. Those may be the optics but they're not the reality. And the news about Europe's trade deal with India suggests they have finally realized they need to diversify their supply chain too, however long that will take.
-Tom