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Oh nothing... its just $160B in trade the United States does, nothing much.

U.S. goods and services trade with Taiwan totaled an estimated $160.0 billion in 2022. Exports were $54.5 billion; imports were $105.5 billion. The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with Taiwan was $51.0 billion in 2022.

U.S. goods exports to Taiwan in 2022 were $44.2 billion, up 20.1 percent ($7.4 billion) from 2021 and up 82 percent from 2012. U.S. goods imports from Taiwan totaled $91.7 billion in 2022, up 19.1 percent ($14.7 billion) from 2021, and up 136 percent from 2012. U.S. exports to Taiwan account for 2.1 percent of overall U.S. exports in 2022. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Taiwan was $47.5 billion in 2022, a 18.1 percent increase ($7.3 billion) over 2021.

U.S. exports of services to Taiwan were an estimated $10.3 billion in 2022, 2.4 percent ($243 million) more than 2021, and 11 percent less than 2012 levels. U.S. imports of services from Taiwan were an estimated $13.8 billion in 2022, 38.8 percent ($3.9 billion) more than 2021, and 131 percent greater than 2012 levels. Leading services exports from the U.S. to Taiwan were in the intellectual property, transportation, and travel sectors. The United States had a services trade deficit of an estimated $3.5 billion with Taiwan in 2022, down 3802.1 percent from 2021.

U.S. foreign direct investment (FDI) in Taiwan (stock) was $16.7 billion in 2022, a 2.7 percent increase from 2021. U.S. direct investment in Taiwan is led by manufacturing, finance and insurance, and wholesale trade.

Taiwan's FDI in the United States (stock) was $16.1 billion in 2022, up 1.1 percent from 2021. Taiwan's direct investment in the U.S. is led by manufacturing, depository institutions, and wholesale trade.

Source: https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china/taiwan

It's more "tragedy of the commons" eugenics than "evil corporate-governmental-white supremacy" eugenics.

I thought the movie was more nuanced than that---the "smart parents" of Idiocracy did not have smart children---they had zero children. The smart couple in fact were the ones doing "self-eugenics" to their own detriment.

Eugenics or not, evolution favors the population that produces the fittest offspring for the environment--not the smartest.

How about two batteries that can be ejected and swapped without powering off the device? We don't need to wait for super-capacitors today.

iPhones... someday. :)

IBM's management hierarchy is deeper than the Nine Circles in Dante's Inferno, plus you get to use JIRA.

At least it wasn't "Hey, pull up that YouTube on the procedure, I need a refresher."

Looks AI generated. Just the kind of thing that would make the opposition paranoid and expend ammo into the sea.

So, did that happen just before the Tiny Desk Thanksgiving talk? I don't think they ever really explained why he wasn't using the Resolute Desk for that talk.

This could also be made more "local" with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed-air_energy_storage or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage and not reliant on the difference of elevations.

One of my best monthly expenses. I also appreciate being able to block low-quality domains from my search results.

Long Covid Symptoms

Check the long list of just the mental Long Covid (aka Post-Acute Squelae of COVID or PASC) symptoms:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8959835/

The ER Connection

Recent findings involve research with the endoplasmic reticulum that appears to go off the rails when over-stressed breaking the mitochondria within a cell robbing it of ATP production and increasing lactate (related to metabolic acidosis) in the body:

• https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2023/08/16/nih-mitochondria-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10140510/

My current reasoning is somehow to recover you've got to pace yourself just enough to encourage new mitochondria to form, but not so much that you experience PEM/crashing. The ME/CFS people have been discussing pacing for years. So:

Fail With

• staying in bed for weeks doing as little as possible (a very slow success?-- mitochondria aren't encouraged to form)
• trying to train it away with exercise/exertion (a quick fail-- the stressed ER will break mitochondria and flood body with lactate and set you back with a slew of acidosis-caused symptoms that will take time for the body to resolve. e.g. kidneys excreting the acid, COVID diabetes from gluconeogensis of lactate into glucose in order to raise the body's pH away from acidosis)

Possibly Succeed With

• small exertions (signal need for more mitochondiria) before PEM followed by "intense" resting, cold exposure (ice baths or cold showers) and kidney-friendly diets (see: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/kidney-disease/chronic-kidney-disease-ckd/eating-nutrition ) to help the body process the acidity of lactate out to reduce ER stress.

This was a purposefully supplement-free/drug-free plan.