also biting off more than they can chew cause of getting high on their own supply

Exactly, we live in a whole new world now.

It really is incredible to read. But also kind of hilarious that they genuinely think they could take on DPRK or China given how things are going with Iran and Ukraine. The level of delusion is truly off the charts here.

They don’t even have much of a military at this point.

I think that’s probably the plan, although at this point it feels like these are more of schemes rather than actual plans. They just kind of fly by the seat of their pants here. What they don’t seem to understand though is that it is an economic war more than anything else. The attrition on the front is made possible by productive forces in the rear, and from what I see is that Russia is in a vastly better position in terms of productive economy than Europe is. This whole idea of Europe creating some sort of a war economy is just fantastical. Europe lacks cheap energy to do that, and there are already huge problems in the civilian economy right now which is what’s leading to public unrest across Europe. Diverting even more resources to producing weapons is only going to worsen the social crisis.

Yeah it’s absurd.

it’s a perfect system

they do a lot of coping, amusingly reuters has an even better cope where they say Russia ‘tries’ to jam starlink while Ukrainians at least admit that it is indeed jammed https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-tries-jam-musks-starlink-systems-counter-ukrainian-drones-2026-07-08/

I suspect Russia would likely avoid doing that to be honest, but they do seem to have increasing success jamming them.

There’s also now the how row with Poland over UPA glorification which even the EU can’t ignore anymore. I kind of wonder if the west is getting ready to dump Ukraine if things start deteriorating fast on the front.

that was such a good game too

just fascists doing fascist things

lol yeah it’s pretty obvious what happened here

I mean honestly that would be an amazing outcome because China would be the only game in town at that point. And if a collapse of the tech industry in the west really does happen, then I expect that a lot of talent will end up leaving to China because that’s where jobs are. This is basically how Silicon Valley got bootstrapped when the US imposed Plaza Accord on Japan and crashed their economy.

I imagine hardware prices are going to come down eventually. For one, Chinese companies are already ramping up stuff like RAM and GPU production, so it won’t be long before we start seeing cheaper hardware from China on the market. Meanwhile, the whole AI bubble also looks to be winding down.

the bigger problem for console games might be Valve since they have a huge game library now, and are starting to make their own Steam Machine console. I suspect their model is far more appealing to developers because you can just write the game once and it’ll run on Windows, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck, and Steam Machine. So, you get by far the biggest reach for players for the game by targeting it. And now that the main differentiating factor of being able to own physical games that you can share with friends is gone, there’s little reason to get a console now.

Yeah, it’s a double whammy. On one side hardware prices are going up, on the other, you have people increasingly struggling to make ends meet and cutting discretionary spending.

lmao that’s right

Yeah, people really don’t appreciate how the whole system works together, and that you can’t just put a factory in a different country and expect the same results.

What’s absolutely hilarious here is that Apple had been operating in China for years without a single leak. But for the past few years, they decided to expand operations to India to supposedly spread out the risks.

Back in the day, the most you’d get from Foxconn workers was a few blurry case photos. Now, the Indians leaked everything you can imagine about the iPhone 18. They just straight-up uploaded 630 GB of core data in over 200,000 files for the iPhone 18 Pro which includes supplier names, base prices, full engineering drawings directly to the dark web. Huawei could bring the iPhone 18 to market in a few days with all this info. 🤣