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sugar-grigri · 1 year ago

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Yes, see Swordman announces that certainly the other "hybrids" including Reze are alive, but his presence raises more questions than it answers. Even if I'd like to see the way this chapter is cut, i.e. in three parts, already an element of answer.

The first part was a little confusing and contradictory, with the new bodyguard Fumiko, appointed by Yoshida to watch over and "protect Denji". But what really stands out for me is the line "you're the one and only Chainsaw Man!".

It's an answer that's already important, as it fits into a context in which Denji is increasingly stripped of his own identity as CSM, whether because of this impostor who represents the church, the church itself, the fans or the detractors. I had already analyzed the fact that CSM had become a collective essence rather than an individual identity. So to tell Denji YOU are Chainsaw Man is to give him back the link he has with himself.

But this line would be interesting in another context, and here we're getting into pure theory and personal speculation. To explain, let's break the chapter down into three parts. First, Denji and his relationship with Chainsaw Man, as we've just seen. Then, Asa, who is beginning to come to terms (positively) with her own popularity as the new heroine. And finally, Swordman, who appears at the end of the chapter and introduces himself as such.

My theory came from a single question: why did you present the chapter in this way? Why the ellipsis with Asa? Then continue with Swordman? I mean, Fujimoto did decide to bring these three elements together in a single chapter, so they must necessarily have some as-yet ungraspable narrative link.

I've been thinking about it, and there's a lot of mystery surrounding the "hybrids". We don't even know what they're called, since their names have been erased by Pochita, according to Makima. Which means that they represent a very special concept that Fujimoto intends to exploit. A concept surely more complicated than a human fused with a demon.

I've been thinking about this, and two main theories come to mind when I put together what little we know about them. Hybrids are immortal, or more precisely, they can be resurrected as long as they are given enough blood. There's something vampiric about that. Vampire in the sense that they're human-looking demons who need blood, literally. Another theory is more contextual, and that's the one I'm going to bring out today.

Have you noticed that all hybrid demons represent weapons, machines. Never a fear of a broad concept like the demons of the apocalypse, or of an animal like Beam, or stemming from natural reflexes like the fear of blood and the fear of falling?

My theory is that they are deeply artificial demons. This was more or less confirmed with Reze, who was a laboratory rat for the USSR, or Katanaman, who became what he is thanks to Akane Sawatari. What's more, hybrids are always more or less connected with the state, Reze with Russia, Quanxi with China, or Denji, whose public hunters are trying to get their hands on him.

I can't speculate any further, but the only thing I'm sure of is that "hybrids" have something to do with the evolution of the world. And when I mean "evolution of the world", I mean technological evolution, particularly of weapons.

Which brings me to my theory about chapter 138. There was always something I found unexploited about Chainsaw Man. Exploiting the relationship between mankind and demons, but in a different era, in the past.

When we return to the chapter, Denji and Chainsaw Man represent the heroes of the present, who threaten to be eclipsed by a new heroine, Asa, associated with the demon of war. Yoru would represent the future, which is why for me she refers so much to nuclear weapons, which remain the most advanced and dangerous weapon at the moment (along with hydrogen bombs, but you get the idea). Swordman, on the other hand, may represent the past, a hero from the past. I mean, people in the past weren't afraid of chainsaws or bombs, they were afraid of swords and crossbows.

Imagine how old immortal beings could be, representing traditional, ancient weapons? I think it's Quanxi aka the first devil hunter, or Swordman.

With this context, what Swordman says resonates even more, doesn't it? Who knows better the feeling of being forgotten than a hero of the past like Swordman? Hybrids are doomed to feel this sense of obsolescence.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think Swordman knows anything about this. He may have a few points from his past still fresh in his mind, but having been brainwashed by Makima, his memories are surely muddled. The fact remains that this link with the past and technological evolutions: hybrid demons are still those who have a direct relationship with the state and governments.

An important point, given that the Japanese government is the main antagonist in this story.

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cherubispunk · 1 year ago

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BITE MY TONGUE - Joel Miller x AFAB! Reader

summary: everything is kind of a mess. And it hurts when he sneaks in each night to see you as merely a warm body to sleep with. Never next to.

a note from lucy: I got emotional on my birthday and wrote this drunk on pinot grigio. I don't recommend unless you want to read your writing back in the morning and debate therapy.

wc: 1240 warnings: 18+ MDNI! unedited, smut, angst toxic relationship, dom!Joel and sub!reader dynamics.

Joel was a silent lover. His footfalls were as ghostly as the kiss he pressed to the column of your throat at night. You spent every moment painting the walls of your mind palace with colours of him. The brown of his eyes, the greying highlights of his hair. The red of his temper. A vivid image of him to keep you company in the colder mornings. The empty mornings.

He moved with the precision of a killer. A smuggler. Not a lover. You were the lover. He was the fighter. It was oddly poetic how he would steal away into your bedroom like Eros did to Psyche. His face; a known incarnation to you while it sought you out. Muscle memory took its hold of him, a storm raging in his gut and you were the heat that needed to burn it off. The heat between your thighs that is.

The way he loved you was poison. So self-destructive. Yet so comforting. You never knew pain quite like it, even with what he did in the darkest of the night. The secret he kept between him and the rain riddled, smog smothered, dirty, darkened streets his mind, and the sheets of your shared bed. How his growl could quite literally wrench your heart from your chest and tear it to shreds, but piece it back together like it was a delicate piece of china.

His hips would thrust with fever, letting his words fall short, shy of your ears. Decay into nothing but stale air. You’d crumble and decompose to mulch before he confided in you. But he cared, right? He still made you fall with a yelp of his name like clockwork. A well oiled machine.

Because he was that. A product of conditioning. A man of stone, set shoulders sloped in their broad frame only when he stilled to release. Bones groaned and muscles laid a well trodden route into soil. The soil and earth of your body that shivered like branches under him. Limbs splayed out and twisted into sheets while a fire of guilt pitted in your stomach. A gaping hole unfillable in his chest, a life of something messy. Something unsaid.

Dragged to the undertow, tangled in pondweed and drowned by stagnant water. Your lungs breathed him, absorbed him. What noise he gave you, nonsensical as it was, it was a relief there was something. Something you could do. Part your thighs.

It was; “Open your legs.” Never; “open your heart.”

The feeling of his fist colliding with skin shot hot thrills through his spine. The bruising peppered over his knuckles would have been a sign to reign it in but he just couldn’t. Not when the feeling of a man’s bone cracked under his own clenched, balled hand was screaming to be felt again. It was electrifying. Blood. Saliva. The mixture lacing gums and teeth that looked darker in these specific shadows.

Not all people crave physical contact in the same way. Some people seek it out in violence.

Lips, the texture of gravel, wind chapped, stayed parted to exhale puffs of air. But no word came. Just the steady build of pleasure, lights off to not see the grey of his lies. His silence. Seeping into the shadows…hiding from himself.

The way he fucked you, was like holding a knife to your throat. It grounded you in the most harrowing way to each of his breaths. His panting in your ear. That hot breath. Lost in the fog, lung hollow, now filled with him. His smell that snared your senses. Too late, not early enough. Burning wooden bridges passion encased with fire, like mere kindling. Surrounded. Trapped. But free. Missing him. Too late to come home. Anchoring him to you, in a silent pleading motion. A way to beg him not to leave. But it never stopped him shattering your heart into pieces when he did. Leave fragments on the floor like a destroyed glass. A heart of glass. Where were you when he was still kind?

Long pauses between words. Going and going until one spoke. Never him. Always you. Saliva in your mouth, pooling while his thumb pressed your tongue down. It slipped past your lips, dribbled down his digits making a sticky mess. Moans of pleasure and fear of losing him to the young daylight again.

You started to close your curtains sooner in the hope he wouldn't notice light and leave you soon.

Hums, moans, on your own. Biting your tongue to the words as you slipped from lust to love and then back to lust, teetering to love. His lust. Your love. Torture to the mind, medicine to the body. Struck by lightning. Hanged to him as if he was a branch, connected by rope to neck on body. Separated, severed by mind. Showing him where he fit and hands tailed between your thighs, parting your legs to see the gleam of your cunt in the low light of your bedside lamp. Street Lights put out. But just him. Just you. His messy kisses. His hurried movements. Racing you at visceral pace to a peak of pleasure unknown to others, A vast wasteland of discovery, To all but you it was untold. Unhinged. So painfully unkind.

Begging, pleading to feel like you were loved, Making you fall apart in good ways and bad. Heaven and hell no longer just words. They had meaning now smothered to them like the scent of rich perfume. Or rotting earth and mulch after torrential downpour. Not seeing, feeling. Smelling. Not hearing. Waiting.

Wasting.

No thinking it over before he tangled with you in the dead of night. In the haven of the dirty mattress, bare naked and sweaty desperate bodies of animalistic innate passion. Lust. Not love. Never love. A need. A release. A waiting game. Lust not love. A feeling. A reverend in church to preach his belief with a sermon of hips clashing with hips and teeth clashing with teeth. Tongues mingling in heat. Yelps, groans. Shrill cries for him. Nails in Joel's back, his teeth in your neck. Daggers. Digging in silk flesh. Making the two of you almost bleed in every hyperbolic and metaphorical sense. Every vowel, consonant, syllable. It was left unsaid to the room. Rattled in your mind, caving in your chest.

‘Stare at me with the lights out.’ You told him when he refused to be seen. “To escape.” “Touch me to be loved.” you wished to add. Pleaded to tell. To whisper through the slam in skin on skin and rustle of sheets through frantic speed.

Joel never shed his skin. Always held it close. It was hardened, an armour. Scars told a story. A tapestry you felt under fingertips. Fingers that grasped onto him, legs that hitched to his waist, pulling his hips closer, at his hilt inside you. Silent are his heartstrings. Lonely is your hope. Icy is your body.

One day, you’ll be nothing but dust. Bronchioles in lungs will mimic roots. Navels will copy trunks. Organs will feed worms. Ribs will fossilise and lips that are kissed will mould back to Mother Nature. Its all you had ever been. Quick. Convenient. Easy to please, eager to help. Waiting lips, wanting cunt. Warm, never warm enough.

“You should tell me.” You would murmur once rolling to your side, not face him while your skin crawled like fire ants.

If we return our matter to the ground, if all that was to come…what is the point in trying?

And he would gruffly reply. “No.”

To do it all again in the twilight shadow of your heart.

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mariacallous · 9 months ago

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Shortly before noon on Aug. 19, 2023, a Russian cruise missile sliced past the golden onion domes and squat apartment blocks of the Chernihiv skyline in northern Ukraine. The Iskander-K missile slammed into its target: the city’s drama theater, which was hosting a meeting of drone manufacturers at the time of the attack. More than 140 people were injured and seven killed. The youngest, 6-year-old Sofia Golynska, had been playing in a nearby park.

Fragments of the missile recovered by the Ukrainian armed forces and analyzed by Ukrainian researchers found numerous components made by U.S. manufacturers in the missile’s onboard navigation system, which enabled it to reach its target with devastating precision. In December, Ukraine’s state anti-corruption agency released an online database of the thousands of foreign-made components recovered from Russian weapons so far.

Russia’s struggle to produce the advanced semiconductors, electrical components, and machine tools needed to fuel its defense industrial base predates the current war and has left it reliant on imports even amid its estrangement from the West. So when Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, major manufacturing countries from North America, Europe, and East Asia swiftly imposed export controls on a broad swath of items deemed critical for the Russian arms industry.

Russia quickly became the world’s most sanctioned country: Some 16,000 people and companies were subject to a patchwork of international sanctions and export control orders imposed by a coalition of 39 countries. Export restrictions were painted with such a broad brush that sunglasses, contact lenses, and false teeth were also swept up in the prohibitions. Even items manufactured overseas by foreign companies are prohibited from being sold to Russia if they are made with U.S. tools or software, under a regulation known as the foreign direct product rule.

But as the war reaches its two-year anniversary, export controls have failed to stem the flow of advanced electronics and machinery making their way into Russia as new and convoluted supply chains have been forged through third countries such as Kazakhstan, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, which are not party to the export control efforts. An investigation by Nikkei Asia found a tenfold increase in the export of semiconductors from China and Hong Kong to Russia in the immediate aftermath of the war—the majority of them from U.S. manufacturers.

“Life finds a way,” said a senior U.S. intelligence official, quoting the movie Jurassic Park. The official spoke on background to discuss Russia’s evasion of export controls.

Some of the weapons and components analyzed by investigators were likely stockpiled before the war. But widely available Russian trade data reveals a brisk business in imports. More than $1 billion worth of advanced semiconductors from U.S. and European manufacturers made their way into the country last year, according to classified Russian customs service data obtained by Bloomberg. A recent report by the Kyiv School of Economics found that imports of components considered critical for the battlefield had dipped by just 10 percent during the first 10 months of 2023, compared with prewar levels.

This has created a Kafkaesque scenario, the report notes, in which the Ukrainian army is doing battle with Western weapons against a Russian arsenal that also runs on Western components.

It is an obvious problem, well documented by numerous think tank and media reports, but one without an easy solution. Tracking illicit trade in items such as semiconductors is an exponentially greater challenge than monitoring shipments of conventional weapons. Around 1 trillion chips are produced every year. Found in credit cards, toasters, tanks, missile systems, and much, much more, they power the global economy as well as the Russian military. Cutting Russia out of the global supply chain for semiconductors is easier said than done.

“Both Russia and China, and basically all militaries, are using a large number of consumer electronic components in their systems,” said Chris Miller, the author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. “All of the world’s militaries rely on the same supply chain, which is the supply chain that primarily services consumer electronics.”

Export controls were once neatly tailored to keep specific items, such as nuclear technology, out of the hands of rogue states and terrorist groups. But as Washington vies for technological supremacy with Beijing while also seeking to contain Russia and Iran, it has increasingly used these trade restrictions to advance broader U.S. strategic objectives. For instance, the Biden administration has placed wide-ranging prohibitions on the export of advanced chips to China.

“At no point in history have export controls been more central to our collective security than right now,” Matthew Axelrod, the assistant secretary for export enforcement at the U.S. Commerce Department, said in a speech last September. U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has described export controls as “a new strategic asset in the U.S. and allied toolkit.”

Russia’s ability to defy these restrictions doesn’t just have implications for the war in Ukraine. It also raises significant questions about the challenge ahead vis-à-vis China.

“The technological question becomes a key part of this story and whether or not we can restrict it from our adversaries,” said James Byrne, the director of open-source intelligence and analysis at the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank.

In the Russian city of Izhevsk, home to the factory that manufactures Kalashnikov rifles, shopping malls are being converted into drone factories amid a surge in defense spending that has helped the country’s economy weather its Western estrangement. Arms manufacturers have been urged to work around the clock to feed the Russian war machine, while defense is set to account for one-third of the state budget this year.

“We have developed a concept to convert shopping centers—which, before the start of the SMO [special military operation], sold mainly the products of Western brands—to factories for assembly lines of types of domestic drones,” Alexander Zakharov, the chief designer of the Zala Aero drone company, said at a closed event in August 2022, according to the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti. “Special military operation” is what the Russian government calls its war on Ukraine. Zala Aero is a subsidiary of the Kalashnikov Concern that, along with Zakharov, was sanctioned by the United States last November.

Defense companies have bought at least three shopping malls in Izhevsk to be repurposed for the manufacture of drones, according to local media, including Lancet attack drones, which the British defense ministry described as one of the most effective new weapons that Russia introduced to the battlefield last year. Lancets, which cost about $35,000 to produce, wreaked havoc during Ukraine’s offensive last year and have been captured on video striking valuable Ukrainian tanks and parked MiG fighter jets.

Like a lot of Russia’s weapons systems, Lancets are filled with Western components. An analysis of images of the drones published in December by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security found that they contained several parts from U.S., Swiss, and Czech manufacturers, including image processing and analytical components that play a pivotal role in enabling the drones to reach their targets on the battlefield.

“The recurring appearance of these Western products in Russian drone systems shows a keen dependence on them for key capabilities in the drone systems,” the report notes. Lancets are not the only drones found to contain Western components. Almost all of the electronic components in the Iranian Shahed-136 drones, which Russia is now manufacturing with Iranian help to use in Ukraine, are of Western origin, a separate analysis published in November concluded.

Early in the war, the Royal United Services Institute analyzed 27 Russian military systems, including cruise missiles, electronic warfare complexes, and communications systems, and found that they contained at least 450 foreign-made components, revealing Russia’s dependence on imports.

One of the principal ways that Russia has evaded Western export controls has been through transshipment via third countries such as Turkey, the UAE, and neighboring states once part of the Soviet Union. Bloomberg reported last November that amid mounting Western pressure, the UAE had agreed to restrict the export of sensitive goods to Russia and that Turkey was considering a similar move. Kazakh officials announced a ban on the export of certain battlefield goods to Russia in October.

Suspected transshipment is often revealed by striking changes in trade patterns before and after the invasion. The Maldives, an island chain in the Indian Ocean that has no domestic semiconductor industry, shipped almost $54 million worth of U.S.-made semiconductors to Russia in the year after the invasion of Ukraine, Nikkei Asia reported last July.

Semiconductor supply chains often span several countries, with chips designed in one country and manufactured in another before being sold to a series of downstream distributors around the world. That makes it difficult for companies to know the ultimate end user of their products. This may seem odd—until you realize that this is the case for many everyday products that are sold around the world. “When Coca-Cola sells Coca-Cola, it doesn’t know where every bottle goes, and they don’t have systems to track where every bottle goes,” said Kevin Wolf, a former assistant secretary for export administration at the U.S. Commerce Department.

While a coalition of 39 countries, including the world’s major manufacturers of advanced electronics, imposed export restrictions on Russia, much of the rest of the world continues to trade freely with Moscow. Components manufactured in coalition countries will often begin their journey to Moscow’s weapons factories through a series of entirely legal transactions before ending up with a final distributor that takes them across the border into Russia. “It starts off as licit trade and ends up as illicit trade,” said a second senior U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The further items move down the supply chain, the less insight governments and companies have into their ultimate destination, although sudden changes in behavior of importers can offer a red flag. In his speech last September, Axelrod, the assistant secretary, used the example of a beauty salon that suddenly starts to import electronic components.

But the Grand Canyon of loopholes is China, which has stood by Moscow since the invasion. In the first days of the war, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warned that Washington could shut down Chinese companies that ignored semiconductor export controls placed on Russia. Last October, 42 Chinese companies were added to export control lists—severely undercutting their ability to do business with U.S. companies—for supplying Russian defense manufacturers with U.S. chips.

But as the Biden administration carefully calibrates its China policy in a bid to keep a lid on escalating tensions, it has held off from taking Beijing to task. “I think the biggest issue is that we—the West—have been unwilling to put pressure on China that would get China to start enforcing some of these rules itself,” said Miller, the author of Chip Wars.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) said: “Due to the restrictions imposed by the United States and key allies and partners, Russia has been left with no choice but to spend more, lower its ambitions for high-tech weaponry, build alliances with other international pariah states, and develop nefarious trade networks to covertly obtain the technologies it needs.

“We are deeply concerned regarding [Chinese] support for Russia’s defense industrial base. BIS has acted to add over 100 [China]-based entities to the Entity List for supporting Russia’s military industrial base and related activities.”

Export controls have typically focused on keeping specific U.S.-made goods out of the hands of adversaries, while economic and financial sanctions have served broader foreign-policy objectives of isolating rogue states and cauterizing the financing of terrorist groups and drug cartels. The use of sanctions as a national security tool grew in wake of the 9/11 attacks; in the intervening decades, companies, government agencies, and financial institutions have built up a wealth of experience in sanctions compliance. By contrast, the use of export controls for strategic ends is relatively novel, and compliance expertise is still in its infancy.

“It used to be that people like me could keep export controls and sanctions in one person’s head. The level of complexity for each area of law is so intense. I don’t know anyone who is truly an export control and sanctions expert,” Wolf said.

Export controls, experts say, are at best speed bumps designed to make it harder for Russia’s defense industrial base to procure Western components. They create “extra friction and pressure on the Russian economy,” said Daniel Fried, who as the State Department coordinator for sanctions policy helped craft U.S. sanctions on Russia after its annexation of Crimea in 2014. Russia is now paying 80 percent more to import semiconductors than it did before the war, according to forthcoming research by Miller, and the components it is able to acquire are often of dubious quality.

But although it may be more cumbersome and expensive, it’s a cost that Moscow has been willing to bear in its war on Ukraine.

Western components—and lots of them—will continue to be found in the weapons Russia uses on Ukraine’s battlefields for the duration of the war. “This problem is as old as export controls are,” said Jasper Helder, an expert on export controls and sanctions with the law firm Akin Gump. But there are ways to further plug the gaps.

Steeper penalties could incentivize U.S. companies to take a more proactive role in ensuring their products don’t wind up in the hands of the Russian military, said Elina Ribakova, a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “At the moment, they’re not truly motivated,” she said.

Companies that run afoul of sanctions and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a U.S. federal law that prohibits the payment of bribes, have been fined billions of dollars. Settlements of export control violations are often an order of magnitude smaller, according to recently published research.

In a speech last month, Axelrod said the United States would begin issuing steeper penalties for export control violations. “Build one case against one of the companies extremely well, put out a multibillion-dollar fine negotiation, and watch everybody else fall in line,” Ribakova said.

And then there’s the question of resources. BIS has an annual budget of just $200 million. “That’s like the cost of a few fighter jets. Come on,” said Raimondo, speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum last December.

The agency’s core budget for export control has, adjusted for inflation, remained flat since 2010, while its workload has surged. Between 2014 and 2022, the volume of U.S. exports subject to licensing scrutiny increased by 126 percent, according to an agency spokesperson. A 2022 study of export control enforcement by the Center for Strategic and International Studies recommended a budget increase of $45 million annually, describing it as “one of the best opportunities available anywhere in U.S. national security.”

When it comes to enforcement, the bureau has about 150 officers across the country who work with law enforcement and conduct outreach to companies. The Commerce Department has also established a task force with the Justice Department to keep advanced technologies out of the hands of Russia, China, and Iran. “The U.S. has the most robust export enforcement on the planet,” Wolf said.

But compared with other law enforcement and national security agencies, the bureau’s budgets have not kept pace with its expanding mission. The Department of Homeland Security has more investigators in the city of Tampa, Florida, than BIS does across the entire country, Axelrod noted in his January speech.

On the other side, you have Russia, which is extremely motivated to acquire the critical technologies it needs to continue to prosecute its war. The Kremlin has tasked its intelligence agencies with finding ways around sanctions and export controls, U.S. Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson said in a speech last year. “We are not talking about a profit-seeking firm looking for efficiencies,” the second senior U.S. intelligence official said. “There will be supply if there is sufficient demand.”

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pupmkincake2000 · 10 months ago

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I often think about the difficulties that androids and humanity will face after the revolution. We were told that the country has a high unemployment rate, but what I can’t understand is why humans hate androids. Every time I replay the scenes with Markus in the park, I still cannot get it why humans organize pickets specifically against the androids. The androids themselves are not to blame for anything, they are just tools to improve people's lives, and also just merch. Why don't people go on strike at the CyberLife Tower? After all, if we think logically, it is CyberLife that creates androids and puts them into mass production, which means that humans should have complaints about CyberLife itself, and not about the machines they created. And after the revolution, if we think logically, the economy will suffer significantly, since androids were the ones who made life easier for humans (they don’t get tired, don’t get sick, don’t need rest like humans, they don’t need a lunch break and, in fact, their work would be better quality), but now androids have become free. Yes, in a sense, humans now have a chance to get their jobs back, but on the other hand, even if employers have to pay androids now, it will still be much more profitable than paying humans.

And what about thirium? No one will give thirium to androids for free, given it is difficult to get, where is the guarantee that prices for it will not rise? Androids may have to work even harder just to get the fluid they need to remain functional. Of course, perhaps over time, androids will be able to synthesize a substitute that will be cheaper, this is just a theory, and androids need to survive somehow now. In addition, considering how easily the androids who participated in the revolution were killed, I can assume that only Markus and Connor are difficult to destroy, and such androids will have a hard time, since we remember that humans need thirium to create red ice (which again makes me think: why was the android's junkyard not guarded by anyone and why were there no drug addicts there who would try to extract thirium from broken bodies?). It also bothers me that the US is literally left without an army. When Connor first comes to the DPD, we hear that the army has ordered 200 000 military models, but when Markus leads revolution (whether peaceful or not), we are clearly told that all military androids have been deactivated and destroyed, and since the US army had 90% (no?) of androids in it, the country was literally left without military power. And we know that there are China and Russia, that in 2038 are not very friendly towards the US. And I believe that deviant androids are unlikely to want to fight or be the part of the army, they fought precisely for a peaceful life and independence (therefore they will have to look for ways to consolidate their position in the human world, and this will not be very easy). Personally, I think that QD should have created a game in which the revolution had already occurred, showing us how the world was changing and what problems were happening in it, what problems were in the coexistence of humans and androids, because it would have been much more interesting to explore.

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mechplustech · 6 months ago

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Keep detailed records of all maintenance activities performed on your CNC turning machine. Documenting maintenance helps track the machine’s condition over time and provides valuable information for troubleshooting and repairs with all types of customized machining parts.

In conclusion, regular maintenance of your CNC turning machine is essential for its longevity and performance. By following these tips, you can ensure your machine operates efficiently, reducing downtime and improving the quality of your machining processes. Implement these maintenance practices to keep your CNC turning machine in optimal condition.

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cneasteel · 6 months ago

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When Is The Investment Casting Employed?

A wax pattern is used in the industrial process of Investment casting China, sometimes referred to as precision casting or lost-wax casting, to create a disposable ceramic mold. The exact shape of the object to be cast is captured in a wax pattern. A ceramic substance that is refractory is applied to this design. After the ceramic material solidifies, it is heated and flipped upside down until the wax melts and runs out. The ceramic shell hardens into a disposable investment mold. The mold is filled with molten metal, which is then allowed to cool. After that, the metal casting is broken out of the used mold.

When to employ investment casting

Investment casting is a rather expensive technique because of its labor needs and intricacy, but the advantages frequently exceed the drawbacks. Almost any metal may be cast for an investment.

Excellent as-cast surface finishes may be achieved in complicated items produced by investment casting. Since the ceramic shells of investment castings break away from the part when it cools, a taper does not need to be incorporated to extract the components from their molds. With the use of this manufacturing feature, castings with 90-degree angles may be created without any shrinkage allowance and without the need for further machining to achieve such angles.

Parts made using the investment casting technique by Investment casting Supplier have excellent dimensional precision, are readily net-shaped, and are frequently produced without the need for further machining. To create wax patterns, a new die is needed for every distinct casting run.

The time and effort saved by reducing or eliminating secondary machining more than offsets the expense of new tools for high-volume orders. Lesser casting runs will probably not pay for itself.

A new wax pattern to a finished casting typically takes seven days, most of which is spent making and curing the ceramic shell mold. To make castings more rapid, certain foundries can quick-dry. Cost is not the only factor affected by investment casting's time- and labor-intensive process. Longer lead times for the��investment casting process are typical at foundries because of their restricted production capacity and equipment.

More Information: Mastering the Art of Investment Casting: A Deep Dive into the Process

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drugsdina-blog · 1 year ago

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PTS Industrial Ltd was founded in 2002, located in Dong Guan and Shenzhen, China. PTS starts from precision plastic injection molds making, and step into plastic injection molding services, cnc machining services, After 20 years of development, now we have 4 subsidiaries. Since 2002, PTS has been proudly providing high-quality CNC machining parts, injection molding services, and plastic injection molds to a diverse range of industries, Serving well-known companies such as HUA WEI, BMW, EPSON, etc.

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syyds · 2 years ago

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nicerapidtoolig · 2 years ago

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mxmparts · 2 years ago

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kneedeepincynade · 2 years ago

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Peace is always on the table but the west refuses it.

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⚠️ LA CINA PROMUOVE UNA SOLUZIONE PACIFICA AL CONFLITTO RUSSO-UCRAINO, MA L'OCCIDENTE VUOLE DAVVERO LA PACE? - PARTE 2 ⚠️

🇨🇳 Zhang Hong, Ricercatore presso l'Accademia Cinese delle Scienze Sociali, ha dichiarato che - per quanto sia complicato, attualmente, raggiungere un consenso per le parti coinvolte nel conflitto - la Cina farà tutto il possibile per portare i paesi coinvolti al Tavolo dei Negoziati, e che la Repubblica Popolare «non se ne starà con le mani in mano» 💼

🇨🇳 La Cina, ha affermato Wang Yi, non è una parte direttamente coinvolta nel conflitto, ma ha scelto di non essere un semplice spettatore, così come non intende mettere benzina sul fuoco o sfruttare la crisi, come fanno altri paesi 😘

⭐️ Wang Huiyao ha però dichiarato che né gli europei, né gli USA sono disposti a sedersi e parlare, ed è proprio per questo che «la Proposta Cinese dei Colloqui di Pace è di grande importanza» 👍

💬 "L'Europa è ora impantanata in un odio irrazionale e in un antagonismo contro la Russa", ha sottolineato Zhang Hong, citando - come esempio - proprio la Conferenza sulla Sicurezza di Monaco. È, tecnicamente, incentrata sulla sicurezza dell'Europa, eppure la Russia è stata esclusa dalla partecipazione 😡

⭐️ Song Zhongping, Analista Militare dell'Esercito Popolare di Liberazione, ha affermato che la fornitura occidentale di armi avanzate all'Ucraina provocherà inevitabilmente un contrattacco da parte della Russia, e allora: «la guerra non finirà mai, e l'intera Europa sarà inghiottita» ⚔️

🤔 L'anno scorso, vi furono alcuni tentativi di negoziati tra Russia e Cina, conclusi poi senza alcun risultato. Wang Yi, tornando su quel tema, ha dichiarato: "non siamo a conoscenza delle ragioni [della fine dei colloqui], alcune forze potrebbero non voler vedere un colloqui di pace di successo o la fine del conflitto" 🤔

🇺🇸 In contrasto con la Promozione Cinese di una Soluzione Pacifica, gli USA stanno facendo del loro meglio per alimentare le fiamme del conflitto, strumentalizzandolo a tal punto da creare degli screzi anche con Pechino ⚔️

🇨🇳 Zhang Hong, sugli USA, ha dichiarato: "Agli Stati Uniti non interessa davvero se la Crisi finirà con la Pace o meno. Vogliono così tanto che la Russia perda che non gli importa se tale desiderio sarà a costo della vita del popolo ucraino" 😣

💕 Confrontando la Crisi in Ucraina ad una ferita al braccio, il Ricercatore Cinese ha affermato: "La soluzione proposta dalla Cina è mettere un po' di Medicina Cinese per guarire la ferita sanguinante, mentre gli Stati Uniti vogliono tagliare l'intero braccio" 🌱

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⚠️ CHINA PROMOTES PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN CONFLICT, BUT DOES THE WEST REALLY WANT PEACE? - PART 2 ⚠️

🇨🇳 Zhang Hong, Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that - as complicated as it is currently to reach a consensus for the parties involved in the conflict - China will do everything possible to bring the countries involved to the Table of Negotiations, and that the People's Republic "will not sit idly by" 💼

🇨🇳 China, said Wang Yi, is not a party directly involved in the conflict, but has chosen not to be a mere spectator, just as it does not intend to add fuel to the fire or exploit the crisis, as other countries do 😘

⭐️ Wang Huiyao however stated that neither the Europeans nor the USA are willing to sit down and talk, and that is precisely why «the Chinese Proposal for Peace Talks is of great importance» 👍

💬 "Europe is now mired in irrational hatred and antagonism against Russia", underlined Zhang Hong, citing - as an example - the Munich Security Conference. It is, technically, focused on the security of Europe, yet Russia has been barred from participating 😡

⭐️ Song Zhongping, Military Analyst of the People's Liberation Army, said that the Western supply of advanced weapons to Ukraine will inevitably provoke a counterattack by Russia, and then: "the war will never end, and the whole of Europe will be swallowed» ⚔️

🤔 Last year, there were some attempts at negotiations between Russia and China, which were concluded to no avail. Wang Yi, returning to that theme, said: "we are not aware of the reasons [for the end of the talks], some forces may not want to see a successful peace talks or an end to the conflict" 🤔

🇺🇸 In contrast to the Chinese Promotion of a Peaceful Solution, the USA is doing its best to fan the flames of the conflict, exploiting it to the point of creating disagreements even with Beijing ⚔️

🇨🇳 Zhang Hong, on the USA, said: "The US doesn't really care if the Crisis will end with Peace or not. They want Russia to lose so badly that they don't care if such desire will be at the cost of the lives of the Ukrainian people " 😣

💕 Comparing the Crisis in Ukraine to an arm wound, the Chinese Researcher said, "China's proposed solution is to put some Chinese Medicine to heal the bleeding wound, while the US wants to cut off the whole arm" 🌱

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