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[asiafundmanagers27]

EV stock: Did You Check Out Chinese Ev Makers?

EV stock, especially China’s, are capturing investor attention as the nation leads the charge in the electric vehicle revolution. Innovative technologies and robust market demand are driving exponential growth. Backed by favourable government policies and expanding charging infrastructure, these stocks offer enticing investment prospects. Visit: https://bit.ly/3IWzzrv

[diagnozabam]

Acțiunile Dongfeng cresc spectaculos pe fondul zvonurilor privind o fuziune cu Changan Auto

Acțiunile producătorului auto chinez Dongfeng Motor au înregistrat o creștere impresionantă de până la 85,8% pe bursa din Hong Kong, pe fondul speculațiilor privind o posibilă fuziune cu Changan Auto. Această evoluție vine după ce societatea-mamă, Dongfeng Motor Corporation, a anunțat un plan de restructurare, alimentând zvonurile despre o posibilă consolidare în industria auto chineză. 🔥…

[mightyflamethrower]

“Name me a single objective we’ve ever set out to accomplish that we’ve failed on. Name me one, in all of our history. Not one!”

-President Joe Biden, August 16, 2023 

Joe Biden in one of his now accustomed angry “get off my grass” moods dared the press to find just one of his policies/objectives that has not worked. Silence followed.

Perhaps it was polite to say nothing, given even the media knows almost every enacted Biden policy has failed.

Here is a summation of what he should instead apologize for.

Biden in late summer 2021 sought a 20th anniversary celebration of 9/11 and the 2001 subsequent invasion of Afghanistan. He wished to be the landmark president that yanked everyone out of Afghanistan after 20 years in country. But the result was the greatest military humiliation of the United States since the flight from Vietnam in 1975.

Consider the ripples of Biden’s disaster. U.S. deterrence was crippled worldwide. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea almost immediately began to bluster or return to their chronic harassment of U.S. and allied ships and planes. We left thousands of allied Afghans to face Taliban retribution, along with some Western contractors.

Biden abandoned a $1 billion embassy, and a $300 million remodeled Bagram airbase strategically located not far from China and Russia, and easily defensible. Perhaps $50 billion in U.S. weaponry and supplies were abandoned and now find their way into the international terrorist mart.

All our pride flags, our multimillion gender studies programs at Kabul University, and our George Floyd murals did not just come to naught, but were replaced by the Taliban’s anti-homosexual campaigns, burkas, and detestation of any trace of American popular culture.

Vladimir Putin sized up the skedaddle. He collated it with Biden’s unhinged quip that he would not get too excited if Putin just staged a “minor” invasion of Ukraine. He remembered Biden’s earlier request to Putin to modulate Russian hacking to exempt a few humanitarian American institutions. Then Russia concluded of our shaky Commander-in-Chief that he either did not care or could do nothing about another Russian invasion.

The result so far is more than 500,000 dead and wounded in the war, a Verdun-stand-off along with fortified lines, the steady depletion of our munitions and weapon stocks, and a new China/Russia/Iran/North Korean axis, with wink and nod assistance from NATO Turkey.

Biden blew up the Abraham accords, nudged Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States over to the dark side of Iran, China, and Russia. He humiliated the U.S. on the eve of the midterms by callously begging the likes of Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and Saudi Arabia to pump more oil that he had damned as unclean at home and cut back its production. In Bidenomics, instead of producing oil, the president begs autocracies to export it to us at high prices while he drains the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve for short-term political advantage.

Biden deliberately alienated Israel by openly interfering in its domestic politics. He pursued the crackpot Iran Deal while his special Iranian envoy was removed for disclosing classified information.

No one can explain why Biden ignored the Chinese balloon espionage caper, kept mum about the engineered Covid virus that escaped the Wuhan lab, said not a word about a Chinese biolab discovered in rural California, and had his envoys either bow before Chinese leaders or take their insults in silence—other than he is either cognitively challenged or leveraged by his decade-long grifting partnership with his son Hunter.

Yet another Biden’s legacy will be erasing the southern border and with it, U.S. immigration law. Over seven million aliens simply crossed into the U.S. illegally with Biden’s tacit sanction—without audits, background checks, vaccinations, and COVID testing, much less English fluency, skills, or high-school diplomas.

Biden’s only immigration accomplishment was to render the entire illegal sanctuary city movement a cruel joke. Given the flood, mostly rich urban and vacation home dwellers made it very clear that while they fully support millions swarming into poor Latino communities of southern Texas and Arizona, they do not want any illegal aliens fouling their carefully cultivated nests.

Biden is mum about the 100,000 fentanyl deaths from cartel-imported and Chinese-supplied drugs across his open border. He seems to like the idea that Mexican President Obrador periodically mouths off, ordering his vast expatriate community to vote Democratic and against Trump.

Despite all the pseudo-blue collar dissimulation about Old Joe Biden from Scranton, he has little empathy for the working classes. Indeed, he derides them as chumps and dregs, urges miners to learn coding as the world covets their coal, and studiously avoids getting anywhere near the toxic mess in East Palestine, Ohio, or so far the moonscape on Maui.

Bidenomics is a synonym for printing up to $6 billion dollars at precisely the time post-Covid consumer demand was soaring, while previously dormant supply chains were months behind rebooting production and transportation. Biden is on track to increase the national debt more than any one-term president.

In Biden’s weird logic, if he raised the price of energy, gasoline, and key food staples 20-30 percent since his inauguration without a commensurate rise in wages, and then saw the worst inflation in 40 years occasionally decline from record highs one month to the next, then he “beat inflation.”

But the reason why more than 60 percent of the nation has no confidence in Bidenomics is because it destroyed their household budgets. Gas is nearly twice what it was in January 2021. Interest rates have about tripled. Key staple foods are often twice as costly—meat, vegetables, and fruits especially.

Biden has ended through his weaponized Attorney General Merrick Garland the age-old American commitment to equal justice under the law. The FBI, DOJ, CIA, and IRS are hopelessly politically compromised. Many of their bureaucrats serve as retrieval agents for lost Biden family incriminating laptops, diaries, and guns. In sum, Biden criminalized opposing political views.

Biden has unleashed the administrative state for the first time in history to destroy the Republican primary front runner and his likely opponent. His legacy will be the corruption of U.S. jurisprudence and the obliteration of the American reputation for transparent permanent government that should be always above politics, bribery, and corruption.

If in the future, an on-the-make conservative prosecutor in West Virginia, Utah, or Mississippi wishes to make a national name, then he has ample precedent to indict a Democrat President for receiving bad legal advice, questioning the integrity of an election, or using social media to express doubt that the new non-Election-Day balloting was on the up-and-up, or supposedly overvaluing his real estate.

The Biden family’s decade-long family grifting will likely expose Joe Biden as the first president in U.S. history who fitted precisely the Constitution’s definition of impeachment and removal—given his “high crimes and misdemeanors” appear “bribery”-related. If further evidence shows he altered U.S. foreign policy in accordance with the wishes from his benefactors in Ukraine, China, or Romania, then he committed constitutionally-defined “treason” as well.

Defunding the police, and pandemics of exempted looting, shoplifting, smashing, and grabbing, and carjacking merit no administrative attention. Nor does the ongoing systematic destruction of our blue bicoastal cities, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. All that, along with the disasters in East Palestine or Maui are out of sight, out of mind from a day at the beach at Biden’s mysteriously purchased nearly 6,000 square-foot beachfront mansion.

Biden ran on Barack Obama-like 2004 rhetoric (“Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America).”

And like Obama, he used that ecumenical sophistry to gain office only to divide further the U.S. No sooner than he was elected, we began hearing from the great unifier eerie screaming harangues about “semi-fascists” and “ultra-MAGA” dangerous zealots, replete with red-and black Phantom of the Opera backdrops.

What followed the unifying rhetoric was often amnesties and exemptions for violent offenders during the 120 days of rioting, looting, killing, and attacks on police officers in summer 2020.  In contrast, his administration lied when it alleged that numerous officers had died at the hands of the January 6 rioters. In addition, the Biden administration mandated long-term incarceration of many who committed no illegal act other than acting like buffoons and “illegally parading.”

The message was exemptions for torching a federal courthouse, a police precinct, or historic church or attempting to break into the White House grounds to get a president and his family—but long prison terms for wearing cow horns, a fur vest, and trespassing peacefully like a lost fool in the Capitol.

Finally, Biden’s most glaring failure was simply being unpresidential. He snaps at reporters, and shouts at importune times. He can no longer read off a big-print teleprompter. Even before a global audience, he cannot kick his lifelong creepy habit of turkey-gobbling on children necks, blowing into their ears and hair of young girls, and squeezing women far too long and far too hard.

His frailty redefined American presidential campaigning as basement seclusion and outsourcing propaganda to the media. And his disabilities only intensified during his presidency. Biden begins his day late and quits early. He has recalibrated the presidency as a 5-hour, 3-day a week job.

If Trump was the great exaggerator, Biden is our foremost liar. Little in his biography can be fully believed. He lies about everything from his train rides to the death of his son to his relationship with Biden-family foreign collaborators, to vaccinations to the economy. Anytime Biden mentions places visited, miles flown, or rails ridden, he is likely lying.

Biden continues with impunity because the media feels that a mentally challenged fabulist is preferable to Donald Trump and so contextualizes or ignores his falsehoods. Never has a U.S. president fallen and stumbled or gotten lost on stage so frequently—or been a single small trip away from incapacity.

So, yes, Biden’s initiatives have succeeded only in the sense of becoming successfully enacted—and therefore nearly destroying the country.

[inkyarcturus]

⭐️❄️ Happy holidays! ❄️⭐️

Do you think Severus has any winter rituals or traditions he likes to partake in? ♥️

In a severitus relationship, do you think Harry and Severus would participate in the holidays? What kind of activities would you imagine they do? ♥️

How do you think snupin would celebrate if they were a couple? ♥️

OOOOOO!!!

Okay so Severus ALONE specific traditions:

On Christmas Eve he absolutely spends his time on the couch with a good book in his hands, the fire place lit, and a drink on his side table.

He trades a large Christmas tree for a small one that basically just acts as decoration on the living room table.

He doesn’t open gifts until Christmas morning after he’s had his breakfast (learned behavior from childhood as he didn’t want to seem to excited just to get crushed when there was nothing)

Severitus specific headcanons:

They get really into the decorating part. Harry never got to put his own ornaments on the tree because of the Dursleys, so he finds the moment incredibly important, just sitting and staring at the tree at night.

I think it would be really funny if Severus put some chocolate disguised as coal in Harry’s stocking. Neither of them really had stockings as a child, but when Harry noticed that the Weasleys did it, he couldn’t help but hope that Severus would too.

Harry would be the one to wake him up, softly knocking on Severus’s door a little earlier than he likely would, but not so early that it was obnoxious in his mind.

SNUPIN!!:

Soft kisses in the morning, they hate getting out of bed and spend the early morning there. If one’s more awake than the other they’ll read a book. When they do get out of bed it’s to get some coffee before they exchange their presents.

Later on in the day, I would like them to go to a Chinese place for food. It reminds them of their childhoods and provides comfort.

Snupin w Harry (you didn’t ask for this but I thought it necessary :P)

First off, decorating the tree, they go ornament shopping and they absolutely go ahead and get themselves a deer, a wolf and a bat ornament.

They hang them up every year right next to one another. Harry got the bat one for Sev. Sev got the wolf one for Remus and Remus got the deer one for Harry.

Again Harry wakes them up a lil earlier, but they don’t immediately go into opening presents. Remus and Sev get coffee and Harry gets hot chocolate.

They do stockings first, then presents. After the excitement of presents they go out to play in the snow. (There is absolutely a snowball fight and multiple snowmen built) Harry makes snow angels and combined with Remus force Severus to make some as well.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Melissa Ryan at Ctrl Alt Right Delete:

On Saturday, February 15, I was standing outside a Tesla dealership in the heart of Seattle with a sign that said “BigBalls can lick Deez Nuts” and a photo of DOGE dipshit Edward “BigBalls” Coristine. As about 80 of us stood on the street chanting and yelling, an older couple stopped to compliment my sign. They were out for a walk after their breakfast and wondered what the fuss was about. I told them if they wanted to join us, they could hold my sign. To my surprise, they grabbed the sign and spent the next hour happily waving it at passing cars. The key to effective resistance is to make your opponent pay a price for their overreach—or at least instill fear that there might be a price to pay. Clearly, everyone involved in Trump 2.0 believes they can fuck around and will never have to find out. It’s up to us to change that. But how do regular people with limited resources extract a price from a rising fascist movement? The first answer is everything we can think of. No one who’s lived their whole life in the United States has ever faced something like this, and none of us knows for sure what’s going to derail the march toward fascism. In times like these, we should foster creative actions, not wag our fingers or tut-tut ideas.

But there is a very specific target that deserves special focus—Tesla Motors. Tesla is the basis of Elon Musk’s mystique and his wealth. His stake in the company is worth around $145 billion at today’s valuation—more than a third of his total net worth. Elon clearly isn’t scared about the legal consequences of his actions. Why should he be? The courts have never held him accountable in any meaningful way before, and now he’s protected by an increasingly authoritarian regime. But legal consequences aren’t the only cost an effective resistance can make opponents pay. The first thing you need to know is that Tesla Motors is a house of cards. As I write this, Tesla’s market cap stands at $1.12 trillion—about $400 billion more than Toyota, Honda, Ferrari, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Stellantis and Hyundai COMBINED. Tesla’s stock has been on a hype-fueled rocket ride since the start of the pandemic. But Wall Street investors hate uncertainty, and in the end, hype is no match for quarterly profits. Most of Tesla’s extreme valuation is based on the cockamamie idea that the company can continue growing at the rate it achieved early in the pandemic—and the mistaken belief that Tesla is a tech company, rather than a car company. But Tesla’s market dominance and opportunities for growth weren’t built to last. Only one in three Americans are open to buying EVs today, and there’s much more competition in the market than there was even 5 years ago. Chinese EV companies are eating Elon’s lunch. And far from the game changer Elon promised, the Cybertruck is looking more like an anchor around Tesla’s neck. Tesla sales are already tanking in Europe because of Musk’s tumbling reputation.

For the first time in a decade, Tesla reported fewer sales in 2024 than in 2023. Now, buyers in the U.S. are starting to price-in Elon’s ties to Trump and far-right movements around the world—and the potential social consequences of driving a car so closely associated with Musk’s personal brand. If that spreads, it could pop the hype bubble. Tesla insiders know it, and so do big Wall Street research firms.

Tesla, the crown jewel of Elon Musk’s empire, has become increasingly persona non grata among the left in the USA, and that is due to Musk’s turn to the far-right that began as early as the COVID pandemic and accelerating further in recent years.

[hms-no-fun]

What are your feelings on car centrists? I don’t want to need a car but I still want to have one.

when my friends and i need to organize a big trip to a box grocery store to really stock up, we rent a gig car and split the cost. ideally, there's a public fleet of vehicles accessible to people to use when they need it.

but also, there's no reality where we get to, like, zero percent car ownership. i feel pretty confident in saying that you are not under any risk of being unable to have a car if you feel you'd like to have a car. the idea is not to abolish car ownership altogether (at least not in the short term) but to reduce the number of situations in which the average person NEEDS a car. obviously if you live in the midwest where everything's a million miles apart, until you've got speedy frequent reliable rail and a solid bus network folks are still gonna want cars. this is a big fucking country.

which is why cars need to get smaller again! a big reason why there's a pedestrian death epidemic is that tax exceptions, tariffs, and small business grindset have combined to create a car market where you're most incentivized to buy an SUV or truck. unnecessarily big motherfuckers with awful sight lines and broad flat fronts perfectly designed for killing pedestrians. often spotless and rarely used for the kind of work they're designed for. at least china is out here actually making small EV cars oh wait 100% tariff on chinese EVs thanks biden the most progressive president in modern history!

anyway, i don't think there's such a thing as a "car centrist." there's no middle ground here. we already live in a utopia of cars. if you're a car, it's never been better for you than right now. investing massively in public transit does nothing to affect the existing quantity of car stock, but merely decreases our reliance on it. the kind of project i'm imagining here is something that will take decades of concerted effort to accomplish, along the lines of the New Deal works projects i grew up hearing about from my parents as these astonishing acts of human organization and ingenuity. no one is coming to take your car away, and no one is going to make it impossible for you to get a car any time soon. but wouldn't it be nice if you had a lot more options to get around besides a car?

[pacifymebby]

Sam Fender / Christmas Morning

🐇 first things first I reckon Sam's taste in Christmas decorations is like classic kitchy British Christmas, you know we're talking tinsel, multi coloured lights, those stupid Santa teddies where if you squeeze their hand they start playing a Christmas song? Santa with an electric guitar or a saxophone and when you squeeze him it plays Santa Clause Is Coming to Town the way Springsteen does or something... Stuff that's fundamentally fucking awful but definitely okay and good at Christmas!

🐇 He'd spend a lot of December busy with work but he'd be looking forward to the relief of coming home and spending some down time with his family and friends, and of course you... You'd be all he was thinking about on his way up the motorway to Shields.. well you and the brew he's dying for anyway

🐇Gettin a take away on the night he comes home, eating it on the sofa watching home alone together, you know like this song vibes, low-key back to normality vibes.

🐇Drinking mulled wine whilst you finish last minute Christmas prep and he writes a couple of Christmas cards for people. Him low-key marvelling at how you've managed to organise everything and get the best gifts for people.

🐇 Christmas Eve down the pub with all your mates, you're definitely both working your way towards a Christmas day hangover! You know you should slow down but neither of you want to because it's the first time you've been out together in months and you're making the most of it...

🐇walking home drunk together nosying at peoples Christmas lights and rating each one out of ten. Laughing at some of the horrific blow up Santa's and snowmen in people's gardens, or the broken ho ho ho lights which now look like they're simply calling passers by an explicit name...

🐇your walk home takes ten times longer than it should because you're drunk and cosy feeling and you keep stopping for a snog and an "missed you so fuckin much"

🐇him being a fucking idiot and insisting that you leave a carrot out for Rudolph, realising that there are no carrots in the house so leaving Rudolph a thimble of whiskey instead...

🐇drunkenly scooping you up and carrying you up to bed, dropping you down kind of clumsily on the mattress, crawling above you with a proper cheeky grin on his face before letting him fall onto you and squishing you so that your squealing and giggling threatens to wake the neighbours.

🐇 he's knackered but he's still like an excitable wee boy on Christmas, keeps waking you up just as you're drifting off, teasing you with stupid questions, asking you if you think you've been a good girl this year or whether you think you're on the naughty list. When you ask him what he thinks he pauses for a minute, gives you that mischievous smirk again and tells you he reckons you're both on the naughty list...

🐇waking up the next morning with slight hangovers, you're definitely feeling a little bit rough and the last thing you want to do is move... Luckily for you you don't have to, Sam's got his arms tight around you and he isn't letting go for the world...

🐇spending the first hour of Christmas morning tucked up cuddling in your bed, he perhaps gets out of bed to make you both a brew and bring your stockings up to bed... Opening presents in bed, in your jammies, behaving like kids seeing who can throw their wrapping paper furthest.

🐇I feel like Sam thinks he's shite at buying Christmas presents and always really stresses about what he's going to buy you... Always worries it won't be good enough or that you won't really like it...

🐇in the run up to Christmas he probably frets about it and phones his mam asking for help, probably gets a halfhearted affectionate earful about how he should know what to buy his own girlfriend.

🐇but the gifts he's bought you are all perfect, cosy pjs, lush bath bombs and other little luxuries, your favourite chocolates, a bottle of wine, some vinyls and a book.

🐇and if he's feeling particularly like spoiling you a necklace from Swarovski for you to wear and never take off.

🐇you're accidentally late to his mum's house for Christmas lunch and you definitely get absolutely roasted by his family for being dirty stopouts who turn up to Christmas lunch hungover...

🐇Sam reverts to bring so teenage and laidback around his family, messing around with his younger cousins, him and his brother winding one another up... And when you see him holding the newest addition to the family, falling asleep on the sofa with a wee baby in his arms after dinner, you can't help how broody it makes you feel...

🐇spending boxing day in your jammies, barely shifting from the sofa living off left over deserts and Quality Street for days.

🐇so many opportunities for cosy kisses and snuggles under a blanket on the settee.

[liesmyth]

Asking because I don’t know how to tag properly/don’t have enough tlt brainrot followers on my own blog: I had this revelation that New Rho Could be short for “New Rhodesia” which would say a LOT about the original colonists of the planet (the trillionaires(?))

ooh this is juicy! For context: "Rhodesia" was the name given to Zimbabwe and Zambia by the British, after Cecil Rhodes (you may know him from the Rhodes scholarship. also the imperialism)

I started replying to this and it went horribly long so I'm gonna put it under a cut. My tldr is that I don't think it's a direct reference, both because of naming patterns in TLT and because I don't think the trillionaires who escaped earth would be referencing Cecil Rhodes on purpose, but I also don't think it's a wild leap to make.

I'm throwing this in the tags and I'm 👀 to know what people think.

On the name

I always assumed that New Rho was a reference to the greek word / letter Rho (ρ). This would fit both the naming patterns of the Houses (which are partly inspired by classical mythology) AND what little we see of the naming patterns of BoE, who apparently like to name places after ancient or mythological locations on Earth — see also: Lemuria, Ctesiphon wing, Troia cell.

Note that we actually don't know for sure whether "New Rho" is the name given to the planet by the locals or by the Houses — the only person who actually uses that name is Ianthe during her speech, so it may very well be the case that the Empire renamed New Rho unilaterally, and the name doesn't reflect what its actual inhabitants call it. I don't believe that's the case (because, again, it fits with other naming patterns BoE seem to have + to a lesser extent, I think there would have been hints in the text if that had been the case, extra jeerings from the crowd or whatever if they felt strongly that their planet had another name) I'm just bringing this up here for completion's sake.

About the trillionaires:

I've given a lot of thought to the demographic of the TLT fleet. Although IDK how widespread of an opinion this is in the fandom but, personally, I feel pretty strongly that the bunch of ultra-rich people who would have fleed Earth leaving everyone to die would NOT have been the kind of demographic keen to reference British colonialism.

Like, I think it's important to note that the "first wave" of ships that launched from Earth didn't seem to include ANY major politician from a Western country that we know of — they managed until the last moment to keep up the pretence that it was "just" the first of many trips, and to me the lack of panic points to the fact that many public figures weren't on board. The world leader John puppeteers is heavily implied to be the US president, and even he wouldn't have been on board. John's flashback arc pits him very strongly against the global north, but more than that — imo, it's telling that the only sympathetic governments he could get to listen to him were the NZ government and parts of Oceania. It wasn't just John vs. the West, or John vs. OECD countries. It was John vs. the uber-wealthy, and those exist all over the world.

What I'm getting at is: that the trillionaires weren't overwhelmingly white. Many of them would have been USamerican or British or European, but so many people on board those ships would have been Chinese, Indian, Middle Eastern, Russian, Thai etc. I'm thinking about 2024 data on List of countries by share of income of the richest one percent and List of cities by # of billionaires (keeping in mind also that in the NtN flashback arc, the stock market has crashed and the economy is in shambles. I would also assume that many Silicon Valley / tech fortunes have dramatically shrunk, and most "trillionaires" would be people who materially control access to resources.)

Basically what I'm getting at is that, TO ME, the TFL fleet was an escape pod put together by a group of people who had the means to decide they should save themselves and fuck everyone else, rather than a colonising project, and that most of them wouldn't be in a rush to identify themselves with the British empire. Many of them, maybe even a majority, wouldn't be white. They're the scifi equivalent of French noblemen fleeing the revolution. Uber-privileged people who became refugees.

Anyway. This is a book.

Everything I've written above explains why, TO ME, whoever on those ships made it out alive + successfully colonised a plane wouldn't be thinking about the British Empire in an especially positive light. However! TLT as a story doesn't exist in a vacuum, and Taz Muir (who exists in the world, and lives in Oxford) would 100% know who Cecil Rhodes is. I can absolutely believe that she settled on a Greek-mythology-inspired naming pattern and then, out of all the available options, decided to reference the colonialist whose statue got removed while she was writing the book.

[doyoueverwonderwhy]

Suggestions re: Christmas dinner for 2?

We somehow got everything to work out such that my family is gathering December 23 (for a "everybody bring your favorite appetizers" party) and Greg's family is doing Christmas eve (for Chinese take-out at grandma's house), so we'll be back home and just the two of us for Christmas day. 😯

Special day breakfast is always Biscuits and Gravy, and I'll probably just do some snacky stuff for the day, but I'm struggling with what to make for dinner. Front runner is a Cranberry Pot Roast with mashed potatoes, green beans gremolata, and some kind of panna cotta for dessert.

I have a well stocked and equipped kitchen, above-average home cook skills, and not much else planned for the day so I'm open to any suggestions.

What would you make?

[asiafundmanagers27]

China's Electric Vehicle Market: Powering the Future with Cleaner Energy

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[jillepathy]

3.13.23

Jill’s Chicken Pot Pie

Happy Pi Day eve y’all! 🥧

Ingredients

For the broth:

Bone-in, skin-on chicken breast 🐓 (1 1/2 lbs)

Bell pepper 🫑 (1/2 pepper, chopped)

Shallot 🌰 (1, sliced)

Carrot 🥕 (1, chopped)

Better than Bouillon 🥣 (vegetable, 2 tsp)

Filtered water 💦 (2 cups)

Rubbed sage 🌿 (2 tsp)

Salt 🧂(pinch)

Bay leaf 🍃 (1)

For the gravy:

Butter 🧈 (2 Tablespoons)

Avocado oil 🥑 (2 Tablespoons)

Celery (2 stalks, diced)

Carrot 🥕 (4, peeled and diced)

Potato 🥔 (1 red, peeled and diced)

Onion 🧅 (1/2 yellow, diced)

Chinese Five Spice (2 teaspoons)

White sugar (2 1/2 teaspoons)

Chinese cooking wine 🍶 (a splash)

Turmeric (1 teaspoon)

Corn starch 🌽 (1 Tablespoon)

Filtered water 💧 (1 Tablespoon)

For the crust:

Pillsbury double crust 🥧 (the kind you unravel, thawed)

Rice 🌾 (long grain, 1/2 cup)

Egg 🥚 (1)

Filtered water 💧 (1 Tablespoon)

Instructions

Place whole chicken breast into medium stock pot along with the shallot, carrot, and bell pepper.

Add Better than Bouillon, salt, bay leaf, and sage to the stock pot.

Cover the chicken and veg mixture with filtered water.

Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer on low heat for 30 minutes or until chicken is cooked through (I simmered 50 minutes for a frozen breast).

Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375° Fahrenheit and lay one of the thawed pie crusts over a glass pie plate.

Place a paper coffee filter in the center of the pie crust and weigh down with the long grain rice.

Bake for 20 minutes, then remove from oven and let cool.

Lower oven temperature to 350° Fahrenheit.

Remove chicken breast from stock pot and shred with a fork, discarding bones and cartilage. Set aside.

Strain solids from the stock pot, reserving 2 cups of broth.

In a saucepan, melt butter and avocado oil over medium-low heat. Season with salt.

Add the onion, carrot, celery, and potato to oil/butter mixture. Season with sugar and Chinese five spice powder. Sauté over medium heat for a few minutes or until fragrant.

Add 1 1/2 cups of broth to the saucepan along with the reserved shredded chicken, a splash of Chinese cooking wine, and turmeric.

Lower heat to low and allow mixture to simmer for 10 minutes, covered.

Whisk water and corn starch together in a small bowl.

When vegetables are soft, turn off heat. Stir corn starch/water mixture into saucepan until gravy reaches desired thickness.

Use the remaining 1/2 cup broth to thin mixture if needed.

Pour gravy mixture into pre-baked crust and spread evenly with a spatula.

Layer the unbaked pie crust on top of the gravy, crimping the edges closed with your fingers.

Whisk together water and egg to make an egg wash.

Brush egg wash in a thin layer onto the top pie crust.

Cut four diagonal vents in the middle of the top crust using a pairing knife, making an X shape.

Bake for 45 minutes or until top crust is golden brown. Let cool.

Enjoy!

10/10 would make again! 😋

[magpiejay1234]

Another issue with China is that they are trying to revive the real estate sector quite hard.

Chinese stock market remains stagnant, despite recent stock movements, so real estate remains the main force for investment, and basically burying money.

If this goes on, future real estate crashes for every decade seem inevitable.

China isn't in leadership for services, where most of USA's highest market cap companies are, so beyond humanoid robots, and further expansion of tech there isn't much of a room for manufacturing left, at least for the mass consumer markets,

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Second issue with Chinese EVs' rise is that this will likely pressure European banks as well, since significant revenue streams they had were the car loans. With that shrinking, the only logical routes will likely be either luxury goods (where European companies are dominant), or more oil (and not other fossil fuels, or commodities).

This will cause significant issues for both renewables, and utilities.

Insurance companies will likely instead need to focus on real estate, and health, but since there isn't much demand for either in Europe due to declining populations, this would mean these companies wold have to expand abroad.

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Iranian-backed militias have attacked American installations and forces in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan some 170 times.

Ostensibly, these terrorist groups claim they are hitting US forces to coerce America into dropping its support of Israel and demanding a cease-fire in the Gaza war.

In reality, these satellite terrorists are being directed in a larger effort by Iran to pry the US. out of the Middle East, in the manner of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing.

That way, Iran will be free to fulfill its old dream of becoming a nuclear shield for a new Shiite/Persian terrorist axis from Tehran to Damascus to Beirut to the West Bank and Gaza—surrounding Israel and intimidating the Gulf regimes and more moderate states like Jordan and Egypt into concessions.

These Iranian appendages have made a number of unfortunately correct assumptions about America in general and the Biden administration in particular.

One, after the recent serial humiliations of the flight from Afghanistan, the passivity of watching a Chinese spy balloon traverse with impunity the continental United States, the mixed American signals on the eve of the Ukraine war, the troubled Pentagon’s recruitment and leadership lapses, and the destruction of the US southern border, both Iran and its surrogates feel that the United States either cannot or will do much of anything in response to their aggression.

They see the U.S. military short thousands of recruits, its leadership politicized, its munition stocks depleted by arms shipments to Ukraine and Israel, and the massive abandonment of weapons in Kabul.

Two, they view Joe Biden’s serial appeasement as a force multiplier of these perceptions of American weakness. After entering office, the Biden administration begged for a renewed Iran deal from a preening theocracy. It sought to ensure calm by delisting the Houthis from global terrorist designations and sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Hamas and radical Palestinians to buy good behavior.

Biden may have agreed that Iran was the spider in the center of the Middle East Islamic terrorist web, but only thereby to win over it with bribes such as lifting embargoes and sanctions to ensure an Iranian windfall of $90 or more billion in oil sales revenue.

Biden greenlighted a bribery payment of $6 billion to Iran to return American hostages, thereby ensuring more will be taken. It loudly distanced itself from the Netanyahu government. The gulf encouraged radicals to believe they could coerce Israel into accepting radical Islamic states on the West Bank and Gaza.

Three, after hitting American stations and bases 170 times and seeing little sustained, much less disproportionate, responses, Iran and its satellites now feel they are winning proxy wars with the US.

They have all but shut down the Red Sea as an international shipping route—damaging Europe, Egypt, and Israel, which all depend on Red Sea commerce for vital imports and exports.

Iran has forced Biden to publicly alienate the Netanyahu government and push a ceasefire down Israel’s throat. And it has helped to spark international pro-Hamas protests throughout Europe and the US that timid and compliant left-wing governments fear could lose them close elections.

But most damaging are administration spokesmen who mouth the same empty script after each serial attack: 1) The US will respond at the time and place of its own choosing. 2) The US finds no direct evidence of Iranian involvement, although it clearly has supplied the attackers; 3) The US does not wish a wider war and has no plans to attack Iran itself.

Translated to our enemies, it means an 80-year-old non-compos-mentis president is in no position to prevent, much less win, a theater-wide Middle East war that his own serial appeasement has now nearly birthed.

Biden and the Democratic Party know, as National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan pointed out just prior to the October 7 attacks on Israel, that the administration inherited a deterred and quiet Middle East. And then it blew up on their appeasing watch.

Now they are terrified of a theater-wide conflict breaking out during an election year—a fact known to all of America’s Middle East enemies.

Biden and company have forgotten the ancient wisdom that preparing loudly only for peace guarantees war. To prevent war, it should return to oil sanctions on Iran, embargo its banking transactions, slap a travel ban on Iran and its allies, cut off all aid to Hamas and the West Bank, and restore a true terrorist designation for the Houthis.

US officials must stop aimlessly babbling. If the administration must speak, Washington should do so by conveying disproportionality and unpredictability. And if, and when, America were to strike, it should do so in silent and devastating fashion.

When serially attacked, loudly responding that we will only proportionally strike back and wish no wider war will only ensure a big, ugly one.

[falseandrealultravival]

The Lies about EV（BEV）: Popularization Reports in Japan (Essay)

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Currently, the popularity of EVs is declining on a global scale. BYD, which boasts the world's largest production volume, surpassing Tesla, has a mountain of unsold EVs in stock. Volvo and Volkswagen, which had planned to focus their car production on EVs, have both retracted their plans.

The reason why EVs were originally intended to be a standard model in the EU was to exclude Toyota cars, as the EU could not compete with Toyota in gasoline vehicles. However, they have been overtaken by Chinese cars, which are also of color, and they have hastily imposed tariffs. Tesla sales have fallen in the USA, while hybrid cars are selling well.

In the first place, EVs are little more than personal computers, and it is easy for various companies to enter the market, but they cannot compete with gasoline vehicles in terms of sophistication and stability. Japan is trying to popularize EVs by offering subsidies, but whether it is Tesla or BYD, they barely sell in Japan. This is because EVs are not attractive to Japanese people, who have a discerning eye for cars. EVs have fatal problems with their batteries and cannot replace gasoline engine vehicles. EVs cannot be reused. However, the Japanese media ignores these problems and promotes the idea that EVs are the only future. Isn't this biased reporting?

Rei Morishita

2024.12.19

日本におけるEV普及報道の虚偽（エッセイ）

現在、世界規模で、EVの普及に陰りが見えている。テスラを抜いて世界一の生産量を誇るBYDも、EVの売れない在庫の山である。EV一本に自動車の生産を絞るとしていたボルボもフォルクスワーゲンも、その方針を撤回した。

そもそもEVをEUでの統一車種としょうとしたのは、エンジン車ではトヨタに太刀打ちできないEUがトヨタ車を締め出すためだった。でも同じ有色人種の中国車に席巻されて大慌てで関税を掛けている。USAでもテスラの売れ行きは落ち、ハイブリッド車はよく売れている。

そもそもEVは、パーソナルコンピューターに毛の生えたもので、いろいろな異種業者が参入しやすいが、その精緻さ、安定性においてエンジン車には勝てない。日本では補助金を付けてEVを普及させようとしているが、テスラにせよBYDにせよ、日本ではほとんど売れない。自動車を見る目の肥えた日本人には、EVが魅力的ではないからだ。EVは致命的な諸問題をバッテリーに抱えており、エンジン車の代替品にはならない。EVは、再利用も出来ない。でも日本のメディアは、これらの問題を無視して、EVにのみ未来があるように喧伝している。これは偏向報道ではないか。

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Wall Street Rallies, Yields Weaken, USD Down

US stocks rallied on Wednesday, helped by falling treasury yields, as worries over trade tensions eased slightly and investors focused back on corporate earnings.

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Treasury yields weakened as traders digested a big batch of US data. Ahead of Friday's key January non-farm payrolls data, the latest ADP report showed private payrolls increased by 183,000 during the first month of 2025, above forecasts of 148,000, while the December total was upwardly revised by 54,000 to 176,000.

Meanwhile, the December US trade deficit was larger than expected, with the actual trade balance deficit at $98.4 billion, a significant increase from the forecasted figure of $96.5 billion and well above the previous figure of $78.9 billion.

And the Institute of Supply Management’s non-manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) report indicated a slower growth rate, coming in at 52.8, below the forecasted figure of 54.2.

On foreign exchanges, the US dollar retreated again, having been on the backfoot since the Trump administration did a deal with both Canada and Mexico to delay the introduction of their trade tariffs. The dollar Index was 0.3% lower, falling back from a three-week high seen at the start of the week.

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At the stock market close in New York, the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrials Average was up 0.7% at 44,873, while the broader S&P 500 index added 0.4% at 6,061, and the tech-laden Nasdaq Composite rose 0.2% to 19,692.

A recovery by Nvidia helped tech issues bounce back, with the AI chip giant gaining 5.4%.

Fellow tech giant Apple ended off earlier lows, down just 0.1% after reports that Chinese regulators are considering whether to open a formal probe into the iPhone giant’s App Store fees and policies.

But Google-owner Alphabet dropped 6.9% after its fourth-quarter revenue – released after-hours on Tuesday - missed expectations, especially on disappointing earnings from its cloud division, which is closely tied to AI.

And Advanced Micro Devices shed 6.3% after its fourth-quarter data center revenue came in at $3.9 billion, below consensus expectations of $4.15 billion.

Elsewhere with earnings, Uber Technologies lost 7.6% after the ride-hailing and food delivery giant forecast current-quarter bookings below estimates.

Snapchat parent Snap fell 8.4% despite the social-media company posting a surprise quarterly profit and higher-than-expected revenue, with some analysts highlighting concerns about user growth and an app transition rollout.

Walt Disney shed 2.4% after the entertainment company reported a loss of subscribers at its Disney+ streaming service, even as it posted better-than-anticipated first-quarter earnings.

Ford Motor lost 1.5% after the car firm reported fourth-quarter earnings that surpassed Wall Street expectations but its electric vehicle (EV) division posted a steep loss and the automaker warned of increasing challenges ahead.

But Mattel surged 15.3% higher after the toy company reported earnings ahead of consensus estimates late Tuesday thanks to higher margins, with sales slightly ahead of expectations.

With commodities, gold prices hit another record high at $2,877 an ounce amid safe haven buying in the face of Trump war worries.

However, oil prices were lower on trade concerns and after higher-than-expected US crude inventories data raised worries over consumption levels in the world’s largest consumer.

US crude stocks rose by just over 5 million barrels in the week ended January 31, according to American Petroleum Institute data, while gasoline inventories rose by a similar amount.

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US WTI crude dropped 2.1% to $71.18 a barrel, while UK Brent crude shed 1,8% at $74.63 a barrel.

Meanwhile, the price of Bitcoin fell by 0.3% to around $97,450, with the key cryptocurrency failing to sustain gains above the key $100,000 level, amid the escalating US-China trade tensions.

However, analysts at Standard Chartered believe Bitcoin can hit $500,000 before President Donald Trump leaves office in four-years’ time, citing increased investor access and declining volatility as key drivers.

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