I would actually love to see Saudi Arabia take the lead on food engineering. They might lack fresh water, but they have immense amounts of land and sun to play with.

The only alternative I can see is a mass reforestation project.

Mexico should know better. This is just how the US treats allies that aren't geopolitically significant like Canada and Mexico.

Are people ignoring that Russia is substantially more populated than Ukraine? Ukraine isn't winning a war of attrition.

Then India and North Korea should be on the Security Council 🤷‍♀️

Turns out the French embassy either serves croissants or military rations... And the Nigeriens took the croissants.

That's not really how it works

From first-hand experience, Vancouver downtown Eastside does have needles everywhere. Then again, nobody really walks through downtown Eastside, so I guess it's fine.

When has austerity ever worked?

Impressive if they can get a stronghold there.

The fact that a 30 day vacation is seen as privileged is a failure of the US.

Semiconductors are hard.

First you need the lithography machines (ASML). Then you need the process development (TSMC, Samsung, Intel). Then you need the EDA tools (Synopsys, Cadence).

SMEE announced a 28nm-capable lithography machine, SMIC has a gimped 7nm process, and Huawei has EDA tools capable down to 14nm.

However, necessity is the mother of invention. I'm expecting the next few years to see an explosion in specialized hardware coming out of Chinese companies.

I guess Washington Post is Russian propaganda now...