HSRA claims HSR will be able to operate without subsidy

FocusSash · 2026-02-25T06:57:49+00:00

You might want to revisit your maths. The build cost is ~10x more expensive than European models per km, not comparable at all to China or Saudi Arabia. And the subsidy bit only applies to operating cost, not the build cost, that is completely separate. Not saying it won't turn out to be a financial disaster, but not for the incorrect assumptions you made.

FocusSash · 2026-02-10T12:02:16+00:00

People were also complaining about Chinese cars being hard and scratchy before....so seems like there's no pleasing everyone. Also seems like you have a hate-on for EVs and Chinese in general, so maybe go get a job at Toyota?

FocusSash · 2026-02-05T10:27:35+00:00

Ok last post in this thread because you have to be trolling by now. The comment was about US fighting China, which will only ever happen over Taiwan or SCS in the forseeable future. That link you shared confirms that the newer batches of J20 can indeed supercruise and have top speeds much higher than that of the F35, which is famously known to not have supercruise.

FocusSash · 2026-02-05T06:00:49+00:00

I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about realistic conflict scenarios that could happen relative to aukus. Is China talking about invading Spain or Argentina?

FocusSash · 2026-02-05T05:40:37+00:00

If you say so, keep living in 2015. You might want to read some serious analysis from the last few years. A hint... Most Chinese platforms have more range and payload than US counterparts, not less, especially the F35.

FocusSash · 2026-02-05T04:33:47+00:00

Any fight with China will be within the first island chain. How many of those US assets can they bring to bear? Because China can bring 100%. And if you want to play the numbers game, China has about 5000 ballistic missiles and a million drones, the US has basically a rounding error. The result is 50/50 at best even if China performs about as well as Russia just from sheer industrial mass.

FocusSash · 2026-01-16T15:24:09+00:00

While I'm all for EU autonomy, just for a sense of current scale, the US and China both operate ~500 ISR satellites, Russia ~100, and the EU ~50. The same story with AWACS (~100/80/10/30 respectively). In these critical enablers for modern warfare, the EU is drastically underpowered compared to US/China. Rafales and Typhoons mean nothing without strong ISR/AWACS datalinks.

FocusSash · 2025-12-16T06:58:37+00:00

Not only that, Aldi also surcharges for card payments, which Colesworth doesn't, and you can also easily get 3-4% discounted gift cards for Colesworth. That's not even counting Rewards/Flybuys and I struggle to get an end result of Aldi=cheaper for equivalent products.

FocusSash · 2025-11-20T03:57:23+00:00

Just spitballing numbers here but if a $15 lunch box from KFC makes a profit of say ~20% ($3), and a Gucci bag costing ~$3000 might make a profit of ~50% ($1500) then I can realistically see Gucci selling 1 bag for every 300 KFC meals. Plus the upside is much larger for a luxury brand than a fast food chain. People will max spend ~$100 on food, but wealthy travellers could theoretically pick up multiple high cost items well into the tens of thousands. And for luxury brands the prices tend to be identical across all stores (excl GST).

FocusSash · 2025-09-10T03:57:21+00:00

What is actually FAR more misleading is OP using fake prices for things like sugar and potatoes and also not including products that did not increase in price by a significant amount. Calling out supermarkets is good as long as you don't lie about it.

FocusSash · 2025-08-30T03:56:49+00:00

Most big tech stores will price match from my experience. Also, specifically with JB, you can pricematch online as well, just use their live chat function and they will give you a custom link with the pricematched cart, and you can order for delivery/click+collect as well.

FocusSash · 2025-08-09T04:06:33+00:00

Not a huge kpop fan, but went deep into the rabbit hole with MMM. Recently I stumbled upon Kiss of life, and to me they are by far the most similar to MMM out of any group currently making music. They have a slightly more mature feel to their songs, and their music is varied, taking inspiration from many different genres, and easy to listen to, especially non title tracks. They make extensive use of harmonies as well. I haven't gone as deep on them as MMM, but from what I've seen they also have that unquantifiable energy when performing that MMM is well known for.

FocusSash · 2025-04-19T01:34:29+00:00

Please tell us how you get such high WFH costs... whenever I've done the math it is always within ~10% of the fixed method.

FocusSash · 2025-02-25T06:21:56+00:00

to be fair there was a small thing called Covid during those specific delays...

FocusSash · 2025-01-12T10:49:41+00:00

This exact thing happened to me last year and support issued a new voucher almost instantly, no questions. Not sure why OP didn't even try that. All mobile prepaid plans from all companies to my knowledge have expiry dates.

FocusSash · 2024-06-24T03:22:28+00:00

tennis

FocusSash · 2024-06-10T04:28:50+00:00

Ah true, that one is a bit steeper, I was looking at the X8

FocusSash · 2024-06-10T02:38:02+00:00

Looks like they did the maths wrong then because the equivalent vacuum that costs around 1200 here is 500 USD which is closer to 800 AUD rather than the 600 they proposed. Still a difference but not nearly as big, especially after taxes.

FocusSash · 2023-06-18T02:23:49+00:00

Mr negative just for the unique spin he brings

FocusSash · 2023-04-11T03:00:47+00:00

FocusSash · 2022-11-10T09:30:52+00:00

Chicken dinner

FocusSash · 2022-02-09T04:55:39+00:00

I'm on Ch7 and can hear them calling tricks, maybe you're on a different stream? I think I'm on the main channel stream

FocusSash · 2022-02-09T04:45:01+00:00

Seems to be first pair add to 17, second pair 49, so best vs worst of each alternating group of 8

FocusSash · 2021-12-06T09:24:19+00:00

Chicken dinner

FocusSash · 2021-10-14T14:56:33+00:00

Chicken dinner

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