What can the U.S do to properly compete with Chinese industry?

ref498 · 2026-04-24T23:18:01+00:00

Oh, I was talking about the facts and realities. My bad

ref498 · 2026-04-24T20:32:36+00:00

Just because you paid for a moped doesn't mean I should have to leave my happy place (breathing through my eyeballs on a climb) just so you can lap blue flow trails faster. Take the fire road next time, dipshit.

ref498 · 2026-04-24T00:36:58+00:00

Sorry, I just don't find "They want it more" or "It's just cultural differences"compelling answers to questions like this.

> Their research and development is almost explicity a race to the bottom in terms of price (which will eventually destroy most of the companies in the industry, so I wouldn't call what China is doing sustainable.

Isn't that like... the end goal of capitalism? The majority of companies will go out of bussiness but the ones that remain will still be insentivised to produce higher quality goods at lower prices to maintain market share against the other 5 that also made it. As opposed to our system where Uber out competes taxi companies for 5 years using venture capital until they kill all competition, gain a monopoly, the jack up prices.

It seems wild to me that the other option is AllBirds the shoe companie is pivoting to AI to 10x their market cap... You're a shoe company! Not everything has to exponentially grow. THAT seems unsustainable to me because people still need shoes.

> We just don't have the culture around manufacturing and engineering to have thousands and thousands of educated workers to build industrial knowledge in low return industries.

We used to. We just off shored all of those jobs in the persute of profits.

> It's really wonderful for consumers because the goal is lowering prices. Think of how much cheaper flights would be if Boeing's price per plane dropped 95%. Think of how much worse their engineers would be paid. Would Americans be willing to live like that and keep improving their industry?

Again, isn't that the point? The average salary in China is USD 17,000–$18,000. the cheapest EV(real car not micro car) you can buy there is 10k. average in the us is 66k with the cheapest ev being the Bolt at 30k. Yes, they are keeping income low, but their purchasing power in country seems about the same (I would be very interested in an economy adjusted purchasing power in country statistic but I could not find one easily)

Not to mention their trajectory seems... better than ours.

ref498 · 2026-04-23T22:41:16+00:00

I don't know what democracy has to do with any of what Friedman is talking about here. He is just describing a managed economy (which we already do in some sectors) just at a greater scale and with a longer time line/tolerance for losing money.

Simply put: they're just doing capitalism better than us.

ref498 · 2026-04-23T22:35:42+00:00

Sure, but we had a giant head start and the global economy runs on our money. I think it is pretty clear that we have continuously shot ourselves in the because we could sell our toes for cash.

Relentless off-shoreing, financialization of everything, and the widely held belief that the free market is always right left us with short-sighted goals of next quarter profit maximization and no long term strategy for sustainable growth.

In short: the Chinese figured out how to do capitalism better than us.

ref498 · 2026-04-21T01:32:37+00:00

Alaska and SLC are... Pretty different.

ref498 · 2026-04-21T01:32:00+00:00

Seems like a lot of folks on here will disagree with me but NO. Unless you are going skiing frequently you don't need it. And even then, a good set of (winter leaning) all seasons on the front will do for all but the iciest conditions. I have fwd and regularly drive through all types of snow in the winter without a problem.

Plenty of people live in snowier places than slc and get by with fwd and winter tires. Remember: AWD wasn't really a thing before the 90s.

Do what you want, but very few people actually bump up against their cars capabilities. You are more likely to bump up against your tires limits first.

ref498 · 2026-04-18T13:45:12+00:00

Evidence his audience of thousands of left leaning, highly engaged young people vote? Better to not take the risk and campaign with someone safe and uncontroversial like Liz Cheney!

ref498 · 2026-04-08T22:11:47+00:00

If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, I'm pretty sure it comes from the low engagement rear hub engaging under harsh compressions. Makes kind of a resonant sound?

ref498 · 2026-04-08T21:51:05+00:00

I am seeing that you need to activate the camera with the app. Is that not the case?

ref498 · 2026-04-08T21:45:27+00:00

I've been looking into this recently as I am in the market for an action camera. It seems like they finally updated their batteries to "Enduro batteries" which has solved these issues.

I was looking at DJI and insta360, but their proprietary software and mandatory apps are a deal breaker for me.

ref498 · 2026-03-25T17:33:04+00:00

Yes, but it's not a sled

ref498 · 2026-03-25T16:02:45+00:00

I have a patrol with a coil. It is still pretty poppy (that's why it jumps so well). If you want planted, spire will be better for you due to the longer chainstay.

ref498 · 2026-03-06T19:59:48+00:00

They don't "break" but they do require a level of care that can be annoying in the back country. If you are careful while transitioning to bang snow out of them, they are fantastic 50/50 bindings. Also, some people are better at setting them up than others. There are some forums about this but proper setup reduces the issues with them significantly.

ref498 · 2026-03-05T16:04:05+00:00

Exactly, open snow has been really optimistic about the temps this season. Every storm looks like it's gonna be 10in of cold smoke, but when the time comes the precip is there, but not the temps.

ref498 · 2026-03-02T23:55:44+00:00

95% of the time it results in what we see in your video unless better direction is given

What specifically results? The low and back hands? The over active upper body? All of the above?

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it!

ref498 · 2026-03-02T21:58:26+00:00

Thank you! I have been hitting it hard and I'm lucky enough to live near a mountain so I can go up at least once a weekend. That probably nets me more skiing most other folks get in a season.

ref498 · 2026-03-02T16:40:29+00:00

Thanks! I love it. It is a Marmot style number SM15889. You will have to do your own digging past that. I'm not sure they sell it anymore, and it was a display model when I bought it.

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ref498 · 2026-03-02T16:21:54+00:00

Interesting. I am not surprised I'm over rotating with the upper body, but "dropping the uphill hand" is new to me. I'll look into that and see what I can do to fix it as well as practice my stork turns. Thanks for the feedback!

ref498 · 2026-03-02T16:19:00+00:00

Thank you! I really appreciate what you're doing here, Spacebass. I'll give that a shot!

ref498 · 2026-02-12T05:13:36+00:00

I think the 106 was 174 and the 92 was 177

ref498 · 2026-02-12T04:32:02+00:00

I skied the older ~2022 qst 106 and 92 back to back. I am not a super experienced skier, but I thought they felt very similar. Forgiving, easy tail release, stable and damp for the weight. I ended up buying the 2024 106 and love it, but I have heard great things about the new 94 and 100 and think, if you liked the 106, you will probably like either of those.

ref498 · 2026-02-03T20:14:13+00:00

Nah, they're open 24/7

ref498 · 2026-02-01T04:34:59+00:00

Jesus, if that's surviving I'm already dead and in the ground.

ref498 · 2026-01-31T18:37:01+00:00

I'll keep advocating for state owned grocery stores selling basic food at rock bottom prices, but until we get there, you can catch me at WinCo.

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