I was about to ask the same. Surprising to whom? The nafo bots?

Moderately funded jajajaja

Those people are mostly just butthurt they aren’t the beneficiaries of such “cronyism” and think themselves smarter than everyone else, just less well connected. It’s the reason all the ancaps in that hbo documentary with an alias go by John Galt.

The thing I think people don’t think about is it’s really expensive to change your manufacturing process. The transition overseas isn’t just about labor costs, but because you are rebuilding the factory anyways it’s a chance to switch over to a cheaper manufacturing method. You get what you pay for and cheaper methods tend to have cut corners. You can buy high end stuff from China, it’s not like iphones are made there or anything…

There’s a reactionary QBC youtuber, AvE who mostly disassembles power tools and examines the quality of construction, components, and manufacturing methods. He has a teardown of a “Juciero” the $1000 juicer with DRM which is how I found him. He whines about “Chinesium” in the Chinese manufactured tool brands but there’s other “American made” tools on his channel using similar lower-end manufacturing techniques or cutting similar corners.

There’s an interview with Vijay Prashad that comes to largely the same conclusion about superhero movies.

UNRWA is Hamas is a credible but unverifiable accusation? What’s next? Bibi is Hamas?

Don’t forget how ableist they get if you disagree with them.

This is just a gamer (who btw farms montages in low rated btb games) ranting about Trueskill2 based on an out of context paragraph that in context with the rest of the model of skill they are trying to approximate, your teammates’ skill doesn’t really affect your change to win/predicted stats in a given match.

If you want, they have talked about the actual algorithm that then attempts to match players based on their rating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FoG4Jtpebs

It biases towards matches it thinks will be a fair fight between both teams with bounds on the max skill diff between the best and worst players between both teams. And they adjust these bounds with player population throughout the day so you can get into matches quickly. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/truematch/

I know someone whose kid became really irritable and started having aggressive episodes after a head injury. Insurance doesn’t think an MRI is medically relevant.

It makes me so mad when anglos try to gaslight the success of obamacare and how many millions of additional people are “covered” by it.

People who don’t look at or fret the prices at the grocery store.