Be mindful of the distinction between ‘births per year’ and ‘births per woman:’
Ceteris paribus, births per year could decrease due to demographics alone.

(I don’t like the label ‘fertility rate’ because it shifts the blame on biology, like eggs or sperm count, which arguably did not change.)

However, reportedly both are slumping in Japan.

Comparing this to how venture capitalists do their due-diligence before investing, and regularly check fundamentals and viability of their investment after that: In many aspects they serve as additional directors.

Star Citizen makes a good case-study for why regulation is needed when mass-markets are addressed: Individuals are not granted that insight easily, the power-gradient is extremely tilted.

Also, but that’s just me, the press should get serious and start the clock on every game once it’s collecting money from the public: Doesn’t matter if you call it beta, alpha, early release—after N years your grace period is up, a line drawn; review and score whatever is tangible.

I recall having seen ‘chocolate pizza’ some time ago.

Half of the country was occupied by the Brits and US.

Also, fun fact: Cartographers, to spot copy-cats, frequently add figments into their works. Like an insignificant path that’s never been there and no reasonable person would want to walk, or cities that never existed nor anyone would ever want to visit. Bielefeld, for example. Dr. Oetker is such a product for ALDI.

Bonus: Germans have discounters with funny names such as Hit and Jawoll! (with exclamation point). The latter has the largest selection of industrial chemistry. You literally can find gallons of pure acid a shelf away from chocolate.

This could come down to a misunderstanding how those “weight jabs” work, one that’s maybe intentionally pushed by advertisments.

Jabs alone won’t do it, you will need to change your lifestyle (sleep, stress, environmental stressors…), eating habits (also because solid food will linger in your digestive tract way longer), and still work out: On a jab-regime alone you will be losing not only fat but also muscles that’ll need extra effort to be retained. So, you need to put attention and effort into the things you would for bodybuilding as well.

If any existed, it would merely be a performance meant distract from the truth.

Never heard ‘kill line’ in the context of gaming. Coming from a sino site it could easily be misunderstood. Maybe there's a better translation or concept? Like, ‘on last hitpoint?’

If this leaves the sphere of shame, and sheds the narrative of personal failure, it could prove to be catalytic.

It’s happening in other industries and other countries all the time, and is often called “benchmark” or “benchmarking.” If you were a cog in a relevant enterprise at the right position, like in engineering/R&D, you’d sometimes get emails with a dossier like “we have disassembled the new [product of a competitor]… weight of all parts… principle component X utilizes….”

Rarely you will see a 100% copy as result. Patents would prevent that, or what suppliers you have access to, or other considerations such as available self-developed components.

In the auto industry the likes of JATO or CareSoft would be the service providers to source reports from.

I can make everything fast if it doesn’t need to be correct.

It used to be food, or rather being depicted as eating, that displayed someone as rich in movies. Eventually it was (and still is) space, as in a spacious home.

(I feel compelled to mention Parasite.)

Now, is this an attempt to position (poor) childless people against other poor people with large families?

This is a video by Inside China Business about “remote sensing,” i. e. geodata collected by satellites in particular. China is launching their own assets into space and were publishing more research while U.S. numbers in particular are declining.

TLDR (reordered):

"The aim is for China to eventually be able to make advanced chips on machines that are entirely China-made. China wants the United States 100% kicked out of its supply chains." — An individual who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity […] Scientists in a top-secret Chinese facility "have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent," With the help of engineers recruited from ASML […] Chinese scientists reportedly "reverse engineered" the firm's extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, or EUVs.

The Manhattan Project was seen as true race to something novel that introduced a (disruptive) inflection point, presented a clear liminal state towards new Nash Equilibria. This now is a feat, but far from the referenced tale: Nobody will “win” a “war” over it.

“Specialized equipment used to manufacture the semiconductor chips for weapons of war, smartphones, and, crucially, AI technology” is not needed for the latter, and indeed smaller node sizes are used in most of it. 5nm or whatever they are supposedly at is not crucial for “AI technology.”

The narrative that’s sprinkled it, engineers for ASML were the saviours, sounds depressoid and belittling of the competence other enterprises and nations can muster. Same with “the U.S. has long leveraged China's chip-making constraints to maintain technological dominance”—maybe China had to outsource chip production, but it’s a building-block down in the stack. Huawei, DJI, and others show the U.S. is struggling to remain competitive.