[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@orikron](/creator/twitter/orikron) "A team of construction workers in China operating excavators remotely. Grueling blue-collar work is now a cushy air-conditioned office job"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1944472389649412487) 2025-07-13 19:01:58 UTC 40.1K followers, 6.4M engagements "🍎 This Chinese Zoomer returned to his mountainous home village with a drone during the harvest cutting transportation costs and time considerably for his uncles"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946144247922430036) 2025-07-18 09:45:20 UTC 40.1K followers, 611.2K engagements "🦺 On Douyin there are hundreds of accounts dedicated to showing what it's like to operate all kinds of industrial machinery"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946635074037809202) 2025-07-19 18:15:43 UTC 40.1K followers, 26.7K engagements "Jack Ma was spotted riding his bicycle bicycle in Hangzhou. Although he has retained his position as CEO his story reminds me of China's Last Emperor who was pardoned after the revolution (despite collaborating with the Japanese) and became a simple gardener"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946064305079693756) 2025-07-18 04:27:41 UTC 40.1K followers, 2.9M engagements "Americans love making excuses for their mediocrity"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1943392810855731495) 2025-07-10 19:32:07 UTC 40.1K followers, 917.1K engagements "@PDXFato @xx7empest Also compare Vietnam to the Philippines. Vietnam got raped by France and the US for decades (war+sanctions) while the Philippines was under US tutelage for XXX years. Vietnam's Communist Party applying a model similar to China has now surpassed the Filos"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946261658365546982) 2025-07-18 17:31:53 UTC 39.6K followers, XXX engagements "China doesn't need to replace its youth with south Asian and African immigrants because it's the world's leader in industrial agricultural and service robots. China will never import cheap labor en masse. It doesn't have to. It can just manufacture it"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1942545732239528228) 2025-07-08 11:26:07 UTC 40.1K followers, 201.4K engagements "China has sold off over half of its US treasury bonds. Dedollarization in progress. China kept the US solvent in 2008. It won't happen when the next big crisis hits"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1947363731303981226) 2025-07-21 18:31:08 UTC 40.1K followers, 4649 engagements "Uncle Bot update: he got all dressed up and went to a Cosplay convention. I think everybody liked his look"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946448928003772421) 2025-07-19 05:56:02 UTC 40.1K followers, 318K engagements "In Shenzhen self-driving delivery robots are now taking the subway during low-ridership hours to stock up chain stores"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945068950443737280) 2025-07-15 10:32:30 UTC 40.1K followers, 49.4K engagements "This British girl passes by her local convenience store every day to learn a bit of Chinese. And she gets a prize when she does well"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946866699464245389) 2025-07-20 09:36:06 UTC 40.1K followers, 1.4M engagements "A Chinese company has developed solar roof tiles. They're significantly more aesthetically pleasing than regular solar panels"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1923780691675795916) 2025-05-17 16:40:33 UTC 40K followers, 1.3M engagements "🔥 There's a guy on Douyin who makes industrial-grade beyblades that light up into flames"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1927460056162816443) 2025-05-27 20:21:02 UTC 40.1K followers, 10.8M engagements "🚢 China is digging through 134km (83 mi) of land to build a canal to the sea by the end of 2026. The mega project will shorten the route between inland Guangxi one of China's developing regions by 560km (350 mi) allowing more manufacturing enterprises to move further inland"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1947318543302770771) 2025-07-21 15:31:34 UTC 40.1K followers, 41.9K engagements "Uncle Bot update POV: You *are* Uncle Bot running around your residential neighborhood in Xi'An. You go to the nearest store to pick up a package for your human"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1947382274108055889) 2025-07-21 19:44:49 UTC 40.1K followers, 16.1K engagements "China just launched a worker-robot that can swap out its own battery at a charging spot and get straight back to work"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946204968794427805) 2025-07-18 13:46:37 UTC 40.1K followers, 220.2K engagements "@opsrc45667125zd It's not legally necessary. And in practice there's usually a dedicated bike lane. Nobody in Central Europe (e.g. Netherlands) wears helmets when they cycle casually. This is more of a thing in North America because the cities have been made unsafe for bikes"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946065254732922941) 2025-07-18 04:31:27 UTC 40.1K followers, 51.4K engagements "It's obviously better. Indians have the world's largest liberal democracy and their country is an underdeveloped shithole with feudal castes. China destroyed the aristocratic landlord class backwards culture and is now a modernizing power that's achieving developed country status without colonialism and genocide like the US and Western Europe"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946261094571372605) 2025-07-18 17:29:39 UTC 39.6K followers, XXX engagements "This woman is using her robot to carry stuff for her"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1942568439136256177) 2025-07-08 12:56:21 UTC 39.9K followers, 30K engagements "The same convenience store owner teaching two chaps how to toast in Chinese"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946936725097296381) 2025-07-20 14:14:22 UTC 40.1K followers, 244.1K engagements "I've seen so many examples of small-business owners in China incentivizing their young ones to study by giving them free stuff. I hated growing up in a community where nearly everybody made fun of those that studied. It was very demoralizing"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946868550968197540) 2025-07-20 09:43:28 UTC 40.1K followers, 48.7K engagements "Hundreds of electric mining trucks operating with full self-driving. China has opened its first 5G-AI mine. Every truck operates on average *21 hours a day* by getting quick battery replacements instead of charging. All of this in -XX degree cold 🥶 Humans can't do that"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1944847368312250396) 2025-07-14 19:52:00 UTC 40.1K followers, 215.6K engagements "His All Eminence Grand Ayatollah and Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ali Khamanei I have only one favor to ask of you"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945443296010031537) 2025-07-16 11:20:01 UTC 39.8K followers, 9263 engagements "The office of Syrian President is now a game of musical chairs. Israel will only expand further into Syria"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945537721365377506) 2025-07-16 17:35:13 UTC 40.1K followers, 5073 engagements "It's so funny how all the Xinjiang stuff (literally X deaths) dissipated in the western media once Israel started committing a full-on genocide and ethnic cleaning with full backing from the same people who were making stuff up"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945453674949431782) 2025-07-16 12:01:15 UTC 40.1K followers, 24.2K engagements "Im moving to China in exactly a month. I'll miss my friends and in-laws here in Italy -- as well as the cats"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1942869684321190178) 2025-07-09 08:53:24 UTC 39.4K followers, 43.9K engagements "They just broke ground on the project. It will generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of the entire United Kingdom or France. Insane"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1947042846214594600) 2025-07-20 21:16:03 UTC 40.1K followers, 51.3K engagements "This is how the solar panels are cleaned at China's massive desert solar farms"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1944809233104408626) 2025-07-14 17:20:28 UTC 39.8K followers, 22.2K engagements "Cyclists in Beijing move over to the side while waiting at a traffic light to let those in a rush safely move to the front. Netizens in the comments pointed out this is somewhat unique to Beijing perhaps because its customs have been shaped by being a modern city for longer"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945914126120661412) 2025-07-17 18:30:55 UTC 40.1K followers, 13.1K engagements "Warehouses in China are already implementing fully-autonomous forklifts"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946545439425097912) 2025-07-19 12:19:32 UTC 40.1K followers, 258.3K engagements "In 11th grade I was sent to the student councilor for defending China's Land Reform Movement during History class including the popular trials and executions. The councilor asked how I had come to have such "far-right" views"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1944460924758499482) 2025-07-13 18:16:25 UTC 40.1K followers, 98.9K engagements "Some construction jobs in China are now becoming XXX% remote"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946249508783792291) 2025-07-18 16:43:37 UTC 40.1K followers, 1.6M engagements "Sinopec is now implementing autonomous refueling robots at their gas stations"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945427429519982937) 2025-07-16 10:16:58 UTC 40.1K followers, 202K engagements "the restaurant should pay me in noodles for the advert"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1944686051865367016) 2025-07-14 09:10:59 UTC 40K followers, 61.8K engagements "🚨 Top XX nations betrayed by their own elites: X. Filipinos X. Indians X. Soviets ☭ X. South Africans X. Nigerians X. Pakistanis X. Arabs ☪ X. Indonesians X. Hispanics 🌯 XX. Brazilians"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945780304331067496) 2025-07-17 09:39:10 UTC 40.1K followers, 78K engagements "The Philippines is an occupied sex-slave and au-pair colony of the West financed by remittances from abroad and their main national priority is to put down the only major Asian nation to have emerged from similar misery. This is national suicide on another level"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945444946724450778) 2025-07-16 11:26:34 UTC 40.1K followers, 64.8K engagements "@Mahamatics Because she lives in a high-trust community. In normal countries kids should be able to go to school by themselves or run errands from around age 5"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946980969191506006) 2025-07-20 17:10:10 UTC 40.1K followers, 25.5K engagements "@robin_j_brooks @joequant God willing let all our enemies be just as smart as you"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946648904541589888) 2025-07-19 19:10:40 UTC 40.1K followers, 3744 engagements "Three things the US has to learn: X. Today China's exports to the US represent only XXX% of China's GDP. X. Only XX% of China's GDP is composed of total exports (down from 35%). X. Most of China's exports today go towards developing countries not developed ones"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1947256308429676581) 2025-07-21 11:24:16 UTC 40.1K followers, 28.4K engagements "Netizens posted photos in the comments of their trip to Beijing. Perhaps all cities in China will adopt these customs as new generations are born and raised entirely in the cities"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945914920840704305) 2025-07-17 18:34:05 UTC 40.1K followers, 4168 engagements "The future is here. Children in China play with their new Unitree robot. The new humanoid robot model by Unitree is now for sale to the public and is being seen all over China now. I'll post some more videos below:"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1942567385552101578) 2025-07-08 12:52:10 UTC 40.1K followers, 580.8K engagements "The Arab nation fumbled harder than any other Eurasian people over the last century. And it's not even close. You either unite and become strong or the predators of this world will pick you off one by one"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945569182902317408) 2025-07-16 19:40:14 UTC 40.1K followers, 47K engagements "If you drive poorly in China the traffic officers *will* talk shit"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946312996541632674) 2025-07-18 20:55:53 UTC 40.1K followers, 176.9K engagements "Uncle Bot update: he's making moves and signing deals you wouldn't believe. But will the fame and the money get to his head"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945812951669014689) 2025-07-17 11:48:53 UTC 40.1K followers, 1.1M engagements "Whenever I post about massive projects like this (which will bring development and quality of life to tens of millions of people in developing regions of China) the first reaction from a lot of Americans is dreaming of destroying it and killing said millions of people"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946996486614515795) 2025-07-20 18:11:50 UTC 40.1K followers, 162.6K engagements "I love the regular event of K-Pop fans finding out that their favorite idols of Chinese origin (including those from HK and Taiwan) don't support US-sponsored separatist movements against their country"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1944080380589437072) 2025-07-12 17:04:16 UTC 40.1K followers, 101.1K engagements "This is something I've only ever seen in Angola Brazil and South Africa. Dark times ahead for North America"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946232007463141407) 2025-07-18 15:34:04 UTC 40.1K followers, 12.4K engagements "An entire group of Chinese tourists had their luggages stolen during a XX minute stop at Pisa. Europe is not safe to travel with a high-trust mindset. Travel as light as you can and have your stuff with you at all times"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945077629184270386) 2025-07-15 11:06:59 UTC 40.1K followers, 23.4K engagements "@KyleTrainEmoji It's called Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR. It's a banger"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1941750333484462314) 2025-07-06 06:45:30 UTC 40.1K followers, 166.9K engagements "This guy in China uses his G1 robot to clean his car "I spent more than 300k ($40k) on you you can't just dance you gotta do some work""  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946342115719471113) 2025-07-18 22:51:36 UTC 40.1K followers, 239.4K engagements "An entire fleet of autonomous delivery robots is being deployed in Hangzhou"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945244567122411571) 2025-07-15 22:10:20 UTC 40.1K followers, 30.5K engagements "Uncle Bot update: he's staying humble despite all the commotion and still finds the time to walk his dog and enjoy the sights of his city"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946079283279225302) 2025-07-18 05:27:12 UTC 40.1K followers, 868.9K engagements "@Mio_Mind Not for long 📈 @RemindMe_OfThis in XX years"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1947003769566437723) 2025-07-20 18:40:46 UTC 40.1K followers, 2496 engagements "Proud robot parents taking their robot kid to school while a woman walks her robot dog (with a groceries basket on top) in front of them"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1942570847564091642) 2025-07-08 13:05:55 UTC 39.6K followers, 24.9K engagements "☀ Italy heatwave update: the traffic lights have melted"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1942559038774075754) 2025-07-08 12:19:00 UTC 39.8K followers, 84K engagements "📈 Breaking: China has posted XXX% growth in the first half of the year with XXX% in the second quarter. China has settled into a multi-year trend of X% growth"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1944983074397151305) 2025-07-15 04:51:15 UTC 39.8K followers, 16.1K engagements "@Vocsolo Enjoy your zionist-managed water. I'm sure they'll make it a bargain"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1947044569364779054) 2025-07-20 21:22:54 UTC 40.1K followers, 59.8K engagements "🚆 You'd be forgiven for thinking it's an airport. Chongqing just opened its brand new Eastern station. You can now make the XX hour car ride to Changsha in only X hours by train. The scale of construction is monumental"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1941720145115660292) 2025-07-06 04:45:32 UTC 40.1K followers, 563K engagements "🚨 China will soon generate more electricity than the US the EU India Russia and Japan *combined.*"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946979851271123220) 2025-07-20 17:05:44 UTC 40.1K followers, 72K engagements "💨 The sheer scale of China's new wind turbines "that eat the sky for breakfast.""  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1943938768555135006) 2025-07-12 07:41:33 UTC 39.8K followers, 12.2K engagements "A Chinese family has already opened a noodle shop in Afghanistan. The Taliban guys seem to like it"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1944430711668142501) 2025-07-13 16:16:22 UTC 40.1K followers, 2.3M engagements "DJI's "Sky City" headquarters in Shenzhen look straight out of sci-fi. XX% of the world's civilian drones are designed by DJI"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1944759882474733755) 2025-07-14 14:04:22 UTC 40.1K followers, 30.3K engagements "🏯 Recently Chinese architects have been developing a neo-traditional look to their builds and I'm all here for it. More countries should do this. Beauty and function can coexist"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946697856762703916) 2025-07-19 22:25:11 UTC 40.1K followers, 17.9K engagements "This newly built campus gym in Tianjin China is something else. What would you call this architectural style"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945448109615558992) 2025-07-16 11:39:08 UTC 40.1K followers, 32.8K engagements "We could solve the homelessness problem in the West in three easy steps: 1-Mandatory rehab for drug addicts 2-Housing and job guarantee (for instance we need way more sanitation workers to clean our littered streets) 3-Immigration strictly tied to high-qualification work/education/marriage This would allow us to enjoy our public services and infrastructure like they do in China or even Japan. We don't have to accept the privatization OR enshitification of everything"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945083883730444749) 2025-07-15 11:31:50 UTC 39.8K followers, 10.1K engagements "China has started building the world's largest hydroelectric power station on the Yarlung-Tsangpo river costing $XXX billion. The station's design capacity will be XX million kilowatts enough to power XX million people. It will have X times the capacity of the Three Gorges"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946810760887259167) 2025-07-20 05:53:50 UTC 40.1K followers, 377.5K engagements "Uncle bot update: he got a bit tired of the city and took a trip to the countryside with his human to go see the animals"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946278580905816508) 2025-07-18 18:39:08 UTC 40.1K followers, 301.8K engagements "@sappho2000 I took the train from London to Edinburgh with my wife recently. It was very pleasant and the landscape was beautiful but I certainly wish it had been faster 😂"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1947043960091812314) 2025-07-20 21:20:29 UTC 40.1K followers, XXX engagements "@xcwucx It's easier to produce short humanoids due to center of gravity. And for most tasks you don't really need height. This also reduces how much to they weigh. Although they are working on full-sized humanoids. Later this year there will be a full-sized humanoid boxing tournament"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946511686707405207) 2025-07-19 10:05:25 UTC 40.1K followers, 2618 engagements "One of the most frustrating things about discussing China over here is that everybody seems to be perpetually XX years late to whatever is happening there. Further they always center it around themselves and don't take China as the starting point of their analysis"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1947257248159273100) 2025-07-21 11:28:00 UTC 40.1K followers, 3210 engagements "This video was taken in Beijing "Japan." You can actually tell at a glance because of the character for gate/door which only shows up in Simplified Chinese. In Japanese it would be . This is the 967th example I've seen of accounts passing positive China content for Japan"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1944659744288870520) 2025-07-14 07:26:27 UTC 39.8K followers, 9201 engagements "☀ Mainiu's automatic car awnings are becoming popular in China to avoid cars becoming boiling hot when parked outside during the summer"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1941627056711704687) 2025-07-05 22:35:38 UTC 40.1K followers, 2.3M engagements "China has XX% of the world's population but only XX% of its arable land. So they're expanding into their vast deserts with precision irrigation and soil-fixing afforestation. Here's 3000 acres of potatoes being grown in the heart of the Taklamakan desert"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946639361220501868) 2025-07-19 18:32:45 UTC 40.1K followers, 83.4K engagements "@Pinko69420 I get the spirit but growing up in working class towns you see a lot of people pissing away their money in alcohol gambling and cigarettes. Or worse. Usually they picked it up from their parents. We gotta be more scientific and less moralistic/noble savage about this stuff"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1947046707298177326) 2025-07-20 21:31:24 UTC 40.1K followers, XXX engagements "That meme was made last year but it's already missing several new metro lines opened in Chengdu"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946651673600070028) 2025-07-19 19:21:40 UTC 40.1K followers, 35.7K engagements "🌶 There's an uncle on Douyin who loves to aura-farm with his crops"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946835188073496993) 2025-07-20 07:30:53 UTC 40.1K followers, 10.8K engagements "@relionwastaken The owner of the robot is a GTA fan so probably"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946518173328494769) 2025-07-19 10:31:11 UTC 40K followers, XX engagements "@ShangYang2 @nikstankovic_ Thanks for the info. This does mirror exactly what happened with the space program and a lot of advanced industries"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946570787437133865) 2025-07-19 14:00:15 UTC 40K followers, XXX engagements "A robot walking a robot dog while carrying groceries"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1942569983625810253) 2025-07-08 13:02:29 UTC 40K followers, 27.4K engagements "🥬 China has built the world's tallest vertical farm. It can produce 10x the amount of crops of a normal farm without using dirt or sunlight. No pesticides are needed either since it's in a sterile indoor environment. Crops like lettuce can be harvested XX times a year"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946674581118570823) 2025-07-19 20:52:42 UTC 40.1K followers, 98.6K engagements "Uncle bot update: he's now touring the country and taking pictures with fans"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945132418496610690) 2025-07-15 14:44:42 UTC 40.1K followers, 5.1M engagements "@ThumperTruckin China's creating the world's first gaming-based economy"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1944477193498750990) 2025-07-13 19:21:04 UTC 39.5K followers, 63.3K engagements "Everyone knows Chongqing by now but its sister city of Chengdu is just as impressive at night. Civilization unending:"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945600215970463914) 2025-07-16 21:43:33 UTC 40.1K followers, 15.3K engagements "🚨 A bunny in China allegedly snuck into the grape-fermenting pit and got very drunk"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1926194825226797159) 2025-05-24 08:33:27 UTC 40.1K followers, 44.1M engagements "China as far as I know is the only country to have formalized the term "low-altitude economy" and they're already signing international deals on this basis (like the air taxis in Dubai). I wonder whether there will also be leapfrogging with traditional transport infrastructure in developing nations they sell this stuff too"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946152170006495247) 2025-07-18 10:16:49 UTC 39.8K followers, 7606 engagements "This robot in China went up for a handshake but missed his target by a bit 🙈"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946992980801544259) 2025-07-20 17:57:54 UTC 40.1K followers, 26.4K engagements "The Yi people of China. They are XX million strong and they're known for their attire torch festival and animistic/ancestor worshipping religion. They're the second largest people group in Yunnan Province after the Han and speak a Loloish language a branch of Sino-Tibetan"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946895311861104860) 2025-07-20 11:29:48 UTC 40.1K followers, 11.1K engagements "Milei's Argentina is selling its own state-run water company to Israel's state-run water company. This is what the "populist" right stands"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1947037861431148723) 2025-07-20 20:56:15 UTC 40.1K followers, 1.4M engagements "I think China looks at this as a technology that has basically infinite potential for advancement. There are plenty of reasons why civilian airplanes shouldn't be supersonic (fuel costs sonic booms etc.). But a maglev train in a vacuum You're looking at theoretical speeds in the long run of up to 8000 km/h for MUCH less energy than it takes to fly. There is a world where we have an 'internet of people and things'; where travel between major urban centers around the world is a matter of minutes or very few hours. But we got to push forward first to reach those heights; it's just like the space"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946524127096930685) 2025-07-19 10:54:51 UTC 40K followers, 5733 engagements "Google Maps has updated its dashed border of Israel-Syria to include the new chunk that Israel took over (even beyond the occupied Golan Heights)"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945539343847739760) 2025-07-16 17:41:40 UTC 40.1K followers, 2977 engagements "Uncle Bot update: he cannot play Basketball with the boys yet as this is still beyond his capabilities. He will watch and support them from the sidelines though"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945591591776784457) 2025-07-16 21:09:17 UTC 40.1K followers, 9.1M engagements "While Europeans suffer through a heatwave everyone in China is getting AC"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1944730045815087139) 2025-07-14 12:05:48 UTC 40.1K followers, 75.4K engagements "Baggage handling in the West vs Asia. Why is it like this"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945768629049446465) 2025-07-17 08:52:46 UTC 40.1K followers, 115.9K engagements "China just hosted the world's first ROBOT Basketball Tournament"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1945925347561656482) 2025-07-17 19:15:31 UTC 40.1K followers, 324.5K engagements "@Tao_Shia No they're not. These are widely used in China's mining sector. This model is provided by Huawei in collaboration with Qinghua energy at a mine in Inner Mongolia"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1944476597958119872) 2025-07-13 19:18:42 UTC 40.1K followers, 21.6K engagements "China just unveiled its 600km/h (370mph) train. When implemented this will do Beijing to Shanghai (equivalent to NYC-Chicago/Paris-Berlin) in XXX hours or Beijing to Guangzhou (NYC-Miami/Lisbon-London) in XXX hours. It will be faster than airplane travel on the whole for major cities within the country. This would also apply to Europe the US or Brazil since they're comparable in area to China"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1946469159111393735) 2025-07-19 07:16:25 UTC 40.1K followers, 251.2K engagements "Also dropping this Chinese-made tunnel boring machine (TBM) currently being used to dig through the Alps in Europe. The Appalachians are not that bad. And there's existing tunnels waiting to be modernized already"  [@orikron](/creator/x/orikron) on [X](/post/tweet/1943409435734327614) 2025-07-10 20:38:10 UTC 40.1K followers, 34.7K engagements
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"A team of construction workers in China operating excavators remotely. Grueling blue-collar work is now a cushy air-conditioned office job"
@orikron on X 2025-07-13 19:01:58 UTC 40.1K followers, 6.4M engagements
"🍎 This Chinese Zoomer returned to his mountainous home village with a drone during the harvest cutting transportation costs and time considerably for his uncles" @orikron on X 2025-07-18 09:45:20 UTC 40.1K followers, 611.2K engagements
"🦺 On Douyin there are hundreds of accounts dedicated to showing what it's like to operate all kinds of industrial machinery" @orikron on X 2025-07-19 18:15:43 UTC 40.1K followers, 26.7K engagements
"Jack Ma was spotted riding his bicycle bicycle in Hangzhou. Although he has retained his position as CEO his story reminds me of China's Last Emperor who was pardoned after the revolution (despite collaborating with the Japanese) and became a simple gardener" @orikron on X 2025-07-18 04:27:41 UTC 40.1K followers, 2.9M engagements
"Americans love making excuses for their mediocrity" @orikron on X 2025-07-10 19:32:07 UTC 40.1K followers, 917.1K engagements
"@PDXFato @xx7empest Also compare Vietnam to the Philippines. Vietnam got raped by France and the US for decades (war+sanctions) while the Philippines was under US tutelage for XXX years. Vietnam's Communist Party applying a model similar to China has now surpassed the Filos" @orikron on X 2025-07-18 17:31:53 UTC 39.6K followers, XXX engagements
"China doesn't need to replace its youth with south Asian and African immigrants because it's the world's leader in industrial agricultural and service robots. China will never import cheap labor en masse. It doesn't have to. It can just manufacture it" @orikron on X 2025-07-08 11:26:07 UTC 40.1K followers, 201.4K engagements
"China has sold off over half of its US treasury bonds. Dedollarization in progress. China kept the US solvent in 2008. It won't happen when the next big crisis hits" @orikron on X 2025-07-21 18:31:08 UTC 40.1K followers, 4649 engagements
"Uncle Bot update: he got all dressed up and went to a Cosplay convention. I think everybody liked his look" @orikron on X 2025-07-19 05:56:02 UTC 40.1K followers, 318K engagements
"In Shenzhen self-driving delivery robots are now taking the subway during low-ridership hours to stock up chain stores" @orikron on X 2025-07-15 10:32:30 UTC 40.1K followers, 49.4K engagements
"This British girl passes by her local convenience store every day to learn a bit of Chinese. And she gets a prize when she does well" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 09:36:06 UTC 40.1K followers, 1.4M engagements
"A Chinese company has developed solar roof tiles. They're significantly more aesthetically pleasing than regular solar panels" @orikron on X 2025-05-17 16:40:33 UTC 40K followers, 1.3M engagements
"🔥 There's a guy on Douyin who makes industrial-grade beyblades that light up into flames" @orikron on X 2025-05-27 20:21:02 UTC 40.1K followers, 10.8M engagements
"🚢 China is digging through 134km (83 mi) of land to build a canal to the sea by the end of 2026. The mega project will shorten the route between inland Guangxi one of China's developing regions by 560km (350 mi) allowing more manufacturing enterprises to move further inland" @orikron on X 2025-07-21 15:31:34 UTC 40.1K followers, 41.9K engagements
"Uncle Bot update POV: You are Uncle Bot running around your residential neighborhood in Xi'An. You go to the nearest store to pick up a package for your human" @orikron on X 2025-07-21 19:44:49 UTC 40.1K followers, 16.1K engagements
"China just launched a worker-robot that can swap out its own battery at a charging spot and get straight back to work" @orikron on X 2025-07-18 13:46:37 UTC 40.1K followers, 220.2K engagements
"@opsrc45667125zd It's not legally necessary. And in practice there's usually a dedicated bike lane. Nobody in Central Europe (e.g. Netherlands) wears helmets when they cycle casually. This is more of a thing in North America because the cities have been made unsafe for bikes" @orikron on X 2025-07-18 04:31:27 UTC 40.1K followers, 51.4K engagements
"It's obviously better. Indians have the world's largest liberal democracy and their country is an underdeveloped shithole with feudal castes. China destroyed the aristocratic landlord class backwards culture and is now a modernizing power that's achieving developed country status without colonialism and genocide like the US and Western Europe" @orikron on X 2025-07-18 17:29:39 UTC 39.6K followers, XXX engagements
"This woman is using her robot to carry stuff for her" @orikron on X 2025-07-08 12:56:21 UTC 39.9K followers, 30K engagements
"The same convenience store owner teaching two chaps how to toast in Chinese" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 14:14:22 UTC 40.1K followers, 244.1K engagements
"I've seen so many examples of small-business owners in China incentivizing their young ones to study by giving them free stuff. I hated growing up in a community where nearly everybody made fun of those that studied. It was very demoralizing" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 09:43:28 UTC 40.1K followers, 48.7K engagements
"Hundreds of electric mining trucks operating with full self-driving. China has opened its first 5G-AI mine. Every truck operates on average 21 hours a day by getting quick battery replacements instead of charging. All of this in -XX degree cold 🥶 Humans can't do that" @orikron on X 2025-07-14 19:52:00 UTC 40.1K followers, 215.6K engagements
"His All Eminence Grand Ayatollah and Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ali Khamanei I have only one favor to ask of you" @orikron on X 2025-07-16 11:20:01 UTC 39.8K followers, 9263 engagements
"The office of Syrian President is now a game of musical chairs. Israel will only expand further into Syria" @orikron on X 2025-07-16 17:35:13 UTC 40.1K followers, 5073 engagements
"It's so funny how all the Xinjiang stuff (literally X deaths) dissipated in the western media once Israel started committing a full-on genocide and ethnic cleaning with full backing from the same people who were making stuff up" @orikron on X 2025-07-16 12:01:15 UTC 40.1K followers, 24.2K engagements
"Im moving to China in exactly a month. I'll miss my friends and in-laws here in Italy -- as well as the cats" @orikron on X 2025-07-09 08:53:24 UTC 39.4K followers, 43.9K engagements
"They just broke ground on the project. It will generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of the entire United Kingdom or France. Insane" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 21:16:03 UTC 40.1K followers, 51.3K engagements
"This is how the solar panels are cleaned at China's massive desert solar farms" @orikron on X 2025-07-14 17:20:28 UTC 39.8K followers, 22.2K engagements
"Cyclists in Beijing move over to the side while waiting at a traffic light to let those in a rush safely move to the front. Netizens in the comments pointed out this is somewhat unique to Beijing perhaps because its customs have been shaped by being a modern city for longer" @orikron on X 2025-07-17 18:30:55 UTC 40.1K followers, 13.1K engagements
"Warehouses in China are already implementing fully-autonomous forklifts" @orikron on X 2025-07-19 12:19:32 UTC 40.1K followers, 258.3K engagements
"In 11th grade I was sent to the student councilor for defending China's Land Reform Movement during History class including the popular trials and executions. The councilor asked how I had come to have such "far-right" views" @orikron on X 2025-07-13 18:16:25 UTC 40.1K followers, 98.9K engagements
"Some construction jobs in China are now becoming XXX% remote" @orikron on X 2025-07-18 16:43:37 UTC 40.1K followers, 1.6M engagements
"Sinopec is now implementing autonomous refueling robots at their gas stations" @orikron on X 2025-07-16 10:16:58 UTC 40.1K followers, 202K engagements
"the restaurant should pay me in noodles for the advert" @orikron on X 2025-07-14 09:10:59 UTC 40K followers, 61.8K engagements
"🚨 Top XX nations betrayed by their own elites: X. Filipinos X. Indians X. Soviets ☭ X. South Africans X. Nigerians X. Pakistanis X. Arabs ☪ X. Indonesians X. Hispanics 🌯 XX. Brazilians" @orikron on X 2025-07-17 09:39:10 UTC 40.1K followers, 78K engagements
"The Philippines is an occupied sex-slave and au-pair colony of the West financed by remittances from abroad and their main national priority is to put down the only major Asian nation to have emerged from similar misery. This is national suicide on another level" @orikron on X 2025-07-16 11:26:34 UTC 40.1K followers, 64.8K engagements
"@Mahamatics Because she lives in a high-trust community. In normal countries kids should be able to go to school by themselves or run errands from around age 5" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 17:10:10 UTC 40.1K followers, 25.5K engagements
"@robin_j_brooks @joequant God willing let all our enemies be just as smart as you" @orikron on X 2025-07-19 19:10:40 UTC 40.1K followers, 3744 engagements
"Three things the US has to learn: X. Today China's exports to the US represent only XXX% of China's GDP. X. Only XX% of China's GDP is composed of total exports (down from 35%). X. Most of China's exports today go towards developing countries not developed ones" @orikron on X 2025-07-21 11:24:16 UTC 40.1K followers, 28.4K engagements
"Netizens posted photos in the comments of their trip to Beijing. Perhaps all cities in China will adopt these customs as new generations are born and raised entirely in the cities" @orikron on X 2025-07-17 18:34:05 UTC 40.1K followers, 4168 engagements
"The future is here. Children in China play with their new Unitree robot. The new humanoid robot model by Unitree is now for sale to the public and is being seen all over China now. I'll post some more videos below:" @orikron on X 2025-07-08 12:52:10 UTC 40.1K followers, 580.8K engagements
"The Arab nation fumbled harder than any other Eurasian people over the last century. And it's not even close. You either unite and become strong or the predators of this world will pick you off one by one" @orikron on X 2025-07-16 19:40:14 UTC 40.1K followers, 47K engagements
"If you drive poorly in China the traffic officers will talk shit" @orikron on X 2025-07-18 20:55:53 UTC 40.1K followers, 176.9K engagements
"Uncle Bot update: he's making moves and signing deals you wouldn't believe. But will the fame and the money get to his head" @orikron on X 2025-07-17 11:48:53 UTC 40.1K followers, 1.1M engagements
"Whenever I post about massive projects like this (which will bring development and quality of life to tens of millions of people in developing regions of China) the first reaction from a lot of Americans is dreaming of destroying it and killing said millions of people" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 18:11:50 UTC 40.1K followers, 162.6K engagements
"I love the regular event of K-Pop fans finding out that their favorite idols of Chinese origin (including those from HK and Taiwan) don't support US-sponsored separatist movements against their country" @orikron on X 2025-07-12 17:04:16 UTC 40.1K followers, 101.1K engagements
"This is something I've only ever seen in Angola Brazil and South Africa. Dark times ahead for North America" @orikron on X 2025-07-18 15:34:04 UTC 40.1K followers, 12.4K engagements
"An entire group of Chinese tourists had their luggages stolen during a XX minute stop at Pisa. Europe is not safe to travel with a high-trust mindset. Travel as light as you can and have your stuff with you at all times" @orikron on X 2025-07-15 11:06:59 UTC 40.1K followers, 23.4K engagements
"@KyleTrainEmoji It's called Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR. It's a banger" @orikron on X 2025-07-06 06:45:30 UTC 40.1K followers, 166.9K engagements
"This guy in China uses his G1 robot to clean his car "I spent more than 300k ($40k) on you you can't just dance you gotta do some work"" @orikron on X 2025-07-18 22:51:36 UTC 40.1K followers, 239.4K engagements
"An entire fleet of autonomous delivery robots is being deployed in Hangzhou" @orikron on X 2025-07-15 22:10:20 UTC 40.1K followers, 30.5K engagements
"Uncle Bot update: he's staying humble despite all the commotion and still finds the time to walk his dog and enjoy the sights of his city" @orikron on X 2025-07-18 05:27:12 UTC 40.1K followers, 868.9K engagements
"@Mio_Mind Not for long 📈 @RemindMe_OfThis in XX years" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 18:40:46 UTC 40.1K followers, 2496 engagements
"Proud robot parents taking their robot kid to school while a woman walks her robot dog (with a groceries basket on top) in front of them" @orikron on X 2025-07-08 13:05:55 UTC 39.6K followers, 24.9K engagements
"☀ Italy heatwave update: the traffic lights have melted" @orikron on X 2025-07-08 12:19:00 UTC 39.8K followers, 84K engagements
"📈 Breaking: China has posted XXX% growth in the first half of the year with XXX% in the second quarter. China has settled into a multi-year trend of X% growth" @orikron on X 2025-07-15 04:51:15 UTC 39.8K followers, 16.1K engagements
"@Vocsolo Enjoy your zionist-managed water. I'm sure they'll make it a bargain" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 21:22:54 UTC 40.1K followers, 59.8K engagements
"🚆 You'd be forgiven for thinking it's an airport. Chongqing just opened its brand new Eastern station. You can now make the XX hour car ride to Changsha in only X hours by train. The scale of construction is monumental" @orikron on X 2025-07-06 04:45:32 UTC 40.1K followers, 563K engagements
"🚨 China will soon generate more electricity than the US the EU India Russia and Japan combined." @orikron on X 2025-07-20 17:05:44 UTC 40.1K followers, 72K engagements
"💨 The sheer scale of China's new wind turbines "that eat the sky for breakfast."" @orikron on X 2025-07-12 07:41:33 UTC 39.8K followers, 12.2K engagements
"A Chinese family has already opened a noodle shop in Afghanistan. The Taliban guys seem to like it" @orikron on X 2025-07-13 16:16:22 UTC 40.1K followers, 2.3M engagements
"DJI's "Sky City" headquarters in Shenzhen look straight out of sci-fi. XX% of the world's civilian drones are designed by DJI" @orikron on X 2025-07-14 14:04:22 UTC 40.1K followers, 30.3K engagements
"🏯 Recently Chinese architects have been developing a neo-traditional look to their builds and I'm all here for it. More countries should do this. Beauty and function can coexist" @orikron on X 2025-07-19 22:25:11 UTC 40.1K followers, 17.9K engagements
"This newly built campus gym in Tianjin China is something else. What would you call this architectural style" @orikron on X 2025-07-16 11:39:08 UTC 40.1K followers, 32.8K engagements
"We could solve the homelessness problem in the West in three easy steps: 1-Mandatory rehab for drug addicts 2-Housing and job guarantee (for instance we need way more sanitation workers to clean our littered streets) 3-Immigration strictly tied to high-qualification work/education/marriage This would allow us to enjoy our public services and infrastructure like they do in China or even Japan. We don't have to accept the privatization OR enshitification of everything" @orikron on X 2025-07-15 11:31:50 UTC 39.8K followers, 10.1K engagements
"China has started building the world's largest hydroelectric power station on the Yarlung-Tsangpo river costing $XXX billion. The station's design capacity will be XX million kilowatts enough to power XX million people. It will have X times the capacity of the Three Gorges" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 05:53:50 UTC 40.1K followers, 377.5K engagements
"Uncle bot update: he got a bit tired of the city and took a trip to the countryside with his human to go see the animals" @orikron on X 2025-07-18 18:39:08 UTC 40.1K followers, 301.8K engagements
"@sappho2000 I took the train from London to Edinburgh with my wife recently. It was very pleasant and the landscape was beautiful but I certainly wish it had been faster 😂" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 21:20:29 UTC 40.1K followers, XXX engagements
"@xcwucx It's easier to produce short humanoids due to center of gravity. And for most tasks you don't really need height. This also reduces how much to they weigh. Although they are working on full-sized humanoids. Later this year there will be a full-sized humanoid boxing tournament" @orikron on X 2025-07-19 10:05:25 UTC 40.1K followers, 2618 engagements
"One of the most frustrating things about discussing China over here is that everybody seems to be perpetually XX years late to whatever is happening there. Further they always center it around themselves and don't take China as the starting point of their analysis" @orikron on X 2025-07-21 11:28:00 UTC 40.1K followers, 3210 engagements
"This video was taken in Beijing "Japan." You can actually tell at a glance because of the character for gate/door which only shows up in Simplified Chinese. In Japanese it would be . This is the 967th example I've seen of accounts passing positive China content for Japan" @orikron on X 2025-07-14 07:26:27 UTC 39.8K followers, 9201 engagements
"☀ Mainiu's automatic car awnings are becoming popular in China to avoid cars becoming boiling hot when parked outside during the summer" @orikron on X 2025-07-05 22:35:38 UTC 40.1K followers, 2.3M engagements
"China has XX% of the world's population but only XX% of its arable land. So they're expanding into their vast deserts with precision irrigation and soil-fixing afforestation. Here's 3000 acres of potatoes being grown in the heart of the Taklamakan desert" @orikron on X 2025-07-19 18:32:45 UTC 40.1K followers, 83.4K engagements
"@Pinko69420 I get the spirit but growing up in working class towns you see a lot of people pissing away their money in alcohol gambling and cigarettes. Or worse. Usually they picked it up from their parents. We gotta be more scientific and less moralistic/noble savage about this stuff" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 21:31:24 UTC 40.1K followers, XXX engagements
"That meme was made last year but it's already missing several new metro lines opened in Chengdu" @orikron on X 2025-07-19 19:21:40 UTC 40.1K followers, 35.7K engagements
"🌶 There's an uncle on Douyin who loves to aura-farm with his crops" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 07:30:53 UTC 40.1K followers, 10.8K engagements
"@relionwastaken The owner of the robot is a GTA fan so probably" @orikron on X 2025-07-19 10:31:11 UTC 40K followers, XX engagements
"@ShangYang2 @nikstankovic_ Thanks for the info. This does mirror exactly what happened with the space program and a lot of advanced industries" @orikron on X 2025-07-19 14:00:15 UTC 40K followers, XXX engagements
"A robot walking a robot dog while carrying groceries" @orikron on X 2025-07-08 13:02:29 UTC 40K followers, 27.4K engagements
"🥬 China has built the world's tallest vertical farm. It can produce 10x the amount of crops of a normal farm without using dirt or sunlight. No pesticides are needed either since it's in a sterile indoor environment. Crops like lettuce can be harvested XX times a year" @orikron on X 2025-07-19 20:52:42 UTC 40.1K followers, 98.6K engagements
"Uncle bot update: he's now touring the country and taking pictures with fans" @orikron on X 2025-07-15 14:44:42 UTC 40.1K followers, 5.1M engagements
"@ThumperTruckin China's creating the world's first gaming-based economy" @orikron on X 2025-07-13 19:21:04 UTC 39.5K followers, 63.3K engagements
"Everyone knows Chongqing by now but its sister city of Chengdu is just as impressive at night. Civilization unending:" @orikron on X 2025-07-16 21:43:33 UTC 40.1K followers, 15.3K engagements
"🚨 A bunny in China allegedly snuck into the grape-fermenting pit and got very drunk" @orikron on X 2025-05-24 08:33:27 UTC 40.1K followers, 44.1M engagements
"China as far as I know is the only country to have formalized the term "low-altitude economy" and they're already signing international deals on this basis (like the air taxis in Dubai). I wonder whether there will also be leapfrogging with traditional transport infrastructure in developing nations they sell this stuff too" @orikron on X 2025-07-18 10:16:49 UTC 39.8K followers, 7606 engagements
"This robot in China went up for a handshake but missed his target by a bit 🙈" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 17:57:54 UTC 40.1K followers, 26.4K engagements
"The Yi people of China. They are XX million strong and they're known for their attire torch festival and animistic/ancestor worshipping religion. They're the second largest people group in Yunnan Province after the Han and speak a Loloish language a branch of Sino-Tibetan" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 11:29:48 UTC 40.1K followers, 11.1K engagements
"Milei's Argentina is selling its own state-run water company to Israel's state-run water company. This is what the "populist" right stands" @orikron on X 2025-07-20 20:56:15 UTC 40.1K followers, 1.4M engagements
"I think China looks at this as a technology that has basically infinite potential for advancement. There are plenty of reasons why civilian airplanes shouldn't be supersonic (fuel costs sonic booms etc.). But a maglev train in a vacuum You're looking at theoretical speeds in the long run of up to 8000 km/h for MUCH less energy than it takes to fly. There is a world where we have an 'internet of people and things'; where travel between major urban centers around the world is a matter of minutes or very few hours. But we got to push forward first to reach those heights; it's just like the space" @orikron on X 2025-07-19 10:54:51 UTC 40K followers, 5733 engagements
"Google Maps has updated its dashed border of Israel-Syria to include the new chunk that Israel took over (even beyond the occupied Golan Heights)" @orikron on X 2025-07-16 17:41:40 UTC 40.1K followers, 2977 engagements
"Uncle Bot update: he cannot play Basketball with the boys yet as this is still beyond his capabilities. He will watch and support them from the sidelines though" @orikron on X 2025-07-16 21:09:17 UTC 40.1K followers, 9.1M engagements
"While Europeans suffer through a heatwave everyone in China is getting AC" @orikron on X 2025-07-14 12:05:48 UTC 40.1K followers, 75.4K engagements
"Baggage handling in the West vs Asia. Why is it like this" @orikron on X 2025-07-17 08:52:46 UTC 40.1K followers, 115.9K engagements
"China just hosted the world's first ROBOT Basketball Tournament" @orikron on X 2025-07-17 19:15:31 UTC 40.1K followers, 324.5K engagements
"@Tao_Shia No they're not. These are widely used in China's mining sector. This model is provided by Huawei in collaboration with Qinghua energy at a mine in Inner Mongolia" @orikron on X 2025-07-13 19:18:42 UTC 40.1K followers, 21.6K engagements
"China just unveiled its 600km/h (370mph) train. When implemented this will do Beijing to Shanghai (equivalent to NYC-Chicago/Paris-Berlin) in XXX hours or Beijing to Guangzhou (NYC-Miami/Lisbon-London) in XXX hours. It will be faster than airplane travel on the whole for major cities within the country. This would also apply to Europe the US or Brazil since they're comparable in area to China" @orikron on X 2025-07-19 07:16:25 UTC 40.1K followers, 251.2K engagements
"Also dropping this Chinese-made tunnel boring machine (TBM) currently being used to dig through the Alps in Europe. The Appalachians are not that bad. And there's existing tunnels waiting to be modernized already" @orikron on X 2025-07-10 20:38:10 UTC 40.1K followers, 34.7K engagements