It was something CNN was talking about a few months ago. Naturally people emigrate and immigrate all the time, but the way Chinese people were getting to America was a central part of the story. Naturally you never get closure in these stories.
There are about 49,000 illegal immigrants from China, which is a country of about 1.5 billion people. Basically a statistical sneeze. It would not surprise me if every single one of them is legitimate economic migrant (even if their story is probably exaggerated or based on misconceptions).
There are a lot of people in every countey who think America is the good life because they don’t understand how expensive it is to live here, or are just planning to work in the U.S. and send money back home and move back in 5-10 years.
I think the saddest thing about modern American engineering and tech is that they would all be fucking psyched about Chinese tech and cars if they were born in China. Like, the only reason these people are so blinkered about China is because they were born in the U.S.
They are so sure that they can see past the propaganda, that they are just eating shit the whole way down.
You are being idealistic and giving into American exceptionalism.
However much you or I hate it, it is a matter of taste. Interfaces can be made to work intuitively, touch screen phones prove you do not need to have fixed analog buttons, and screen brightness is easy to program to adjust automatically. Our shit doesn’t work because tech bros are addicted to a million unneeded features and menus. If you are just looking for a style you can vastly simplify your interface and limit your options to what is strictly nessecery. Most Chinese people will not be driving these kinds of teched-out cars.
I think it’s ugly as sin, and I hope it is a passing trend, but that doesn’t mean this stuff is impossible to do well. It just means we can’t do it well.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. Clearly spamming the mods and calling them scum-fucks will create a situation where you will be unbanned and all of Hexbear will come to your defense!
Idk bud, you’re the one coming to our instance to complain about us making fun of your moderation policies. The very behavior of someone who is definitely not bothered.
To be honest I don’t think anybody here (or you) is actually mad. You can do the whole ‘Oh you should have cry-laugh emojis!’ but you’re just posting a hypothetical onto their posting style which doesn’t exist. Some real scumbag reddit shit. Address what is actually being posted, don’t pursue hypotheticals.
I don’t think you get what is funny about it to us. If it was moderated for “Not relevant to the community” there would be zero gas. It was moderated for ‘tankieism’. Since when was mild non-sectarian anti-capitalist sentiment ‘tankie’? Your moderation team has clearly diluted the word to be completely meaningless and useless as a description of belief. Just say it’s not relevant to the community! Don’t betray your stupidity! It’s not rocket science!
There you go again, proposing a hypothetical as if it is real. Again you don’t understand what words actually mean. How is this ‘rage-bait’? Who is profiting off of the advertising that makes something ‘rage-bait’? It was a dumb moderation wording decision that we are collectively making fun of because we have a shared understanding of the meaning of a term. This isn’t complicated.
Holy shit, dude you’re just like every other tough-face poster, “I don’t care, but I took time out of my day to call your posting habits unhealthy.” Bro, of course you care, stop fronting! If you didn’t care you wouldn’t engage at all!
And you are following a post to an unrelated community to defend your moderation policies as if our opinions matter in the slightest to what is going on in your community. Why do you care what we think?
You really don’t get how this works, do you? You don’t get to insult people and then say ‘Disengage’. That’s not good forum behavior, that is disingenuous horseshit.
Stop using words you don’t understand. It is not ‘projecting’ to point out you doing bad-faith posting. The forum rules are that if you want me to disengage all you have to do is post under me ‘Disengage’. That is it. If you include any other bullshit, especially insults, that is not considered acceptable, you are just abusing the rules of disengagement to get the last word it. This has been the rule on most forum posting for fucking forever.
‘Rage-bait’ is specifically a term used to describe posting that is meant to drive engagement for advertising models. I have a buddy who specifically makes rage bait around NFL content. It specifically describes that behavior. It is not ‘getting mad or making fun of shit online’, because that is literally just the Internet, especially forum posting since it’s inception. Back in the day, we would catchall of that with ‘trolling’.
Why should I care if you want to stop my ‘toxic habits’? How does you wanting to stop those habits have any relevance on the conversation? Listen to yourself, you are talking as if you have any power to stop me even if you did care. Your care, in that regard, is completely irrelevant. A weird power-trip.
Being autistic is not a reason. It’s deferring your reasoning onto your neuro-divergency. We aren’t slandering you. Someone calling that person a tankie for some dumb shit happened! And even if we did slander you, what would you coming along to ‘correct the record’ do, especially if you come in with the assumption that we are all ‘toxic posters who circle jerk at rage-bait’? How is coming along in bad-faith helpful to you having a reasonable discussion with us?
Hey, not a moderator, but next time you want to disengage on hexbear, just post ‘disengage’ with nothing else. I don’t think you did anything strictly incorrect here, but we need to keep the rules clear for people like db0.
Also this is besides the point, but the quality of brand name sneakers is and always has been shit. There is no incentive for them to make them well, because if you are buying for limited run or brand-name, then if your first pair gets destroyed they know you will just buy another one or the next hype, because you are not a very savvy consumer.
I remember getting my hands on some authenticated 2015 Air Force 1s, while my friend got a knock off, and there was basically zero difference outside of insoles, which I replace anyways. It was my first time getting to compare these products literally side by side, and I have never bought authentic again.
The big difference here is that if your competition can out-compete you using Chinese infrastructure, you will be forced into at least figuring out a way to dual-use it.
Ultimately, this is a Microsoft/Apple situation. It’s just who will be Microsoft and who will be Apple. I think that, over time, most of the cutting edge tech will migrate over to Chinese tech, even if the rest of the world doesn’t exactly. That said, Africa and Asia (outside of the colonial outposts) will mostly be in the Chinese tech sphere.
There are stories of people’s that eat parts of their enemies, but it’s never been observed directly, is almost always told by the enemies and rivals of those tribes, and never consumption of the whole body. Usually it would just be a desecration ritual.
As shitty as it is, this country 1. Isn’t designed in such a way that would allow a third-party candidate a genuine chance of winning and 2. Has too many centrists that will vote for Biden regardless. Trump has repeatedly garnered heavy support in Republican polls, so they’re pretty much almost all in on him. Splitting the...
Not the person, but for a leftcom (and even more strictly applied ML theory) imperialism is when you have a different ‘economic zone’ that applies to another country. Essentially it is when you have ‘rules for thee but not for me’. The classical mercantile imperial model develops the extractive industries of a colony, while the actual processing industry exists at home. You use cheap labor in the colony to extract the materials, refine them back at home, and then sell them back to the colony, rather than developing the colonies ability to feed and educate itself, and then also develop it’s means of production. Instead, MoP is developed mostly for the benefit of the colonizer. This is also maintained through different labor laws applying to these different zones, which are then enforced with extreme prejudice, which is the hallmark of imperialism. This is laid out in Lenin’s ‘Imperialism’.
Now, what leftcoms usually miss imo is the part where it is an outside force that is enforcing this through violence. For example, many leftcoms believe that what China is doing is ‘imperialism’ especially since it often relies on creating differently taxes economic zones within areas of Africa (or more pedantically saying that the communist party elites have sold out the proletariat of China to the highest bidder on the international market). While there is an argument to be made there, I think the important thing to note is that China does not (or at least hasn’t yet) enforced their deals in Africa with military force, but instead through long term structural development deals where they develop the infrastructure of country on the cheap (because excess construction labor is something they have in abundance) in exchange for these economic zones where their population can immigrate to and work. It ultimately a win-win imo, and looks fundamentally different than previous versions of imperialism. Additionally, despite ‘selling out their proletariat’ the Chinese Communist Party has demonstratively not given up their control over the means of production and it’s development. Wether you agree with it or not, what is happening to them is not ‘imperialism’, it’s something else.
Recent example is Intel dropping the i from their CPU branding. What was an Intel Core i7 is now an “Intel Core Ultra 7”. This is a bizarre choice. The i3, i5, and i7 branding is very much a household name, and they’re just throwing that away....
They aren’t counter productive, the point is to obfuscate enough to pretend that there are real consumer changes in a stagnant market.
It is counterproductive to product innovation and consumer selection, it is not counter productive for capital accumulation, which is the only thing that matters.
EDIT: Even though we’re dunking on a few of these people, The Toxic Leftist isn’t a good account either. They describe themselves as a “rightwing leftist”.
She de-legitimizes herself through the way she interacts with and uses power. She is not serious about trying to form any kind of disruptive coalition within the party ala the Freedom Caucus, and she isn’t even good at ‘saying the right message’ anymore.
I was totally on board with her when she was first elected. I ignored the pessimistic cries of the communists, but once again, they were correct.
Imma scurry back to my radical left safe space. Personally i know all ya’ll are based, though. Communism and marxist-leninism is still a bad word in centrist lemmy spaces, apparently....
“I find Marxism to be intellectually stimulating and not at all radical.” Ok Kautsky, you don’t have to brag about not thinking about the implications of ideas being true.
What is hilarious about your argument is that it takes far more land to build and maintain a highway, and yet we somehow never had any problems with forcing land sales with eminent domain clauses doing that.
It’s almost as if the government is owned by a series of interests that are not actually interested in investing and maintaining efficient consumption minimum and economical modes of transportation, and instead focused on making a system that is efficient at creating profit for it’s ownership class. It’s almost as if, instead of a focus on the money to commodity cycle, there is a perverse incentive for a money to commodity to money cycle that means there is no real incentive to ever substantially invest to improve your commodity production.
The highways weren’t just magically placed there by the grace of God, they were built and expanded by the government using eminent domain. A highspeed rail system could be built using the same legal precedents, and would likely keep the highways from having to be expanded (ever).
What you are saying is that we could never build a new system in the same way that we built the old system, which is patently false, which is still different from your claim that China can avoid red-tape when the U.S. does not which is also false. The U.S. picks and chooses when it decides to uphold ‘private property’ because it only cares about the private property of those that buy the political system, it demonstrably does not care about general private property rights of those that inconvenience whatever the agenda is. Which means that the agenda COULD be High Speed rail, and it is not ‘the law’ or ‘the government’ getting in the way but private companies.
Also, for someone with a tenuous grasp on legal reality, I don’t think you should be discussing the realities of rail-based civil engineering. Highways aren’t particularly known for being good to work with on complex landscapes.
I am saying that the literal incentives of a profit-driven capitalist economy will always inevitably degrade the commodity process, incentivizing profit generation and rent seeking over industrialization and economizing commodity processes. It has nothing to do with ‘corruption’, ‘power’ or ‘politicians’, nor did I ever indicate that is what we were talking about. It is the system working as intended.
Ah yes, as if anarchism, liberalism, libertarianism or really any other human ideology and methodology centered entirely on egoism don’t engender some strange communal cargo cult behavior. It’s almost as though they too are full of shit?
It is funny to believe in ‘self-determination’ when you can’t even recognize that all the important decisions have already been made for you. It is rich to pretend to fight against the nihilist when you only believe in yourself. So go egoist, live your life as you please, blissfully unaware that you are just as stuck the very herd of individuality that we all find ourselves in.
I mean, if you’re not a wrecker, you’re a ‘hmmm is it tho?’ smuglord dipshit, so I would embrace ‘wrecker’, at least people will think you’re intentional.
What is wild to me is that it is rarely the chanting crowds that are supposed to be ‘wrong’ in your average dystopia sci-fi novel. Only 1984 has that, and they are mandatory rallies in movie theatres, the “Hour of Hate” by the state, not spontaneous protests by the people.
Just say, “Some people here haven’t read 1984 in high school and it shows.” we know that’s what you actually mean.
Anyone who runs a company needs a way to de-stress. For some CEOs that might mean golf or sailing. For Elon Musk, who runs or owns Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter), the main method is playing video games....
All the money in the world and he still just does what every poor person in their mid-20’s does. I suppose it probably makes him feel ‘different’ than all of his peers, but this is pure neo-liberalism in action. Say what you will about the Romans, at least they appreciated the spectacular.
While the general rule of thumb is that you should never take professional philosophers very seriously, as their income always is derivative entirely from their closeness to powerful patrons (with exceptions like Socrates who was supposedly a stone mason when not being annoying in public, see the existential comics bit about professional philosophers being less serious about their craft than professional bodybuilders), Peter Singer is someone who you should absolutely not take seriously because all of his work is deeply tied into both the Gates Foundation and Clinton Foundation.
Especially if you actually (unlike most people who skim the cliff’s notes, hear it second-hand or just read the title) read his works, particularly his seminal piece in famines, you will realize that all that he ever argues for is utilitarianism, but he has no real qualms around how that maximum utility is achieved (though heaven forbid you mention the achievements of communism), with his personal belief in maximum utility being achieved not by actual wealth redistribution (though he spends the majority of his paper talking about it), but instead (as he slips in right at the end) population control.
That’s right. The liberal academic darling of why it is good to give away your money specifically believes that that money shouldn’t be re-distributed or that maybe the real value is being exploited, no it’s that in order for less poor people to starve, there needs to be less poor people. Liberal academics everyone! Spending 25 pages to only say one sentence!
One more: what's the deal with the "Chinese are fleeing to America through Mexico" headlines?
It was something CNN was talking about a few months ago. Naturally people emigrate and immigrate all the time, but the way Chinese people were getting to America was a central part of the story. Naturally you never get closure in these stories.
I Went To China And Drove A Dozen Electric Cars. Western Automakers Are Cooked (insideevs.com)
dbzer0 defederation vote
db0 and Unruffled have both been banned for reactionary behavior and, in the case of the former, DM harassment....
This post was banned from dbzer0 for being "Tankie" lmfao what a joke of a so-called piracy instance (hexbear.net)
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c437af3b-7c7e-40ce-b39d-e099ae471d3c.jpeg...
The Economist defends brands charging hundreds of dollars for shoes which cost 30 dollars to make and shames free market entrepreneurs offering cheaper alternatives (www.youtube.com)
I ain’t buying 150$ Gazelles when they’re a pain to wear anyways
ByteDance would rather shut down tiktok than sell it (hexbear.net)
reuters.com/…/bytedance-prefers-tiktok-shutdown-u…
Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star (hexbear.net)
Image is of Iranian missiles flying over the Knesset, the Israeli parliament building in Jerusalem....
/r/ask_transgender calls people who refuse to vote for Genocide Joe "anarcho-kiddies" (old.reddit.com)
As shitty as it is, this country 1. Isn’t designed in such a way that would allow a third-party candidate a genuine chance of winning and 2. Has too many centrists that will vote for Biden regardless. Trump has repeatedly garnered heavy support in Republican polls, so they’re pretty much almost all in on him. Splitting the...
Why are marketing people paid six figures just to come up with ineffective bullshit that any asshole off the street could come up with in five minutes? (hexbear.net)
Recent example is Intel dropping the i from their CPU branding. What was an Intel Core i7 is now an “Intel Core Ultra 7”. This is a bizarre choice. The i3, i5, and i7 branding is very much a household name, and they’re just throwing that away....
This person calls themselves a “historian of Cuba” lol (hexbear.net)
EDIT: Even though we’re dunking on a few of these people, The Toxic Leftist isn’t a good account either. They describe themselves as a “rightwing leftist”.
damn it feels bad to be downvoted 😭 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Imma scurry back to my radical left safe space. Personally i know all ya’ll are based, though. Communism and marxist-leninism is still a bad word in centrist lemmy spaces, apparently....
Someone should tell China they are doing it all wrong. (hexbear.net)
Whats your such opinion (discuss.tchncs.de)
Zelensky admits counter-offensive has failed (kyivindependent.com)
So fun fact, about our recent wrecker. He invented the term brigading. (knowyourmeme.com)
lmao
Eve Fartlow educates you on the whole point of chanting at protests. (hexbear.net)
Nitter
Elon Musk says his mind is a 'storm’—and he calms it by playing video games, his ‘primary recreational activity' (fortune.com)
Anyone who runs a company needs a way to de-stress. For some CEOs that might mean golf or sailing. For Elon Musk, who runs or owns Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter), the main method is playing video games....
Peter Singer elaborates on the zoophilia article and boy did this one give me whiplash. (hexbear.net)
twitter.com/PeterSinger/…/1723269850930491707