Alcoholicorn @ Alcoholicorn @mander.xyz

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Talking about the history a fortress I visited played in the imjin war with a japanese person I'd been traveling with who didnt get a chance to go. A lot of "well nobody knows what really happened", and a lot of interesting opinions on the impact Japan has has on Korean and Chinese culture.

If I had a nickle for every time I was having dinner with someone who seemed alright, before they denied warcrimes in Gaza, Brazil, or Korea during the late 1500s during dinner, I'd have 20 cents.

That price doesnt include any data, and seems to be way more expensive than getting local esims. They seem to massively upcharge for the networks they use too. On one if the networks I see advertized, its 11USD for 30 days@10GB/day, but Silent charges 5.50/GB on the same network.

Nah, you wouldnt see 24/7 restaurants like ガスト using them; similar to the conveyors at sushiro, it enables the company to run a 30 table restaurant with like 3 people.

You're overselling the place where half the buildings are in perfect condition because they turn to shit and get knocked down and something else built every 20 years or so.

That is a lot of space for very little info, that means nothing to anyone who doesnt already know what th codes mean. U4.2.40 would be just as useful.

This is the programmer art of graphic design.

Maybe to limit account theft. One account with 10,000 friends gets compromised and thats 10,000 people who can get phished, each if whom might have thousands of friends

Don't ruin Mountain Lions! Plague or not, I will fully accept the consequences for petting a mountain lion.

people who are worried about this stuff as racists or xenophobes

Yeah ok.

I currently own no cats. But I still am running out of space due to random cats.

Nah, Ive been to a dozen cities roughly the population of NYC across asia. None of them have the crazy on display of the average american city or suburb's Nextdoor.

Millennial are in their 30s and 40s, half the time theyre on the receiving end of OK Boomer.

IMO its great to be able to say "your lack of experience with the world as it exists now, and not 20+ years ago has left you unable and unwilling to understand. I am giving up trying to help you learn" in just 2 words

Most countries don’t even have hackers nor network of spies capable of stealing other countries’ valuable trade secrets

They phased out their subsidies in 2022

They still have a trade in program to get ICE vehicles off the road.

Buyers of any EV not just American EVs.

I was talking about china, their federal govt ended ev subsidies in 2022. I suspect some city and provincial level govts still do various types of subsidies.

We they imprisoned for not wanting to be controlled by a dictatorship?

Bro are you trying to justify slavery in the US? You dont have to do that to criticize China. But you have to have to learn about its actual problems, not just accept any silly stories western media comes up with. Try visiting some time, its incredibley cheap, you can rent out decent sized apartments for 15/night in most cities, theres also sleeper trains, combine transport and 1 nights lodging, and food is often <2usd/meal.

Imagine Trump declaring that every college grad needs to make themselves available to build a border wall.

That's not how that works at all, they simply invest more into educating people into a particular field to ensure there will be enough people with the required skills in a particular area.

How did you even misinterpret my post like that?

The average new truck costs 50% more. Every small car they sell is a lost truck sale.

5K/year isn't exactly poverty when rent is <200, phone data is 20, and you can get pic for 1.50 USD. I too would like them to be treated better, but I dont know if their overall situation is worse than the average american worker making 50K, but spending 24K on rent, 12K on car payments, and 16USD if they eat out.

China builds cars using massive government subsidies

The federal government ended the the EV subsidy a few years ago.

slave labor

lmao. We know what slavery looks like, you can see it in the cotton fields outside Angola Prison, rows of enslaved people, and overseer on a horse, all behind barbed wire. In Xinjiang I saw farmers driving combine harvesters in roadside fields.

local resources that arent available

You're getting closer. Through 1 and 5 year plans, the CPC uses SoEs (and sometimes just asks private companies "nicely") to ensure the foundational inputs, steel, rubber, chips, college graduates, etc are all available to industry at the specific price point and volume that competing private firms need to produce say, 100m EVs or a million more apartments.

Any country can do a little central planning to make sure private industry has what it needs, but this only works if you're able to take action against companies that exploit the system.

Technical development in non-capitalist societies is suppressed by war. Kalashnikov wanted to design farm equipment. Instead he designed weapons. Ask any scientist if they're working so they can develop X before

<insert adversary>

War is the great driver of technological leaps

Maybe for capitalist countries because an external threat is the only motive that will get the bourgeois to fund science instead of consolidating power, but the USSR and Chinas rise were during peaceful times.