BalpeenHammer @ BalpeenHammer @lemmy.nz

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While I share your concerns about local spying, giving a foreign entity a real time feed of every street, every passing licenseplate (via on board cameras) etc. seems like a bad idea

Did you mean say "foreign entity" or "China". Because we already give that information to a foreign entity, multiple foreign agencies in fact.

But China has shown many times in the past to use whatever means available to gather data for example on dissidents living abroad. That’s not a silly worry, it’s a daily occurrence.

It's a silly worry for me because I am not a chinese dissident living abroad.

I’m sure they won’t do shit, but why would I let a foreign entity that EMPHATICALLY only cares about itself access to my information when I don’t have to?

You are doing that now though.

The Chinese government is much more insidious. If I were a Chinese expat, for example, I should genuinely be concerned about them finding information on me and arresting me when I visit there.

I am not a chinese expat though. I have literally zero concern that China is going to get me or do anything to me let alone care about me.

OTOH I am very afraid to attend a protest or even accidentally cross the street during a protest because I know I will go on some list and my face will be recorded by our own government.

That certainly wasn't true in this case. The incentive was capped so car manufacturers made sure their cars were priced under the cap.

Subdue and arrest him.

If that was the case then all parties were complicit in the grift including the public.

That seems like a silly worry to me. I would be more concerned about what my own country or a corporation or the USA could do to me than China. Think about it. The USA could charge me with something like copyright violation and boom I get arrested just like that. China accuses me of a crime and the government won't do shit.

You probably trust your life to chinese made parts in your current car.

The question is why there was a blowout. Was the original bid just a foolish pie in the sky number cooked up in order to get the project approved? Was there some problem discovered during the planning phase that caused a blowout?

I think this could be made into a net positive if new immigrants were not allowed to buy a house but were allowed to build one.

Somehow I don't think that justifies an extrajudicial execution by the police.

I don't think it's possible to cheat biology this way but maybe by replacing biological parts with mechanical ones we can sustain our brain for a long time.

Of course civilisation looks like it's going to collapse in a couple of hundred years due to climate change but let's set that aside.

On the plus side it will foster more long term thinking in the population. On the minus side the world population will hit a trillion and we will have to kill another person just to prevent them from killing us.

Beggar can't be choosers, this is why we can't afford nice things etc.

What is happening in this country?

Nobody in this government understands economics apparently.

That would be an orwellian nightmare to monitor let alone dealing with all the disputes in court.

Why are the AirBnBs empty? I figured they would be booked pretty solid.

Too hot. I don't remember it being this hot in the last decade.

But everybody isn't riding horses. In order for your analogy to work it would have to like this. "If horses are so great why isn't everybody riding horses to work"

I don't see it. What is the irony? How wildly popular is lemmy?

If RSS is so great why aren't people using it? Why isn't there a dozen readers on the market?

maybe it's just not that useful and that's why nobody is using it.