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  • sorry to butt in but that’s a hobby of mine 😀

    for example going full renewables: solar panels made in south korea (qcells), battery german (sonnen), ev south korea (hyundai ioniq), heat pump australia/japan (reclaim energy)

    I’m now looking at computer parts made exclusively in taiwan (looks like gigabyte mainly) because europe appears to have 0 competitive chip makers

    it seems you can still buy bigger items that are local or non-china made but you will be punished for it, prices are anywhere from 10% to 100% higher

  • Interesting you talk about feeling safe:

    https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/huge-rise-in-antisemitism-top-cop-says-thousands-of-officers-deployed-to-hotspots-in-melbourne-suburbs-20250130-p5l8fj.html

    ‘Huge rise in antisemitism’: Top cop says thousands of officers deployed to hotspots in Melbourne suburbs

    He said such reports had surged since Hamas militants killed 1200 people in the October 7, 2023

    The reported antisemitic incidents spanned from verbal and physical abuse of people in the Jewish community, to vandalism, a neo-Nazi demonstration on the steps of parliament, and a firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue, he said.

    So glad I don't live in Melbourne right now, firstly a person got fired over tweets because of the jews shakes fist and on the other side threats, intimidation, a neo-nazi demonstration, physical abuse and firebombs

    What has gotten into the water in Melbourne? Too much social media?

  • I think they need to be built still tbh

    but i don't think this will be a fix, there are more structural issues in the EU

    EU is behind on chip making, software, space race, EV's, AI,

    <insert next big thing America or China invents>

    etcetc

    They will continue to be behind China and America so long as it's more difficult to do business and more difficult to raise money

  • Terrorists have been using Canada as the preferred point of entry into America for years now

    ?????

  • This is so bitterly disappointing, can one billionaire not turn into a complete fucktard please :(

  • I don’t understand how the heck Bunnings manages to have so much public good will.

    For me:

    I go into giant warehouse size of small city

    find what i want, price is decent

    i go through self checkout and leave

    👍

    everytime I've been has been fine? except when I look for a small widget that has 10 in stock on the website but there's none on the shelf because scumbags have stolen them all but 99% of the time it's fine

  • hey i’m running on solar and battery so no waste of electricity here ;)

    but yeah that was it, i just noticed how here and on mastodon i read ‘ai is a scam’ and then turn my head and read ‘ai will take all our jobs’, makes for a nice whiplash effect

    also it’s 4am here i’m going to sleep, appreciate the chat

  • we’re not in the slower than walking era, we’re in the ford model t era, i’m reading someone call the ford model t magic beans (eg. a scam) while millions of people are driving one every day and simultaneously worried it’s going to ruin transportation all over the north america

    “It took years of hard work for us to steal beans from farmers, apply our unique brand of magic, and seek investment from our nation’s finest rubes and oafs,” a Beanco spokesman said. “Now DeepBean wants to steal our magic beans, rebrand the magic, and get money from their own buffoons and clods? It’s just not right.”

    again, these are contradictory statements, it cannot be both a scam that has no value (eg. magic beans) and going to take all our jobs

  • You can absolutely leave and fund a “good” company, good luck getting anywhere.

    If the product has value then people will buy it*

    Humans have always created jobs, we love em, can't get enough of em, in a capitalist system if people want to buy human made goods and services and those systems are profitable then there will be jobs for those people

    This isn't a communist dictatorship where you will be forced to buy government sponsored AI produce and no other choice is given to you

    *I assume the products would have little logos on them like "non-gmo, organic, human made and farmed fruits!" etc

  • But cars have always had value, we're talking under an article that calls AI "magic beans"

    How could magic beans which produce garbage enslave humanity under capitalism? Would you argue that cars which replaced horses as the primary mode of transport in a few years be called this?

    You can argue that AI does some things badly, it's still very very early on and the progress people are making is insane, like nothing I've seen before, but you can't argue it is worthless and a giant threat to us at the same time, this is contradictory

  • That can't be possible, if they fire all their workers and produce AI slop then we will simply start a new company with human workers that doesn't.

    This isn't communism we can simply start a new business at any time for any reason, with or without AI

  • companies are getting ahead of themselves about the opportunity to fire human employees

    But then if they produce garbage with AI people will buy the non-garbage product

    Either it produces something of value or it doesn't, if it's producing garbage, lowering output, etc then it's not a threat to our jobs because most people don't like garbage, if it's producing genuine value then it will be.