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if India 🇮🇳 is inferior, why can they land helicopters on buildings while in the west this has been banned except for hospitals? (movies still pretend it exists but this don't count)
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2026-08-24 03:44:33 UTC

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2026-08-03 12:39:45 UTC

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2026-07-30 20:50:51 UTC

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2026-07-20 22:49:23 UTC

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i agree, it's not an exclusive property of China, it's western politicians and industry leaders who made the strategic decision to oursource everything. Other places could have the role of China as an outsourcing destination today.
What does seem to be coming from China though, is this push for technology and technocracy. It really kicked into gear with Covid, when QR codes and smartphone-app-dependent solutions were popping up all over the west (including contact tracing apps using near field/Bluetooth and such things).
Not one day goes by without some new technology achievement being paraded on the internet, like "China presents a robot that is capable of ...", "China unveils new supercomputer..." "China presents 90% autonomous drone" ... it never ends, and I'm sick and tired of it. I want to be left alone by any technology China pushes, it's not my problem (even though western politicians and CEO seem to think so and seem to think they are in a hard-to-win technology "race" against China). This was the meaning of my original post. F*** China and Xi and their never ending technological progress.

2026-07-20 22:31:49 UTC

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you seem to have no idea of the scale of manufacturing that China does today, and that the West collectively did before China rose after 2000
just for starters, China produces near 100% of all ties 👔 sold in the world in one Chinese city
China produces 65% of the shoes sold worldwide, including by western brands. by comparison, Vietnam only produces 12%
good luck having TV factories, shoe factories, electronics factories, gadget factories, carpets, toys, all back in the West, staffed with western workers under western regulations. yea dream on.

2026-07-20 22:14:16 UTC

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some part of recent technology would still exist, but not at the same low price and popularity. The entire West and non-China countries would be struggling to manufacture all the goods China now manufactures seemingly effortlessly over there. Western politicians, CEOs and other evildoers are drunk on China's manufactured goods and could not survive a day without it.
Smartphones with 8 core CPU and 8 GB RAM? Yes but costing $1000 each
Traffic cameras reading license plates? Yes but $10k each (with the needed processing power, lense etc.) and prohibitively expensive for mass surveillance
QR Code readers for restaurant menus, parking, Covid certificates and soon internet age verification? would cost $200 each, impossible to impose on normal people

2026-07-20 22:07:00 UTC

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relying 100% on Made in China with his "Designed in California" iPhone 😆

2026-07-20 21:37:05 UTC

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i'm increasingly starting to hate China, and what it's doing on the world stage. This entire technology push, unprecedented in human history in its speed and scope, is made possible only by China. Without China existing, we would still be using the internet like we did 20 years ago, without smartphones, without cheap electronics, without touchscreens in cars, and no Bluetooth and many things.

2026-07-11 16:18:29 UTC

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2026-07-08 16:36:07 UTC

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2026-07-08 15:23:12 UTC

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2025-01-27 20:52:42 UTC

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it's definitely not worth $500 billion, and Nvidia is a graphics card company with a GPU processor that is not worth $2.9 trillion dollars (its current market cap) just because you can use the GPU to "accelerate" (nothing more) things like image recognition and brute force computing.
They have "something" that they call AI, but I reject this entire hype and this choice of cryptic words used for it. I call it "advanced automation", "information gathering", "big data", "fuzzy logic", those make sense and cut through the b.s. hype.

2025-01-27 20:35:33 UTC

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yes but it's a new product/service that no one has specifically asked for, they (Big Tech) are trying to sell it now, but it doesn't fill a specific need. I could imagine they will have problems turning this into money, to get paying customers for this. No one is saying "gee I need some automation to watch my pet, and write a report about it", I for one wouldn't ever want that. There will be some "niche" industries that can use it, like surveillance. Just like it was with those drones - only very few people bought drones, even though they have been available for years.

2025-01-27 19:56:33 UTC

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the real question is, who needs these features, who wants them, especially once they cost money? Everything is "cloaked" in these cryptic words like "model" "intelligence" "language" and so on. I would simply say this is
>automation
>image recognition
>speech recognition
>text recognition
>search engine
Adobe Reader has something like that, recognizing invoices and so on, but who wants that? Who would want a computer automation to replace a human reading an invoice, something so important, leaving it to the automation to pay money to someone? It's not needed by anyone, it's all a hypothetical future they're investing in.

2025-01-27 02:26:55 UTC

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another way to put it:
>third worlder comes across the border
"we can't deport him, we have only limited control over immigration, so we've got to accept him living and working here"
>first worlder applies to stay permanently in the US (or EU, Canada, Australia)
"why do you want to come here? Is there something wrong with you? Let's see your criminal records first, and your education, and your financial situation. Here in the US we take immigration very seriously and want only the best, only the "elite" to come here, you understand"

2025-01-27 02:07:00 UTC

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this appears to be the new policy of conservatives (also in Europe) - in consequence, this means illegal immigration has officially replaced legal immigration as the primary way to change your home country. Legal immigrants who apply through a long winding process, using expensive laywers, waiting years, are officially the losers now.

2025-01-27 01:53:52 UTC

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they are "playing dumb" if they claim they can't deport them all, given enough time - they would have to get creative, try different approaches, but it would get done eventually, given the will to do it.
- I would do it like this: stop all assistance to illegals in any way by the authorities, including of course drivers licenses, registering a business, welfare, anything the state has control over. Once an illegal wants any kind of assistance/service by the state, he is given only assisted to leave the country ASAP, under supervision, that's the only thing they get for free.

2025-01-27 01:37:06 UTC

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"it's too difficult, so we're not even going to try" - there's something wrong with this logic. They should at least begin doing it, see how many can be deported, and go from there. Why not even try? The new talking point across the entire "new conservative" spectrum is, we need to deport those "criminals" - but that's idiotic when you think of it: criminals should first of all go to _our_ jails, where we make sure they get the punishment our courts have decided for them. Once they get released from our jails, we should deport them immediately, that should a no-brainer. For the non-criminals, it means nothing will change for them, except they will be even more of a slave worker class, under constant threat of deportation even if they commit only minor crimes.

2025-01-26 22:47:35 UTC

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everything is being centralized to the max - all it would take is for the "cloud" to go down for a week, to cause a worldwide disaster. Now they will tell you, this has never happened, and won't, cause redundancy and safety and Big Tech money etc., and here we are right now, believing this, as everything moves to the cloud.

2025-01-13 17:44:26 UTC

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I work just to exist and also at least 50% of income is needed to keep doing the job and stay employable. But it would be shameful to rely on welfare, that's one reason to work.

2024-09-02 02:02:28 UTC

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idk about that, but online dating is being spammed by trans people. Swiping photos there requires you to detect the true gender first, and if you're not careful, you "like" a trans person there.

2024-08-13 16:16:38 UTC

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2024-07-15 15:42:36 UTC

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2024-07-14 04:49:06 UTC

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Recently there have been other violent acts, and Ukraine is involved in all of them. I would not rule them out, they're desperate and violent, not only in their rethoric but also in their deeds.

2024-07-14 04:41:27 UTC

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how much skill and training does it take to hit someone at that distance? I imagine this requires extensive training, not just anyone can pull this off.

2024-07-14 00:02:29 UTC

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it's best to be there live when it happens, and ignore everything the media says from then on.

2024-07-02 23:07:09 UTC

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Belarus president Lukashenko has said something similar today, he says he believes the West will not let Zelensky lose, but escalate things, possibly dragging in Belarus.

2024-06-14 12:42:54 UTC

remember when "AI" was called "algorithms"?

2024-06-05 10:39:20 UTC

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sickness can be the ultimate slim-fast method. the flu, tooth pain, migraine, muscle pain, probably all make you eat less and burn more fat.

2024-06-05 10:19:32 UTC

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2024-05-29 22:44:22 UTC

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when you watch the typical atheist podcaster for a long time, eventually there's a mental breakdown, or some profit motive emerges etc. Only religious people are reliable in the long run.

2024-05-22 11:39:18 UTC

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