The article is trash. Anyone at this point going on about how China is authoritarian is either ignorant or racist. Even if the claim is true, Western democracies produce nothing but genocidal regimes and genocide abetting media and businesses. Even whatever freedoms the West claims to honour have been attacked with multiple Western governments criminalizing opposition to genocide.

It depends on where you live as most Western countries put up trade barriers to prevent the quality Chinese products from their markets. I have access to plenty of high quality Chinese products from GAC and Hongqi cars to Huawei and Honor phones.

Good. Southwest Asia has plenty of energy and we don’t hate China. I’m even posting this on my Honor phone

For the religious right it is a requirement for Jesus to return per their misunderstanding of the Bible.

For the neoliberals and neoconservatives it serves the empire in many ways that if it didn’t exist they would have had to invent it.

Of course both camps also hate Arabs and Muslims, so they are comfortable with the death toll.

They used the Opel Corsa which is a proper small car. I came here expecting they used a larger and more expensive car to inflate the cost. I wish I didn’t need a car but I do, I’m still not spending more than the equivalent of $15,000 on a new car.

The only thing Biden turned into rubble was the US economy

Is this a joke or are they serious?

The build quality in US brands is lacking, on top of them just being too big and too thirsty.

They are a reflection of the people who vote for them. Too many in the EU are still too racist and too chauvinist.

She is not a good leader, but I don’t think anyone better will replace her anytime soon. Too many EU leaders still haven’t caught on to the reality of the world.

I think macOS still supports : for directory delimiting, a legacy of Classic Mac OS, though it has been deprecated for a while.

Windows NT supports both / and \.

We already have self-driving vehicles, they are called public transit

Is Russia selling it cheap? Can they charge more for it? What alternatives does Germany have?

France too needs to pay for Sykes Picot and the establishment of Israel.

My employer accidentally gave me two laptops. So technically I’m signed in to the network daily even on weekends. In reality I go weeks at times without going to the office. My productivity has not suffered at all.

I do agree, I just fear it will take more than a decade

I don’t share your optimism but I hope you are right

Nazi foreign minister Baerbock said civilians in the Gaza Strip deserve to be collectively punished in direct violation of international laws.

So schadenfreude

So he isn’t even a techy, the whole thing has been an act

No, it means you are a beautiful cat