Ai can generate hands with a billion fingers, but it can’t count so i guess they’re not likely ai after all.

I call fake, anyone who thinks like this died in a roof collapsing on them while they slept.

Edit: because they suck at building a house i mean, I guess they could have bought a house but nobody sells houses for an amount you can count with your FINGERS.

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I’ve seen this machine, doesn’t make much sense as a still image. Too lazy to look up a gif or video so i’m just leaving this one star review.

Professional help is given by people though

Oops, i always thought the i in lgbtqi stood for intersex, silly me.

Also don’t forget if you want to light a fire during a snowstorm, you need a larger amount of accelerant.

If China was treating the west back then like it does now, it would definitely not have been as desirable to move production there. Afaik there hasn’t been a single event that changed everything, so the number 15 is a bit random; but the attitude of the west towards China and vice versa definitely shifted. Also Russia was for a short moment not seen as an enemy state (although Russia might have considered the west as their enemy all along)

Japan is a good example of how this doesn’t have to be a two way street. Could also be that US and Europe (where I’m from) don’t always have the same perception, so could be i wrote the west where Europe would’ve been more accurate.

I’ve read both are true. Tourism + digital nomand, because Portuguese weather is good and lisbon is relatively affordable, but i’m sure a local could give you a better answer.

Haven’t been to either but authoritarian doesn’t have to mean suppressive. And in both cases it might matter a lot where you go and who you are (as in your wealth, skin colour, connections etc).

If the Chinese economy was run out of a board room at JP Morgan or through a series is military based commanded by NATO Generals or via a client state like Israel or Japan, we wouldn’t hear any complaints

Western markets would still be overrun by cheap products (partly because of subsidies and partly because forced labour), Chinese residents would still be supressed by heavy surveillance, Taiwan would still be threatened, Russia would still be supplied with technology to invade Ukraine.

Until 15 years ago China wasn’t considered a hostile state, just an increasingly powerful competitor. All nations benefit their fomestic residents, or at least their domestic corporations.

The real situation in which there wouldn’t be complaints would be when the Chinese benefitted their residents while at the same time didn’t do anything the west didn’t like. But since they’ve become pwerful, they can now do whatever they want (just like other powerful countries) - and some of the stuff they want, is bad for the west.

I want to agree, but at the same time i feel the concentrated power at the top is very similar in both countries. The one party system in China is very different to the two party system in the US, but I don’t think that is what makes the difference. I think China genuinely wants the poor to be less poor and the US genuinely want the rich more rich. Different goals obviously lead to different results.

But I do agree the system shouldn’t allow room for power to be abused. The checks and balances system is definitely broken.

Last paragraph basically says it all:

This is not to congratulate China for its authoritarian government, for its repression of minorities or for the iron fist it deploys against any form of dissent. But it merits pondering how this undemocratic government could successfully slash its poverty rate when the richest and oldest democracy in the world wouldn’t.

I’m old enough to remember this and I approve of your suggestion. But tbh i’d also be fine with 10, 1, 4 and 7.

Wouldn’t mind if they hired those guys for the next playstation tbh lol

How about 12, 3, 6 and 9?

It’s not a lost cause though, resistance is at least slowing down it’s implementation and possibly weakening it’s legal base. But i get you’re sentiment, it does not look like they will stop comming for copies of our digital conversations.

Not sure what you consider a long distance, but if it travels as far as a pigeon you might want to go see a medical professional.

It’s greed that fuels it. Capitalism first becomes ‘capitalism’ which in turn becomes some sort of oligarchy until there is only a central wealthy and powerful entity and ultimately it’s just a single wealthy autocrat ruling everybody.

Nice, didn’t know this! According to the article “The numeral system originates from an ancient Indian numeral system,” so i guess confusing names are a feauture of numerical symbols, and not a bug.

I’d argue if you bomb your enemy who has mini-nukes and regular nukes, their next step of escalation would be to use the mini-nukes. On the other had, if they only have regular nukes they would have to skip this middle step and use those instead. Ergo, only having regular nukes is a bigger deterrence than having both. That, and you have some unwasted money left for education and healthcare.