More BS American Propaganda. I'm American and it doesn't work on me; boy does it work on my peers! Gullible idiots; should be obvious to foreigners by now.

BYD is not subsidized into beating American cars!

#1 cost for an American car is the healthcare of their employees! BYD? "Free" healthcare. We both get "free" roads. We both have government helping the power companies; they just do that better than we do too. We are screwing alternatives, they are #1; we are building super subsidized nuclear power which is the most expensive too. They treat more as infrastructure than we do and they don't need to fight for decades to finally pass an infrastructure law. Infrastructure is important and Americans probably don't even know what that is outside the bill Biden passed with that in the name. We are on track to privatize the post office, Medicare (already over half done) and just before the big collapse, we'll privatize social security. China subsidizes their postal service; like every sane nation did; in the USA it was subsidized for over 200 years... now we let them pay interest on debt and if you haven't noticed, there are a ton of tiny delivery companies working with them now as postage went up a lot... it's not inflation.

The free market would kill the American auto industry. Not that the cost of living wouldn't make labor impact prices; but right now, it's the worlds most expensive healthcare mess making them worse; as far as quality, China caught up - they just have less quality control, regulation, etc. but they probably can do better manufacturing than we remember how to do; if surpassed. or soon will.

Exon is making a move to expand plastics. Whatever that means. I suppose PLA will be banned next?

Long ago, Japan kicked their ass. Foreign companies beat American laziness. Long ago, new laws protected American auto companies and harmed foreign ones in the market with the deal essentially being, cars can be imported with tariff or somewhat made here without. I don't remember the details but it also helped spawn fake car companies under a parent company. TRUCKS were functionally banned which weren't a big deal to the foreign companies plus they made more profit... a chunk of that profit is LOANS which is also their business, because we've got to push people into debt too! As a result, SUVs were invented as a technical truck that is a car. They promoted the hell out of what made them money and was protected by the government to keep the industry afloat. They even found a way to make women want SUVs, I remember reading about that (it was fear,) and demote mini-vans.

Did they use the time to invest in catching up? No, not really, just wanted to keep going short term. Another bailout or protection law would save them next time. Now they only have old movies promoting them to some foreign fools and the rest of the planet doesn't want their crap-mobiles.

if they win they become God-Kings who's slightest whim is made real to the limits of human civilization.

If they lose they just go to their graves insanely wealthy.

There is a *very* small chance they get thrown out of a window or poisoned by a Stalin or a Mao, but it's very, very unlikely. They have their own private armies to protect them.

one of Toyota's executives said that every model would be offered as a hybrid in about a decade. That might happen after three decades.

Really? The only ones available without a hybrid option that I can see are the GR 86 rwd coupe and the GR Supra.

We could include the GR Corolla and Hatchback Corolla if you don't consider them "Corollas."

But I was told the opposite:

"We were ahead of them by a mile, by 10 miles, on the internal combustion engine. They went into EVs, and then they convinced the Western world to go into EVs and play their game," the freshman Republican lawmaker from Ohio said during an auto industry conference. "That was just irrational, dumb policy."...

"I pushed back on the premise that EV somehow is about innovation," he said. "Electric vehicles were around in 1910. It's not like this is new technology."

Here's a guy working hard to ensure the US not only loses the global competition for auto production, but becomes the last bastion of tailpipe emissions.

It'll be about 3-5 years but more or less.

That's how long analysts think the AI build out will last. It's why nobody is building more capacity.

the reason gas prices have been stable is we keep pushing for more fuel economy keeping demand down. EVs help some too, but the huge push for fuel economy is why the national average is only $3/gallon.

I'm saying that those people aren't going down without a fight, and they'll kill a lot of the people who try to kill them.

When the violence starts we all get dragged into it. Nobody gets to sit back and watch the 'parasites' get taken out to their amusement. It doesn't work like that.

Although about 30-40% of the country seems to think it does.

Since 1980 were taken by automation not outsourcing. Google it.

The Trump administration is heavily pushing even more automation.

His commerce Secretary has already admitted that even if tariffs magically brought the factories back the jobs wouldn't come with them because they would be automated.

We are going to have to do something about this. In the very near future, in the life of most of the people reading this, about a quarter of the population is going to be rendered completely useless. We will not have any useful work they are capable of doing.

We are not going to give them money to sit around playing Xbox and getting drunk on Friday night. Nobody is going to tolerate going to work for 40 to 60 hours a week when somebody else doesn't have to. It won't feel Fair and it will make people very angry.

At the same time we are talking about 30 to 40 million people we just have no use for. It's too many to stick in work camps or to kill.

We are going to have a huge conflict between the people who still need to do work and the people who there is no useful work to do. And there is no magical super job that's going to come along and employ them. Read the history on the two industrial revolutions, we had massive amounts of technological unemployment during both of them that your high school history books glossed over. We had 25% unemployment in the lead up to world war II.

I don't know what the solution is. I think what's going to happen is we're going to have another world war and it's going to go nuclear possibly ending the species. But if there's a third option we better figure it out and fast.

The billionaires have decided we're going to have feudalism and are working on dismantling capitalism so that they know longer depend on consumers and employees for their wealth and prestige and power. They are creating a world where they do not need you to buy their products. So they already have a solution to the problem it's just their solution doesn't include you.

You say "China" but this is a private Chinese company. "China", as in the Chinese government, does have its own space programme that, like NASA, works with commercial partners. They are looking to put people on the moon around 2030, and on track to do it, but this company is working on low cost to Earth orbit payloads.

Is it funny because of "TDF"? Even with the AIs I couldn't figure that one out.

I think it's a complaint about how to spell "kerning", but I don't understand the funny moderation.

But kerning is not an issue for most of the Japanese characters. However if you want to get beyond kaisho, then the situation quickly becomes intractable. Gyosho is hard and I don't think I've ever seen a computer version--but sosho is much worse. The flowing script is often much too pretty to read. Even if you have the kaisho side-by-side it is often hard to find matching features.

Right off the bat updates are constantly crashing it because Microsoft is using shitty vibe coding to do critical updates and then acting like they can have people just check the code. Any idiot can realize quickly that's not going to work because there's going to be enormous pressure to check the code quickly in order to realize the cost savings from the AI bullshit.

Meanwhile Windows 11 is slower and more crash prone because it's filled with AI spyware designed to let Microsoft train their chatbots and whatnot on everything you do.

It is the most user hostile software in existence but because we don't have any antitrust law enforcement it's all we've got.

I keep seeing people talk about Linux but the fact of the matter is unless and until we start electing politicians that will strictly enforce and to trust law and begin the process of breaking Microsoft up Linux is not going anywhere.

The reason Linux is perpetually stuck at 2 to 3% market share on the desktop is because every time it starts to have a breakout moment Microsoft does a couple of nasty little anticompetitive things that are obviously illegal and that's it.

People have to start deciding what's more important when they go to the polls. And I think people here know how they've been making their voting decisions and what they've been giving up for it.

A Japanese game developer has started making recruits draw in front of them because they had so many people sending in fake AI slop and a few slipped through.

the funny thing, I could see AI being a game changer for Manga. A lot of Manga is simple brute force work adding shading and the like that could be better done in software. Though I don't think you need AI for that, good software could do it.

But a lot of it's still done the old fashioned way, which is a shame because several of my favorite manga ended because the author was so overworked they almost killed themselves...

Then again the publishers could just not take all the money for themselves, that works too. Japan needs more worker protections, but they just elected Trump in a dress so that ain't happening.