Anyone think that the picture of the blue sling with the phone peeking out looks like a demented vulva?

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So they stuffed North Koreans into jobs, so to speak?

Sun's getting VERY active recently. Can one hope for a Carrington Event, Part Deux?

I'm all for danger ... better to have privacy than perfect safety, cowards. Not like the world is underpopulated.

Maybe the data shouldn't be collected in the first place ... fine them or break them up "pour encourager les autres."

Make a copy of the license, return it or shred it when the car gets returned.

Telescreen monitoring would have required a crazy amount of manpower.

Probably the closest real-world analog was the East German Stasi, which may have accounted for nearly 1 in 6:

The ratio for the Stasi was one secret policeman per 166 East Germans. When the regular informers are added, these ratios become much higher: In the Stasi's case, there would have been at least one spy watching every 66 citizens! When one adds in the estimated numbers of part-time snoops, the result is nothing short of monstrous: one informer per 6.5 citizens. It would not have been unreasonable to assume that at least one Stasi informer was present in any party of ten or twelve dinner guests. Like a giant octopus, the Stasi's tentacles probed every aspect of life.

— John O. Koehler, German-born American journalist, quoted from Wikipedia

The entire EU is a protectionist bloc Canada is protectionist coffee. Tariffs are wonderful, useful tools when other countries use them. But when Trump does them they're bad. As are so many other policies like deporting illegal aliens. Obama and Biden did more and entire states and cities did not rebelv and nullify federal authority like it was fort Sumter 1865. Pure TDS.

>Until Elon listened, they made good cars. Once his ego pumped and he decided he knows best, he pulled the plug on radar/lidar and that basically stalled self driving for a decade, same with 4680 battery, gigantic aluminum stamping pressess etc

What car did Tesla make before Elon bought the company? The roadster which wasn't even a 100% Tesla design.

My new model 3 is better than my old model 3.

Cameras are a problem? Now I have a front camera I didn't have before when all I got was sensors screaming at me but having no real idea how close I was to exactly what.

My new model 3 has longer range.

My new model 3 is waaay quieter on the highway at every speed.

My new model 3 cost the same in absolute dollars but these were post Joeflation dollars so in real world spending power cost a lot less.

My new model 3 has FSD. And so what? What is the use case for FSD? Why does any normal adult need FSD? And a change to cameras delayed useless FSD for ten years? Really? That's why every one else has level 5 FSD. Oh wait, no, they don't. No one has anything better than level 3.

Starship is following the same "push to failure" test process Falcon did. But I'm sure you know better. You're a rocket scientist who was responsible for designing uh that other successful rocket, the one that was uh great, because you're really smart and have designed rockets. If only Elon had asked you we'd have FSD, free tourism to Mars, free roadsters for everyone that run on Mr. Fusion and dogs n cats would be friends globally!

The slashdot Dunning Kruger effect is real. Very easy to explain your post.

of a slightly shittier country.

I have never heard of Vine, but it sounds like Tiktok in much much worse. And since it comes from Dorsey, it's safe to assume it's gonna be shit.

Uh... soooo....

You think deflation, over production, a zillion cars rotting in lots that will never be sold wasting the resources used to build those cars is good because somehow economic laws do not apply in China for uh reasons.

High inflation is bad for any economy. So is deflation. Deflation incentivizes people to -not- buy or engage in the economy because they know the longer they hold out to buy something, the cheaper it will be. This rates a death spiral. Companies not selling will go out of business. Their employees will stop spending. Which will reduce e ok mic activity, usually make deflation worse which leads to less economic engagement and so on down the toilet.

China's economy does not get to magically ignore these basic facts about how deflation, over production, etc works in an economy. Xi can not just declare China is immune from economic reality and basic math.

Crashes are not good. It took a lot of resources to build those companies. When they crash their resources are not 100% recovered for the mythical replacement companies. The best economic outcome is the result of good de idiot making where supply meets demand. No waste, everyone gets their needs/wants fulfilled at a fair price based on real world market forces, no one loses their job because of waste in the system. A win for everyone.

It's weird that someone would think having an endless serious of business cycles of crashes is a good thing. Replacing the former big companies with new big companies doesn't even satisfy the "I hate corporations" thing. Same corporations with new names fixes nothing.

Inflation/deflation, the results of overproduction, etc is first semester freshman Econ 1 stuff.

The only way overproduction covid possibly make sense is if you plan to flood the market of some target country to destroy their native businesses then raise prices later because their industry was destroyed. To prevent exactly this sort of thing from happening is why there are international agreements to "outlaw" dumping, individual companies may impose tariffs or just flat out bar foreign imports in a market to protect native industries from predatory dumping.

So, sure China can overproduce but they are not selling those cars to anyone anywhere. Their cars are either unwanted or blocked from illegal dumping. How is overproduction good for China?

I always carry cash. Cash is privacy. Cash is freedom. Digital payments are techy serfdom.

In the USA is it common to have self service tills at supermarkets that accept coins?

If it accepts cash, it should accept both coins and bills. Any change I manage to accumulate usually gets fed into the coin slot at a self-checkout before I swipe a card to provide the rest of the payment. It's better than handing it off to a Coinstar machine, as those skim off a percentage of what you feed them.

No they're not. You're exaggerating. The majority of these developments are still empty. China's declining birth rates coupled with the increased mortality from COVID have thrown in a monkey wrench into their planning. Up to 80 million units are still empty, with slim prospects for ever being bought or even used as social housing. Most of them are just crumbling ruins at this point. Even where people have moved in (often with heavy government subsidies, essentially turning units into an eastern Section 8 housing project), occupancy is still under 10%. They simply built too many units, and there aren't enough people to live in them. Some developments are being reclaimed for agriculture, with farmers grazing livestock and plowing fields on the strips of land between crumbing concrete structures.