The US is still struggling to ramp up production of relatively simple artillery shells.

This trend impacted tourism significantly, especially after they cracked down on WeChat etc. basically acting as banks, since tourists did not have an easy time getting set up in one of these apps. Eventually they passed a law that merchants have to accept international credit cards, but there is a lot of malicious compliance where only one register and one person in the store that can do the credit cards with a dusty old handheld terminal, that kind of thing. AliPay in particular has done a nice job responding by making it much easier for non-Chinese speakers to get a credit card linked and even a lot of help buying train/plane tickets, calling taxis, etc. Sadly there are limits to transaction size in the apps, so if you want to make a large purchase you have to navigate the dicey world of credit cards, or get a friend from China to help out.

If security enforcement runs from user space, how to prevent mis-use of the same interface? Aren't they just providing a built-in rootkit?

Because they aren't always taken intentionally by the user, and most users don't understand the implications of any given length of time for keeping them.

This is how my Mazda CX-3 works, from 2018

“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.” Frank Herbert, Dune

What do you mean by "talking up"? If I say the food is really good in China, this doesn't negate any of the things you mentioned.

I was thinking the same thing about ebikes. Those are a game changer for a lot of the complaints posted above about bike commuting. This type of transit is HUGE in China, where they have had decent commuter ebikes for a long time. Many of them have rain covers and such as well.

Yeah I stand corrected here, BeauHD was the submitter in this case.

The editor doesn't write the summary, the submitter does. And we have you to fact check it for us. And the content from other sites is the whole point, so I'm not clear what your problem is on that score either.

They sell millions of those phones to people who don't care about Google apps or can't use them anyway.

An interesting book. It made the point that if you walk down the middle of the road randomly staggering to one side or the other, you will, on average, never be hit by a car. Normal is just an artifact of statistics, like the old saw about the average family had 2.5 kids.

This was obvious when we read

One can dream that they will have to let go of all the tab rounders and menu movers.