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Comment Re:GM is on the list and makes Buick... (Score 1) 497

I wonder how many new Chinese cars now look like the Envision?

Credible ones? I'd guess about two. One fast one and one cheap one.

But Chinese automakers are competent now, they don't need to copy anyone any more. They did that enough already; they licensed the last-generation cars from everyone, everyone taught them how to build them as part of that process. Then they studied the new cars and, using the intimate knowledge they purchased about how the generation they evolved from were manufactured and assembled, extrapolated how you'd do the kinds of things the automakers were doing in the new generation.

A lot of people got really smug about China copying everything, believing 1) that meant we were superior and 2) they would always have to keep doing that. But 2 only follows from 1, and 1 is bullshit. They were just behind. Now they are not behind. We are, because while they've been busy busting ass, we've been sitting on ass.

The two economies are not at a level wage field, and Many Chinese shops get government support money, so importing is unfair when you think about it. But most don't.

It used to be unfair to import Japanese cars for the same reason. Except, well, the Japanese cars actually were better. It's pretty hilarious actually that they bought our recycled steel — not just crushed cars, but washing machines and refrigerators and barrrr beeee quuuuuues ("ARRR-VEEE!" — oh yeah, those too) and turned them into lighter, cheaper, better cars which they sold to us.

China has (more recently, but still historically) been a strong buyer of recycled US steel, but demand from China for our steel products is down substantially this year.

Comment Re:End of capitalism (Score 1) 497

There are Nissans well under 30K, they aren't a major brand?

Nissan just killed the manual gearbox in anything but the 370Z and their CVTs are shit. I think some cars still offer an old school slush box? But mostly just with 4 speeds because they are super low end. You can/could get the Versa that way... ...sigh. For 2026 they discontinued the Versa, I knew they had disc'd the 5MT but I didn't know or didn't remember they killed the whole car. Murano has a 9 speed slush box. Sentra, Altima, Kicks and Rogue all use a CVT. None of those have enough motor to have a good CVT, so they will have a shit one and TL;DR: You do not want to buy a cheap Nissan in 2026. In 2027 Nissan promises to re-tune the CVT in the Sentra for more performance, so I promise you that you do not want to buy one in 2027 either. The last cheap Nissan you want to even consider owning is a 2025 Versa 5MT.

Comment Re:Can't compete (Score 1) 497

The entire world is like that. It makes it a much safer place. Also a lot richer.

If you cannot build military equipment without supplies from your adversaries, you're gonna have a bad time if you ever actually get into a real conflict with them. And the more you outsource, the worse.

Of course, too much protectionism is expensive, so yeah we should have Chinese cars. And our car companies should be able to compete with them, but they can't because they are a bunch of fuckoff lackwits commanded by human garbage execs doing the will of human garbage shareholders.

Comment Re:Why US and China won't go to war anytime soon (Score 1) 497

The reason China would invade Taiwan is: If we actually denied China access to the advanced produces they want to buy from Taiwan. They know that this would not get them those products, but if they cannot have them, why let anyone else? So far we have restricted ourselves to making them pay more for them. We don't do anything substantive to control smuggling for example. No doubt we are profiting from that too, we're good at that.

Comment Re:Who's making the dumb ones? (Score 1) 157

But this one is doing some new bullshit I didn't even know monitors could do, and installing McAfee adware on any Windows device that it plugs into. Can't recommend.

It can't. Windows did that automatically at LG's request. Microsoft supposedly told LG to change their driver package to stop doing it, and they supposedly stopped doing it.

Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 157

Are the features in the TV which are used to do AI upscaling and shit useful for that? Like are those processor features useful for that? Because there's a BUNCH of that stuff in these TVs. They do a LOT of it. And BADLY, I might add, I had to turn it off because it was fucking horrible. But they are also doing it in 1080p->4k in realtime...

Comment Re:I wonder whether that is just the US version (Score 1) 157

The TV is recording the data. Exactly what is being sent home when is unclear because only some of the data has been decrypted. (I watched the video last night.) If you have the pro version of a LG TV you're allowed to install your own certificate and you can see some of the contents, but some are also encrypted another way. Some of the things you're not normally allowed to see were decrypted using certificate injection, other things weren't.

Comment Re: 1960s 'woke' was not 2020s 'woke' (Score 1) 180

I would never want to "root out racisim" since I believe in freedom of mind.

Racism is an intentionally harmful psuedoscientific belief literally intentionally invented to excuse white people doing bad things to brown people, up to and including slavery and murder. It's not freedom of mind. Its perpetration is deliberate oppression. Anyone who is not opposing it is clueless at best.

Comment Re:Can't Afford Plant--then Can't Afford Cleanup (Score 1) 75

The NRC was early on making sure the taxpayers didn't become bagholders for nuclear waste cleanup if an operator goes titsup.

"Approximately 70 percent of licensees are authorized to accumulate decommissioning funds over the operating life of their plants. These owners â" generally traditional, rate-regulated electric utilities or indirectly regulated generation companies â" are not required today to have all the funds needed for decommissioning."

Comment Re:So Google paid a fraction of the cost (Score 1) 75

Whats this I hear about Trump paying out billions to NOT build wind farms though?
nah - never mind, I'm not sure I can take any more of that stuff.

It happened to me! Well, here in this county.

We needed the jobs and the power, now we get neither.

And we're also not getting an alternative.

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