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.

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.

In fact there is no difference because the spying is done by corporations, and the data is for sale.

i.e. because of Reagan-era policies around dumbing down voters by attacking education in order to prevent a dangerously educated proletariat, because they knew Democracy only functions when the populace knows what they're voting for.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

You have to accept at least some of the bottom three to use the online features. Conversely, you also have to enable the online features to accept the bottom three. I just checked on this yesterday on my TV. I never agreed to those things, and couldn't because I never connected my TV to a network.

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.

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.

"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."

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.

We'll see, if they ever actually start it. But there is absolutely no way in hell they can save money doing it AND not make it less safe.

Do your own homework, racist prick. I don't work for you. Learn how to internet, clown.