Why would we do that? It's good stuff. The same stuff you get on Amazon, but for literally 1/10th the price.

A lot of it is good quality too. Better than European brands in some cases, e.g. I bought a Wolfbox air blower and kids I significantly more powerful than anything else on the market except for Makita stuff costing 5x as much. Don't take my word for it, there are numerous scientific tests of those things in YouTube.

Or thermal cameras. FLIR can't compete with the Chinese manufacturers and their high resolution modules.

Keep in mind you are being fleeced on most of this "quality" stuff. I was looking at USB borescope cameras. Local place wanted £50, Amazon wanted £30, AliExpress wanted £1.50 and they are all the same thing. Same product photos, same USB IDs, same camera module and PCB. I know because I bought all three for work and took them apart.

The problem is always the same - the technology gets abused. With brightness wars the content tries to blind you, and looks bad if you try to compress the dynamic range. Or the other extreme, it gets colour graded for high end sets that can show a lot of detail in dark areas, and people complain that on their SDR LCD everything is black.

The BBC experimented with a second sound stream that made dialogue clearer for a while, then abandoned it.

Ah, that makes sense. I do use a counter top fan oven that is about 1500W.

But most of the air fryers in the UK are the wrong shape for pre-prepared meals, and most of those meals are best prepared with a microwave.

It just seems like an air fryer is worse. Take potatoes or meat. You can pile them into an air fryer, or you can spread them in a fan oven and optionally have a rotating platter to make sure they cook evenly. I suppose it's true that the volume is lower so they heat up faster. More messy to clean though.

I completely agree, but would include things like the pledge of allegiance in schools.

I don't get air fryers. They are just fan ovens, but worse.

I don't think Trump even runs the social media anyway, it's some guys who pay him to use the name. He can't lose.

Doesn't work in the UK. People got refunds when they killed PS3 Linux, for example.

It's an area of law the could do with seeing clarification. If stuff like this happens you should be due a refund on your bricked hardware, lost app purchases, lost media etc. It's particularly bad with consoles and Steam, where you can lose many years, even decades of purchases due to an error on their end.

Same when the mandatory TOS changes and you can't agree to the new terms.

Formula E is more interesting, because they are still a long way from there limits of the human drivers, the cars are all the same, and the "gimmicks" like fan boost and on-track power-upa actually make it more interesting.

I'm just wondering what people expected, and if there are articles in China about how ChatGPT parrots US doctrine, and Grok is a Nazi.

Let them?

One of the reasons why much of the world, especially the developing would, is moving away from the US and its soft power is because the US thinks it gets to decide how fast and how far they can develop.

Zeiss must be very upset that the Chinese have been pushed to develop competitive lenses even faster.

To be fair the US has been shafting its partners since at least WW2, it's just that now the lack of economic lubricant is really starting to make it painful.

It's a variation on the 4 stage strategy.

https://youtu.be/3hua1pkDmJc

1. Say you don't believe them.
2. Say it's technically true but nothing to worry about.
3. Admit that they caught up, but it's just a copy and they can't improve on it.
4. Tariffs to "protect" Western industry that has been left behind.