There’s a difference between “some people try to commit fraud” and “China is inflating its numbers to look innovative when it’s actually not”.

Of course some people commit fraud. Of course, some people actually do try to take government money and run with it.

The former is basically true in every single country no matter where you look. The latter is actually the conspiracy theory that China isn’t innovative because “1.4 million patents are all universally bullshit” or something to that extent.

That’s my 2c

Keep in mind these are conspiracy theories. Literally. 1.4 million patent applications? How many people have to be “in” on it before someone speaks about the lie? At some point the lack of evidence is damning. This can’t possibly be true without clear and obvious evidence.

Sent! Good luck!

Though I’m not in electronics, I am in software development, and I have tried using various language models for basic circuit development for very small side hobbies, and I have found it to be mixed at best.

It works better when it’s integrated into a search engine so that it has real humans explaining things so that they can just do the summary and not build something from scratch.

Didn’t I put this in freechat? It was a rant. You can stop gatekeeping now.

A note about those queues.

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the difference between policy and material conditions. The USSR wouldn’t have had queues (or very long queues) if they were a rich country like the United States. Any socialist country that is rich would have plenty of materials that nobody would ever have to wait in line (at least not a long line, no longer than in current day USA)

Of course, under socialism, certain excesses would be limited, but at the same time, if your country literally already had what it needed because of the overcapacity built by capitalism, then under socialism, basically all needs would be met very easily.

I need to do some more reading by other people on this topic because I’m no expert, but it makes sense to me.

Absolutely, I think this is a great idea.

Best of luck to them!!! Hopefully we see more good news come from Nepal and not a sudden turn to revisionism.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-vance-rubio-7c7ba6b99b5f38d2d840ed95b2fdc3e5 AP reports the gunman was killed and an attendee was killed. If we get reasonable answers for who they were it’s safe to say it wasn’t staged.

Fucking practice better if you’re gonna do this. Shesh you only get one attempt…

I really never go back myself, but I keep it around because first things first, there are more specific hobbyists and knowledge subreddits that still contain useful information.

Sleep apnea, vertigo, things like that where people aren’t talking politics at all, and they just want to talk about their condition and ask questions and get some help.

I still sometimes find it useful for tech questions and answers and in general might use it to look up some recommendations or reviews. But in actuality it is becoming worse and worse and worse for things like that. So I’m not sure how long that will last.

Jesus, what an arrogant piece of shit. Even if, EVEN IF, you are someone that wants to support the Democratic Party, you have to believe that he is an arrogant piece of shit. Right?

I’ll tell you what, I might live here, but I’m no longer participating in political theater, and this is just funny now. I mean, everybody’s just shooting themselves in the foot all day long and it’s just hilarious.

That is a subtle and more correct point. Thank you for pointing that out. There is some utility in voting for a third party that at least has some chance of dismantling the system.

You’re right, there are people out there that literally say don’t vote and try to convince other people not to vote. But I think most of us are reasonable enough to understand that it really doesn’t matter if you vote, so it also doesn’t matter if you convince someone not to vote. We’re not going to vote because we think there’s no utility in it. That is that.

But the liberals are in a political game, and they need as many players as possible, and they call themselves lefties, and so they go to the lefties and say, hey, we’re on the same side, right? And we’re like, no, fuck you, go away. And they’re like, aw, please? And we’re like, no, you basically side with fascists, go away. And then they get all pissed off of with us, then they claim that we side with fascists, and it’s all a big clusterfuck.

That’s the perspective I have now that I switched from being one of those liberals to being a leftist.

Blue Maga. That’s a new one to me, makes total sense. I am gonna use that now lol.

You used an operative word there, “never”.

I don’t know your relationship with your dad, your socioeconomic status, your age, your ability to change people’s minds. Etc. But if you really think that the answer is “never”, then you have a decision to make. Whether your dad is worth maintaining a relationship with or not. Would you still spend time with your dad if you never talked politics again?

If you’re young, your dad might not have a kind of respect for your ideas compared to if you were older. That’s just how it is with parents, that will come with time. Maybe you can convince him of these ideas in 10 years, when you’re older, he’s older, and the world has gone even more to shit, And maybe he sees the systemic problems behind it.

If you’re wealthy, your dad probably has the same mentality that most people who are wealthy have, which is that they deserve everything that they have, and fuck everybody else. I don’t really know how to change those people’s minds.

If you guys are not well off, then you can try to leverage regular socioeconomic talking points. Getting him to understand that the system is rigged and that kind of stuff.

It’s important to spend our time in places that matter the most. Maybe your dad will never understand. Accept it and spend your time on other people you might know.

It is kind of fascinating to me that yes, the clean energy websites tend to be synophobic as well. But at least they will factually admit that China is ahead of the West in so many ways.

The first reason it’s fascinating is that the people on these sites still can’t get over their synophobia, even though time and time again China seems to be doing the right thing. It just confuses and bewilders them, and instead of sitting down and really reconciling with that, they just repeat phobic nonsense.

The second reason it fascinates me is that these are the scientific resources that liberals are supposed to be pointing to to determine where clean energy and the right decisions are being made. And when you point them at these resources they kind of still deny it, like they will say sure China’s ahead, but at what cost, or sure China’s ahead, but they’re still in the authoritarian state. Or China’s only ahead in these ways, but not those ways. Of which they are wrong to say that, but at least this one particular source might not point that out. It’s denialism at its most fascinating.

I’m sure to a lot of people on here thinks this is obvious, and not really comment worthy, but being a communist for about a year I’m still wrapping my head around a lot of the hypocrisy of the West.

they are now trending back in the other direction.

There are certainly people who call themselves communist that miss this point too!

S4A sadens me, he does lots of great work turning communist texts into audiobooks, but then latches onto one aspect of china that blinds him to the truth. China used capitalism to beat the west at their own game, and now they get to change the rules.

I’m guessing that by the time they’re done, California high-speed rail will still not be completed haha.

It’s so fucking disgusting the way economists weaponize certain parts of language in order to make a good thing look bad.

Of course deflation over a very long period of time is very bad. It’s one of the reasons that cryptocurrencies are so crazy.

But obviously, if the price of food went down to the price it was before inflation, that’s not a bad thing. That just means you can fucking afford shit again.

This one boiled my blood. I’ll tell you what, once you become class conscious, it’s really hard to fucking ignore that every economist is getting you to work against your own best interests.

This weak ass liberal may not be reading anything, but I am eating up all these sources. Thank you, everyone. Also, God damn it, now I have hours more of reading any to do. At least I’ve covered some of these topics before, so some of them might be review.