I mean really, where do these legends come from? I have tried to make chatgpt sort through single document and present clear organized data, present in the document, into sorted table. It can’t reliably do that. How would it do any kind of complex task? That is just laughable.

So, no wars, got it.

finally. it took you some time, but better late than never. you are the only one talking about wars as if it means something.

Competition is good for the consumer.

except what is happening now is not really any kind of fair competition. the european manufacturers exported they know-how to china, which was strategic failure, it was stolen, and now it is sold back to us with the advantage of cheap chinese production.

they will ruin our production and we will be in a similar situation where we were during covid, when the political leadership were saluting the china cargo airplanes on tarmac, otherwise it would not bring us masks, syringes, or any other stuff whose production we had given up and outsourced to china

unless we turn the ship around quite soon, we will be regretting it soon and for a long time.

You’ ve been explained this whole scenario years ago when Putin was pushing for Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok.

That was EU chance to get dirt cheap energy and raw materials.

what?

China would love so much to rule the world, that’s why it hasn’t entered any war in the past 40+ years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred-Year_Marathon

the global south are happy to enter the comparably advantageous economic deals

are they happy? and are the deals advantageous? can you back up your claims? 😂

As for “dictator”, look at the approval rates of Xi in China

oh yes, the approval rating of a dictator in a dictatorship is very valid metric 😂. (hint hint: they are irrelevant even if they were not fixed. any kind of approval rating bears zero relevance to whether the country is a totalitarian state or not, or whether the country is a threat to its neighbours or not).

it’s not exclusively Russia to blame

of course. the poor russia was forced to attack the neigbouring country. fuck off, troll.

there is no such thing as “sphere of influence” you are entitled to. your country end at your borders.

unless you for some reason like leftist dictator who would like to rule the world more than the right one, there isn’t really practical difference in this

what he does in his free time is one thing (i don’t care about that), being high when he is working for a government ruining people’s lives and jobs is another.

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i am lucky, my city has excellent public transport, that doesn’t stop people from using cars though. be it because of pure habit, or because public transport is not solution for everything.

so i’d rather if our european car industry wasn’t decimated by the chinese one.

I would say go with whatever company that doesn’t have a CEO throwing Nazi salutes.

I have no doubt most CEOs are psychopaths, but they also don’t own a global Nazi mouthpiece like twitter

So did you mean “CEOs not throwing a Nazi salute” or “CEOs whose Nazi salutes don’t show up on your twitter feed”?

It seems you forgot what your argument is in a span of two rebuttals

You definitely sound like your advocating for musk.

You should work on your reading comprehension then

buy the car that isnt overtly a fascist car.

that isn’t really an argument in favor of china 😂

They make decent “point A to point B” cars

which is, coincidentally, what most people need from a car ;)

i am afraid it is just that most CEOs are sane enough to keep their embarrassing moments for their private life. do you think musk is the only narcissistic psychopath on drugs in the business world?

this is not advocating for musk, but it is important to be grounded in reality ;)

i hate musk, but i am not wild about our dependence on china either, so i am not really sure who to root for in this fight…

Not our.

i talk, and you talk. it is our discussion.

It’s a discussion you are trying to have

i am not trying to have, i am having it. here you are, replying to me. why are you trying so hard to prove that a discussion is not a discussion? it does not make sense.

I labeled as a layman’s guess.

yeah. and since i am more knowledgeable than you in this particular regard, i contributed some information you might not have had. now you do and your future layman’s guess can be more educated. that is how the discussion works. and for some strange reason, you seem to be pissed about it.

cool!

indeed it is. it is not very relevant to our discussion though. it is not a “cell tower” and it needs rather expensive end user hardware. limit of proliferation of such hardware among population during some kind of government internet shutdown will be approaching to zero.

also, as any kind of radio communication, it can be locally jammed, which further reduces its usability in a crisis.

not reading it was not due to my laziness, it is just i couldn’t make the joke otherwise. i don’t have a habit of forcefully promoting other people to a position of my assistant. but thank you anyway ;)

not reading it was not due to my laziness, it is just i couldn’t make the joke otherwise. i don’t have a habit of forcefully promoting other people to a position of my assistant. but thank you anyway ;)