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  • CeeBee@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable carsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I can’t believe I’m wading into a “who’s worse” thing on the internet,

    China. China is way worse. It’s not even a fair comparison.

    China has a near 99% conviction rate of all “trials”. People get disappeared all the time at an alarming rate. Criticizing the government is illegal and silenced immediately. Buying a woman (trafficking) is punishable by three years in prison. Importing an invasive species of plant is punishable by 7 years in prison. Buying/owning an airsoft rifle can land you life in prison.

    They are currently violating the maritime borders of many countries, to the point where they are deploying nets as a way to “claim” the waters well beyond what they’re entitled to by international law.

    During covid they welded shut the entrance to buildings to forcibly keep people inside. And many of those people died from starvation or being ill and not receiving care. Then there were those buildings that caught fire and the occupants couldn’t get out.

    Then again during covid it was mandated that “foreigners” were not allowed into grocery stores, restaurants, hospitals, etc. And it didn’t matter if you lived their for decades, or your whole life, of you weren’t Han Chinese you’re a foreigner. Some people even had signs up that said “blacks are not allowed inside”.

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-stay-away-from-here-in-china-foreigners-have-become-a-target-for/

    And this isn’t the people’s fault. They’re working off of information and mandates given to them by their government. A government that has a death grip on all communication in the country.

    And this doesn’t even get into the allegations of organ harvesting of the Uyghurs (and others). And yes, “only allegations” because that kind of thing would be done in very dark and secure basements. Although there are first hand accounts of people who witnessed such things who managed to get out, it’s anecdotal but there are more than one account.

    Edit: just to add. I’m not American, and don’t live in the US. I think that country is terribly broken in many, many ways. I would never want to ever live there, but I would choose the US in a heartbeat if it was down to that place or China.

  • CeeBee@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable carsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    you are literally spewing out oil industry talking points.

    Not at all. My original comment in this thread was replying to a comment that made it seem another person was vilifying “Asians” as opposed to talking about the technology.

    If you’re talking about my other comments in this post, then that’s still not true. I’m not saying, and haven’t said, that EVs are bad. I’m saying China is contributing to massive amounts of ecological damage. They produce massive amounts of of e-bikes and EVs, and then throw them into a field never to be used. This is being done to meet quotas so they can get government subsidies, and to boost numbers.

    It’s not about the damage of making batteries and other components, it’s the damage being done by creating those things at such a scale that a lot of it is wasteful and unnecessary. And to top it off, there’s going to be even more damage as those vehicles rot in those huge fields and leach harmful stuff into the ground.

    So no, I’m not “spewing out oil industry talking points”. I hate that people just assume what you’re saying without taking a moment to understand the context. The oil industry is among the nastiest groups of people to ever live, but that doesn’t give EV makers a free pass to do whatever. The reality is that, right now, making EVs is a dirty process. So it has to be done right and carefully, otherwise we won’t be around to see the benefits.

  • CeeBee@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable carsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Idk, I didn’t feel like they were pushing an agenda

    The conflation of “Asians” being always applied to China is a common CCP propaganda tactic. There are many Asian countries, like Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, etc. These places are known for good quality products. They are all Asian. So yes, pushing the racism angle on commentary of products coming from a country not known for quality is an agenda. And to be clear, I didn’t say “China doesn’t make quality products”, I said it’s not known for quality. Which is different from say bad quality outright.

  • CeeBee@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable carsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The downvote bots are out in force.

    Yup. Once you go down the rabbit hole of what kind of CCP propaganda gets pushed constantly, it’s eye watering. I’ve been to China at its peak (2011), and I have multiple Chinese family members born and raised in China. The propaganda is no joke. It’s subtle and everywhere. You say “I think Chinese EVs aren’t safe”, then you’ll start getting accused of attacking “Asians”, which is a classic technique to push the argument from “manufacturing practices” right over to racism.

  • CeeBee@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Texas Threatens Doctors After Judge Says Woman Can Get Emergency Abortion
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    1 year ago

    I have a feeling that the people who support this guy are also the group that think vaccinating babies is evil and that home births are better.

    I literally had a TON of women on Instagram try to attack me for calling out a post saying doctors and hospitals cause more harm than good in the US.

    Most of it was along the lines of “women have been giving birth without doctors for thousands of years, our bodies know what to do”, all while ignoring the fact that both infant mortality and women’s birthing mortality rates have dropped from around 1.5% (of ALL women, not just pregnant women) to 0.015% (don’t quote me on that, it’s been a while since I looked up the numbers).

    I even had one woman say that because I’m a man that I’m not allowed to say anything and her “genetic feminine memory”, as if she’s some Gao’uld symbiote from Stargate, trumps all “so-called medical doctors degrees”.

    How do you talk with these people?

  • CeeBee@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Microsoft is reportedly auto-installing the HP Smart app on Windows 10 and 11 PCsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    a lot of our decisions are guided by NERC CIP standards and where certain things fall within that framework.

    I would hazard a guess that this is more of a “safe-bet” thing rather than a hard policy. I tried looking up anything that stipulates using Windows over any other OSes, and this Software Integrity and Authenticity is the only thing I could find with a five minute search.

    Microsoft Windows provides such a mechanism for Microsoft signed software through its default configuration and through a Group Policy Object (GPO) that expands this capability to other trusted third parties.

    It doesn’t make sense that you wouldn’t be able to use Linux, unless the higher-ups making the decisions are your classic dinosaurs that still believe Microsoft’s propaganda from the 2000’s about the scary “communist” Linux OS and the dangerous open-source programs that will steal your company secrets.