Sturgist

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[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 point 34 minutes ago

the fundamental difference is they saw a long term transition, welcomed it, guided it. Whereas us sees a long term transition, pulls our head into our shell

That's one of the advantages of having a single party in power for a very long time, I don't think China qualifies as a proper dictatorship, but it shares the advantage of the ability to plan decades in advance. The US is hobbled by the 4-8 year cycle of the next person totally erasing all the work of the previous. So there's an incentive for whoever is in power to keep the status quo and keep any changes small enough or "bipartisan" enough that the next person doesn't repeal it.

I wouldn't necessarily say that from what's visible outside the information confines of the CCP is cheating. They have a well defined goal, and no sight of the end of party rule means they can effectively do whatever they want to achieve it.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Are the subsidies specifically for destroying foreign markets? (😈MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!)

Maybe, maybe not. I'm not a huge fan of the Chinese government, but I don't think their subsidies program are intended to directly destroy foreign markets so much as put the country at the forefront of development and production... which can be perceived as the above.

In depth study of the Chinese GreenTech subsidy system.

As the study goes into in depth, tax credits are just one part of the system. There's also direct subsidies(funding) for R&D, which is understandably very expensive, and below market value land sales among other things. In 2019 China put the equivalent of 1.73% of their GDP into industrial support, with below market land sales being a substantial portion of that. Next highest on the graphic is Korea at 0.67% GDP equivalent.

Moving away from the subsidies thing.

China has the battery production technologies and capabilities, the electric motor production, an unbelievable economy of scale, and insane levels of automation in their EV Factories,

(Found this out awhile ago when I was watching a video on how actually ridiculous the whole US - Greenland thing was.)

China has ~90% of the rare earth refinement capacity. Even if Trump wants/wanted Greenland for it's resources, it would be over a decade to spin up enough refinement infrastructure to process whatever they would hypothetically extract.

China has invested HEAVILY in the entire supply chain from resource extraction to final product for a wide swath of GreenTech. When a lot of the rest of the world has switched from a majority production/export to majority consumption/import economy, or focused on soft products/research/etc of course they would see a country flooding their markets with products as adversarial. Regardless of if those foreign products are superior. Especially if the government of said foreign country is often interfering in political processes, intimidating other countries citizens, setting up extra judicial secret police networks in many countries, economic coercion....etc etc etc.

I'm not entirely convinced that the subsidy system is malicious, but the CCP isn't above playing dirty. So I can fully understand the common reaction being that it is.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

With help from companies and people who have a vested interest in creating a panopticon-esque surveillance state.

First sentence of the last paragraph.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago

No worries 👍

It's one of those things I feel like anyone with a young person in their life should be aware of.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

This is just the latest one. There's also the fact that their profit generation format is essentially child labour exploitation. And also the latest one is just an extension of the platform's longstanding issue with child predators.

Selection of videos below on Roblox and it's history of being probably the last place you want to let your kid hang out......

https://youtu.be/vTMF6xEiAaY

https://youtu.be/0twDETh6QaI

https://youtu.be/oxj8YvU2PQY

This one is about the latest controversy.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago

@lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world

The people at the top certainly don't. There IS absolutely large swaths of the government that definitely do. Even if only subconsciously, all (or most) government workers who use a workplace computer of some kind should understand that sites are able to be blocked. They might think you'd need to be a Grey Beard of the 16th Order to set it up, but I'd wager a fair percentage have tried to go to a site and it's been blacklisted.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

People have been forgetting that home routers come with something called parental controls.

When my wife and I first signed up with Virgin as our ISP there was parental control turned on by default. Had to put in my credit card info to be able to flap.(Edit: Goddamn Autoassume! FAP not FLAP) This was 2021ish? So before the current stupidity.

Also, it's easy to feel like this is all being pushed by parents who just straight up refuse to properly parent their children...but it's mostly being championed by Puritan lobby/pressure groups. They think even totally consensual, CIS/HET amateur porn is disgusting and sinful. They don't want to see, so they're on a mission to make it so literally no one can see it.
With help from companies and people who have a vested interest in creating a panopticon-esque surveillance state. And the rest of the people involved in passing it are too old or ignorant or paid too well by the other two groups to stand in the way of it, or to have cut out the really egregious shit from these bills before they were passed.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 days ago

Good shout. I'll have a look 💪

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

I like the vibe buddy. 💖

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I usually switch to new after scrolling the first 5 or 6 posts. Just too lazy to switch my defaults

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (9 children)

💪 sorting by 🕑 New because 🔥 Hot was all read

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