That category also includes a number of things that will lead to the deaths of large parts of the US population.

So what’s the great challenge with blocking it phoning home, or even better, subtly fucking with the data it sends back? For example, Winnie the Pooh-themed fisting videos.

In the sense that it’s flagrant bullshit, yes.

“It’s not entrapment if it isn’t a person doing it!”

Just open the felching hatch and have a spittoon handy.

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People on Lemmy are really good at seeing past capitalist propaganda, except when it comes to China.

Any information coming to the West from China is state capitalist propaganda.

This announcement would be seen as a massive breakthrough anywhere else.

I don’t trust science (or R&D engineering) that’s not peer reviewed. Anything else is just marketing hype. Show me hard numbers or GTFO.

China also has a problem with the government lying-- for example, about their claimed reductions in greenhouse emissions. There’s no reason to trust self-serving authoritarians without credible corroboration.

BYD will later this year have 7 different car models on sale in Britain vs 6 (soon to be 5) from Ford.

That’s an irrelevant metric. Nobody’s going to buy a car just because the model range is a bit wider than some other company’s. What’s relevant is adoption, and then buyer loyalty. It may be that BYD offers cars that people want to buy, but they’re subsequently found to be of crap quality or aggressively undermining driver privacy (which other non-Chinese manufacturers have also done).

but the shear scale of investment from China will make them unstoppable

If appropriately rigorous science and suitably disciplined engineering are part of the process, and regulators do their jobs correctly, then maybe. Otherwise it’s just throwing money at a problem. Investment doesn’t guarantee results. China is certainly capable of getting positive outcomes from tech investment, but it’s not guaranteed.

Well, that and lack of diligently enforced safety standards.

Death crosses are bullshit chartist woo.

After victim-blaming comes bystander-blaming.

There were mass demonstrations in the UK against the second Iraq war. Tony Blair’s credibility as Prime Minister was completely destroyed by his slimy toadying to GW Bush.

The scanners even work backward in time.

Maybe that’s why, last time he was frisked, he spunked down his leg.

No, this is actual evil, not incompetence.

It’s both. You may have heard of the dictatorship of the proletariat. This is the dictatorship of the subnormal bullies.

He’s being insulting. “Take this pittance or you might end up with nothing.”

They’re an autonomous region within Denmark, and they have some pro-independence and some pro-staying-with-Denmark parties. The pro-independence parties predominate, but seem to be playing the long game.

There is no party that’s supporting joining the US.

It’s hard not to smell those soiled Depends.

They’ll either kill them, force them onto reservations or kick them off the island.

And, since Trump is involved, the promised $10k might never get paid.

So Bonesaw meets Chainsaw, and let me tell you what happens…