FiniteBanjo

You’re accusing the USA of secretly doing the thing China openly does and you think this is a good defence of China?

Many many more companies were completely destroyed by the nazi regime and even those that survived were destroyed during the following reparations and occupations.

The real winners were the foreign tech companies like IBM. I wonder if you can draw any paralels there?

They might make some decisions against their own interests in the name of lowering taxes, but they can’t profit off of a country of dead bodies and if you live under an autocracy then so will they.

Chinese government has no such incentives holding them back.

I can tell you’re making an analogy of how Walmart pushes out smaller stores in towns,

but after Sam Walton died Walmart has sold primarily Chinese products,

so, yes, exactly, in more ways than one.

But at least they don’t want to either kill you or force you into autocracy.

You think Kamalla Harris would have destroyed democracy?

Because China promoted Donald Trump and the GOP with TikTok leading to the largest conservative shift among youth ever recorded.

Its hard to imagine the foremost surveillance state just didn’t notice it all that time. China isn’t exactly an anarchy of roving gangs where billions of dollars move around unnoticed.

One thing we do know is that the Chinese government took action to stop it but that could just be that they were becoming arrogant, outliving their usefulness, or perhaps about to get caught and reveal ties to the state.

Well, sort of, we’re currently manufacturing high end ram by shooting gamma rays at an ultra smooth deflection mirror and moving the silicon back and forth on the other side, so we’re hitting the physical constraints of our manufacturing capability.

Or as they did with cobalt alloys: use slave labor to flood the market and push out all competition, then rug pull and cut off all supplies.

They’re in the middle of this process with electric vehicles as well.

Another thing they like to do is make manufacturing deals with foreign companies in order to steal the technology for the state, which there is a lot of opportunity to do in the Silicon industry.

1. They promoted conservatives including Trump by name, the AfD, and many other nations using their TikTok psyop and other media outlets, to great effect as the largest conservative shift ever recorded among youth happened in the USA and basically guaranteed Trump’s second term. They also run psyops in South Korea namely the Gender War.

2. They gave weapons and funds to the IRGC which then funneled them into Lebanon, Gaza, Egypt, etc as well as infiltrating positions of authority in Hamas, and were used in the October Music Festival attack which ignited the Genocide. They also vetoed any UN Ceasefire resolutions which the USA would agree too, namely with release of hostages in the terms. The IRGC also used those weapons in Iran on their own citizens killing more protestors than the entire USA conflict, not even counting the starvations under the Ayatollahs rule.

3. They’re committing genocides in Xinjiang and occupied Tibet. They also used full military force on their Hong Kong takeover with tanks and all instead of leaving it as an autonomous economic territory.

4. They have been running Air Raid drills over Taiwan and threatening to invade, likely already would have happened if Xi Jinping didn’t play a round of musical chairs by executing his own top generals.

5. They militarily supported the coups in Nicuragua, Venezuela, and Myanmar recently, many others in the past. They’re the primary sponsor of North Korea.

6. They’re the singular crutch upon which Russia’s war on Ukraine continues, has continued for years.

7. Chinese Gangs for years operated Pig Butchering scams against the west.

8. The router Botnets which have attacked Steam, Visa, and various infrastructure around the world was based out of China.

They would outpace demand regardless in order to undercut competitors at a loss, just like they did with Cobalt alloys and electric vehicles.

Only a matter of time before the rugpull if we let them in.

Fuck CXMT and every other Chinese action, if you think they’re in it for your interests then you’re a bigger dupe than a Trump supporter.

IMO the smart move would be to embargo China entirely as a result of their frequent hostile actions and attacks directly on US Democracy.

Can’t deny it but China is always worse, so theres that to consider.

Just wait until the extended support for Windows 10 runs out.

I like thst you can easily pick a theme to make it look like either Windows Vista or Mac depending on your mood.

Why the floating taskbar is default boggles my mind, though.

Same with servers, Linux actually the majority there for a long long time.

You’re right, it is different, the AI companies are misled into thinking this will generate some sort of profit but the Chinese were just doing it from a place of pure malice.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/11/china-burning-book-censorship-online-outrage/

Welcome to humanity

It would be slightly less horrrible if they released the digitized books online, or even just paid archivist organizations to carefully do the job for them and make public the works to then train on.

But no. They choose the worst way to do everything.