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GHA feels like a discontinued product that people use so they can’t switch it off.

That must be why China is building so much nuclear power.

If Google wasn’t such a trash company and using chrome to drive more revenue by farming data and preventing adblocks then no one would have a problem with chrome.

At what point did anyone think cloudflare were the good guys? It’s a facade. They have shown multiple times over the years they are not ok the side of the users. They will try sweep things under the rug unless it ends up on HN or something.

> but even non-tech people I know are wondering why Android phones run smoother than iPhones.

Things that never happened.

Lot of reasons to dislike. iPhone but this story isn’t true in the least.

I 100% agree.

While that is true. The people of Taiwan and the government don’t care to make claims on China. The island literally just wants to live their life. But if they tried to change their constitution and remove any claim it would be seen as an “attempt” at independence and cause China to throw a hissy fit.

Pointing this out always looks like endorsement of the CPC as it’s always a point that is pointed out as justification to claim Taiwan is part of China.

You stated:

> Maybe TSMC has big influence over Taiwan's government or just outright owns key politicians under the table.

I’m pointing out this is just plain Wrong. TSMC was created by the government and invested in by the people.

For 200 years China did nothing with Taiwan. The Ming dynasty called it a ball of mud in the water not worth the effort of the Chinese people. The Qing dynasty did not allow anyone to travel to Taiwan because it was too unsafe to travel. The few people in Taiwan were constantly fighting with the local population. They failed to rule or control Taiwan. For 7 years prior to Japan invading they decided to call it a province. Despite having no control over it. Japan even said they were not convinced Taiwan belonged to China because there was next to nothing there, they put up no fight, and fled before Japan arrived. The PRC also called Taiwan an independent nation and advocated for Taiwan independence until the 1940s when the ROC took control of the island as the request of the allied forces who requested ROC administer Taiwan until they decided what to do with the island, because no one was convinced it ever belonged to China to begin with.

Not a position they held until after ROC went to Taiwan. Then they changed their tune. Remember. PRC advocated for Taiwan independence and considered Taiwan an independent nation until around 1940s.

Taiwan government is the biggest shareholder of TSMC…

> China wants to retake Taiwan

Take. They can’t “retake” something they never had.

Drive around at 2am. I haven’t lived in China since pre-covid but back then you would see in the early morning police coming to wake them up and move them along. But middle of the night you can drive around see people sleeping under bridges, doorways, alleys, tunnels. Never somewhere permanent. As there is an image to maintain in the cities.

One of the benefits to China is the low drug use. But you’re blind if you can’t find insane amount of homeless people in Beijing or shanghai. Or that most people there are struggling. If you want to live with tunnel vision then it’s an amazing place to live. (Shanghai cos I didn’t live in any other city. Only travelled)

I did. When I lived in China and traveled outside of Shanghai it was eye opening. People living in slums with no running water or toilets. No trains. No buses. No taxis. The nicest people ever but makes you realise that the whole eliminating poverty claim is utter BS.

600m people in China live in poverty despite claims of the CPC eliminating it. Traveling around China you see this. Showing off main cities is not proof that people don’t live in poverty.

Low crime is simply not true. Most crimes are not reported or swept under the rug as local statistics are reported back to the central government and no one wants to look bad. But wow if you have Weibo you can see some pretty horrible stuff daily before it’s deleted. Nothing worse than seeing 2 woman hacked to death with an axe because of road rage. Cheap food in China comes with a lot of trade offs such as quality. Many shops recycle left over hotpot for the following day. Gutter oil is a real thing. Fake meats or meats from other animals is a real thing.

There isn’t an mmorpg game to date that has recreated the PK experience of UO.

I would never waste money on a Tesla. But this is simply not true.

Now they just need to build a decent car.

You know crypto mining is illegal in China right? Of course they avoid mentioning it. Discussion boards in China had ex employees mention doing crypto mining but it’s all been wiped.

Deepseek was a crypto mining operation before they pivoted to AI. They have an insane amount of GPUs laying around. So we have no idea how much compute they have compared to xAI.

Good thing USAID wasn’t abolished.

That’s still a lot more thinking than anyone on the left does.

Of course you’re proud. It’s your righteousness.

The left can’t understand people exist with a different view point or even fathom the concept that they could be wrong.

Just remember. For every person like you who thinks they are righteous by boycotting Apple because they want to advertise on X, there is someone on the opposite side of the fence who now support Apple again.

Orrrr maybe you’ve been lied to. Which you have been based on all the data that’s come out over the years.

South China Sea militarisation started 2013. BRI in 2013. 2013 began the raise of cyber attacks on American businesses from China.

There is nothing to beat. Nothing illegal has been done. But sure as hell a lot of people seem to not understand how the government works are beating the drums of what is happening being illegal.