The best glasses you can buy aren’t cheap, but you also probly never heard of the brand and they only make glasses, nothing else. If the brand also makes perfume, clothing or cars. They just licensed their brand and someone else designs and makes the eyewear. Almost always exclusively in China, then assembled in Italy to carry the “made in Italy” signage. If they screwed it by hand, it’s now “Handmade in Italy”.

Americans conflate socialism with communism. But European socialism is about solidarity. About how a rising tide raises all boats.

They allowed a team from the WHO limited access. All kinds of samples were missing. They weren’t allowed to test any samples. And the list goes on. It was a show, not an investigation. The CCP has 0 incentive to investigate. Because either they already know. Or they suspect. Either way the Chinese narrative now is that it came from abroad and was brought into China. So any investigation that could show the contrary is a non-starter.

People who are born blind dream with the sensation of touch, sound, smell and taste. Basically how they experience the world when they are awake. No image but the rest intact. I imagine it’s same for the deafblind except sans sound.

They got fairly good tracking from mobile phones

They being China’s communis party who in no way, shape or form are willing to participate in any investigation that could potentially place the origin of COVID within China’s borders.

I think the keyword here is “Waffen-SS” not “Latvian”. Fascists and racists come in all nationalities. The Dutch really hate nazis, but a sizeable portion of the population aided in the holocaust regardless.

Just remember that Satoshi’s wallet has almost a million bitcoin in it. Which is worth somewhere around 80 billion USD at the moment.

We live in a hyper-individualistic society which is self-centred. This is only exacerbated by social media, where attention and being the main character is more important than ever. The new generation is living more and more in society. Instead of being part of society. Being part of something bigger is uncommon nowadays. Which makes participation in something as extreme as a war unfathomable. If you look at countries with high levels of civil sense like Taiwan. We see school uniforms and military service. Kids are being raised to be part of a free and democratic society, not to just live in it.

All Chinese companies should be regarded with suspicion, based simply on the fact that independent companies don’t exist in China. The CCP has their own offices and people in every company and organization of sufficient size.

FBI wants a backdoor into iPhones, Apple says no and Tim Cooke is just fine. The richest man in China, Jack Ma, criticizes government policy holding back Big Tech domestically, he gets disappeared for 3 months.

In autocracies, citizens are expendable. They either take away the citizen’s ability to organize against you (like in China) or provide just enough services to avoid a critical mass of discontent.

First time we had to worry about microscopic black holes. Now interdimensional biological organisms which somehow can survive in our nitrogen based atmosphere and climate temperature envelope.

No, of course it’s not the sole reason, but cost of materials is a factor. Also if there is a pro-longed cease-fire in Ukraine, the amount of materials needed for reconstruction is immense and drive up prices. Meaning stockpiling cheap steel right now would make sense.

It deters new customers. If a particular brand of car has a target painted on it. Either for ridicule, vandalism or destruction. Who is going to want a car like that? Besides, in terms of quality Tesla has been long surpassed by the incumbents anyway.

This. And some people just want to post in front of a crowd. So far I like Lemmy because there’s more conversation going on. And less “Look at me!” posts.

Awesome, we need cheap steel to fight the shortage of housing.

Unfortunately the political competence crisis has led to a shift towards autocratic right-wing elements. Who promised action and change, but so far have only made matter worse. Housing availability and pricing, a genuine crisis at the moment. Is now even worse as effective policies reduce income of the top 5%, investment companies and banks. And are thus not being implemented.

But are they aging healthily? I work in a healthcare setting and there are so many 70-somethings that are barely functioning. I’d rather have a 75 year expectancy but with a high level of health (which includes independence and function) than add 10 years of poor health and constant care just to die miserable.

Shein is not fast fashion. It’s ultra fast fashion. With clothing of completely disposable quality that often can’t even survive being washed. It’s the exact opposite of what we need going forward.

to learn a lot of things systematically: medicines (not the brand names, but the active components, because doctors where I work use components extensively)

It seems OP is aware of this.

When they stretch harder they just blame the war/immigrants/politics/weather. When there’s some slack it’s because of the company’s tireless work at improving everyone’s life. Until it’s time to stretch again.