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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 100 points 2 months ago (12 children)

The average American truly doesn't know just how much their entire market is already artificially forced to keep out better options simply because they aren't American or aligned with American gov interests.

The result is we get objectively shittier stuff than the rest of the world. Huawei being banned in the US is a perfect example of this. The gov claims they ban this shit to stop Chinese infiltration, but the reality is its to eliminate competition for American and American aligned billionaires.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

A bit of column a, bit of column b. Ban Huawei, but Cisco is made in China too so the data risk is still there.

[–] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Then blame TP-Link, right?

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (6 children)

It's bit of both. I still wouldn't trust Chinese tech. Huawei tech is involved in surveiling the African Union headquarters.. This not to minimise US' own corruption and digital imperialism, although I think the EU is in the right step to use open source software to replace American tech.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would trust China before Elon fucking Musk.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just because US is going on temper tantrum it doesn't mean people have to forget that China is doing its own Orwellian surveillance.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 12 points 2 months ago

It's pretty bad everywhere but people don't realize the level of surveillance in China is on a whole other fucking level.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

An acceptable price for living under a government that actually controls its capitalist billionaires rather than being controlled by them.

And it’s not like China’s surveillance is any more Orwellian than the West’s. They just do it more openly.

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[–] qqq@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Huawei is a bad example of a good point. Huawei working on anything related to US infrastructure would be a disaster. Consumer goods maybe not so bad but that whole thing started because of B2B

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

A disaster for whom?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's not just that they don't know. They're willfully ignorant. People have some kind of consumer brainrot. I was talking to someone last week about how it'd be better to keep their older perfectly functional tools because the newer ones have been getting enshittified for decades. His only answer was like "well I can just replace them in if they break" which didn't even address what I was talking about really.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

"But it got electrolytes. That's what plants crave"

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I just learned headlight technology in new European cars is insane. Literally selectively blocks out light to incoming cars. So you can see the road at night and not blind people.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not an European exclusive, I once rented a Mazda CX30 that did that

[–] hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

It's not something that's been allowed in the US until very recently. Auto on/off high beams have been a thing for decades, but the selective dimming/"tunneling" only just recently became legal within the past couple of years in the US.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

My 2015MY has that as an option. It’s slick. I didn’t know it was available when I bought used but it’s a (€2500) DIY retrofit.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Huawei’s sin was making too good cellphone. I owned one right before US decided to ban Google Android from it. It was awesome phone.

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[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

So here's the thing. Elon is an idiot. He wants you to desperately believe he is a genius while also holding true that he plays games 10 hours a day, tweets 2 hours a day, all which he prioritizes over for his 14 kids. That's several punchlines worth of "You know you're a redneck when" material in one sentence of his public behavior. Articles like this are beautiful. But his stupidity should not be a surprise here, more of an expectation. (And a hilarious one at that)

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 19 points 2 months ago

I love that his supposed IQ is 165 yet I have never seen him say or do anything remotely intelligent. I'm sure he paid someone to take the test for him just like he paid someone to play his video games for him. The only thing Elon is good at is spending money. Especially American tax payer's money.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Rednecks were originally the coal miners in Virginia who fought the oligarchs in the battle of Blair Mountain. They wore red neckerchiefs to identify themselves. As with most leftist icons, decades of psyops have perverted the term.

All that to say, it is insulting to rednecks to compare Elon to them.

[–] Magnum 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I always heard rednecks are the people on the farm that get red necks from the sun.

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[–] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Completely agree. To be clear, I very much respect Rednecks. I do not respect Elon. He is a genuinely worse person than the most exagerated and derogatory punchlines of those jokes.

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[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He paid other people to play games for him.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hadn’t begun the spiral into ket, it appears. Aw.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Those were the days, when Musk still had a "will they, won't they" relationship with being a total piece of shit. Then it turns out they were together all along.

I feel like this should be the plot for some Chuck Tingle erotica.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

He was born in a spiral. He tried to rename PayPal “x” then tried to name several children “x” until he finally found a place that would allow it.

[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mulon Esk is a complete idiot.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Yup. He cosplays a smart man. By buying smart ideas and pretending they are his. And then wrecking them. He's as smart a man as trump is a good business man.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All the Chinese EV OEMs got a huge uplift after Elon was dumb enough to open a factory there...

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

They stole the ideas we stole!

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[–] xylogx@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is not about Elon Musk or Tesla. The Chinese government has heavily subsidized EVs and related industries. They have to. Their dependence on oil is their greatest strategic weakness.

The US has backed off EV subsidies and continues to subsidize oil. See US actions in Venezuela.

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Byd already sells vehicles in the United States. California has a byd bus plant. The govt doesn’t hate byd they just don’t want average consumers to have any

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tesla is a zombie company, it's already dead, and it will never come back. It will be bankrupt in 2 years.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I give it 10. But yes. I agree.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Who would have guessed the moron with no real education, knowledge or experience in any profession, whose companies barely make it despite all the unfair advantages you can think of, is clueless just like he has been every day for the last 54 years of his life.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Crazy that he sounds like a normal human here

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

He got checkmated.

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[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And I honestly believe the salary and working conditions at BYD are better than at Tesla.

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[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

..and Tesla’s stock price would hit record highs!

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TBF BYD is being sold all around the world and tesla is mostly american and maybe sells a bit in europe

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Selling much less in Europe since the Nazi salute

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Worst part is ... he's still right according to the stock. That's just madness.

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Fuck FElon.

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