blobjim

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[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The point of this stuff is that China is now creating the end goods, which was Not Supposed to Happen™ (see: "Coping Hillary" video). Solar panels, cars, and chips are end products when China was supposed to just be cheap labor for western companies.

The only thing they can do is continue to try and cripple China. Obviously China isn't going to be content just being a place for cheap labor.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Americas decline into the annuls of history

based. I'm a Biden Democrat deng-salute

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

China doesn't sell that much to the US in terms of chips as far as I know. I guess there's stuff like ESP32 chips or something?

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

The train crashes will continue until morale improves.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

There aren't any Chinese car companies selling EV cars in the US, so it's entirely pointless. Maybe it applies to imports or something if you do that?

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It seems like it's going to force people to make their websites less accessible or something, to prevent Google from getting the full answer. Like they'll have some leading information indexable by Google and the rest of the answer will be in a video. Or maybe websites already do this in some way?

It seems like trying to monetize publicly available content on the internet is a crapshoot anyways. Hence why websites have paywalls, or additional stuff that you pay for to go along with the content, like merchandise.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wish Google would just start having a policy of immediately delisting those websites from search results, or at least deprioritizing or graying them out. If it falls under a certain category of website, it should meet certain quality standards. Like I assume they already do for medical information.

If they had a more general search version of Google Scholar where it was all stuff that Google reasonably thinks was actually made by other humans, that would improve things a lot.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Three quarters of that is idiots not only believing what they see on the internet, but believing the first thing they see at the top of search results, without context.

We should be using computers as a means of interfacing with things generated by other humans, not expecting some simple algorithm to read our minds.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

How much of it has to do with the fact that adults are just as clueless about how to use computers as kids?

Is it really that hard to just have people use computers the same way they'd use books? Not everything needs to start with a Google search.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can still use the internet to look at books and documents. Random websites and Google search have never been a replacement for actual research.

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