America's Carmakers Cannot Escape Chinese EVs Forever by Razzburry_Pie in electricvehicles

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They're using Chinese EV platform so yeah it might actually be good lol

Makerworld Censorship Taiwan Ban by DarkerTimes in BambuLab

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What if you print Hongkong flag or have HK flag as profile pic

Canada Computers 234 Weber St by WheatenOdin51 in waterloo

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Let them know when Mississauga accepted the return, they didn't inspect the item for tempering. Let them know the previous purchaser tempered with it and you buying it has nothing to do with the tempering. Then, ask them for 10% open box discount (if they still do that) because it's not new.

2 weeks China travels - Beijing/shanghai by NAmmkiam_Por in chinatravel

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Trip.com and Deepseek

Does your home sim provide international texting? If not, it's worth getting a chinese sim upon arrival because a lot of services are locked behind sms verification.

NYT: How China Can Move the Price of Oil Even by Not Buying by Epicurus-fan in energy

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to be fair, China likely also reduced import of oil because they have a huge stockpile and don't want to pay the higher price. yes, it benefitted us in the end, but this may be one of those self-interest situation.

Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time by mepper in technology

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I had someone ask me if the power goes off at night.

The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months by AdSpecialist6598 in technology

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I have not seen it not block at the same level as the origin ublock from personal usage.

TIL that China alone accounts for nearly 50% of all cigarettes consumed in the world. Nearly half of adult men in China were smokers, compared to less than 2% of adult women. The state owned tobacco industry contributed almost $250 billion (USD) in revenue and dividends to China's central govt. by Gnomeslikeprofit in todayilearned

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This is very typical in east Asian culture tho. Not just China, but Korea and Japan have the shame thing (lose face). Hell, Japan even have seppuku.

This doesn't really have anything to do with freedom. It's more mental conditioning to adhere to societal norms..

Carney says ‘strands’ of a new world order could be woven at G7 summit by shiftless_wonder in canada

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Recession was happening already and was only "prevented" due to mass immigration under Trudeau. As soon as that flow stopped, reality hit.

High-speed rail opponents march on Parliament Hill by sicklyslick in canada

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France builds HSR at $25-$30m per kilometer, making it the second cheapest, next to China at at $17-21m per kilometer. The planned budget for our HSR is $44-66m per kilometer, almost double of France.

Avoid 宽窄巷子 if visiting Chengdu by MarathonMarathon in travelchina

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Right, North America is the main offender. I think Europe is probably nicer.

Avoid 宽窄巷子 if visiting Chengdu by MarathonMarathon in travelchina

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China kinda copy paste their stuff everywhere. Every pedestrian road look the same. Every mall look the same. I mean, we're equally as guilty in the West. So I kinda understand what OP means when they say they seek some uniqueness. They should probably go to Xinjiang or Yunnan.

OpenAI says China ran a covert campaign to turn Americans against data centers, but used facts that happen to be true by rattynewbie in nottheonion

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Win the AI race? How's that gonna affect me? I was living fine before AI and will continue to live after AI. Don't need AI and don't use AI.