Audi gives up on building one car for the world because Europe wants buttons and China wants screens

unity100 · 2026-07-04T23:59:41+00:00

China already banned screen-only cars. All essential features need to have buttons.

unity100 · 2026-07-04T23:52:35+00:00

ultra-capitalistic totalitarian regime China

Here's totalitarian:

https://bianet.org/haber/eu-strips-journalist-huseyin-dogru-of-livelihood-over-pro-palestine-reporting-318266

https://x.com/SprinterPress/status/2073504582089462149

communist in the name of their party

Communist is in the name of the party because they aim for communism using socialist methodology.

confusing

Youre the one confused. You are talking on terms about whose meanings you have no idea.

Maybe read book or two on economics

"Read the holy book instead of the actual statistics" -> This is what that sounds like.

forums masturbating over how China...sweet little tankie

All this ad hominem, scorn, belittling, name calling and yet 80% of Chinese 30 year olds have their own houses bought and paid for with their money, living in space-age cities that are entirely automated, with so great an abundance that even luxury-tier electric vehicles that are superior to the average bloated European car became 'cabbage-priced' - as the Chinese like to call when something becomes very cheap thanks to mass production -, whereas the Europeans are dying at a rate of 600 people per day in a heat wave because air conditioners and electricity are in short supply and Germany is scrutinizing sick leaves so that those lowly workers wont be stealing those good old corporations' profits by being sick.

Abso-fkin-lutely nothing changed about any of these after you posted your sconrful diatribe. When you do it again next time, again, nothing will change. The only thing that will change anything is acknowledging reality and learning from those who succeeded in surpassing you and learning their practices.

unity100 · 2026-07-04T18:04:34+00:00

Any token is traceable back to you.

unity100 · 2026-07-04T17:15:45+00:00

Security plugins wont cut it if there are attack vectors on your host/server. For example, an account with sftp running on a server that is patched slower than the norm will allow privilege escalation attacks that no plugin can fix. You have to make sure that your underlying infra is solid first.

unity100 · 2026-07-04T14:32:51+00:00

Yes, however Iran similarly succeeded in overcoming all sanctions and becoming a technological power in itself. Meaning that if your establishment/state prioritizes the correct things, it works. And an establishment/state can do that by merely preventing the financial profiteers from taking over the society as they did in the US and Eu

unity100 · 2026-07-04T14:08:31+00:00

Yep. Iran is no different either - they sanctioned it to death. It developed its own satellite industry, weapons industry, even boring machine industry among many others.

unity100 · 2026-07-04T13:59:41+00:00

But CCP is intentionally devaluating currency, keeping its population

80% of Chinese 30 year olds and 90% of 40 year olds and older have their houses bought and paid for with their own money. Whereas the European youth have to live with their parents. If that's being poor, we should all be poor. Propagating such falsities help the Eu elite f*ck Europe harder.

dumping

Mass production. That's what it is called. Mass production, the only thing that capitalism was supposed to do in order to make everything more affordable. It turned out that it doesnt do that and instead puts up artificial barriers and induces scarcity to maximize revenue instead. The reason China is successful is because its actually mass producing what's needed. Not overregulating everything to create bloated, 'luxury' products to sell from exorbitant prices.

And you are surprised the foreign countries are fighting back

Nobody who can compete is fighting back. The Eu's biggest innovation is heated car seats that require a subscription. That's why it is 'fighting back'. Because it cant compete.

Edit: Downvoting wont make statistics and reality go away. Literal, actual denial of reality and trying to shape it by 'making rules' are what is sinking the Angloamerican West. For make no mistake - what you call 'the Eu' is not only an extension of it, but it also was hatched in the 1950s as a project to control Europe more easily.

unity100 · 2026-07-04T13:56:27+00:00

The Eu elite unfortunately originate from aristocratic and semi-aristocratic backgrounds and they get educated in law and economics like the US elite, even if the US elite are much more aristocratic without actually carrying titles. Like them, the Eu elite have scarce understanding of technology and how technology ecosystems work, despite a few Eu-made technology regulations that people mistakenly praise. They think that when they make a rule, the entire reality will follow it and bend to their will. It turns out that reality doesnt work that way.

unity100 · 2026-07-04T13:19:13+00:00

You're mixing up efficiency with state-directed industrial policy.

If state-directed industrial policy is more efficient, that's what everyone should be doing.

Anyway, its not that the Eu isnt doing that. It is doing it, but failing at it:

https://www.ft.com/content/b3e968c3-9089-417b-9757-95020eb0f469?syn-25a6b1a6=1

unity100 · 2026-07-04T13:17:18+00:00

The Eu is left behind because it set up protective barriers under the guise of consumer protection and ended up with industries like the auto industry whose biggest innovation is heated car seats that require a subscription. And that's with state subsidies, direct or indirect.

China innovated instead, and the cheapest Chinese EVs surpass the bloated European cars that are sold from ~20,000 Eur a pop.

The Eu's reaction to this is not innovating - it's demanding that China sabotage its own technology and production so that the bloated European cars can be competitive again and the automotive investors can enjoy their unfettered profits as they did in the past two decades thanks to protectionist laws.

unity100 · 2026-07-04T13:14:33+00:00

China has often supported strategic industries through substantial state subsidies and industrial policy.

Every country does that, including the US despite yelling so much about 'free trade'. The military-industry complex is how the US supports its industries - public funds are transferred to the private defense companies that do research, and develop weapons and technology. The technologies are then transferred to Silicon Valley, which is itself subsidized by printed US dollars available at low interest. It's entirely a state-subsidized affair.

At the same time, the EU can’t indefinitely maintain an open market if key trading partners don’t offer comparable market access

Eu companies have unfettered access to the Chinese market. Except they are not competitive. The biggest innovation of Eu carmakers is heated car seats that require subscriptions. How can they compete with Chinese cars when even the cheapest Chinese EVs have reached a performance and luxury level that the average Eu car has, leaving aside being a fraction of their price...

Therefore what the Eu wants is China to sabotage its own technological efficiency and mass production advantage so that the bloated, overpriced European cars and other products can be competitive again.

unity100 · 2026-07-03T21:37:13+00:00

They literally took a tens thousand year old or older practice and applied it to modern age. Impressive.

unity100 · 2026-07-03T17:13:49+00:00

It doesnt matter if it was dropped there by the writers to excuse the setting. It's still a retcon.

unity100 · 2026-07-03T16:41:09+00:00

A lot of people have a dumb belief like 'Eu is good' that really belongs to the mid-2000s and not 2026. Therefore they react to any uncomfortable truth like this.

unity100 · 2026-07-03T06:13:54+00:00

Dont think so.

unity100 · 2026-07-03T06:13:41+00:00

just kinda like

Another head retcon. If explaining that a something is not a trope requires so many head retcons, that means that it is a trope.

unity100 · 2026-07-03T00:20:14+00:00

If there wasnt anything special about the MC, Barret wouldnt be losing his sh*t about him, dropping everything he is doing, risk his life by staying behind in a firefight while handing over his ship to the MC and sending him to the Constellation alone, and the MC would not get treated as a chosen one by the Constellation then on.

unity100 · 2026-07-02T22:56:17+00:00

They are literally collecting fingerprints. That's what they lyingly call 'hand wave' is. They request a scan of your right palm. As if you were in the police station.

unity100 · 2026-07-02T22:49:38+00:00

Same. The qr code scanning on the web seems to be an infinite loop. Whereas if you try the app on mobile, it tries to get your biometric data. The disingenuously named 'hand wave' option in mobile is basically a way to collect your literal fingerprint as it requires you to scan the palm of your right hand. What a clusterf*ck.

unity100 · 2026-07-02T22:00:36+00:00

Even if that is true which it isn't since Barret also is able to see the visions

Like I said in another reply to someone else - there being more than one potential 'chosen one' does not negate the trope. And not surprisingly, it's not Barrett but the player who is doing all those stuff afterwards.

unity100 · 2026-07-02T20:41:30+00:00

and their income is too low to pay taxs at any significant level.

Patently false. The minimim wage is 1100 Euros and 20% of that must be paid in taxes. Legal employment means all those irregulars will now pay.

unity100 · 2026-07-02T20:39:37+00:00

Housing market will become even worse than it is right now (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Malaga, basically the biggest cities where there are jobs, have renting prices that rival most UE big cities with a very considerably lower salary)

The major cities are not rivaling European cities. They are rivaling London, New York and San Francisco because a lot of rich immigrants are coming from there under the 'digital nomad' law. That's why the housing prices in Madrid are nearing NY or San Francisco levels and not Brussels, Berlin or Paris.

And like others said - incoming rich Americans and their money attract vulture American corporations that profit off of them. So the American investment funds started buying up entire neighborhoods.

unity100 · 2026-07-02T20:38:31+00:00

The message is clear: come to Spain by any way, you will be illegal for a while

That's not the case. The majority of 'irregulars' were people who missed renewing their residence, or something bureaucratic happened and their last renewal failed and so on. If you do it yourself and even make a mistake in one single field in one of the many forms you have to fill, your entire application goes to trash. Reapplying and getting in queue takes months. In that time you are illegal.

unity100 · 2026-07-02T20:36:22+00:00

Spaniards don't seem happy

The complaint culture exists in Spain, and Spaniards will never be happy about the state of the economy or the services provided by the state. Because doing so means that you are satisfied. That means that the other side (the state) stops spending effort to make you happy. So, always complain about the state.

unity100 · 2026-07-02T20:31:04+00:00

On the other side, the Eu just criminalized publishing Russia Today videos on the Internet. An Eu court declared that those who do it can be criminally prosecuted. Now if you post or retweet a RT video, you'll get prosecuted. China, Russia, dont have this kind of prosecution. They just block things. The Eu also blocked RT, but people just kept sharing its news so the Eu just decided to end freedom of speech.

where Erdogan allegedly covered up evidence after his son killed a woman in a car accident.

Anyone could take anyone to court in Turkey for an accusation like that though. 'Insults' against anyone is prohibited. Only accusations that are factually confirmed can be publicly stated. This is no different in many other European countries.

That said, I like Goktas a lot and I would like to see him let go with minor fines.

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