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CmdrShepard49

@ CmdrShepard49 @sh.itjust.works

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  • Ford falls behind China’s BYD in global sales for the first time

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  • I did list specific examples. You claiming "China makes everything because Western companies sought to maximise profit. Costs go up, because the Western companies selling the Chinese-made product put the price up to maximise profit" is also a generalization that proves nothing.

    In these industries listed, the Chinese government is subsidizing these companies so they can sell these products for a cheaper price than anyone else in the world and put their competition out of business, which is exactly why "they make everything." Your argument is akin to claiming that the ever increasing wealth billionaires isn't the reason why the average American becomes poorer each year, as if the two things aren't mutually exclusive.

    Capitalism dictates going with the cheapest price and China ensures it can always offer the cheapest price using their government's deep pockets, but this isn't sustainable forever which is why prices must rise once the competition is out of the way. They can then take this capital and repeat the cycle in a new industry.

    How you can claim "yeah China makes everything but that doesn't prove they take over every industry they move into" without any sense of irony is quite bewildering. There's no secret knowledge or magical formula that exists only within the borders of China that allows them to undercut everyone else. It's just a giant pile of money that allows them to do it.

  • Call for change in law to tackle covertly-filmed videos of women on nights out

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  • This contradicts your previous comment. You said it isnt a crackdown on general filming in public because it's meant to target people who post voyeurustic videos and the platforms that host them, but now you're claiming that voyeuristic videos aren't even intended to be posted online, so who does that leave as the intended targets of this law?

    It doesn't seem like much of a stretch to see this used as a justification to pull any video filmed in public that at any point depicts an "unknowing" woman in frame.

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    Astronomers celebrate cancellation of $10bn Chile project that threatened clearest skies in the world

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  • almost did in Feb. 2020 only to have something come up… you might be able to guess what.

    Unexpected Valentines Day plans?

  • El Paso, New Mexico airspace closed by FAA without explanation; flights restricted under national defense noticeWithout explanation, FAA closes El Paso and New Mexico airspace for 10 days

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  • From the article:

    Escobar said drone activity along the U.S.-Mexico border has been a well-known problem in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez region.

    “Those of us who live in El Paso likely have known that there have been drone incursions from Mexico going back to as long as drones existed. So, this is nothing new, and this drone incursion from Mexico (was) obviously not something any of us want to see. But this is not unusual, and there was nothing extraordinary about the drone, any drone incursion into the U.S. that I’m aware of,” Escobar said.

    I feel like its something else they didn't want anyone to see from an aerial perspective, like troops entering Mexico or the digging and filling of mass graves for ICE detainees at Fort Bliss.

  • Ford falls behind China’s BYD in global sales for the first time

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  • For an obvious example, go to the store and pick any random item off the shelf and its likely made in China. They've done it with ships, solar panels, batteries, steel, railcars, and now EVs to list just a few.

    They certainly aren't selling feature-rich EVs for 1/4th the price of everyone else on the planet for altruistic reasons and I'm sure you can't list any examples of an industry under monopolistic control that benefitted anyone other than the people controlling it.

  • British Woman Shot Dead by Father After Arguing About Donald Trump

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  • This article was published yesterday.

  • "And you people, you're all astronauts on... some kind of star trek?" James Cromwell announced for STLV to celebrate the 30th anniversary of First Contact.

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  • I've clicked links all over there site and nowhere can I find actual dates for the convention, which seems like a huge oversight on their part.

    August 5th-9th 2026 for anyone else interested.

  • Ford falls behind China’s BYD in global sales for the first time

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  • Its not collusion. They just can compete against Japanese and South Korean brands in this segment so all the R&D money designing and building compact cars was going to waste. People would rather buy a Civic or Corolla than a Cruze or Focus.

    It's no like they're forcing people to buy bigger cars especially considering these brands already make up a minority of sales in the US.

  • Ford falls behind China’s BYD in global sales for the first time

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  • And that price is fake because the Chinese government is making up the difference between the real price and the price it takes to undercut all the competition. This is how China takes over industries wherever it goes, and once they have control of these industries, the price unsurprisingly shoots up as there is no one left to compete.

  • Ford falls behind China’s BYD in global sales for the first time

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  • Lack of outside competition? American brands already make up a minority of sales in the US. The majority of sales are brands from elsewhere in the world.

    People are just making up talking points at this point.

  • El Paso, New Mexico airspace closed by FAA without explanation; flights restricted under national defense noticeWithout explanation, FAA closes El Paso and New Mexico airspace for 10 days

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  • This is wild. I wonder what Trump is trying to hide from view.

  • Honda reports more than 60% drop in third-quarter operating profit

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  • They sat on their laurels and let Toyota eat their lunch.

  • How's your HA voice assistant going?

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  • I have both but just basic options. Like with WLED lights (if you're familiar), I'll have buttons for turning them on and off and controlling the brightness, and ignore everything else light presets, color, patterns, segments, night light, etc because there isnt a great way to list them all in a compact space especially when you have 10 separate WLED devices. Typically I'll just use the WLED app if I want to do anything outside of basic functionality.

    Though, reading some of the other comments here, it sounds like voice control is nowhere near as far along as I imagined it was so maybe my laziness will prevail and I'll attempt setting it up at some indeterminate time in the future.

  • Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk

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  • My headcanon is that during construction the measurements where taken wrong and instead of rebuilding the section to properly fit an offramp, people just continued by building a sharper turn.

    I believe it. They redid a sweeping highway interchange overpass here, and several months after they finished, after numerous cars had crashed straight into the bridge wall at the beginning of the sweeping left turn, realized that the point where the bridge meets the ramp was misaligned due to a "miscalculation." This left the road with a flatter 'X' shape, and when you began the 60MPH turn and your front tires unloaded over the misaligned section, you lost traction and skid straight into the side of the bridge. They wound up 'redoing' it but you still have to slow way down when you go over that section.

  • How's your HA voice assistant going?

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  • Okay now answer: What gets wetter as it dries?

  • How's your HA voice assistant going?

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  • I think itd be a great way to control everything rather than spending hours and hours making dashboards while trying to include the 20 different entities each device comes with without it looking like a jumbled, convoluted mess. "Computer turn off the TV" "Computer turn on the kitchen lights" "Computer open the blinds" "Computer set the thermostat to 73." I dont really use voice commands anywhere else but this sounds like it could be really useful. I gotta start looking at how to enable all this.

  • AP review on what the Epstein files show about the FBI investigation of possible sex trafficking

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  • Wow, so the AP got to view these files even before Congress was allowed and they miraculously clear the president and every other one of Epstein's "good friends" of all allegations? How convenient.

    That totally lines up with the FBI and DOJ refusing to release these files, even going as far as violating Congressional orders to do so. That's totally something you'd do if the documents clear you of any wrongdoing.

  • Would you rather have hundreds of millions of dollars and be acutely aware of all the bad things going on, or a meager yet sustainable life and completely ignorant of everything.

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  • There is no true "ignorant but happy" in this scenario because your life is still affected by society and the world even if you aren't aware of it directly.

  • Four dead and three receive liver transplants after eating death cap mushrooms in California

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  • I always assumed people did this to find psychedelic mushrooms because why the fuck would you hike miles into nowhere to find a food item with virtually no taste that could kill you if you guess wrong or leave you lost in a forest?