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  • Are attention spans really broken?

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  • The capitalist system's promotion of a culture of obsession with constant productivity, overwork and shaming relaxation or idleness as "laziness" is a big part of why attention spans have deteriorated. We are constantly being told that if we are not always doing something valuable that we are wasting our time. Even leisure time is being judged by how many experiences you make and it becomes a sort of competition to show off for others on social media. This makes people very restless and anxious and unable to just sit calmly and quietly for extended periods of time without constantly worrying about how they could or should be doing something "productive". The fact that there is also a constant financial pressure put on people to constantly have to hustle and make money in some way in order to just survive only compounds on this.

  • China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns

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  • You know, i heard of this great new invention called a lock and key that prevents people from accessing things that they should not access.

  • Bloomberg now says that China turns out to be the only other economic superpower that matters

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  • I love the title on this graph:

    Also, as a science grad i am glad to see that big bar at the top in the next graph, but as a history enthusiast i am very saddened by that little tiny bar at the bottom:

    Wonder why that is. History is really important to understanding the world we live in today, and leaders who learn from history make better decisions.

  • Bloomberg now says that China turns out to be the only other economic superpower that matters

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  • It's only trouble for those who bought already and need to cash out immediately.

    The second part of that is especially important. If i bought a house with no plans to sell it and just wanted to live in it for the foreseeable future, why would i care how much it's worth? It can be worth €1 or €1 million, it doesn't change anything about my living in it.

    If anything, having a lower value may actually be good because it would lower my property taxes (though i believe China doesn't even have residential property taxes, so this wouldn't apply to them).

    It's not that common in most of the world outside of the US to sell your home and buy a new one every few years. People just don't move as often once they've bought property and settled down somewhere. If you move a lot then you are better off renting.

    And using your home as collateral for a loan is also not as widespread in the rest of the world as it is in the US. Mortgages tend to be significantly shorter with larger downpayments.

  • Looking for LatAm focused sources

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  • Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Charger Cable

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  • First of all, "One Belt, One Road" is missing the third part, the appeal to national unity ("One Europe) which is what makes the slogan in the EU tweet sound like the well known Nazi phrase.

    Secondly, it hits very different when it's a European institution led by a bunch of Germans and other people with Nazi or Nazi collaborator ancestry and a generational obsession with destroying Russia that are saying it.

  • Anti-Russia States Cannot Join Ukraine Peacekeeping – German Lawmaker

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 29th 2025 to January 4th 2026 - A Bold Step Forward For The AES

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  • That possibility is essentially zero. The US has sufficient surveillance capabilities that they are aware of whether there was such an attack or not. Do you think the Russians are stupid enough to lie to the Americans directly to their faces, knowing how easily such a bluff can be called?

    Or do you subscribe to the Blueanon conspiracy theory that Trump is working for Putin and that's why he's not calling him out on the lie?

    Also, Ukraine has a history of first denying terrorist attacks and later bragging about them.

    No, the simplest explanation is usually likely correct. Which means we might be about to see the biggest instance of FAFO of this entire conflict.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 29th 2025 to January 4th 2026 - A Bold Step Forward For The AES

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  • Just because the Russians haven't been explicitly saying it in negotiations doesn't mean they were ever going to agree to leave the rest of those oblasts to Ukraine. The main reason why you don't hear talk of them and why you thought that the Russians would agree to a permanent freeze along those front lines is because you listen to Western media reporting about the peace negotiations. The Western media are already struggling with accepting the idea of giving up the rest of the Donbass, to them it is unimaginable that Russia would demand the rest of Zaporozhye and Kherson.

    But i'll let you in on a secret that the Western media isn't telling you: those regions are officially enshrined in the Russian constitution now. And in the official administrative borders of those oblasts. Putin is legally obligated to liberate them in their entirety. There is not a snowball's chance in hell this ends without the entirety of the four new oblasts under Russian control. One way or another. It can be through military capture or it can be through Ukraine giving them up voluntarily, but it will happen. Ukraine pulling its troops out of the remainder of the Donbass is only the minimal pre-condition to any kind of ceasefire. Not the full peace deal, just a ceasefire.

    The only thing that is not yet clear is whether they will end up taking Kharkov and Odessa eventually as well. The longer this goes on the more likely that becomes.

  • Leader of Russian Volunteer Corps Killed Fighting For Kyiv - The Moscow Times

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  • Hardcore Neo-Nazi by the way. Funny how the article omits to mention this little detail, along with the various Nazi activities he was involved in.

  • China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns

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  • Mechanical emergency releases will be mandatory for both interior and exterior door handles.

    This is such an obvious safety necessity, i have to wonder how it was not yet regulation. Electronics can fail. Power supply can be lost for whatever reason. A mechanical mechanism is far more reliable and less prone to failure if well maintained (nothing rusted, bent or corroded). And i think this should apply to more things than just car doors. Any truly essential system should have an analog/mechanical backup.

  • What an unprocessed photo looks like

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  • Film was in a lot of ways so much simpler. You just use physical processes to expose a negative and invert it to develop the positive print. With digital there are so many steps of processing needed to make an image look realistic, and deciding what "looking realistic" means is even sort of subjective.

  • Socialism and China: What the West Doesn’t Want You to Know

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  • Eh. I used to be an anti-clickbait purist. Now I just see it as a tool. As long as it's used for a good cause.

  • China’s highest-altitude arch dam hydropower station begins operating first generating units

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  • The station has a total installed capacity of 2.24 million kilowatts, a reservoir capacity of 1.08 billion cubic meters, and a designed annual power output of 10.2 billion kilowatt-hours. Once fully operational, it will save more than 3 million tons of standard coal annually and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by over 7 million tons.

    Reading this just made my day. Thank you.

  • China @lemmygrad.ml
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    Socialism and China: What the West Doesn’t Want You to Know

  • World News @lemmygrad.ml
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    Western intelligence lawfare op plotted illegal sting on EU fraud office, leaks reveal

    thegrayzone.com /2025/12/28/cia-mi6-op-sting-eu-fraud-office/
  • NSFW

    The Ukrainian Nazi regime is literally training child soldiers, Volkssturm style, and German media is writing articles romanticizing and glorifying it

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  • I would not take that bet. I don't think the Russians have any interest in liberating Europe a second time. They've been there, done that, and instead of being thankful Europeans now resent them for it. Next time they will just turn Berlin (or more likely Brussels, which is now the capital of the Fourth Reich) into a smoking crater. Much less effort that way.

    It's up to Europe to liberate itself from fascism this time around. No help is coming.

  • China is making luxury goods available to the world, but at what cost?

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  • You also have to remember that European incomes are lower on average than US incomes, especially after your various taxes and social contributions get subtracted.

    Rents i think are in general still lower in Germany than they are in the US, though relative to the incomes it's still not cheap and they are constantly increasing every year, however energy costs are way higher. Compared to just five years ago our heating bill now is a nightmare.

    And there is also a huge wealth disparity and disparity in cost of living between different European countries, though the cost of living disparity is actually less than the wealth disparity which is a real problem for the poorer EU members.

    For example, since joining the EU, due to the common market, costs of basic products in Romania have almost reached the level of products in wealthier western European countries like Germany, while incomes in Romania are nowhere close to western European incomes.

    Even as defenders of the EU sing the EU's praises and claim that the EU makes the countries that join it richer, the reality is often much more complicated. Yes it made some people rich, and these people now get to go on expensive vacations all across Europe multiple times a year and buy imported luxury goods.

    But for the majority of working people the improvement was not really felt. It just increased the rate of emigration and allowed more people to move to richer EU countries, especially the most highly skilled and educated people, which is a serious loss for these already poorer countries.

    I don't know how i got to venting about the EU again from the topic of costs of living. Sorry. I tend to go on tangents sometimes.

  • China is making luxury goods available to the world, but at what cost?

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  • More fishy, not quite as salty.

  • 🏭 This is what the factory of Zoomlion, the world's leading Chinese manufacturer of cranes, construction machinery, and agricultural equipment, looks like.

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  • Yeah the factory is impressive, but damn, that was a well-shot video!

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    This is what it's like trying to get a US visa as a Chinese citizen

  • China is making luxury goods available to the world, but at what cost?

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  • Maybe sushi is the exception. Maybe it's just more expensive here because it's still considered more of a "luxury delicacy" than it is over there.

    In general i always hear from Americans that groceries are more expensive there than they are in Europe, though i can't say that i find groceries cheap here. Grocery prices have also increased a lot here since Covid. It also depends where you are in Europe. I think our prices in Germany are somewhere in the middle as far as Europe goes.

    I do the shopping for a two person household but it's sort of hard to quantify how much i spend exactly on groceries because it varies a lot by how often i go shopping and how much i buy, and one month can be very different than the next.

    Very rough estimate would be €50 for smaller weekly shopping of perishables and then once a month another larger €150 trip to the grocery store to stock up on things that last longer. Which i guess averages to around €100 per week for food and some other minor necessities. It's definitely a lot more than it was ten years ago.

    And yeah, meat is expensive here too. I never buy beef because it's too expensive but for chicken it starts at €9/kg which works out to...uh... $5/lbs maybe? Quality is generally pretty good in Europe even for the cheapest products, i guess that's the one big advantage. And bread, fresh bread is still pretty cheap. And beer, though i don't really drink. Everything else has gotten expensive.

  • Communism @lemmygrad.ml
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    Ideas cannot be "stolen".

  • China @lemmygrad.ml
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    Shenyang, China: Ground Zero of Anti-Japanese Resistance

  • TankieTunes @lemmygrad.ml
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    This post is dedicated to the Palestine Action hunger strikers

  • Memes @lemmygrad.ml
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    Clown show

  • Europe @lemmygrad.ml
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    Death By Sanctions: EU Destroys German pro-Palestinian Journalist in Germany

  • Games @lemmygrad.ml
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    AI Backlash in Gaming

  • China @lemmygrad.ml
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    Xi Jinping Finally Admits Overcapacity? Why Western Media Got It Wrong Again

  • Europe @lemmygrad.ml
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    Sanctioned by EU. Abandoned by Switzerland | Nathalie Yamb

  • Technology @lemmygrad.ml
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    Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It.

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/13/climate/china-us-fusion-energy.html
  • World News @lemmygrad.ml
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    Cambodia and Thailand Once Again on Brink of War

  • Technology @lemmygrad.ml
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    The “China can’t do GPUs” narrative is collapsing in real time

    www.tomshardware.com /pc-components/gpus/moore-threads-unveils-next-gen-gaming-gpu-with-15x-performance-and-50x-ray-tracing-improvement-ai-gpu-with-claimed-performance-between-hopper-and-blackwell-also-in-the-works
  • Europe @lemmygrad.ml
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    The Telegraph: "The signs that Europe really is doomed – and taking Britain down with it"

    archive.ph /20251214063507/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/12/14/rising-fear-europe-really-is-doomed-and-taking-britain-down/
  • China @lemmygrad.ml
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    World's first commercial sCO2 power generator begins operation in China

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    German media starts to admit Ukraine war is lost

    archive.ph /20251220012703/https://www.welt.de/debatte/plus6943def59ecfb47154d587e7/ukraine-konflikt-schmerzhafte-wahrheiten.html
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    Explained: China Just Killed Its 白酒 Business Drinking Culture