I completely agree with everything you said, it’s an unfortunate situation but unfortunately no government is really equipped to be able to compete against nationalized undercutting. And it’s really a responsibility moreso at that level, rather than at the individual level since everyone around the world these days is getting squeezed financially.

I mean, first of all, you misunderstood my comment. I meant that in a car with the same level of technology, safety, and power, the price is a lot more attractive for any consumer to buy Chinese. You’re falling into the same trap that I described assuming that the Chinese vehicles are of a lower quality on average which is completely not the case anymore. Not in technology, not in safety, not even in design in the most recent models.

Second, using the lowest bar for the price of a vehicle is a weird way to gauge world interest in vehicles. There have always been dirt cheap cars with next to no features other than an engine, produced in India or Japan for certain markets. I’m not talking about those in general. For example Chinese automobiles are absolutely dominating the markets in regions like UAE, Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar where the target consumer wouldn’t think twice about paying for a Bentley or any European marque. So I’m not sure what your Walmart analogy was meant to achieve but it falls flat. Trust me I’m the last person that thinks any of these vehicles should be sold in the US, that would decimate our auto industry.

But objectively, if I lived somewhere where the vehicles that were available in the middle east were sold, I wouldn’t think twice about getting a luxurious powerful car for the price of a Camry in the states.

It literally makes no sense as a consumer to buy otherwise. Whatever moral high ground or technological advantages western companies wanted people to believe they had have vanished in the last 5 years

I couldn’t find anything about this on the Asus Linux blog, am I just dumb and looking in the wrong place? I use Asus-linux and didn’t know about this :(

Edit: unfortunately it seems that bullshitters who make shit up on the spot have made their way over to Lemmy boo me

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Of course the PTSD folks went through it. Though I am arguing with you I want to make it clear I meant zero disrespect or antagonization for anyone who lived through that as part of the expelling force. I was there as a citizen. My point was that your comment made it seem as if Kuwait has been a hot zone in between those times and I got upset and perhaps reacted poorly.

There’s fucking nothing traumatic happening in Kuwait right now. Or in that last 20 years for that matter. Get your head out of your ass. What is this bullshit pulling on your heartstrings fearmongering nonsense comment. “She’s been to Kuwait already” dumbass I’ve been to all the bases in Kuwait multiple times it’s chill. They train and they have a taco bell. It’s admin HQ for operations nearby

Yes I uninstalled everything except Lemmy and it feels like 2007 again

AI is not like a storage disk. if something more efficient came out tomorrow everyone would just scale up training and costs would just go up again

Do you just comb through comments assuming the worst intentions and inferring the most negative connotation possible from everyone? Or is this a one time thing? Leave that shit on Reddit please you added absolutely nothing to the discussion

Add some cilantro garlic soy and chili oil and that’s a top tier 5 minute meal, I usually whip the sauce up while microwaving the noodles in a bowl, stir fry for 2 mins and done

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I imagine a lot of residents are leaving too. I figured it was mostly real estate inflation but knowing that about the PG kwh price… that must also be a massive consideration

Holy crap buddy. Best wishes, that’s brutal.

60c? You’ve gotta be talking about peak rates in like DTLA, surely?

You’re telling me your base rate is 60c/kwh?

NV Energy charges me 10c/kwh

Where are you?? I live in an old crappy insulated 4bed house in VEGAS and in the summer I pay like 300-350 for AC that I set and forget at 72°

They actually seem to be quite educated on the topic. Unlike yourself who seems to think that you’d have authority to speak on this issue because you have a certain passport? It’s really not that wild. I moved here as a first generation immigrant about 10 years ago & I pretty much concur what they are saying. Irish and American Italians in Boston and NJ respectively feel that they have more in common with their ‘home’ countrymen than fellow Americans, just one example. Personally I think there’s also an aspect of “oh I’m not just white, I’m actually 1/8 Irish”. Mind you that’s not what I think at all, why would I have a bias against you if you are white? But it’s almost like I’m asked to view them as more than “white American” when people tell me that stuff after I tell them where I’m from. You can imagine what their answers typically were when I asked about whether they often go back to visit family/home or foods they cook. It’s just ancestry, they have no actual ties to those lands.

One thing I will say though is that whenever I’d talk about this kind of thing is that people get weirdly defensive about it. Overall I learned just to let them say what they want to say, it’s not worth my energy trying to understand their mental gymnastics as to why they’re actually as Irish as I am Egyptian. They’re not ready or willing to have that conversation.

Come on dude it’s a white centric thing to make them feel more ethnic. No one else does this, even in the US. What you’re describing is locality pride so someone should be proud to be from a certain state. Not claiming relation/influence from a European country. Immigrants in the US are the first to want to call themselves American while racists refuse to accept that while saying they’re Irish or whatever the fuck.