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bySavage-Rabbit
er 16, 2025 @02:51PM
(#65730430)
Attached to: 'China Has Overtaken America'
I think the reason a lot of us worry is that China is a very anti democratic force in the world with clearly stated expansionist goals in terms of territory (Taiwan and a huge chunk of the South Pacific that includes other country's territorial waters). I don't think we'd be having anything close to the same concerns if this was about the EU and not China.
Uh, the Trump administration is staffed by a bunch of people with openly anti-democratic views and they have strong opinions on how other countries should run their affairs as evidenced by J.D. Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference. From a non-US, non-Chinese point of view, while China is anti-democratic, it is still better than the US in that China at least leaves you alone as long as you don't step on it's tail while the US will without any provocation try to force you to run your country the way they think you should, or outright annex your country like your orange king has threatened Canada and Greenland. For most of the world China is bad but the USA is actually becoming worse and that took some doing on the part of the US.
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bySavage-Rabbit
r 14, 2025 @04:48PM
(#65725214)
Attached to: Salesforce Says AI Customer Service Saves $100 Million Annually
Salesforce Says: AI Customer Service Saves $100 Million Annually.
Salesforce Customers Say: Salesforce AI Customer Service is utterly, utterly useless.
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bySavage-Rabbit
10, 2025 @05:28AM
(#65716190)
Attached to: OpenAI Flags Competition Concerns To EU Regulators
was purely to hurt US companies? /s
That depends entirely upon whether US companies stand to benefit from EU anti-trust laws or not in any given situations. This is a far easier and more agile process in the US, you just keep buying Trump's meme-coin until he does what you want.
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bySavage-Rabbit
10, 2025 @05:26AM
(#65716188)
Attached to: OpenAI Flags Competition Concerns To EU Regulators
They do have a point about new players having trouble competing against abusive 'entrenched giants' but in the particular case of OpenAI I've got to say this is the pot calling the kettle black because OpenAI wants to become an abusive entrenched giant and if the way they have run roughshod over IP and copyrights to get where they are today isn't enough to convince the public of this then the public needs to be beaten over the head with a clue stick.
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bySavage-Rabbit
er 28, 2025 @04:47PM
(#65688762)
Attached to: California Now Has 68% More EV Chargers Than Gas Nozzles, Continues Green Energy Push
Part of the problem is that there are a massive number of chargers being installed where people live and thus could have charged at home, but how many are being built in the middle of nowhere where they are really needed?
Charging stations are built and operated by profit making enterprises. One would think market forces would fix that problem. I'd be far more worried about political ideologues banning BEVs and charging stations because the are 'woke' technology, which is of course just an execute to artificially prop up oil companies and the dying ICE car industry instead of letting that fail which the market has already decided is doomed to failure.
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bySavage-Rabbit
er 28, 2025 @10:26AM
(#65688296)
Attached to: California Now Has 68% More EV Chargers Than Gas Nozzles, Continues Green Energy Push
Why would you ever compare the quantity of nozzles vs chargers? Nozzles take 60 seconds to top you off. Chargers take 30 minutes. A better question might be how many chargers do you need to provide the same functionality as a single nozzle?
You make an excellent point. If most people can plug in to a private outlet at home each night, we should need a lot fewer public chargers than public nozzles.
The real question is what proportion of a day are nozzles actually occupied. I expect that number is extremely low. Chargers may take 30 minutes but they are just being used for a greater proportion of the day than gas nozzles. Furthermore, if there is twice the number of them than gas nozzles, tons of people also just charge at home overnight rather than using public charging stations and battery charge times are constantly decreasing I don't think a dearth of charging stations is going to be a problem unless Orange Palpatine declares electric transportation 'woke' passes a federal law banning charging stations and/or electric cars and then sends out police and the military to enforce it.
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bySavage-Rabbit
mber 11, 2025 @12:28PM
(#65653984)
Attached to: 'China Inside': How Chinese EV Tech Is Reshaping Global Auto Design
The licensing deals provide Chinese automakers additional revenue amid domestic price wars. Ready-made Chinese EV chassis and software can save billions of dollars and years of development time, industry experts told the publication.
As long as they are license manufacturing chassis, plan to replace the software with domestic products and not buying knock down kits from China that should work out well for everybody ... except Americans, they'll be stuck with gigantic pickup trucks that start at 80.000 USD and underwhelming and overpriced ICE powered passenger cars due to protectionist import restrictions.
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bySavage-Rabbit
mber 11, 2025 @12:21PM
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Attached to: AirPods Live Translation Feature Won't Launch in EU Markets
Not even remotely true. I work for a software company that has both a global SaaS and software business. We don't sell any data, private or not, about our customers or their software usage to anyone whatsoever. That's just not our business model. We make money selling software and services, not selling your data or data about you.
Despite this, we spend an extraordinary amount of time and energy on GDPR compliance. GDPR is about much more than how you can or can't sell data. It's also about how you manage and store that data even if only ever the owning customer (and us as the vendor) have access to it.
Unfortunately for every one of you there are at least ten others that behave the exact opposite way.
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bySavage-Rabbit
t 23, 2025 @07:11AM
(#65610124)
Attached to: US Is Throwing Away the Critical Minerals It Needs, Analysis Shows
That is easily solved, just promise el Bunko a cut of the profits. You won't be able to keep him away. And if we get Putin interested, then it is a slam dunk. Extra credit for poor people who died on the way to the extraction processes.
Maybe we should just rename "Germanium" to "Putinium"??
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bySavage-Rabbit
t 23, 2025 @07:05AM
(#65610118)
Attached to: US Is Throwing Away the Critical Minerals It Needs, Analysis Shows
In this context, "recovering" a metal is not a synonym for "recycling" it. It's a lot harder to do because the concentration of the metal is a lot lower, and because it's mixed in random ore rather than in some alloy that people found commercially useful.
Nope, It's woke communism all the way down.
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bySavage-Rabbit
t 23, 2025 @04:03AM
(#65609904)
Attached to: US Is Throwing Away the Critical Minerals It Needs, Analysis Shows
If the U.S. recovered less than 1% of the germanium currently mined and processed but not recovered from U.S. mines, it would not have to import any germanium to meet industry needs.
Unfortunately this is not an option for the US because 'recovering' Germanium is just another way of saying 'recycling' and that is both 'woke' and equivalent to practicing communism. Plus, Trump doesn't like Germany much so there's that too.
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bySavage-Rabbit
01, 2025 @06:51PM
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Attached to: Amazon CEO Wants To Put Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations
Amazon CEO Wants To Put Ads In Your Alexa+ Conversations
If it's a free to use product the they can knock themselves out, they have to fund it somehow. If it's on a product I paid good money for they can expect two things (1) a class action lawsuit, (2) a whole lot of people will never buy another Amazon product again.
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bySavage-Rabbit
01, 2025 @06:44PM
(#65561432)
Attached to: Tim Cook Says 'It's Difficult To See a World' Without iPhones
Also, not aware of or don't care how fat they are.
Not all Americans. Just about the same percentage that own iPhones. No correlation there.
Cool, I've found another angry embittered Android user ...
Not exactly much of a challenge.
True, but I'm collecting the full set, one specimen of each subspecies.
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bySavage-Rabbit
01, 2025 @04:29PM
(#65561230)
Attached to: Tim Cook Says 'It's Difficult To See a World' Without iPhones
Also, not aware of or don't care how fat they are.
Not all Americans. Just about the same percentage that own iPhones. No correlation there.
Cool, I've found another angry embittered Android user ...
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bySavage-Rabbit
01, 2025 @04:26PM
(#65561226)
Attached to: Tim Cook Says 'It's Difficult To See a World' Without iPhones
They're aware.
They mostly just don't care.
Oh joy, I appear to have hit a nerve.
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