I use PIA VPN.

I agree, free speech means you can be called a dumb ass.

False information claims can often be used to silence critics or ideas you don’t agree with.

I wouldn’t trust many of the mods to be impartial arbitrators of what information is false and what isn’t.

Absolutely but we are fucking over Elon right now… and that is all that matters at the moment.

One government is actively committing genocide against subsets of their population I’d say it’s a pretty big fucking difference.

It is not meaningless to deny X/Twitter content and legitimacy. It may not be the solution you want but it ultimately hurts X/Twitter which hurts Elon. That’s all that matters to most people.

China? Orange turd has beef with Canada, Greenland, Denmark and Panama.

So where exactly are you seeing these kinds of shit tier sex robots?

Exact addresses are appreciated,I just want to know so I can avoid these stores/sites.

China isn’t the dependable partner it used to be. Basing your entire supply chain in China introduces too much risk. Apple has been sourcing production to other countries for a while.

I always found the build quality for Lenovo Thinkpads to be better than any of the top tier Dell laptops. Most of the laptops I had in circulation were Dells and the always gave me problems. The Thinkpads just worked.

You’ve described my limited FB experience. After refusing to join FB since the 00s, I joined FB a few years ago to get better access to the Marketplace. (Craigslist has gone to shit).

I joined a few groups that interested me and then the constant political bombardment started in the more mainstream groups.

Small niche FB groups are a night and day difference compared to some of the more contemporary groups I’ve seen.

Bot algorithms definitely target large groups with lots of activity. The resulting increased activity due to algorithms just amplify it further.

I just try to stick to my smaller groups to avoid all the mess.

They probably did build it. It’s possible they sourced the necessary chips through intermediaries. Sanctions aren’t going to stop them from getting their hands on small batches.

Sanctions will prevent them from being able to do this at scale. They can’t source enough high end chips to really build out the infrastructure to take advantage of AI for their economy at large.

It is the same with automotive parts. Anything imported from China has at least a 40% markup before it is resold.

There are a ton of videos on how to do this yourself for less than half the cost you can put in a better battery yourself. I highly recommend Mobile Sentrix if you want to get good quality hardware and responsive support. Invest in some good tools up front and you can reuse them over and over.

https://www.mobilesentrix.com/

As an owner of a Nissan I am thrilled Honda is bailing them out. I need those spare parts to flow.

China has terrible demographics, a real estate mark that is in free fall, high debt, is the target of tariffs in every major economy and a domestic market that can’t consume what they produce.

Economically they are fucked unless the US and EU throw them a life line and allow them to dump products in their market again… which is not going to happen no matter which party is in control. The best they can hope for at this point is a Japanese style lost decade. But I doubt they can manage even that outcome.

Bottom line is the CCP will do whatever is in the best interest of the CCP staying in control of China. Even if that decision is terrible for China itself.

If they are backed into a corner it doesn’t matter that Taiwan is out of reach. All that matters is that the CCP stays in control.

That is what makes this next ten years very dangerous.

Those stances aren’t mutually exclusive. Both arguments can be right at the same time.

It’s going to be fun explaining to MAGA why electricity and Natural gas prices in the US rise dramatically in the next three years.

We have extremely low prices compared to the rest of the world mostly because a lot of our gas is kept domestically. Believe me energy companies would export if they could but we don’t have enough infrastructure to service the global market and the Biden administration has dragged its feet approving that infrastructure to keep prices low and satisfy environmentalists.

By promoting our domestic gas for export and removing regulations keeping export infrastructure from being built we will be raising our own prices at home…

Dumb fucks.

We are on the tail end of the crypto grift. Getting the largest country on earth to invest in Crypto is basically the last gasp before the bubble deflates and cleans all the suckers out.

Been done in El Salvador. This is going to be a grift on the US tax payer of EPIC proportions.

https://www.bloomberglinea.com/english/el-salvador-loses-50-of-its-bitcoin-investments-due-to-crypto-collapse/