I think even sane people would acknowledge China is pragmatic and more forward thinking, despite the politics.

In my country, the data centres are in poor areas.

Same as with Reddit, it probably depends what community you’re participating in. But i find most of Lemmy to be mostly reasonable like the communities I participated in Reddit. And mind you, I don’t have any particular Lemmy communities I frequent in.

What resonated me the most in The Expanse is how tribalistic humans still are. Our lizard brain is having a hard time evolving with human development.

Apparently the longer someone is in power, the more their brain structure changes. I guess the phrase “your head is getting bigger” is physically true after all.

Why can’t we have nice things??!!

I think the wafer is dominated by the Japanese. The Dutch company you are thinking of is ASML and they manufacture 90% of the precision machines that manufacture chips in the world.

It will take maybe two to three years before China could do that. The cheap Chinese RAM manufacturers are only starting their production.

I notice Grokipedia is getting put up more on search results even on duckduckgo.

After reporting how much the Steam Machine costs, I could tell already. RAM manufacturers are in paradise right now!

I really won’t be playing any soulslike games in the foreseeable future until I am retired. I simply don’t have time to be playing hard games now I am a working adult. I used to play more hard games because of the satisfaction of beating a challenge, but if I only I have enough time. I play games to unwind nowadays.

Pretty sure this is old news? It’s basically sonar, which The Dark Knight predicted in the film.

Edit: a word

I can’t explain it, but that seductive early '00s look, which Elizabeth Hurley was also known for, got me jimmies when I was young.

Reality

Chinese base is in Philippines with Philippine governments permission!

Are you from that part of the world? Are your fishermen being driven away by Chinese navy despite having centuries long friendly relations with Chinese fishermen? Did Philippines allow China to set up base within their maritime shores? Did you guys actually ask Vietnamese and Filipinos apart reading pre-prepared script?

The American bases are there out of the hosting countries’ permission. Weird that tankies never mention what Vietnam and Philippines think of the Chinese navy bullying their fishermen, or China not leaving the shoals that is within the 200 nautical mile from Philippines, despite the International Court of Justice ruling that China’s presence in that shoal is illegal. But you know, got to keep flipping the script as an NPC…

Weird that you did not address South China Sea…