TheGrandNagus

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Ok, putting aside for a moment China's totally honest and not at all fudged number of incarcerated people...

The US allowing prison labour is something I'm disgusted by.

But it's still a far cry from abducting people based on their religion, sometimes sterilising them so they can't have kids, threatening them with their life, threatening their family, and forcing them to work in factories or in construction, then using that slave labour to undercut and kill foreign competition.

Don't try to twist this into a "you're complaining about China therefore you think the US is great". I'm saying China is far worse. Because they are, and only a complete muppet would think otherwise.

Maybe you're ok with what China does (slavery and genocide), but I am not.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

I don't see what this has to do with the fact that China utilises slave labour from a religious minority group they are currently genociding to aid in their construction and manufacturing sector.

To my knowledge, you go to prison in the US when you commit a crime, as opposed to a labour camp where you are sterilised then made to build Fords under threat of death.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 25 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yes it's very different. Tesla certainly overworks their employees by basically expecting them to do overtime, and engages in anti-union shadiness, but that pales in comparison to utilising slave labour from a religious minority group they subjugate and have even been known to sterilise, as well as harm family members of those who aren't behaving as the CCP wants them to.

Tesla still has to abide by US environmental regulations, which while not as strict as you'd find in Europe, are a hell of a lot stricter than China.

Tesla still has to follow construction and safety laws that, again while not super strict like in much of Europe, is a hell of a lot stricter than China.

The US also doesn't subsidise exported Teslas in a move to exterminate foreign car companies before ramping up prices.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

The 2nd. And even then, you can just turn off version checking and extensions generally just work.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 50 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

The secret is heavy subsidy, very little worker protections/safety, very little environmental protection, and slave labour.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Literally none of that goes against what I've said.

Hiring people to work on local AI features and accessibility features does not mean it's their only focus.

Completely silly take, and not the gotcha you think it is.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Not true at all lol

And locally-run translation that utilises AI, as well as AI accessibility features for blind users isn't nefarious. I mean, unless you dislike private translations and would rather send that data to Google, or hate blind people, but I'd hope you don't.

People need to actually look into features before they have a stupid and completely reactionary "it says AI therefore evil" response. People who react that way are morons.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Here is literally no different.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And they're the only people who can easily do it.

Anybody else needs a new motherboard and RAM. And for those people, they're like "hmmm I can spend $700+ upgrading to Zen5, or I could spend $180 on a 5700X3D, not have to pull my entire PC apart, and get about the same real-world performance because I'll be GPU bottlenecked anyway."

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Both the PS5 and Steam deck's CPU architecture are Zen2. So the 5950X is the most modern (Zen3)

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago

I mean, maintaining an instance is a larger job than having a twitter account. I don't think they're all that comparable.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

It absolutely is. I even tested it with WiFi turned off.

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