So it’s an even better use case for high-speed rail, is what you’re saying.

Thanks, I hate it.

Oh so they’re LLMs, got it.

…thay actually makes a lot of things nake a lot of sense.

Well shit, I’m dumb.

China limits social media because they repress free speech and political association. TikTok and other social media was a huge part of why there was such an outcry over the invasion of Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza. They doubly limit what kids can see because students are often hugely influential in political activism - especially in China, where students were an integral part of both the revolution(s) and Tiananmen Square. China’s gov is pants-shittingly terrified of another student-led revolution/crisis/etc and keep a very close watch on what the kids are saying and seeing.

Stupid. Kids are more informed and hooked into current events than ever before, specifically because of phones and the Internet. Hell, half of most peoples’ jobs are looking up reference material online. You want kids to succeed, hand them a big list of the best places to look for the answers and let them use their phones on the test.

Hello, I would like to buy one infrastructure please.

‘Conservative rapper’

the lyrics

‘appers’ being ‘rappers’ without the hard r

Cool, we’ll stick them on the thousands of square miles of natural habitat that we set aside for megapredators, since they need a huge amount of prey to support themselves.

What’s that? It’s all been turned into Bubba’s Pig Farm? Huh, maybe we should deal with that first.

Because the problem isn’t gone. Their opinions haven’t changed, they are just finally seeing personal impact from them. These people are going to fall for the same stupid shit another Trumpalike touts in 2032. They need intensive reeducation, not to be welcomed and treated like nothing happened.

Most likely some shit about investing in the stock market, because both parties are so infauted with ‘line must go up’ that they will burn the entire planet and our society to ground to make it happen.

Besides that, the Democrats have lukewarm beliefs about tolerance and fair treatment, while the Republicans want a strictly hierarchal theocracy, so they’d probably agree to see other people.

Gotion High-Tech’s “Articles of Association” required the firm to establish a “Party organization and carry out Party activities in accordance with the Constitution of the Communist Party of China.”

Yah, because they’re based in China. They have to follow the Chinese constitution. The same way American companies can’t violate the American constitution. ‘Party activities’ just means ‘doing business’ because that is how communism works. Smh my head.

If your definition of a ‘sane, competent’ government is one that continues to rabidly support an ongoing genocide, I want none of it.

Not wrong. But I will point out that this will funnel a lot more money to China, which has been investing much more heavily in greentech than the US has. So overall it could actually be a plus - for climate change at least.

Huh, sounds like the state of Missouri plans to invade St Louis.

St Louisians, you know what to do with foreign invaders?

Hummus.

I mean, that is one glaring point of fridge logic. If you’ve seen how many people can cram onto a bus in developing countries, Immortan Joe’s guys should have been like 15 to a car. Also, if gas is precious, why not use a train? They’re substantially more efficient.

Yah. The fact that we’re turning edible food into worse gas, and thereby driving up food prices worldwide for no reason, is nothing short of inhumane. It’s not even a reduction in greenhouse gas; it requires so much processing that it’s about the same as just pumping crude out of the ground.

Hmmm, interesting. Looks like there’s some fuel stabilizers that can preserve it for a few years (most of what I can find are for 1-3 years). I’m guessing the 5-year blend has a shorter shelf life once opened? The really interesting part seems to be that some of these stabilizers can be added to old gasoline to make it usable again. So as long as an organization had an utterly gigantic supply of stabilizer, they could potentially keep using gas for quite a while.

These stabilizers are definitely not in regular gasoline, though, so everyone except the extremely paranoid would be SOL.

Wouldn’t even be a year. Gasoline has a shelf life of six months. Three months if it’s an ethanol blend.

After that, you’re down to homemade diesel, electric vehicles, and bicycles.