Or how noone uses the default phone messaging app outside of the US.

Is this a tax that domestic companies already had to pay, but foreign companies were exempt from? If so, then I wonder what took them so long.

So why don’t you at least try to run the numbers. Takes like 2 minutes. Total output, output per car, number of cars - it’s not rocket science.

US and Taiwan both are perfectly happy with the status quo, they would be the last people to start any wars there.

Kind of like every other job.

He’s basically just whining about his competition being able to attract more talent by offering better conditions that he doesn’t want to compete with.

It’s no different than complaining that the competition has a better/cheaper product and people are not buying yours.

Democracy is when you need a majority of votes, which they don’t have. If they did, none of this would be an issue.

So where do all the renters come from?

https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/a-quarter-of-china-city-dwellers-rent-survey-shows - same website that your wikipedia link lists as source

But none of that is relevant to the article of this post. That article talks about money to complete unfinished projects. It’s in the very first paragraph. There are people who took out loans to buy pre-construction apartments with plans to live there, who are now in trouble.

But the article is specifically talking about unfinished projects.

So you don’t have a flat to live in either, you have an abandoned construction site.

I can’t believe I have to explain this. Anyway

The comparison to Alex Jones and other conspiracy nutjobs was about how they don’t care about any facts or context, and just like to string together random headlines into some doomsday narrative that supports their view.

The phrase “tankie infowars” means basically that - same methods, just different target audience. So you would switch around who the good guys and bad guys are, but not much else.

You don’t think coming to the conclusion “omg, this must be nuclear war preparations”, instead of this just being a regular target, is conspiracy level thinking?

It would fit right into Alex Jones’s show. And it’s the most upvoted comment here.

Is this a tinfoil conspiracy site? Tankie infowars?

It was Medvedev who started talking shit about nukes more than a year ago (and a lot since then)

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-medvedev-wed-have-use-nuclear-weapon-if-ukrainian-offensive-was-success-2023-07-30/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-ally-medvedev-warns-nuclear-war-if-russia-defeated-ukraine-2023-01-19/

This is of course in addition to just taking all the training data without credit or permission by both teams, which usually goes without saying these days.

Trains are expensive to run if you don’t have enough passengers (like in small villages).

Peace treaty signed, then Russia invades 2 years later anyway and takes over everything?

Sounds like this was the strategy from the very beginning - get tons of attention with crazy unrealistic announcements, then later turn it into a boring old regular city after everyone already recognizes the name.

At least Android also proactively asks them whether to disable notifications for an app if they always swipe them away, or if they haven’t used the app in a long time.

You have to go where the people are.

The default now is that apps have to first request notification permissions, on both iOS and Android.