ryedaft

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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I was trying to think of stuff that you couldn't really get anywhere else. Electronics is a very broad category and there's stuff you can get from elsewhere and there's also a bunch of important stuff you can't get from China (you have to buy it from Taiwan instead). And you can get board games from Germany / Poland so maybe that one was dumb.

Anyway, my point was that while China makes the best batteries, hands down, you can get the rest of the car from other places. Like Mexico, Germany or Japan. Actually China makes some very good electric engines for cars as well. But I don't think they are selling those without the rest of the car.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But really, what does China make that the US wants? Solar panels, batteries, electronics, boards games, rare earth elements, industrial manufacturing equipment, drones, and ships?

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

While broadly aimed at athletes who have changed their gender, World Athletics’s testing requirements would also affect small numbers of competitors who were born with atypical sex chromosomes.

But they aren't discriminating against men with chromosomal abnormalities? Why? Is it because they see men as inherently better and if you are the best you must be a real man?

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Dickhead wasn't even approved by the senate.