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Those aren't the numbers here though. Pretty much every time people mention BYD EV numbers, they add hybrids. I see it as intent to mislead.
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/01/02/rebirth-of-the-phev-wha...
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Apart from public bathrooms being much dirtier on average, they’ve modernized quite a bit. So, you can take me as 1st hand anecdotal evidence.
Public bathrooms can be disgusting in many first world countries. I wonder if the true mark of civilization will eventually be clean public bathrooms. It cannot be that hard because some select countries have managed to do it. Too few though.
The interesting thing in this article isn’t that China is telling people to avoid the US for national security reasons. Many states, including the US have similar guidance to people who work in jobs sensitive to national security. What’s interesting is that China is viewing AI tech as a technology vital to their security.
The real reason why states are pouring billions into AI isn't to generate silly emoji, help people rewrite their emails, or make a web app without learning how to code. It's for autonomous drone warfare. Invading a neighboring nation doesn't seem too appealing if it means sending tens/hundreds of thousands of your young people (a resource that's getting scarcer and scarcer most everywhere in the world) to the meat gr…
Sorry but this is alarmist bullshit. What keeps countries from going to war is not the cost in soldiers; it's the cost of retaliation on its home soil. Indeed, countries that don't anticipate the enemy to meaningfully retaliate on its civilians are quite trigger-happy to engage in various small wars around the world.
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Public bathrooms are getting much better in China. There's been a very noticeable improvement recently, I think tied to a government inspection program.
Granted I was mostly outside of the urban core of tier 1 cities, but most places I went people were constantly smoking in bathrooms, had to BYOTP, and floors were often covered in urine. In some second tier cities like Harbin it was basically squat toilets everywhere, even in the airport lounges.
Smoking is still ubiquitous, though. "禁止吸烟" signs are just completely ignored.
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the autopsy that his mother says was really strange and done by the police who acted in a bizarre manner? or has there been another one? and as for motive, you are literally incorrect. if there is a massive copyright precedent set in the courts the intelligence community would not be able to overturn that. and its likely to happen because its legally sound… if i were the cia i would be doing everything in my power to…
Yes: https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/14/autopsy-openai-whistl... If it becomes a natsec concern, the government will simply ignore or redefine the laws. The current US government has already demonstrated that the rule of law is a mere suggestion.
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Most of those BYDs are sitting in a field rotting, it's just to make sales look good. They just go park them in a field. Total waste.
The numbers I am quoting are sales, not numbers produced. Are you saying people are buying their cars but not using them? If so, who, and why?
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The leg up is the teslas don't explode all the time and you don't see thousands of Tesla's parked in a field to make it look like the sales are great.
What explosion are you referring to?
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Public bathrooms can be disgusting in many first world countries. I wonder if the true mark of civilization will eventually be clean public bathrooms. It cannot be that hard because some select countries have managed to do it. Too few though.
Vietnam is arguably less developed than China, but their bathrooms are way cleaner on average.
I was worried about Vietnam, but this is encouraging. I always wanted to visit.
(Don't worry, I understand what "on average" means, and I also understand it varies from location to location).