wholemodern

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by wholemodern 2y ago
tons of fake stuff in China, here's a short list to blow your mind - people would spray paint mountain/rocks/dirt to be green, to fool the environment bureau - fake and toxic food, such as eggs made of plastic byproducts, noo
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by wholemodern 2y ago
China is broke, like dead broke. It will follow Soviet Union's footstep of space race with the US in 1960 and collapse of Soviet Union. Ship building is not the same technology level as spacecraft. China famously exclaimed in 2019 th
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by wholemodern 2y ago
it's an outrage that USPS is subsidizing temu/shein/aliexpress to ship toxic/cancerous items from China to kids. Temu’s products, like those of its peers, harbor these toxins. In fact, Health Canada revealed that a Shein
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by wholemodern 2y ago
Some brainwashing by TikTok is no doubt involved
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by wholemodern 2y ago
It's typically on Chinese social media apps, and when they get popular they get taken down immediately by the government here are some remnants in non-chinese websites. http://www.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2023-06&#x2F
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by wholemodern 2y ago
the laying flat movement has mostly to do with lack of jobs/opportunity for young people. - there's a societal trend to not hire people over the age of 30-35 in China. after months of looking for work, they've given up - the
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by wholemodern 2y ago
I wouldn't call what the young people lying flat in china "rich enough". There are stories of people in their 20s and 30s, after college or after layoffs, that they've either got a few thousand dollars saved up or from
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by wholemodern 2y ago
build quality, performance, serviceability, support for Chinese EV cars are also low/non-existent. there are plenty of videos from China that shows Chinese EV cars not working after a few days, or ones that combust into flames on the
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by wholemodern 2y ago
The article say absolutely nothing about build quality, performance, serviceability, support or really anything about ANY of those "dozen" cars. It mentions one car and only one feature and that is the 4K display. That's the
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by wholemodern 2y ago
short sightedness. when your fellow citizens lose their jobs to foreign invaders, you will feel it eventually.
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by wholemodern 2y ago
there are many reasons why US (and Europe) wants a high tariff on Chinese EVs #1 - Ukraine, EU and US are engaged in a full out war against Russia and China. Why would US and EU want to allow China to destroy its car industry, while China