"Hey everyone, we found an upgrade to planned obsolescence: we call it planned obsolescence 2.0. Instead of designing hardware to break and require replacing after a few years, we'll design the software to break every month! We'll say it's an upgrade. It'll reduce our material costs and we can pass those savings on to the shareholder."
Munrock
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Are these sweatshops based in other countries, or using foreign labour locally?
Is Wang Yi thorium-powered or something? Comrade doesn't seem to sleep
In the Hong Kong S.A.R. you can hire a Filipino or Indonesian domestic helper for $4000 HKD (~$500 USD) per month. It's a whole industry here that's been around since before the handover. I'd guess that fits the definition of outsourced, cheap foreign labour.
Aside from Hong Kong, the other two places in China where you can do that are Macau and Taiwan: The other formerly-colonized autonomous region, and the province governed by a US puppet government.
In the rest of China it's illegal, the concept is considered unethical, and the way foreign domestic helpers are treated in Hong Kong is considered morally repugnant.
At the same time:
Netanyahu gives a speech to the US Congress declaring that his genocide must be seen through to the end. He gets ovational applause.
Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China, Wang Yi, brokers unity between the political factions of Palestine and begins new peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
I have never been so free of doubt about my political alignment.
It's a plague. So many of my students play it, and it's very hard to compete with it in terms of appealing to young children. Their business model for content makes Roblox a theme park of free games for kids who don't need to go to mum and dad for money or installation permission every time they want to try something new.
Who said this? It's beautifully succinct
Good news! They're a 6 hour trip from one another on high speed rail, with one change.
Russia doesn't need to do that. Burgerlanders already experience it through the magical way they render themselves blind to their government's behaviour unless it's projected onto China or Russia. Like how Trump is a Russian asset and China is turning Cuba into a staging ground for an invasion.
Especially when the user experience is constantly guiding users who don't know better to do exactly that
If I can use it selectively, I’d like to not convert Tanner’s parents because it would be funny.
But do convert Tanner.
Have 17% of the world's population.
Have a talent-seeking system that looks for talented individuals through the entire population, not just amongst the ones that opt-in to the school tryouts.
Make sure that those talented individuals are able to access and afford training, regardless of their family income or background.
Note that when it comes to sports that China is poor at (like football) they're mid because they don't do step 2 for that sport, rather than "they skip step 2 because they're bad at it". That's true of all countries.