Yes, and they’re growing it in the Central Valley, using water piped in from elsewhere at great expense (though to taxpayers and other water users, not to the farmers).

Switzerland has no interest in provoking Washington.

They’re probably laundering Trump’s ill-gotten gains.

NY Post needs to slurp shit and die.

Someone needs to leak those names. Seattle PD already should be stripped to the joists and rebuilt, this time with strong protections against the PD interfering in politics, and full accountability enforced by third parties unconnected to the department.

Most popular user mod ever.

Do something disgusting for a couple of years, get half the community property. Some might take that deal.

Especially when it’s a miserable pencilnecked geek like this guy who could be easily intimidated into staying in the basement after the initial “consummation” down the side of his leg.

The US has already elected vermin, the old prejudice appears to be gone.

They probably thought they’d caught Atalla the Hun.

Trump’s selection method was to find out who’s the absolute worst candidate for each job, then to hire them. It’s the dregs of the dregs.

That category also includes a number of things that will lead to the deaths of large parts of the US population.

So what’s the great challenge with blocking it phoning home, or even better, subtly fucking with the data it sends back? For example, Winnie the Pooh-themed fisting videos.

Rights are unchangeable based on circumstances.

Absolutely false.

They can never be revoked.

They’re regularly revoked in all developed countries, mainly as the result of criminal proceedings. Unless you think that prisoners are afforded the same rights as the rest of us?

And the Enlightenment notion that there are inalienable rights endowed by the Creator is about as quaint as the idea that there’s a Creator. Rights are ideals that must be continually fought for and expanded, not the gift of a beneficent Alpha Male in the Sky

“It’s not entrapment if it isn’t a person doing it!”

Just open the felching hatch and have a spittoon handy.

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The problems however are not unsolvable

Meaning that they are not solved. I don’t want the grid in my country powered by tech that is not proven safe, reliable, and with a good ROI.

Much much safer than the uranium we currently use

Potentially. It’s not a technology proven in large-scale operational use.

If they make it work at scale, China becomes the first country in the world that essentially has unlimited energy.

If my aunt were to have bollocks, she’d be my uncle.

The “if” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your sentence. And “unlimited energy” is a gross exaggeration. There are still downstream costs and environmental damage.

People on Lemmy are really good at seeing past capitalist propaganda, except when it comes to China.

Any information coming to the West from China is state capitalist propaganda.

Posts like yours reek of nothing more than propaganda.

Smells more like bootlicking to me.

This announcement would be seen as a massive breakthrough anywhere else.

I don’t trust science (or R&D engineering) that’s not peer reviewed. Anything else is just marketing hype. Show me hard numbers or GTFO.

China also has a problem with the government lying-- for example, about their claimed reductions in greenhouse emissions. There’s no reason to trust self-serving authoritarians without credible corroboration.

BYD will later this year have 7 different car models on sale in Britain vs 6 (soon to be 5) from Ford.

That’s an irrelevant metric. Nobody’s going to buy a car just because the model range is a bit wider than some other company’s. What’s relevant is adoption, and then buyer loyalty. It may be that BYD offers cars that people want to buy, but they’re subsequently found to be of crap quality or aggressively undermining driver privacy (which other non-Chinese manufacturers have also done).

but the shear scale of investment from China will make them unstoppable

If appropriately rigorous science and suitably disciplined engineering are part of the process, and regulators do their jobs correctly, then maybe. Otherwise it’s just throwing money at a problem. Investment doesn’t guarantee results. China is certainly capable of getting positive outcomes from tech investment, but it’s not guaranteed.

Well, that and lack of diligently enforced safety standards.