You could be in the finest school in the world and the phone would still win.

Also, France started doing this a few years ago already and has seen improvement across every metric. Better grades, more socializing, 80% less bullying, less anxious kids. They only downside they found? Parents complaining they were unable to call the kids at any moment.

America was safest under Clinton with budget surpluses to boot.

yup, just found out the hard way what posting on lemmy.ml entails.

Uhm, China’s only official ally is North Korea, thanks to the recently renewed Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty.

China’s base Djibouti is but one of many foreign bases there, and is not the result of some alliance between the two countries.

The PRC has broken the One China principle a long time ago under Xi when he asserted the PRC as the only China with Taiwan as part of it’s territory. Also Taiwan is full of embassies which are just renamed to business development bureaus to keep the CCP from whining. The lack of recognition is a ultimately a problem on paper only. The only reason a country don’t recognize Taiwan is because the PRC will diplomatically retaliate.

China’s inability to make allies and it’s antagonistic stance towards it’s neighbours is just making those countries choose the US. Instead of China becoming a better alternative it’s instead driving them away and is blaming the US for their own policy mistakes. It’s like Putin crying about NATO on it’s borders but at the same time giving those old soviet satellite states more and more reasons to join NATO. And then blaming NATO for the consequences of his own bad behaviour.

Sounds like you live on a different planet entirely.

Taiwan(ROC) has been independent since 1912, 40 years before the PRC even existed. Taiwan doesn’t want independence because it already is, despite all the geopolitical shenanigans. The idea that the US is somehow provoking China to invade another country is of course an odd notion at best.

Also when HK was given over the the PRC folks in Hong Kong didn’t mind because HK was an economic powerhouse compared to the mainland and the deal was hands off for 50 years. HK would remain autonomous. But China violently broke that deal a while ago.

And sure, the US has a history of violence, but no country is innocent of that, Mao even managed to kill 30 million of his own countrymen in just 3 years time.

Granted, the US is on a descending slope, but to think the world will just accept Chinese morality in it’s stead is farfetched. China has almost no allies, and it has an antagonistic relationship with most of it’s neighbours. It’s wants to be the world’s steward but it’s acting like an abusive uncle.

They’re both bullies. About 26 million people live in Taiwan and have faced political and military bullying from China for decades. And that’s not even mentioning Hong Kong, Xinjiang or Tibet. China tries to play friendly because it wants to create a Pax Sinica to replace America. But at the same time is militarily threatening it’s neighbours and claiming the territory of other countries as their own.

Even if you make a choice for a lesser evil. It’s still evil.

Both the US and China are bullies. So what’s the point of this?

Edit: don’t bother replying, I’m not buying what you’re selling.

Just hire your own crew, undo their work, send them the bill and the fine.

English is too engrained. Even if the US falls down to some impoverished dictatorship. English will remain. The cost of switching now is just too great.

The cybertruck doesn’t pass a multitude of safety regulations. And is therefore not street legal in the EU. But there are ways around that by directly importing it from the US. The Dodge Ram is not street legal in the EU either but has been making use of an importing loophole to get on the streets.

Tesla stock was enormously overpriced anyway. The product is not that good or worth that much. In the very beginning there was a lot of disrupting the incumbents. For better or worse. Now it’s all worse.

They literally can’t. The US has only 1(!) rare earth refinery for instance. And only 3 copper smelters. China isn’t just cheaper, and that advantage is going away as well anyway, but it also developed enormous amounts of capabilities and expertise in the last 20 years that no once can match.

And even if that’s the goal, slapping giant tariffs across the board is not going to help. Some of these industries take years if not decades to develop, specifically educated staff and billions of dollars worth of investments.

Not anymore, but at the time it came out it was.

That’s why I think your being naïve. Backed by science, sure. But the link between autism and vaccines was also backed by science. Despite it being false. And who is funding the science? And who is deciding what get’s published? And who is peer reviewing it?

Science is a messy human process. And can be misappropriated by those in power.

That’s probly 1 million job vacancies that regular Americans don’t want to fill. What was the point of this again?

That’s very naïve. Right now even doctors in Texas are letting young women die, knowingly, because they’re not allowed to save them because it’s not a disease but a dead fetus that’s killing them. Which they are not allowed to remove.

To prevent those bad choices infringing on others is why Germany has those rules in place.

“I could make the “bad choice” to play bumper cars on the freeway” Sure, but with your logic the solution to that would be to force everyone to take the bus instead.

I agree with you for the most part. But seeing the current trend of right-wing governments and felons becoming presidents. I’m not sure if I’ll be alive to see that day.

The point is that forcing vaccines is also opening the gates to other things you might not want.

My bleach example was meant to illustrate that a government could decide substance X was safe, even if the science disagrees. And by law you would be forced to get it injected.

Careful there.

Whilst the measles vaccine is safe and beneficial. Who knows what a future government might want to inject into it’s citizens. Not that long ago a leader of a certain country suggested injecting bleach to cure Covid. If you give the government the power to force you to inject vaccines, you also give them the power to inject anything else. The downside of freedom is also the freedom to make bad choices.

When the Dutch police was looking to replace it’s standard handgun, the new candidate could carry twice the number of bullets. It was rejected not because they didn’t need that many bullets. But that an potential unfriendly Dutch government in the future would not possess even more lethality to apply on the citizenry.