inZOI is probably the only real competition left that is worth rooting for. But then again, it’s Korean and likely always online, so imagine to be charged hand over fist.

Maybe the current bourgeoisie also became anti-vax and they needed to remind them how things work for class solidarity?

TBF This isn’t HOI4, natural rubber isn’t vital and thr current market (mostly tires) can be replaced with synthetic albeit at higher costs.

Great. Another factoid I can throw at people

Such news is only leaked because it creates public sentiment for more public spending towards war. All of you are revelling in the “Haha, those krauts guns don’t work” and miss the bigger picture as to why this is reported in a major publication.

Just wealth transfers to the rich, nothing to see here.

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Remind me again, which part of the world are most semiconductor devices made?

Seeing as your’re going by your gut feeling as opposed to doing a quick 1 min google search:

1. Taiwan
2. South Korea
3. Japan/China
4. USA (Overtaken in 2019/20)

for as long as I’ve been alive China has been the international manufacturing hub for that stuff

The trend is that China will get around 25-30% of the market share in a decade. In that trend, with no changes permitted, China might need a few more decades before they produce more than 50% of the market share, so unless you have yet to be born and you’re about to come clean about us inventing time travel in the future; you’re mistaken.

Solar cells were developed in the US, but China is where they were mass produced.

You’re using to “were”, trying to make it sound like these periods overlapped. Americans started producing and selling the first practical solar cells more than half a century (1950s) before China even made a single one (2000s). Heck, and the first patents were half a century before that.

If China was already dominant in the field, then what is the whole commotion about China retaking Taiwan and them ordering chip fabs from the Netherlands? Stop reading headlines.

“Always”. First proper mass-scale photovoltaic factories were from the 1980s onwards, and both the relative cost and efficiency has been at a stand still ever since the Reagan era up till the 2010s. Saying China has “always” been the main producer is a gross innacuracy and does a lot to overlook the West’s unwillingness to take on the same responsibilities. Renewable energy has always been a grift to the West, just look at how the market collapsed after 2008 due to the solar panels becoming “too cheap” and government cronies no longer getting that government subsidy money, and instead of making less profit just decided to close the factories.

WeChat reader 微信读书, only issue is that if you upload a book they will read everything. So get used to suddenly a page number being read out loud.

Maybe you could get a paid version of ChatGPT and remove all numbers and annotations.

I feel like Xi smiles brighter with Socialist leaders

I like picking up stuff, and being in China playing with Europeans means it takes me around 20 seconds to get the loot window to open… 😢

Already pre-purchased it. Want to find someone to play with, but considering the fact I’m in China I can’t but worry about the latency.