My understanding is that Chinese EVs are pretty much superior in every way to their American counterparts, but will we ever get the chance to test drive one over here?
Donald Trump is failing to stop China’s rise as a manufacturing superpower
It's not already a manufacturing superpower? Think that boat mighta sailed already...
BTW, how do yachts taste?
EDIT: Ok, what I wanted you to respond was something like: "The yachts themselves are nothing more than shiny floaty slow-moving food tins that, when gently pried open, are often found to contain many delectably rich (in more ways that one) juicy humans with ketamine-spiced blood, chomp."
Deleting or overwriting the title and content on ml seems to propagate sometimes, but not always.
Don't hit, I really like the idea of the Fediverse and Lemmy in particular--I guess I already sort of knew that things worked this way, but, well, I'd be lying if I didn't say this spooked me a bit.
EDIT: I'm usually pretty good about not rageposting or whatever, so there's not a whole lot of stuff I want to expunge from the record, but there are some tech support type questions that I've asked in the past that now seem to me unbelievably and embarrassingly dumb that I'm not sure I want to have out there!
~~EDIT EDIT: I'd also be lying if I didn't say my eyes were wandering a bit towards raddle.me at this point...~~
EDIT EDIT EDIT: (sorry, feeling kinda punchy over here after too much early-morning ☕️) This reminds me of something from back in the pre-Snowden days, when everything was still mostly htttp and while websurfing I had Wireshark open and saw "http://www.nytimes.com/lifestyle/how-to-get-the-most-enjoyment-from-watching-clown-porn.html" flashing past.
Seriously tho, this is back when I, along with just about everyone else I knew, would say things like "well, yeah, you know, Google, Facebook, the internet, etc., everything's out there in the open, but what can you do?" And then there's the feeling you get when you actually see identifiable stuff like this going out across the wires and you're like "...oh..." 🙁
Not unlike the time when my boss asked me if I liked to listen to Rush:
Me: I haven't really listened to that much of their stuff, although I really like Power Windows.
My boss: No, I meant Rush Limbaugh.
Me: ...oh... 🙁
🤔Hmmm...for some reason the thumbnail for this article shows up on piefed.social, but not here...
I don't know how someone can live that long eating that kind of diet. On the upside though, if they give him an enema before he dies they can bury him in a matchbox 😁.
(Stole that from Christopher Hitchens).
Does Israel have that much sway over Europe? The Germans are perhaps still motivated by guilt over the Holocaust, to the extent that they're willing to look the other way while another one is being committed. Makes sense, right? 🤦 Pure insanity.
Like this, he means?
Was just about to post this before @yogthos@lemmy.ml beat me to the punch. 🙂👍
Why are so many projects still on Microsoft-owned github? They should follow OM's lead.
Why why why don't they just do like Wikipedia or the Internet Archive does and just come out and ask for donations instead of trying to sneak all this advertising shit into things?
EDIT: Another idea, which I'm sure they'll never consider, is to host actual @thunderbird.net email addresses which could be paid for. People at this very minute are looking for Proton Mail replacements, and this could be one of them . . .
Hey Dems, don't try to resist or anything!
Do you need to go back? What exactly are you going back from? Is it not serving your needs? There are plenty of alternatives to Google services; I'd be happy to provide some suggestions, if you'd like, having been through this ever since The Snowden Affair.
I like to consult The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English, which reviews most, though not all, translations of many well-known authors, including Kafka, and can give you an idea of some of the merits (or, I guess, also demerits) of the existing translations out there (up till 2000, at any rate, when the book was published).
If you'd like to get up and running quickly with German in a basic sort of way, I would suggest also taking a look at The Berlitz Self-Teacher: German.