The colors are objectively worse. Nighttime navigation contrast is zero. Even the bloody text is hard to read.

I've missed turns because the chosen route and other roads are indistinguishable. I should be focused on driving, not squinting try to read their shitty gray-on-slightly-different-gray text.

Someone is going to die in a crash because they didn't test a fucking theme.

The firefighters that allied with DeSantis against Disney? That would be pretty generous.

It's a new Cold War. Quality of life matters less than being able to stick it to the other guy. For the Soviets, empty grocery stores and gray concrete block housing are tolerable if it means winning against the decadent West. The West had dumbass proxy wars of containment and abrogation of freedoms (HUAC, FBI bullshit).

I think we'll have trade but you'll see state intervention to boost alternatives in the respective spheres with a 3rd World (OG definition) in the middle.

Those buildings were pretty wild though. As an American, I relate to them this way: a lot of China's prosperity is recent, within the last couple of decades. You'll see some of the same stuff in America but with respect to much older achievements that were neglected. Both are the result of local governments falling asleep at the wheel or specific politicians ignoring problems to make themselves look better, at least temporarily. In other words, same shit, different day.

Since this is Lemmy, I guess I should say this isn't a "both sides" thing. It's a "this is being human" thing. I suppose the difference between the two is China will censor stuff for civic harmony while US media will blow everything wildly out of proportion to drive rage clicks. So there's that.

Whew, that was a whole lot at once. And like, I get the gist of this but not the impact. Once a certain (very low) bar has been reached, countries are remarkably stable things. Worse disasters have befallen other nations that ended up surviving intact. You have to be super unhappy to want to rock the boat that much. China's one of the biggest, richest countries in the world. It'll get bounced around by headwinds but I doubt we're going to see some crazy democratic revolution - that's kind of a Western dream, if I could be so bold as to say so.

At the absolute most, I can see Xi and Xi supporters being tossed out via party mechanisms and a new guy taking over. Make a few minor corrections, maybe one big, but a natural equilibrium will return pretty quickly.

Same. I forget how long I've had it (primary domain even) and I just got the email today.

Wow, that's a cool little company. Also, "Stealing Tesla's Ideas", ha.

Related to the sibling comment, good ideas are rarely the whole story to a company's success. Execution (and luck) matter.

I'm going to need to read up more on them. The jump from "regular truck drivers who do repairs" to "so we put a locomotive drivetrain in our truck" is too big and I think it's really the key to them getting off the ground.

It's at least worth pointing out that Uber in particular broke several laws to establish themselves in various markets and never suffered any real punishment.

The aptly named Arab Spring got pretty far, as those things go. Not perfect by any stretch, of course.

I'm struggling to think of alternatives that didn't involve foreign intention. Peaceful revolution is hard.

You're making a generalized argument to support terrorism.

I agree and you're forgetting old people. A lot of them have straight up told me, "I'll be dead when the worst hits, so why should I care?" People need more cynicism for human behavior; it's not entirely cartels and conspiracies.

When and how do we get offshore wind that's worth a crap in the US? It seems so obvious to me that we have huge population centers right next to huge "wind reserves".