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No, I mean if we're talking about comparing US and Chinese consumer chips on most phone activities in 2025, you aren't likely to notice a major difference.

If you want to compare mobile camera systems, that's a separate comparison. I like Google camera software/processing a lot, but Chinese companies have been innovating tremendously with their mobile camera stacks. I'm way more interested in the Huawei 14/15 ultra offerings for example.

Yeah this view is pretty dated. Like it or not, China has caught up and started leading in several industries over the last 10 years. They have the capacity, skills, and domestic demand for competitive high quality products. Their domestic chip from SIMV is only a few years behind at "5nm" which was the 2021 standard. I'm still playing modern games on a 8 year old i7. Most consumers who use their phones for social media probably wouldn't notice much difference between a 2021 phone vs 2025 phone besides a better camera and software.

I think I fall in the same camp of agreeing with a good chunk of his points while disagreeing with others and I even have laughed at many of his jokes. And I'm totally fine with that for people I enjoy watching. However, what turned me off of Bill Maher a decade ago was his overall manner and attitude. He just started coming across as arrogant, obnoxious, smarmy, and untimately unkind, even when I agreed with him, which I did not enjoy. It was much in contrast to other satirists who may have mocked people, never felt like they were out to denigrate. Maybe his content has changed, but I haven't noticed.

The proposal doesn't ban the party, it suggests banning extremist individuals convicted of things like inciting hatred from running for office. In effect, it puts a damper on extreme individual members of a party that doesn't itself reach the threshold for prohibition as a party. So I can see the logic behind it. But I agree it's a dicey proposal and ripe for political abuse. Still, it would be contingent on court decisions so it could work with a strong (just/uncorrupt) court system.

This is an unhelpful and condescending comment. It dismisses the meaningful activities people engage in online as "not life": self expression, creating art and community, working, socializing, enjoying entertainment, and learning new things. It proposes a false dichotomy wherein not-online is utopic with universally accessible activities and, especially, an absence of the very same people who make online spaces toxic hellholes. They are present in "real spaces" too. These are not mutually exclusive things. You are likely to find that pro-social activists online are often try to be pro-social activists in person as well.

That being said, I agree that people get terminally online and that balancing digital and physical lives are important. Managing attention and mental health are important, especially when content about important and meaningful topics turn into viral and incessant feeds that are geared to overwhelm human brains that weren't evolved to handle such constant cognitive/emotional stress.

Take care out there folks.

They don't want no women, they want subservient women. Think Handmaid's Tale in space.

Most of the traditional automakers will do keys or key fob without an app AFAIK.

For usability/get in and go, you can't go wrong with a Toyota or Honda. Perhaps consider a used Prius prime (PHEV) if you're on a budget

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For them, crying is a mark of their weakness and hypocrisy. It's laughable to them and adds to their sadistic joy.

Given the world's track record with the 2nd and 3rd greatest world powers, I imagine the same if not tamer with the 1st greatest world power. Heavy sanctions only when they actually invade a "western" country.

"You misunderstood my bigotry as hurtful." Not "I understand my views were bigoted and therefore hurtful."

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