I know all the tools but I’d rather support Youtube which has ben an incredible service for me and I think it’s a net good for the society so it should remain sustainable.

Tbh YT premium is well worth the asking price though I wish it subsidized the free experience as that’s much more important for the platform.

The TSLA crash going to be glorious, can’t wait.

Chinese infrastructure developing is truly impressive. I guess that’s one benefit of being in an imperial dictatorship.

Even if you ignore the politics it’s just a terrible car that is way too expensive. I’m honestly surprised it sold any units at all but I guess people just like vanity toys.

Avg 12 egg price in US seems to be around 4$ and federal min wage is 7.25$ and that’s extremely generous cause federal min wage is not even remotely representative of actual min wage. So 24 eggs / hour is the bare minimum an American earns.

It doesn’t matter cause no amount of math or finance logic will make you guys whine less.

Here are some contemporary finance hacks that I use all the time:

• take advantage VC funded ventures. These businesses are there to capture market and will bleed money on acquiring customers. However you need to be flexible and ready to pack your bags when the services starts to need to make money so don’t get locked in.
• live 1-2 generations behind on tech. The difference is almost neglible but older tech is more stable and much cheaper while also often have all of the software updates backported.
• look for refurbished deals. There’s a lot of great tech that is acquired from big businesses and refurbished for resale like laptops, furniture, chairs etc.
• shop local. No matter how much you educate yourself on best value, the local value is very likely to be better especially when you consider local support like warranty. So don’t import best headphones on the planet, buy the best headphones in your area.

Around 12.

Eggs are incredible nutrition value and I’d still pay 12$ for 12 eggs. In fact I do splurge on local market eggs that come from free range chickens and here they are around 5$ for 12 which is double the factory price but still and an incredible steal.

That’s why the great American egg whine of 2024 is so confusing. Min wage in the US is still like 24++ eggs an hour which is an insane thing to complain about. Y’all need financial literacy not cheaper eggs.

My mind is still boggled how Pegasus shit is illegal. They buy 0day exploits of western software and sell them to western criminals to do crime in the west and somehow Israel is still our ally?

“more people” is absolutely irrelevant because most of those people are zombies that don’t do anything but consume.

Exactly, the AI scene is more competitive than any other tech sector ever has been in the entire history of tech.

The “article” is kinda low-effort bait and shouldn’t even be here.

“full maturity brain” is not really a thing tho.

No it’s not and it’s incredibly easy to verify so I don’t understand why would you just lie. US salaries are incredibly high so very few countries can actually compare and coast China definitely doesn’t.

I can speak from experience in tech sector how incredibly tiny Shenzen salaries are even today compared to everything else as I get recruitment offers almost every week. 60k/year is basically peak salary you can get as a senior software dev compared to 100-300k in US.

Here one source says avg annual income in Shenzen is 24,000 USD vs for example Denver of 94,157 USD — 4 times higher and that’s Denver not San Francisco which would be the mirror of Shenzen.

I’m not an american or chinese but I know how to read data and it’s pretty fucking clear here.

• Taiwan GDP per capita: 36,000 USD > 12,500 USD of China
• World Happiness Report Taiwan places 27th > 64th of China

Do you want me to keep going?

The difference between the two is that China’s people democracy is an objectively superior system to bourgeois dictatorships they have in India and Taiwan.

And how do you determine that? By feeling the vibes? There are way to many variables to attribute all success to a single one. It’s just not scientifically testable. I’d like to point you to this brilliant economic nobel prize award of this year that did use science to prove the effectiveness of political systems in a way. This is sort of scientific proof we need to really understand the value of these political systems but until we have evidence like that or a time machine we might as well be yelling at clouds here.

Andy Yen really dropped the ball especially because he hasn’t done anything significant to really establish trust in his leadership and the biggest thing he does is tank the company image.

Dude had the easiest job in the world — shut up, look smart, pretend to care and delegate. Instead, he jumps head first into left vs right of US politics on Twitter of all places 🤡

you don’t lift 800+ million people out of poverty by concentrating all of the profits among a small few.

This is false attribution.
There’s no way to verify how other political system would have worked for China. Maybe it would have worked even better? Taiwan for one is richer, stronger and happier than China per capita so does that mean dictatoriship -> democracy is a better system? Do you see the flaw in this attribution logic now? So, unless you have a time machine…

Their cost of living is leaps and bounds better than ours.

Crazy how effective this propaganda is. Median Chinese salary is 5 USD/hour. Now 5x every chinese price you see to get really cost and revisit your comment.

as a tiktok user — can confirm.

China isn’t the hellscape that we’ve been fed through the media

China has been really showing off hard in the past few years, especially on tiktok. Chinese cars are winning and every single person on Tiktok knows about Chongqing. So I don’t think this is as apt as it used to be.

I’d love more cultural exchange with China but it’s really up to Chinese themselves. Literally all west media and apps are blocked in China. So should we converge on a clear propaganda app which is litterally named after the little red book of communist revolution as our “honest cultural exchange” source? Does anyone seriously think that’s a good idea?

We have Lemmy, Mastodon, the whole Fediverse, bluesky, Telegram, Nostr — the free options exist already, it’s up to Chinese to get some balls to meet us midway.

IG reels are utter garbage for the most part but Youtube Short would actually be good if Youtube had the balls to separate it from Youtube itself as it’s always limited in that regard.