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frightful_hobgoblin lemmy.ml frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-08-03
#52 · Quote Reply

And his skin colour changed. Obviously fake.

yeah from Fujifilm-colour to DSLR-coloured

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Swedneck discuss.tchncs.de Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-10
#53 · Quote Reply

There's room for critique. When I was visiting China, I asked what's up with the prevalence of consumer vehicles getting larger like SUVs (similar to US but I didn't mention that). The common answer I received was, "I feel safer driving in them." I think they have a long way to go wean off that sentiment.

oh for sure, the most obvious piece of critique is that cars become exponentially more obviously moronic the more people/density you have, which makes the existence of cars at all in most of asia completely insane.

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Maeve kbin.earth Maeve@kbin.earth
Joined: 2024-06-16
#54 · Quote Reply

Speaking from a German perspective: We used to have a great solution to public transport in areas that are spread out: public transport infrastructure that is also spread out. I've lived in several rural areas, all of which used to be connected to rail lines before those were closed down in the 70s to "modernize" transportation (for cars). If you lived in an area without a rail connection, you'...

Rent in the city is double rural rent. We need regular public transit. Trolly even.

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agent_nycto lemmy.world agent_nycto@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-10
#55 · Quote Reply

It's absolutely hilarious to me how people in the west are genuinely surprised that people in China overwhelmingly support their system and government. Just imagine what it must be like to live in a country where you see this sort of progress happening all around you in a single generation. You see a clear and tangible demonstration of the government working to improve your life everywhere you look.

In fairness, when my mom was a kid phone and fridges were new here in the US.

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pineapple lemmy.ml pineapple@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-11-06
#56 · Quote Reply

Not to excuse them, but they do have an absolutely fucking absurd population and population density, so it should be noted that they're doing hilariously better than much of the world, proportionately. I'd say they're a lot like japan: Very good in some ways, still quite amazingly shitty in other ways, and they've ended up like that because they're fairly non-corrupt (at least on a local level,...

Much like japan, except completely different in almost every way.

Japan has had completely stagnent ecenomic growth for the last 30 years, china tho...

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