I miss that and I mean more than just the Frutiger Aero aesthetics. I miss what I felt back then when opening the browser, not knowing what awaited me today but in a good way. Despite everything, tech companies promised us a digital future that wasn‘t entirely dreadful. In hindsight it was all just escapism of course and another cycle of that trend would just feel painfully cynical today. It can never be replicated. Big tech will forever be flat design at heart.

To be fair isn‘t GenX the most right radical generation? Seems to me age doesn’t have a lot to do with it. Surprisingly not even growing up as the internet was established seems to help with media competency at all.

So much for the internet. We somehow managed to turn one of humanity’s greatest achievements into a hateful echo chamber we use for warfare first and then into a blackbox where inefficient AI agents communicate with each other in the most inefficient way so the planet can cook us alive even faster. God forbid just calling up a bakery to order some cupcakes.

High on tech bro neoliberalism. Literally.

China‘s growth almost always beats expectations (that they themselves set) but you have to take them for their word for a lot of these numbers. For all we know the Chinese economy could be an even bigger blowfish than the Japanese economy in the late 20th century.

I‘m assuming they want to flood our market with their crap while showing no real interest in buying ours anymore. It‘s hard to find a common ground on these terms. Ideally you want trade to go both ways but that seems to be less and less the case.

Printing birds and rivers on bank notes while European nations keep missing climate targets and burn down the planet in the name of capitalism would be almost as cynical as Mao‘s face on the Chinese currency.

I doubt China is doing anything they didn‘t do a year or two ago so clearly they‘re still as neutral as they always were. /s

They should aim at Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, xAI as well.

Incompetent Pentagon means they‘ll hopefully cause less destruction in the world but I‘m not sure that they will when working under mecha Hitler word salad.

Living outside the US I’m not sure if I should be glad or terrified by the Pentagon’s incompetence in these worrying times. Maybe I’m… I don’t know, 20% glad and 80% terrified? Sounds about right.

They better learn mandarin and how to properly kowtow then.

Of course they won’t get special treatment and adapting the Euro is a given. Although the latter is basically a commitment statement anyway which many countries will probably never follow through with.

Adding fuel to burning Teslas. What a brilliant idea.

B-b-but Lemmy told me they‘re moderate and not far right at all because Sweden is a socialist country and therefore can do no wrong… How could this be? /s

Knowing Youtube they will start drizzling them into your search results instead or something equally terrible.

Are you trying to be funny or something? Used electric cars aren‘t exactly going up in price. What a bunch of nonsense. Talking about cope.

You tankies really have a way with words.

You can‘t compare a bailout with an aggressive offensive. Especially since western car makers and many other manufacturers outsourced to China in the process. There are few to no parallels to be drawn here. A more accurate, albeit tasteless comparison would be the China opium wars. Because that‘s essentially what they‘re aiming to do: Making us addicts to their product. They‘re selling us the stuff at a loss because they know we‘ll come back for more and before we know it we‘re completely hooked. It‘s the exact same thing they‘re doing with Temu and TikTok.

If you drive alone a Tesla, you drive with Hitler