Honestly open source has the unique power of removing the inequalities like how some military use ai to chose targets to bomb (cough cough israel, america, Russia) so opensourcing weakens your enemies advantage and gives anyone with some knowhow a potential leg up in asymmetric issues. Plus it does wonders for chinas reputation, when all you have to compare against is trumps America and Putin’s Russia.

Chinese freedom of opinions and knowledge is some of the worst on the planet and xi jinping is riding off the coattails of Deng Zhao pings success in opening up china. There, now here’s another truth bomb, china sucks and treats it’s citizens like robots but yet somehow I’d rather trust the historic super power which historically didn’t bother nobody outside of it’s little sphere unlike the current western superpowers who exploit the entire planet to make that “first world” experience for like 10% of humanity

Did you just really send me iqair with such a bold statement without even checking the link itself? DUDE, JERUSALEM AMD SOFIA IN BULGARIA ARE MORE POLLUTED THAN SHANGHAI. For a nation of 1.4x thats seriously impressive. None of their cities crack top 5.

Wisdom is chasing you, but you are faster Barely any of your sources account for recent data, and focuses on the time during the most rapid transformation of a massive civilization in human history

And again, they still per person use significantly lesss co2 than an America, what about that?

“due to non existent environmental standards” buddy unless your from rural northern Europe or the mountains in the Himalayan wtf are you talking about. Compared to America, china is much much less polluted per person with people personally accounting for less than the average American or westerner.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. Before I fully started using Lemmy maybe a month ago, Instagram and my former safe haven Reddit become absolutely toxic. I go from one to another and it’s always people being blown up and comments saying most racist shit ever. People being racist misogynistic and other bs all the time (which can be funny in certain circumstances but not these one) So far I love the Lemmy community I’ve had some actual thought provoking conversation I’ve not had since early Reddit. I pray to get Lemmy never changes to to much in that regard

I 1000% agree with this sentiment and to be honest im similar (except engineering EE srufent) and I was managing the world fine with all the increased algorithm and whatnot till COVID hit. I went from immensely internet literate and techy to depressed and stuck on social media all the time from waking up to sleeping I’ll check Instagram (even tho I avoided tiktok for that same reason) honestly I still struggle with this, cause social media is more toxic, pain, and mind destroying then ever before. I hope I can cut this addiction before it’s too late