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China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech (cleantechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah.. I read yesterday they are testing flying cars to help with reducing commute times. Wow... flying cars... dreams from my childhood that sadly we didn't make come true, but China is testing theirs.

(re-post because strangely, my first post showed up twice, as in duplicates, then I deleted it, and they both deleted. maybe my cache or lemm.ee issue. shrug)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Don't be fooled too hard by propaganda though. We also got tests of flying cars in other countries, it was a beloved subvention target of some german politicans as well… but it's just not economically viable, and for the filthy rich it isn't in any way better than a helicopter for now. They also said some nonsense about having "a train that can go anywhere" which was just a fucking bendy bus, and their infrastructure keeps falling apart due to no or absurdly bad quality control (which other countries can also do very well)… so yeah, China is just stupid in different ways. To put it mildly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

With 4x as many people, they can be 4x more kinds of stupid...