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China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
(cleantechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The US have a shitstorm coming. That's what you get when you let a toddler play with the control knobs of the country.
Another very interesting point is how China made themselves so powerful. Anything with electronics needs some sort of resource from China. China is a very big and powerful player.
We should wonder if we want t be this dependant on one country for all our tech needs. I think the answer is no....
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)
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.
With 4x as many people, they can be 4x more kinds of stupid...