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dirthawker0@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Former GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturersEnglish231·7 days agoAmericans have come to think of Chinese products as bad quality because of the American companies who engage them for cheaper labor. Walmart was known to order products made to a certain spec one year, then the next year demand the company increase production, but for the same amount paid as the previous year. The Chinese company, not wanting to lose the contract, obliges, but corners have to be cut. It should be called Americanesium, not Chineseum.
Derek Guy (Die, Workwear!) posted a thread a while back (I think about 6 months ago) about how the Chinese can and do make great quality products, pointing out high quality fabrics. Give them money to buy good raw materials, give them a decent wage, and they’ll put out a good product. Honestly, they probably have a more fair work ethic than some American companies that just feed their CEOs massive salaries or are owned by private equity.
dirthawker0@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet sharedEnglish1·18 days agoI still use Facebook (many friends and relatives still there) but only through the web browser. Never ever install an app if you can help it. FB has tried to make the web version worse and worse in the mobile browser, though, to try to force people to use the app. Comment input boxes got janky and now chat is impossible unless you check “desktop site”. These things worked fine a couple years ago.
dirthawker0@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with GrokEnglish2·25 days agoIt already proved its inability with facts with its white genocide rantings.
dirthawker0@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weaponEnglish3·26 days agoSo Netanyahu let close to 1200 Israelis die of which 736 were civilians? Are any Israelis condemning him for that?
My MIL’s health hasn’t been so great in the past year so we’ve been visiting her frequently. She also lives in a rural town whose nearest airport is served only by Delta. Can’t wait for those fuckers to notice we fly here often and stick it to our wallets.