Most of the subsidies that article was talking about are actually domestic buyers subsidies.

BYD cars are actually more feature rich than US cars from what I see. One of their big selling points locally was karaoke from the infotainment system.

In reality it’s all about the battery manufacture. It’s the most expensive component and BYD is vertically integrated (they even mine their own lithium, they are a huge battery manufacturer in their own right and sell cells to other companies to make cars) and has done extensive research on making it cheap with their BYD blade. Nobody can afford to compete with them, but it’s not because they’re getting subsidies. It’s because they’re a company that’s built completely different when you compare it to buying batteries from third parties.

The cry foul that people make is no company would’ve survived in building that sort of initial vertical integration without the government propping them up. That’s right, but I don’t see the US trying to develop an industry that even compares.

The Fediverse effect is much more entertaining. When every instance trys to retrieve a thumbnail and description of a link at the same time. Nobody even has to interact with said post to just give the place a DDOS flood.

The incoming CEO kills the preceding CEO’s cubs so the company will get back into estrus and they can have their own cubs.

This argument only really works against non-syncretic religions, and there’s a whole lot of syncretic ones. It makes sense it would resonate to a British atheist though.

Vietnam had field artillery and Soviet fighter jets. They were a real army.

I once knew a Swedish hotdog scientist from my Star Wars Galaxies guild. He was a drunk. Du luktar skitgott, broder.

That’s actually an overfilled drip chamber. These are IVs to mainline the condiments.

Defense production act hangs over their head like the sword of Damocles though if they get out of line in actually following through on their contracts.

Urinary retention could totally give you a nasty UTI in long term microgravity, so the need to self cath might be larger than you think for something like a Mars journey. Get me that bladder scanner @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world.

They sold that one for over $2 million.

They’re expensive when you’re not already building a CDN for delivery of massive files all around the world. Economies of scale quickly matter there.

I’ll bitch about rhyming,

But not about the meter.

Because you broke the first,

And the second was meager.

Maybe even a conservationist.

Liberal, as in liberty, as in freedom from restriction. Being liberal on abortion means you’re against more abortion laws. Being liberal on guns and the environment similarly means deregulation to me.

I don’t want to ignore it. Calling yourself liberal on the environment and gun laws just makes me think you want more polluting industry and more guns.

Don’t forget, they’re slander and disinformation machines too.

And you may find yourself in a beautiful bathroom, on a beautiful toilet

And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?

With your username, I can see that Maddox was formative to you.