You know that Switzerland, a country in the literal Alps, has one of the best train infrastructures on Earth?

As the other comment said, of course there are fringe cases. There shouldn’t even be a city in Dubai, let alone trains getting there, but fortunately, most cities on earth are in accessible places because, well, otherwise why would thousands upon thousands of people go there.

That’s a policy issue, not one of engineering or physical constraints.

Again, how is that relevant to EU surveillance

How’s that related to this post

How am I defending china? I just don’t see the need to go “oh look like X country” whenever the EU or the US do something bad. We’re plenty bad ourselves

Oh golly, I sure wish we had a word to refer to antisemitic anti-LGTBQ+ people…

Why the need to compare to China though? People can understand that mass surveillance is bad without resorting to “China bad”. Go ask Snowdon if China is the mother of all surveillance.

Communism is when you perpetuate the class relations of your country in an authoritarian manner. Oh wait, or was it backwards…

You forget about the part where the EU actively pursues this

You guys really like to use the word “tankie”, but you have no idea what it means do you?

The article: “Oh no! The excess solar production during peak hours might discourage investors from putting solar panels!”

Anyone with a brain: “why don’t we fucking skip the investors and instead invest publicly in solar if it’s so goddamn cheap?!”

Medical and psychological consensus says we shouldn’t allow children to marry or drink alcohol or do drugs. Where’s the medical consensus that we shouldn’t allow GRT?

You didn’t get their point. The only children who are getting gender reassignment surgery are the ones who right wing doctors are trying to assign a gender to, despite medical consensus that it’s unnecessary, he’s calling the right wing misinformed and hypocritical

on purpose

lol

At least they’re not blowing their budget exploding rockets…

Feel free to stay an ignorant

Tell me you don’t understand colonialism and imperialism without telling me you don’t understand colonialism and imperialism.

You haven’t read a single thing about unequal exchange, or colonialism, or imperialism. The western countries (imperial core) RELY on cheap raw materials and cheap labour from third countries (colonial periphery) to be able to attain the levels of wealth and development that they enjoy. The USSR simply didn’t participate in this, and you saying otherwise proves you know jackshit about this topics or about history.

Planned obsolescence is a direct consequence of capitalism, and it gets worse the more capitalism develops. Capitalism, through competition and markets, makes some companies triumph and some companies to be outcompeted by the ones that triumph. This, coupled with ever-increasing capital investment by the companies that get the most profits, leads unequivocally and necessarily to increasing concentration of capital in the hands of a few companies in a given sector: oligopoly and monopoly. And when a sector is dominated by oligopoly and monopoly, it means competition between companies, the whole premise of capitalism, disappears. And it is at that point when malpractice such as planned obsolescence becomes a thing, because consumers literally don’t have a choice.

You’re absolutely right that it would be great to go back to times before planned obsolescence, but the only possible way to do so is politically, by eliminating the very system that leads to planned obsolescence.

Again, you can’t expect the USSR, a nation that started industrialising and educating people in 1920s, to be able to outcompete the entire rest of the world in every sector of the economy. It was a poorer nation than the US, Germany or England historically, it developed much later. The fact that it got as far as it did is impressive enough of a feat, especially since it didn’t abuse colonialism and imperialism to do so, but instead used only the sheer work of its inhabitants and the natural resources found within its borders. The USSR falling behind in some extremely novel fields such as computing, is only to be expected.

Yeah I’m not denying they cloned them, I’m saying they were cloned due to the inability to access them widely and affordably in the international market. Cloning stuff is good btw, copyright is a scam