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The Chinese are building high-speed rail line in Indonesia. So Canada shouldn't be impossible.

It would help if rich people and companies would stop trying to avoid the tax system.

I want to offer a counter point to all these Luddites:

I'm mentally handicapped (my mind is apparently somewhere on a spectrum) and technology allows me to limit human interaction- which causes me physical discomfort. I realise normal people love to talk to the lady at McDonald's, they probably live for that shit.

Reminds me of how the CCP pays doctors extra money to work in rural areas. And I read an article on how gynecologists are fleeing the American South. And even in my own country there is lack of GPs in some provinces.

I wonder if things deteriorate into a failed state China will intervene. They did that in the 1970s with Cambodia. But who knows America and India will probably go ape shit.

"A license to view" For Amazon James!

Or maybe the people who hate smartphones and technology are tiny inconsequential minority that doesn't outweigh the billions in savings?

We can't afford to have people doing bullshit jobs at bank branches anymore- unemployment is too low.

Word. I think I'll actually shut down if I'm further than 25 metres from my phone...

I recently had to buy a printer because some shitty company didn't accept my smartphone screen.

It was a lot less convenient let me tell you.

Society is what people invented so that different people can live together. If you do not conform you're banished to jail.

My brother doesn't own a car. When he goes on holiday he takes a train to the airport to fly to another city.

I thought it was common knowledge that Asians love to gamble?

I agree. Mao once said that he was willing to accept US atomic bombs. But that was when China didn't have fancy cities... Both sides are simply too vulnerable in an all out war.

Xi wants to make China great again he doesn't want a nuclear wasteland.

The Netherlands still has very successful shipyards but they focus on government contracts (navy, coastguard, ferries) and (super) yachts.

The giant container ships and mammoth tankers are all built in Asia.

Obstacle #3: Logistics and Cost

The Netherlands instead of building an asylum centre decided to rent an old cruise ship at exorbitant cost. The reason was politics and NIMBYism. Out of sight out of mind.

Honestly I accept advertising in Windows because I haven't paid for it since Windows 7. I am the product.

But I always thought that you pay the Apple premium to get away from monetising shenanigans.

It's a lot easier to destroy something than rebuild it.

I've always joked that Trump was basically the Manchurian candidate.

Japanese scholars famously learned Dutch because they were the only foreigners who were allowed to bring in Western books.

Luckily if you are intelligent enough to read Dutch learning English is a walk in the park.

This has been going on for years. There are no humans to review your ban appeal. Tech companies don't want to spend money on customer service.

And what are you going to do about it? Get into a lawyer slap fight with a foreign trillion dollar corporation?

Ah but why care about efficiency when you have basically unlimited investor money?

Reminds me of Japanese cars and the OPEC boycott in the 1970s...

All religions are insane if you look at them objectively. They are just socially acceptable because they've been around for a few thousand years.

This is exactly why millions of Americans choose home schooling. So that their children don't get confronted with science and philosophy.

ASML warned that it was just a question of time for the Chinese to get their own tech industry up and running. The Americans were in denial.

Ultimately someone in America will get desperate enough and start a war when they still have a chance to win. See the Earth-Mars conflict in the Expanse.

What's the point of being concerned? If the majority want their fascist leader they will have it. If you have money look into getting a passport. Quite a few Dutch Jews found their way to the Carribbean. Or join the resistance and end up like Sophie Scholl.

Trust me I'm trying to dodge watching anything Musk but it ain't easy. The man becoming Rasputin doesn't help.

The government is very conservative in handing out banking licenses.

There was a famous scandal with an Icelandic bank that was disrupting the market with higher interest rates.

Deindustrialization happened all across Europe. Some countries got over it and found new ways to make money. Besides you can make money with trading stuff... Anything that is sold in central Europe has to pass through the port of Rotterdam.

I find this a strange reasoning. When a city becomes more economically viable everyone benefits.

The poor people in Amsterdam get benefits paid for by the rich.

My mother used to work in social care for underprivileged city kids and she told me a story once where they took the kids to a farm. They were astonished that milk came from a cow.

I basically have to fly to the Canary Islands to see starlight.

Nowadays you can just use WhatsApp to make phone calls. It's free.