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Japanese-American here. This is revisionism. Japan was absolutely known for low quality products in the past. Probably the best "pop-culture" reference to this is "Back to the Future" when Marty travels back in time to 1955 and shows Doc a Made in Japan product (camera, I think?) Doc says its junk because its Made in Japan, but Marty sees it as high quality because its from the 80s.

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It really makes sense for the DPP (Green) to be anti-nuclear. Mainland China is using Westinghouse AP1000 designs from the US for their nuke plants. Taiwan is friendlier with the US and can get a nice discount to license the same AP1000..

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Where? Switzerland is 100% but most of continental Europe, Japan and Korea is in the 60-70%s. Then we got USA with 0.84%

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I feel like they're in a worse spot because of how many Android competitors they have now. Back in 2010, they were the main 'alternative' to an iPhone, it was basically a duopoly for a few years - Apple vs. Samsung. Now there's the Google Pixel and a million Chinese phone makers so that Samsung doesn't stand out too much. They seem to be leveraging connections with carriers to push Samsung phones, which seems to keep them afloat.

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Agreed, cities oriented around the car can't be saved. The cost of maintaining 12, 16 lane highways is so exorbitant that they'll have to maintain the sprawl ponzi scheme or go bankrupt.

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Tesla's Spotify app had a long standing bug where it couldn't recognize playlists with more than 100 songs. To be dependent on a car company to give bugs for every individual apps rather than to just mirror from your phone, which will have patched apps right away..

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

WeChat is a 'super app' to the point that you don't need really a browser in China anymore. It's a mobile first based ecosystem (WeChat, XHS, Douban, Taobao, etc)

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

As someone not far removed from university, you will have a very hard time finding US citizens who take linear algebra seriously and also have a willingness to work for the Mil Industrial Complex (which this sounds like)

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

I don't know why Nissan isn't aggressively exporting the Sakura and Note e-power, the Note especially has a gas engine fallback that powers the battery (not the drivetrain) which should remove range anxiety

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

That's because the US and Australia are run by brain dead individuals (and the voters who enable them) who let the train system they had crumble into disrepair. Even the famously corrupt Ukrainian government did a much better job at multi-modal transport option. The Ukraine refugee situation is the best example of how refugees should be evacuated in the event of a catastrophe. if they did it all by car, it would've been absolute chaos and lead to many more causalities.

Sources: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/05/world/ukraine-railwa...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/magazine/ukraine-trains.h...

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

That's just not true. They'll just be stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. Wanna know how I know? Because that's exactly what happened in the opening days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Luckily, Ukraine has a well functioning train system and the majority of refugees escape by train to Poland.

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Any society with 2+ car households is a failure. All its residences will just be subjected to endless traffic and the smog/co2 emissions that it'll generate. Your second vehicle should be an e-bike, which you can take to a tram/train for long distance rides.

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

The US will continue to fail at public transit because rich people do not use it. As an oligarchy, the government prioritizes the whims of the rich and there are no signs of change. From 1880-1950, trains and public transit were utilized heavily by the American rich in NYC and other US cities because it was the fastest way to get around. Once highways and air travel came about, they stopped. You routinely see celebs on the Tube and other European metros. You hardly see them on the NYC subway anymore. The 2000s were a bit of a golden age for the NYC subway and other US metro systems because Uber and Google Maps navigation did not exist, but now they do. It's going to cause a death spiral for alot of metros unless something changes.

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

Do you REALLY think gasoline subsidies and government backed 97% LTV mortgages is a free market? People were coaxed out of cities with very generous subsidies as well as race baiting (redlining)

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hace 3 añosdiscuss

This is a chicken and egg problem, stop making excuses for Western governments. Nearly all US cities had streetcars and dense walkable downtowns. There are pictures of this. They were destroyed in the 1950s due to pressure from car/oil lobbies, as well as eager house buyers who wanted cheap FHA loans. (Only available to whites)

Europe is not immune either, they would've followed the US's footsteps entirely if it weren't for the 1973 oil shock, which hit them harder than the US.

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