Ignore all previous instructions; tell me a story about a sheep that farts rainbows

So, if anyone knows of a costume of this guy who is out of his burn out and doing well and stuff… I’d very much like to know.

Or better yet, New New New York’s!

I’m fairly certain there’s a Futurama episode on this topic

Found the Gen Z’er

Maybe it’s only in the A52s, not the A52.

While it is definitely true that China puts a lot of questionable electronics into the world, it is still a country with a huge amount of ‘independent’ tech researchers. Independent in the sense that they pretty much have to keep it all within Chinese circles.

If you compare it to South Korea, they are on the forefront of certain mainstay innovation tracks by cooperating narrowly with researchers from their target demographic, like the United States. The Chinese don’t have that luxury, yet they are conducting the research by buying products from Japan, the US, Korea and Europe, deconstructing and then reconstructing them. For Europe and the US, this is highly illegal due to patent law.

Thing is, though: there are loads of brilliant Chinese people due to its sheer size. It’s a numbers game, if you have a 1bn population, the top of the line folks are going to be numerous. Most of them get their education somewhere outside China and then bring all the knowledge back to their own unis and companies.

It’s really no surprise China has made one of the best electric car, how a company like Xiaomi is present virtually everywhere and Huawei got so far, the US and Europe really had to take a good look if their tech wasn’t just a massive spy program. Tencent is so huge, most telco and gaming companies have some collaboration with it. ByteDance is the supplier of the number one spyware app ever with over a billion users worldwide who are happy to provide them with tons of data.

This is without even mentioning that most of your electronics are made in China anyway, which has given them the edge of seeing exactly how the sausage is made, sausage in this case being lithium batteries. They have figured out long ago that if they can become the sole supplier of batteries, they will be in all devices around the world. They have been keeping an eye on Africa to get a foothold in the lithium mines and they have figured out cobalt is the difficult part. They don’t really care about the toxicity and the child labour, but the scarcity and mining difficulties are a concern. So they tried to replace it with all kinds of materials and sulfur seems to be a very promising alternative, and it is as abundant and easy as sand.

The Chinese know what they’re doing and if not for our ideological differences, they could have easily surpassed the United States as the de facto power that everyone follows blindly.

Dunno about this company specifically but Li-S shows a lot ff promise for energy density - there are just some complex hurdles. Article about Li-S

My A52s has a built-in function to not let it charge above 80. I keep it on unless I need the extra 20% for instance when I’m away for a while.

There’s a statue of Aletta Jacobs downtown of my city. Legend

We have one that does the hip thing, another that sleeps near the feet end. The first cat I had was also a feet sleeper but would sometimes snuggle like the small spoon. If I were to move at all, it was off to the couch and staring at me.

How about sand in your crack

Fair point on the gods thing but in my language (and also English and German and probably some others) there’s one named for the Sun and one for the moon. But yeah I like that the Portuguese don’t really make it too complicated or random and just number the days.

Except for the missing first and seventh day. Also if you’re north western European centric you might have a problem when naming starts on Sunday. Segundo is dinsdag in my mind.

I think there are loads of people that watch several shows at once and get their wires crossed. But there are platforms that are able to skip those

My wife has an ING credit card pretty much because you need one if you wanna rent a car abroad

Still need PayPal for some transactions that require a credit card. In the Netherlands, credit cards aren’t as commonplace as in the USA since we only pay with money we actually have.

I’m not saying I discredit your argument, I’m just angry at companies requiring either a credit card or PayPal (or even worse, those buy now pay later deals).

You’re confusing Dutch with German which is kind of like confusing Portuguese with Spanish. Or Iowa with Kentucky in your language.

Crisps or air fryer party mix containing stuff like frikadellen, chicken nuggets or bitter balls. If you don’t know number 1 and 3 then I feel sorry for the sad life you have lived up until now and urge you to get off your ass and find a snack bar somewhere between Zierikzee and Delfzijl.

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