Okay. Whats BYD?

I think you’ll hear more of it in the future, it’s kinda like a “new” Huawei.
I was surprised to spot a BYD dealership in the south of Nantes in France, that’s when the numbers start feeling real.


www.byd.com/eu/find-store

If you live in the US, protectionnism may prevent you from seeing a BYD car dealership. A.f.a.i.k. there’s none, perhaps because there’s a 100% tariff on chinese EVs, and/or for other reasons(, security is just another one of these lies we like to tell our citizens).

Canada also had a 100% tariff rate until a few weeks ago, they’ll now admit 49.000 vehicles each year at a 6.1% tariff rate.

In the EU, states put a 20-30% tariff(, a.f.a.i.k. their reasons are the existence of chinese subventions, suddenly free trade doesn’t benefit the states practicing it because it destroys the local companies, anyway…)

BYD is getting really popular here in australia, I see them all the time. Many other chinese brands are popping up as well. Quite impressive considering the stigma around china being cheap, shit and communism here.

To be fair, the last part is true, China is run by communists. That’s a good thing, though.

Without China, it’d be ingrained in all of us that socialism can never work, and has failed everytime it was tried, probably for centuries/ever. Just another one of these lies. So many conditions had to be reunited for being given one last chance after 1991(, explosive growth that no country ever went through, being “busy” in the Middle-East, a successful chinese strategy, …)

It’s ironic that our (religious )values point out that a society should be judged by how it treats the poorest/weakest/l(e)ast of us, but we’ll be anti-socialist with an “exploit or be exploited” mindset.

Anyway 🤷

Well said!

One last thing(, that’s linked to EVs), have you ever heard of the “three old things” ? I discovered that ‘a few months’/‘several weeks’ ago, and i’m still thinking about it from time to time : youtu.be/6E89qUXTX-k?t=2149

(files.catbox.moe/b1kfo4.mp4 if the video player doesn’t work)

It’s not as official as the five year plan, but it’s confirmed here or there :

From aspirations to own watches, bicycles and sewing machines (the “older three things”) of the late 1970s, to the color televisions, refrigerators and washing machines (the “old three things”) of the late 1980s, to the stereos, air conditioners and mobile phones (the “new three things”) of the late 1990s, and to the computers, pianos and automobiles (the “newer three things”) of today

As for the next five-year plan(, with brain-computer interfaces) :