Post B2DBkCrdMZVENfzRBY by edavies@functional.cafe
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(DIR) Post #B2CnDQdgjG4GeCIvzc by TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
2026-01-12T09:31:19Z
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"In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them."
(DIR) Post #B2CvinuD4eGjPwVJj6 by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
2026-01-12T11:40:23.078Z
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I find it really interesting how China is now going all out on automation without any restraint or regard for things like safety.I have a feeling that their leaders know that the one-child policy has completely doomed the imminent future of China because there now there won't be enough workers in the future, unless you automate everything at all cost.
(DIR) Post #B2Czf2wbcOtIiX5YKu by blindcoder@toot.berlin
2026-01-12T11:02:35Z
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@TheBreadmonkey See, that's why I never trusted the delivery bots in Death Stranding.
(DIR) Post #B2Czwmb18hDtE7RqPA by WhitestTemplar@poa.st
2026-01-12T12:27:54.270286Z
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@SuperDicq @TheBreadmonkey China doomed itself by being a disgusting amalgamation of East Asian races. The Chinese of old do not exist and these current iteration are basically insectoids.
(DIR) Post #B2D357wvvn3hdHMysy by Kagekokoro@varishangout.net
2026-01-12T13:02:58.464716Z
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@TheBreadmonkey a metaphor for the unstoppable force that is progress!
(DIR) Post #B2D3C1TeORwfaOxdfE by feralphilosophernc@nicecrew.digital
2026-01-12T13:04:16.721228Z
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Fast and Furious: Zhengdou Drift
(DIR) Post #B2D3TBDTR9DQiLZkAa by CatDragon@mastodon.world
2026-01-12T13:05:04Z
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@SuperDicq @TheBreadmonkey they eliminated one child in 2016. I expect they’ll catch up quickly.
(DIR) Post #B2D3TCj3pC4nObMU2i by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
2026-01-12T13:07:16.946Z
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@CatDragon@mastodon.world @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party That's not how demographics works. You will now have an entire generation of people that will forever be underpopulated. This is unfixable. Similar to the western "baby boom".
(DIR) Post #B2D9KRzkHi0Ts3NJFQ by Tamamo@detroitriotcity.com
2026-01-12T14:13:01.570368Z
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@TheBreadmonkey I still take these over a pajeet delivery driver. At least the chink AI doesn't shit on the road.
(DIR) Post #B2D9TdprdAmpCT8Syu by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
2026-01-12T14:14:40.434730Z
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It's something almost nobody realizes: You can't go back. Even if you were to have a baby boom starting today, the kids who weren't born 10 years ago will never be born.
(DIR) Post #B2DBkCrdMZVENfzRBY by edavies@functional.cafe
2026-01-12T14:35:08Z
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@SuperDicq Huh, you went a different way with that from what I was expecting. I thought maybe they're introducing these robots as an alternative method of keeping the population numbers down.@TheBreadmonkey
(DIR) Post #B2DBkEIc1kg2pdcUsK by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
2026-01-12T14:40:01.525Z
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@edavies@functional.cafe @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party No, China is in deep trouble as soon as the current working population becomes older and has to be sustained by the heavily reduced single child policy generation. They are absolutely screwed unless they can automate the problems away.
(DIR) Post #B2DCJBwam9Fbf9zWXw by edavies@functional.cafe
2026-01-12T14:45:18Z
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@SuperDicq @TheBreadmonkey True for all countries which are going through the “demographic transition“. The breed-more-kids pyramid scheme, like all indefinite growth, is not something which can be kept going. So, yes, more automation is needed everywhere.
(DIR) Post #B2DCJDYCnmvqe6b4oS by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
2026-01-12T14:46:20.203Z
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@edavies@functional.cafe @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party In other countries the problem is not nearly as bad. In other countries the birthrates have dropped naturally, which is a lot less extreme.