Post B2a0YsP6BZHqcCfNUe by john_darksoul@ariamispainted.world
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(DIR) Post #B2ZzSDeUgdAOXC83yC by sickburnbro@poa.st
2026-01-23T14:40:44.511038Z
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it's been obvious that "green" has been a scam for 10, maybe 15 years.
(DIR) Post #B2ZzvJQMIzlUplOFOa by john_darksoul@ariamispainted.world
2026-01-23T14:44:32.103109Z
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@sickburnbro China bears the burden of a being the entire world’s manufacturer. This needs a denominator tbh. A single breath by an indian is too much of an emission for the world to bear, but if you want china to reduce emissions you’re going to have to increase them in other countries (by making your own stuff)
(DIR) Post #B2a0EBgRJDp0KRubtg by sickburnbro@poa.st
2026-01-23T14:49:24.675894Z
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@john_darksoul well, I mean they aren't - germany manufactured a lot of things, at least until a few years ago.China just made a lot of cheap junk, mainly.
(DIR) Post #B2a0YsP6BZHqcCfNUe by john_darksoul@ariamispainted.world
2026-01-23T14:51:41.107871Z
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@sickburnbro This understanding is from like the 90’s. They make a lot of stuff now. Including many small parts that go in the higher end brands and even some the higher end brands themselves. China still makes a lot of cheap stuff, but they make a lot of good stuff as well.
(DIR) Post #B2a0k3JNyFU9dAK6Ii by sickburnbro@poa.st
2026-01-23T14:55:10.330921Z
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@john_darksoul I know quite well, but that's because most high end brands are utter trash now. Everything they manufacture is never meant to last. It is meant to be cheap and disposable.
(DIR) Post #B2a0uCSKpLNut4Ld4q by sickburnbro@poa.st
2026-01-23T14:57:00.316898Z
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@john_darksoul when I say "made to last" I'm talking how white people made things prior to 1960. Things were designed to be repaired; you were not expected to junk entire appliances because a button isn't working.
(DIR) Post #B2a13AWpMZLNW0j4Gu by john_darksoul@ariamispainted.world
2026-01-23T14:57:09.668891Z
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@sickburnbro I can’t speak about everything, but like for espresso machines for example. Pretty much everything electric in them will be Chinese made (maybe even some of the small valves and pipes), but the good Italian or German built ones will probably outlive you. China is not a cheap plastic farm now. Well kind of. But they make a lot of decent things and for some things they’re about the only place you can go for scaling.
(DIR) Post #B2a1D5EJuwxhyhnTJA by john_darksoul@ariamispainted.world
2026-01-23T14:58:57.133835Z
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@sickburnbro I know what you meant. I would look into how much of what goes into a Miele appliance is made in China though. That’s about as close as you’ll get these days to an old, built to last, appliance.
(DIR) Post #B2a1WzNXNlYXcdbFzs by sickburnbro@poa.st
2026-01-23T15:04:00.883381Z
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@john_darksoul yes, it's true that it's the only place right now to get scaling, and that's because of "green" - all first world companies are absolutely against supporting local industry.We could have been making nuclear power for the last 30 years which would have had no real CO2 impact ( not that CO2 and warming have a strong relationship ) - but it was just a tool to force de-industrialization.
(DIR) Post #B2a1fp1VFjXi6zVOjY by sickburnbro@poa.st
2026-01-23T15:05:35.751375Z
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@john_darksoul the most naive look at this is that the elite thought that industry was a "old technology" and that designing things and building software was the future.But people are learning hard now that you must have hands on with the devices in order to design and engineer well, and having people that do that next door is best.
(DIR) Post #B2a32lCZj7MesHBb60 by petra@poa.st
2026-01-23T15:20:57.278293Z
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@sickburnbro @john_darksoul "... and building software was the future."I remember that mindset from the 1980's. And it had great appeal because it made making mistakes much more consequence free during design. Engineering up to then involved doing actual calculations and theoretical design, then testing with physical objects. Objects which broke, cost money, made a mess. Now you could just iterate your code writing, meaning guessing a lot and just trying things out, consequence free. That certainly had some advantages but that psychology spread everywhere. And you have engineers designing physical devices today who's whole philosophy is to just keep trying things until it (seems) to work. At least well enough, which is never specified.The pictures of SpaceX engineers in groups showing few if any indians and mostly White men and Asians reflects this. Making physical things that work reliably is hard. There are no short cuts.