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It's certainly acquired IMO. I love Ethiopian and Eritrean food but I just can't get into injera for the life of me

Without a shred of doubt unfortunately.

Gas avg about $4.80 where I am :(

You guys are getting $4 gas?

You responded 'no', what the fuck did you expect? Get the fuck out of here with your "Ffs lemmy 🥺😤"

How is this valves problem? Shouldn't the NY state government be banning shit like this? This is a policy thing

...you use AI for spirituality? what are you even talking about

Just because you have an unpopular opinion in actual tech leaning groups doesn't mean it's group think. It means your opinion sucks

Why is kali always in these memes? Does anyone actually use it?

I completely agree with everything you said, it's an unfortunate situation but unfortunately no government is really equipped to be able to compete against nationalized undercutting. And it's really a responsibility moreso at that level, rather than at the individual level since everyone around the world these days is getting squeezed financially.

I mean, first of all, you misunderstood my comment. I meant that in a car with the same level of technology, safety, and power, the price is a lot more attractive for any consumer to buy Chinese. You're falling into the same trap that I described assuming that the Chinese vehicles are of a lower quality on average which is completely not the case anymore. Not in technology, not in safety, not even in design in the most recent models.

Second, using the lowest bar for the price of a vehicle is a weird way to gauge world interest in vehicles. There have always been dirt cheap cars with next to no features other than an engine, produced in India or Japan for certain markets. I'm not talking about those in general. For example Chinese automobiles are absolutely dominating the markets in regions like UAE, Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar where the target consumer wouldn't think twice about paying for a Bentley or any European marque. So I'm not sure what your Walmart analogy was meant to achieve but it falls flat. Trust me I'm the last person that thinks any of these vehicles should be sold in the US, that would decimate our auto industry.

But objectively, if I lived somewhere where the vehicles that were available in the middle east were sold, I wouldn't think twice about getting a luxurious powerful car for the price of a Camry in the states.

It literally makes no sense as a consumer to buy otherwise. Whatever moral high ground or technological advantages western companies wanted people to believe they had have vanished in the last 5 years

Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I understand the point is to not get your jaw broken fighting someone you have no chance against