great. having to get a needle stuck in the body is a underrated barrier to vaccine adoptation. polio was eradicated in most of the world so easily partiailly coz the solution was so easy and welcomed by children.... a sugar ball, or two at different times. way easier than needle.

not really. imo the regulations in the west is way too strict and bascially kidnapped by the hysteria and paranoid of a small group of extremist.

china and soviet union bascially killed off most of the apex predators, like tigers (for soviets, the Caspian tigers), most leopards, bears, crocodiles (yangtze crocodiles). according to the western "ecologists" their eco system should have collapsed and everyone there living in hellscape now. the truth is different.

rare earth mining requires lots of acids. but those acids are organic and will dissolve in the natural environment, and runoff to river and eventually to the ocean, and eventually convert into other materials (they hardly exist in nature in pure form for a reason, coz they react with other mateirals which cause them to cease to exist).

so those acids used in mining, they actually dont do that much harm. but the environmentalists gonna have mental breakdown seeing all those colorful acid pools and miles and miles of barren land of mining and cry out its environmental catostrophy and the media will help them to stir up mass hysteria to shut or limit those mining.

meanwhile china can do it as what it wants and benefit. thats a massive advantage that the west might never catch up in our lifetime simply coz the west is too irrational when it comes to "pollution", even relatively harmless ones.

china's advantage is regulation arbitrage. their environmental law enforcement is low and allows those mines to pollute a lot, which can never happen in the west. therefore their cost of production of rare earth is, well, dirt cheap.

it's not that the west doesn't have rare earths, its just the cost of production is not even on the same order of magnitude, which makes most mines not financially feasible to operate

i agree. anti tech must be silenced here. otherwise it woud just turn into like libertarian sub where socialists and so on roam on and outnumber actual libertarians coz muuuuuuuuuuh free speech. meanwhile socialism and communism subs censor opposite viewpoints with ban hammers all the time.

ubi is stupid. millionaires and billionaire do not need it. why should they get ubi when they pay taxes already?

unemployment benefit is all it needs. just increase it

dont like, then dont use. stop complainign. only reason those "scientists" complaing and wanting it banned is coz they feel THREATENED by the AI. the AI will take their job eventually.

robotaxis dont overcharge you or driving in loops to charge you more.

and whats the problem with that? sharing profits? if those humans dont want that job then dont work or work some other job.

they feel threatened by AI. when money is on the line, they do everything to stop it.

the acadamia feel threatened by this AI, simple as that. there's no reason to manufacture some outrage to take it down. if one doesnt like it, dont use it.

it's just like doctors who feel threatened by literally google. or teachers/professors who felt threatened by wikipedia like 10 years ago

the average car spent like 90% of the time parked. a AV is active most of the time. average human-driven car are way way more wasteful of resources than AV.