A friend of mine just made the claim that tech-wise "China is 60 years behind the west"

He was very adamant that this is the case, but he’s not some dipshit who gets all his info from reactionary sources, so I’m wondering where he got that specific number from. Anyone heard of it? The “60 years behind” thing I mean?

That’s pretty much what I was thinking yeah. I’m fairly certain he got this from someone at his job, where they build all sorts of hi-tech electronic shit for fucks know who or what.

Just wondering where it originated from, I did a google on it and literally nothing showed up. So I suppose someone he works with just pulled it out of their own ass and he fell for it?

As soon as they hand it off to the factory in China to produce, it sure ain’t gonna stay a secret. ;) Six months later the market will be flooded with copies and they won’t have a leg to stand on because they think American laws extend everywhere on the planet.

he might be quoting some decade old estimate on semiconductors or something idk

This is the reply that makes sense.

Shit that sucks, I have people in my family as well who are impossible to talk to because of shit like that.

My friend in question here is not like that though, which is why I was so surprised. I mean, he wouldn’t be my friend at all if this was what he usually does.

Last year he told me he always carries a gun when walking his dog because he heard that dogs started disappearing after a Chinese family moved into his building. Implying that the Chinese family was taking people’s dogs to eat.

:fidel-wut:

lmao he is super far gone

Sure makes one feel safe to just be existing Chinese-Americanly in the USA with all these stable geniuses running around.

Last year he told me he always carries a gun when walking his dog because he heard that dogs started disappearing after a Chinese family moved into his building

sanest american conservative

What did they even need MK Ultra for when the US propaganda machine is already capable of this level of :brainworms: on a regular basis?

It’s “nice” to hear that the DPRK isn’t the only country accused of having entirely fake cities.

When I hear about the fake cities in DPRK nonsense I’m reminded of the Mitchell and Webb look skit where they’re trying to figure out how to fake a moon landing, and decide that it would be more convincing and easier to just pop up to the moon and film it there.

what is propaganda about a literal picture of a city lmao

Wew lad. I know there are some CHUDs on my side of the family, but I haven’t had to deal with any of that (yet).

Damn, how could you resist kicking his teeth in?

And now I feel bad, even though I’m still completely disgusted. Weird how that works huh? Being human is a fucking trip

But how’d they even produce such high quality propaganda having presumably never heard of electricity?

You and I May have the same brother

Guangzhou

Holy shit the Guangzhou metro area is 65 MILLION PEOPLE.

How would you even measure that? Consumer electronics sales? What year is the TV from? How many TVs do 1.4 billion people need to catch up with how many TVs per 0.3 billion people? How many HDR TVs per 4K TV? How many average TVs per meter of high speed train? It’s just nonsense on its face.

How would you even measure that?

Pretty much what I was thinking. I’m sure you could twist some numbers into fitting that definition, but yeah.

Now ask if China steals all of the west’s technology

He did kinda start getting into that, but I managed to cut that shit off by asking him why that would even matter. He didn’t have an answer.

Meritocratic thinking. But of course almost no one doing the hard work of implementing solutions and solving problems in tech is adequately compensated relative to the profits their work creates.

I mean actual solutions, not like apps and shit.

I love that complaint.

Like yeah? So? If you don’t like it manufacture your shit in America. Imagine giving a shit about Intellectual property theft.

Oh no! China is stealing all our military secrets!

Good, maybe they’ll build military hardware that will make Washington think twice about starting a genocidal, apocalyptic WWIII.

Yeah, it was just very weird and completely out of character for him. Even though he’s not a “leftist”, he’s very level headed and wouldn’t usually fall for something like this.

So that made me wonder if this is an actual lib talking point that I just happened to miss, or if someone was making shit up as they were going along. The latter seems more plausible.

My understanding is that as of this year they abruptly and unexpectedly jumped two or three generations and are not either at the cutting edge or just behind it. something about 7nm chips?

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A friend of mine just made the claim that tech-wise "China is 60 years behind the west"

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