I miss that and I mean more than just the Frutiger Aero aesthetics. I miss what I felt back then when opening the browser, not knowing what awaited me today but in a good way. Despite everything, tech companies promised us a digital future that wasn‘t entirely dreadful. In hindsight it was all just escapism of course and another cycle of that trend would just feel painfully cynical today. It can never be replicated. Big tech will forever be flat design at heart.

To be fair isn‘t GenX the most right radical generation? Seems to me age doesn’t have a lot to do with it. Surprisingly not even growing up as the internet was established seems to help with media competency at all.

So much for the internet. We somehow managed to turn one of humanity’s greatest achievements into a hateful echo chamber we use for warfare first and then into a blackbox where inefficient AI agents communicate with each other in the most inefficient way so the planet can cook us alive even faster. God forbid just calling up a bakery to order some cupcakes.

Raw materials are not secret technology. China is simply sitting on rare earth mines that run on human exploitation and environmental destruction like a hoarding dragon. China couldn‘t build an electric battery in line with Sweden‘s regulations with Swedish resources either.

They bought the robots from Germany, a champion of automated manufacturing. That‘s not the secret sauce here.

China‘s growth almost always beats expectations (that they themselves set) but you have to take them for their word for a lot of these numbers. For all we know the Chinese economy could be an even bigger blowfish than the Japanese economy in the late 20th century.

I‘m assuming they want to flood our market with their crap while showing no real interest in buying ours anymore. It‘s hard to find a common ground on these terms. Ideally you want trade to go both ways but that seems to be less and less the case.

Printing birds and rivers on bank notes while European nations keep missing climate targets and burn down the planet in the name of capitalism would be almost as cynical as Mao‘s face on the Chinese currency.

How do their gamepads compare to the DualSense? They‘re in the same price range after all.

The technology to make them this cheap are human exploitation and massive subsidies. It’s nothing that others haven’t figured out but most lack the resources or motivation to do that and that isn’t a bad thing.

I doubt China is doing anything they didn‘t do a year or two ago so clearly they‘re still as neutral as they always were. /s

They should aim at Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, xAI as well.

Incompetent Pentagon means they‘ll hopefully cause less destruction in the world but I‘m not sure that they will when working under mecha Hitler word salad.

Living outside the US I’m not sure if I should be glad or terrified by the Pentagon’s incompetence in these worrying times. Maybe I’m… I don’t know, 20% glad and 80% terrified? Sounds about right.

Let‘s not beat around the bush he STOLE the Club world cup trophy.

And a thief, among other worse things but definitely a thief.

They better learn mandarin and how to properly kowtow then.

Of course they won’t get special treatment and adapting the Euro is a given. Although the latter is basically a commitment statement anyway which many countries will probably never follow through with.

There are “challenges concerning scaling up companies, attracting financing” and “managing cyclical waves of labour lay-off”, the Commission announcement stated.

So they don‘t actually want to do anything right now because the same scummy companies that kill live service games are laying off workforce en masse as well? Ugh, I didn‘t expect much but that‘s rich.

They‘re basically saying: „Apologies, but we can‘t improve things right now. You see, the industry is too rotten already.“

As expected from the EU commission that is just as corrupt as AAA studios.

Adding fuel to burning Teslas. What a brilliant idea.