Lol. Now it's in a bind because it's reliant on USA. They should have kept Russia's gas flowing and ejected the USA's military presence altogether.

The problem is that you're imagining what would happen...it's literal sinophobia.
Not to mention that Taiwan is full of Chinese already and is literally part of China, albeit not controlled by the PRC's government....
It seems the USA wants to go to war with China, and so anything that makes it difficult that is a threat. China is not threat to the USA itself, only to USA's ability to dominate.

A lot of people in China don't have their own home charging, but managed to make them work...it seems. It just needs government to make chargers prolific.

There's also the quick battery swap solution, which is successfully being used for private cars and taxis alike. A potential advantage is that you don't need to own, or pay for, a battery. But, there are disadvantages too, of course, like you might get stuck with an abused battery, and you maybe need to subscribe to the service...or pay to switch? Not sure what the models are...

But their use for city-wide taxis in big cities like Beijing, is a good endorsement, imo.

A lot of people in China don't have their own home charging, but managed to make them work...it seems. It just needs government to make chargers prolific.

There's also the quick battery swap solution, which is successfully being used for private cars and taxis alike. A potential advantage is that you don't need to own, or pay for, a battery. But, there are disadvantages too, of course.

Stop trying to avoid a good feature because of ignorance. Modal is the source of the power of vi et al and isn't that difficult to learn.

The problem is the assertion that modal is bad.

It isn't. It's good, and is the basis for the power of vi, and vim.

It's just ignorance, that's all...solved by educating yourself.

I notice it supports regexes, that other source of frustration for the ignorant...

Just learn how to do it. It's really not difficult.

Yeah, it does. It responds like you have succeeded in changing its mind, like it has learned...but it hasn't (right?).
Iinm, it doesn't learn from individual conversations, no matter how convincing they are, or it makes you think they are.

It's more interesting, and worrying, that you can also convince AI they are wrong, and/or that they are wrong in the first place...

Bias is also quite prevalent with some AIs. They just seem to be a glorified search engine, and so are Garbage In, Garbage Out...they tend to presume what they find on the Internet is the truth.

They deliberately exclude ~1/5 of the population of the planet, so they can shove it.

> China continues to slowly grind under and remains isolated after bullying all their neighbors for years

Rofl. You're totally deluded. China is doing fine, so far, and the USA being the common enemy has even brought everyone in the vicinity of China closer together.
Now THAT is something to thanks Trump for!

The USA is the one being isolated, and rightly so, since everyone has realised how unreliable the USA is. Only the usual suspects have capitulated - eg the UK, which doesn't enjoy much support for their "deal" since it's total crap, except for a few specific areas...Starmer is a total idiot.

> but China has long since started sourcing all of that from other countries to de-risk from the US

Indeed, and (maybe) the only reason they sourced them from the USA is because of the whinging of the USA about the trade imbalance, and it was one of the few things that the USA produces that China wants and the USA will sell...there seems to be next to nothing the USA produces of interest to China and Chinese consumers. It's the whole opium war/silver thing again.

Makes some stuff that is specifically targeted at China and Chinese people (ditto other countries) and to their standards/etc instead of just presuming their good enough for others because they're good enough for or popular with USAians...

There are lots of US brands in China, but many products are built in China, and just the profits and license fees/etc end up going back to the USA, which Trump doesn't count, it seems. One of the Trump serfs suggested that there are no US cars on the streets of Shanghai - I'm not sure about Shanghai but you can't walk 100yrs in Beijing without seeing a US branded car. They're all over the place. Some of them are obvious imports from the USA, too, like Resla X and S, and the Ford with the horse logo (forget the name atm). There's a boat load of Lincoln and Cadilacs too...are they not imports...not sure?

The USA's threshold was quite a bit higher than other countries.
The point of de minimis is to avoid spending more money collecting the taxes than the amount of the taxes themselves. The high threshold suggests that the USA's tax collection system is very inefficient, and removing the de minimis completely may well result in it costing the government more than if they didn't bother.
Unless things have changed since it was introduced...$800 is quite high...it's not really surprising that Temu et al were especially popular in the USA compared to other countries, whose thresholds are lower - sometimes a lot lower.

The USA is sounding like it is Russia under sanctions.

Perhaps, but maybe they just don't care so much about the markets outside China, specifically the USA, since their products are being hit left, right, and centre with tariffs and sanctions. They basically have to go it alone. The USA can buy from South Korea and leave China to work out its own solutions.

More generally, I am reminded of SCART. That was a standard that Europe adopted but not many other places. Still, there was no shortage of devices with that, but they also had the other connectors too, so it didn't simplify anything wrt manufacturing.

That's bollocks. Microsoft was making a pretty penny in China, mainly due to them not enforcing their copyright/etc decades ago and letting everyone get used to Windows and Office. As time progressed, the revenue stream flowed freely.
Now, of course, the USA government have made it clear that China cannot rely on anything from the USA and so China has switched away from Microsoft products and their sweet revenue is fading. It's still used by consumers, but even they will be gradually switching away. The USA has made this an easy choice.