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'It doesn’t catch fire': Why China’s "fireproof" sodium battery could be the breakthrough that makes EVs safer than ICE cars (www.techradar.com)
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cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/62209262

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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Actually it’s the other way around.

The internet is all about “China Bad” so calling it China Battery is a way to depreciate this obviously positive discovery.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    “Should we just not talk about this awesome new tech?”

    “No, let’s put China in front of this totally awesome thing so people will think it’s bad while we hype it up as such a great invention in the article. Oh and don’t mention working conditions, state subsidies, mineral extraction, or any of the usual anti-China talking points, that might make them think it’s not bad”

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  • [+] -10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I’m sorry you live with so much gratuitous hatred in your heart and I pray you can recover some day.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    How is pointing out the flaw in your logic "gratuitous hatred"? It doesn't make any sense that the rationale for calling it "China's battery" is to make it sound bad, when the article is clearly extolling the virtues of the battery.

    Or is it the part where the other commenter brought attention to the working conditions in China? Because that's not motivated by hatred, but rather class solidarity. How badly do you have to hate Chinese people to believe Chinese workers don't deserve better conditions? What about ethnic minorities in China who are having their cultural heritage stripped away from them?

    Is it because the government officials aren't white, so you believe they can do no wrong? So you'll just call any legitimate criticism of them racist? That's like Israel calling anti-zionism anti-semitic. There's nothing sinophobic about legitimate criticisms of the PRC.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Nice argument you’re having with yourself there, buddy. Seems like you have quite a lot to pour out.

    I don’t have any affinity for China, but I also don’t like the gratuitous hate they get all over the internet, nor the reduction of Chinese people’s experience to work drones (what you’re doing).

    I had hoped that Lemmy wasn’t gonna be like that, but alas.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Oh, what, you can't handle three paragraphs? Maybe you should go over to mastodon or loops then.

    I question your definition of "gratuitous hate," as I haven't seen any examples of actual hatred in this comment chain. You seem like you just can't handle being disagreed with, so you make strawman arguments against the people disagreeing with you.

    nor the reduction of Chinese people’s experience to work drones (what you’re doing).

    Calling attention to an abysmal work culture which enforces long working hours and authoritarian hierarchies, and frequently drives people to suicide, isn't reducing people to work drones. And if that's how you interpret that critique, then you have no class solidarity.

    And before you cry that I'm singling China out, I'm not. The US rivals them for overall shittiness, while paling by comparison in innovation and development.

    But this conversation is about China, and if you can't tolerate a structural critique that isn't even laden with hatred and bias, then, well, I don't know what to tell you...

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Is this “china always bad” internet in the room with us right now? Do you deny the positive sentiment in this very thread you’re posting in right now?

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  • [+] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)
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