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In a YouTube video, a voice in English announces that China has researched and developed its own ultra-thin 1-nanometer chip – a staggering claim given that the chip isn’t expected in commercial devices for another decade.

"Recent news from China has sent ripples of excitement and astonishment across the globe," gushes the voice-over on the China Charged YouTube channel. "This revolutionary breakthrough is more than a technological marvel; it is a game-changer that will redefine the global tech landscape."

"Prepare to have your mind blown," says another video, this time on the channel Unbelievable Projects. "Welcome to today's video, in which we'll discover why America remains behind China in infrastructure development."

These voices and their “good news” about China are evidence that the Chinese Communist Party and its overseas proxies are using artificial intelligence to flood YouTube with propaganda videos, according to a new report that describes a "coordinated inauthentic influence campaign" on the platform.

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[-] Tilted@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Next can you talk about the problem with renewables? Just to come full circle

[-] deft@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 years ago

Nothing is wrong with renewables but you've definitely also read about greenwashing right?

It is basically that. For what people are proposing we need to change the entire economic system away from capitalism and this endless green line go up logic. Until then everything will continue to be this way no matter how we dress it.

[-] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Yeah, don't try to make anything better. It's a waste of time unless you're trying to overhaul the entire economic system.

What a smooth-brained take.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

The only thing EVs save are the automobile industry.

[-] deft@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 years ago

Literally makes nothing better prolongs the same problems

[-] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The point is that the rise of electic cars slows down the kinds of fundamental shifts and, most importantly, policy changes we need in order to actually get sustainable.

While it can be seen as an improvement, at the end of the day we end up not taking measures we absolutely should. Everyone is just advertising EV's as a solution, which they are not. At best, it's a transient stage before people can finally accept they cannot drive a car in an environmentally friendly way, ever.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's quite the conclusion jump. You can be critical of EVs from a leftist perspective even if so much EV hate is from conservatives.

EVs are an improvement from petrol powered vehicles but they are not in any way good. There is still plenty of pollution from the construction of the vehicle, the transport of materials, the atomized rubber from the tires, and the pollution from it's energy source (even if it's less total greenhouse gas emissions as opposed to a petrol based vehicle). EVs will not save the climate even if every car was replaced.

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