I would love to translate the sentence into actual German for you, but unfortunately it is broken so much, that I have no idea what patriachatpirat was trying to say.

I was at first considering “Mein Schnitzel” to be the name of some restaurant, but there is none of that name in Erlangen (where this image has been taken, you can determine it by the distinct logo on the bus time monitor).

It’s like they put extra effort into making their post as bad as possible.

But that free international market argument applies to all (well, most of all…) countries, which is exactly my point. Modern China is as exploitative as any other highly developed modern country, independent of economic system.

Looking at the top 3 exports of China (by a wide margin before anything else):

Electrical, electronic equipment $1016.58B
Machinery, nuclear reactors, boilers $603.82B
Vehicles other than railway, tramway $248.31B

That’s all high price stuff.

Combined with its huge trade surplus, this is a classical “Buy cheap resources - sell expensive highly processed commodities back” scheme, the same as e.g. the uprising European industrializing nations employed as a strategy during their colony exploiting times (and to some degree still do in a similar fashion as China).

No, there is nothing equal here.

China isn’t exploiting anyone.

Total Imports 2025 EU / China:

Mineral fuels, oils, distillation products $467.75B / $442.95B
Plastics $68.38B / $56.48B
Pearls, precious stones, metals, coins $56.12B / $118.02B
Articles of apparel, knit or crocheted $53.13B / $3.74B
Articles of apparel, not knit or crocheted $48.56B / $5.79B
Iron and steel $44.08B / $30.86B
Edible fruits, nuts, peel of citrus fruit, melons $31.17B / $20.69B
Fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatics invertebrates $29.23B / $19.93B
Rubbers $26.46B / $20.57B
Footwear, gaiters and the like $26.30B / $5.70B
Copper $18.63B / $74.63B
Oil seed, oleagic fruits, grain, seed, fruits $18.63B / $57.02B
Pulp of wood, fibrous cellulosic material, waste $11.87B / $21.98B

So, looking at the absolute numbers, China is eploiting the world’s resources in a similar fashion as the old style European Union, so I have to disagree.

I won’t comment on the content of your provided reports and youtube videos (of which at least two look a little… juicy… at first glance), as me just providing you with a bunch of counter-reports and videos, whose reliability you would question in a similar way as I am questioning yours, won’t change anything.

That’s why I wrote “if done right”.
A truly social market economy also has to make sure that workers along the whole supply chain have to get similar rights and treatment as local workers.

Besides that, centrally planned economies (being the opposite to plain free market capitalism), also don’t really shy away from exploiting the resources of poorer countries.
(Looking e.g. at imperialistic China here).

But 4chan.

Sure, but we already established that we are old.
And the term “finsta” itself is still pretty GOAT, no matter that anonymous posting is nothing new.

Even more benefit from a social market economy, which might be an optimal sweet spot if done right.

I had to look up the actual meaning of the word “finsta”.

Seems to be an abbreviation for “fake instagram”, but actually meaning a secret, second instagram account, where people dare to post stuff freely and more anonymously without social scrutiny.

And I have to say, I really like this word, as it may have (intentional) layers.
“finsta” is also the deliberately crude German writing of the word “finster”, which means “dark” in English, which is just the perfect word to describe the intentions behind the finsta accounts.

This is a fantastic word, kudos to the (presumably) Gen-Z people that have come up with it!

German and English are also both germanic languages and they have a lot of common vocabulary.

As a native German speaker who had to learn the English language, I think that effect to be overrated.

Many of the English words with common German roots have parted ways so profoundly by now, they are often hardly recognizable as the same word any more (doesn’t help that the Germanic base was some version of Plattdeutsch spoken in the northern part of Lower Saxony and the Netherlands, which many Germans also don’t really understand).

The words that actually were surprisingly easy to understand for me, are the ones with common Latin (or maybe French) roots.

That is one of the reasons many Germans tend to sound presumptuous to native speakers, as they are more likely to use those often more formal expressions.

As AI increasingly doesn’t make any obvious writing errors by now any more, but typically answers in a overly perfect error-free style, I by now increasingly deliberately often decide to keep the tiny errors instead.
They feel like kind of a quality seal “written by an actual human” nowadays…

That’s the reason, half of my Lemmy posts show the “edited” tag.
Just giving them the most cursorily glance on the comment overview page will reveal new writing or expression errors, which I then have to compulsively correct.

You understand it, because it is not German.
Only two purely German words. Three, if you also count “schnitzel”, which is kinda international by now and would have to be written with an uppercase “S” to be correct German.

… yes, since about a week.
If you just noticed now, beer delirium must have hit you really hard this year!

The moment that Amazon not only blocked my account from ordering after some payment hiccups, but also that of my girlfriend, who was living at a different place at the time, was the moment I disabled my Amazon account completely.

I at the time also had a look into what I could find in the settings about what they still stored about me:
They still had my detailed order history dating back to 1996, when I first used the service to buy books, giving a nice, very personal overview about what topics I had been interested in over the decades.

This has been in 2011 already, so unfortunately nothing new.

I think OP is talking about active users that engage and comment, not about the ones just lurking.

But it is still the the way to get a community started nonetheless.

If even the creator of the community doesn’t post anything people don’t even gain the interest in the first place that they might (or ideally might not…) lose later on.

Only marginally darker than the original.

With the official app, you’re limited to difficulty 2.5 and below.

Really? Ok, that sucks.

I never used the app (which didn’t even exist when I started), but mainly website + downloads to my Garmin.

Nowadays only occasional casual caching using c:geo.

That’s the spirit! :-D

As a German, I approve.

Common response to “Wie geht’s?” (“How goes it?”):
“Man kann nicht genug klagen.” (“One can’t complain enough.”)

:-)