Ok, maybe I didn’t get the context of what you were saying. There’s a lot of craziness happening in these comments

Wtf do you mean “I would not call them communists”?

They have “communist” in their name “Chinese Communist Party”, but they aren’t communist by definition.

Communism is when the state gives you a home

That’s a Cliff’s Notes, high-level, distilled to one sentence version of the definition. The reality of what communism entails is much larger than that.

And the Chinese CCP is as much a communist government as the United States government is a democracy.

If you simply refuse to acknowledge the scope of public works and economic development

I did acknowledge it.

then dismiss these radical changes by citing the exchange rate between the USD and the Yuan as proof extreme poverty still exists

I said not a single word about exchange rates and never once mentioned the USD. Either your strawmaning what I said or you can’t read.

I never said China didn’t invest into their national programs. I said their definitions of “poverty” are in question.

Just to clarify something. People tend to confuse the terms of “absolute poverty” and “poverty”.

The claim of “completely eliminating absolute poverty” (which is a claim the CCP makes) is almost true. Supposedly the number of people in absolute poverty in China is now 0.7%.

However, this is often reported as China “eliminating all poverty”, which isn’t true. The World Bank puts people still living in poverty in China at 13% (exact numbers are hard because of the CCPs information control), which is higher than what China self claims. Because China doesn’t use the World Bank’s definition for poverty.

I’ve been to China and have family from there. Don’t try to make this about some nationalistic nonsense. It would be amazing if people in China had as much access to the things in life everyone deserves, but the CCP isn’t exactly known for being honest.

And how does that equate to me coping?

One of their largest bridges collapsed because of a weakness in the bridge’s foundation that I think involved a landslide.

There was another one from earlier this year that involved a number of cars falling with the bridge.

The Chinese also figured out that the bridge was going to collapse ahead of time, so they evacuated all motorists. Don’t think there were any casualties.

You’re right, the most recent one involved no casualties, because the day before someone walking across the bridge noticed a huge crack and posted it to Douyin. Officials noticed it and then closed the bridge.

You want to cite what you’re talking about here?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56194622

I guess that was 4 years ago, but I remember it as more recently.

while it was 77.6 in the US

I don’t live in the USA. I consider the USA a 3rd world country cosplaying as a 1st world one. Healthcare in the USA is one of the most broken and predatory in the world. So it’s not a meaningful comparison IMO.

What am I coping with exactly? I don’t live in the US and I’m not a US citizen.

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

I guess you’re right, because I’ve never worked as an IT admin, or had the policy at multiple companies I’ve worked at changed to allow Linux devices for devs.

Taking Immich as an example, there’s a lot of heavy lifting happening there behind the scenes in external libraries that are not written in JS.

Real programmers are language agnostic

Thought terminating sentence.

No, I like “bossware”. It tells you exactly what it is. It’s “spyware from your boss”.

In an ideal world, id love a debian thinkpad or framework

Then make your world ideal. Pester your boss or the IT guys with articles showing how Linux is better than Windows at security or dev work. Show them how Linux isn’t prone to the same security concerns. Show them articles or examples about how you could do your work with a Linux install.

China recently lowered the earning amount for poverty to just below what most Chinese people make, thereby “reducing” poverty.

I like how fast they build infrastructure

You mean collapsing within a few years? Three of their largest bridges recently built just collapsed. And a lot of structures over there collapse within a few to several years.

Vibe coding is basically yoloing the output and running it without checking anything.