Point systems that prevent you from air travel or entering other provinces because you dared criticize the almighty government

That’s… just not real… Your understanding of Chinese policy comes from curated western sources with vested interests in putting a dystopian and totalitarian understanding of China and its government in our countries’ people (we’re both westerners). There are systems in place to prevent certain convicted criminals from freely moving around there country, but that has little to do with criticising the party.

Regardless, big data on traffic doesn’t imply knowledge about the particular vehicles and drivers inside said vehicles. You’re just going ahead and assuming “dystopian control of people” because it’s China.

So let’s push for ramping up the military industrial complex in Europe instead?

The horrible and dystopian part for the comment above yours is the fact that it happens in China, which is ontologically bad and oppressive

Your take is that changing traffic management is a violation of human rights?

What’s your solution to that

And yet. All of this feels like a seismic shit prefacing going to war

And what’s the solution to that? Further militarization of the US and Europe? Or diplomacy and negotiations?

“Diplomacy dies”

What diplomacy has there been for the past 3 years of war?

Dingdingding, right answer here!

They are losing 1300 to 1800 each day

Russia is losing up to half a million men per year? What’s your source for this? It seems outlandish

“People get better treatment than genocide” isn’t the brag you think it is

I could say that it’s heavily funded by the public through organisms like the CERN in Europe. Public funding of cool open source software seems to me the way to go