You don’t even have to reach for schizophrenia. Look at the sociological differences in drunkenness. Drunk Brits and Americans go off on destructive sprees. Drunk Japanese and Chinese get maudlin and maybe start singing loudly.

Drunken violence is such a rare thing here it’s shocking when it happens.

“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes” seems to apply here.

You can be an AR-15. I’ll be an AK-47.

What’s missing from your analysis is natural given that you’re likely, reading between the lines, an American. Your culture venerates the “lone wolf” “man with a gun” stereotype so naturally that’s what you gravitate toward when picturing a post-collapse time.

The reality is that when times get hard people (at least in any country I’ve lived in) pull together, not apart. I’m not sure if that’s possible in the USA. (Current data suggests it isn’t, but I bring my own biases into that analysis.) I’m pretty sure personally that if the shit hits the fan, the USA will, in fact, shatter and spall and generally become what you describe.

But most of the rest of the world, if history is to be believed, won’t. So don’t worry. Civilization will continue. Just yours might not.

Interesting that you’re putting “quality” and “Chinese” as opposites on a spectrum.

I think that takes me out of the conversation.

I had some homemade 韭菜盒子 for dinner today. Sadly I didn’t take a photo, but the article I linked to has a good bunch of images as well as an explanation.

You keep talking about “build quality” being too low, then say things like “lacks a certain something”.

When you vaguebook to this extent, nobody is going to be able to give you meaningful suggestions. Could you perhaps expand on what you mean by build quality and where, with specifics (and not “certain somethings”), the ones whose build quality is “too low” fail that metric? I think this will make it easier for people to understand what you’re looking for and thus to make meaningful suggestions.

Strip the badge work from them, though, so you’re not advertising Tesla’s brand. I humbly suggest replacing it with this:

Nah. It’s easier to just blacklist individual users here. People who, say, consistently produce AI content or who reply with nonsense like “guess you should blacklist lemmy too” because they mistakenly believe they sound clever.

What units are you using to make the “worse” comparison? I can’t really answer such comparisons, after all, without either some direct personal experience or some kind of measurable units. Since I lack the former, I’ll need the latter.