I live in China. You put ¥2 into the slot and you get on. You can be wearing a fully balaclava, a face mask, or nothing. No-ones running ID on you to make sure your magical score is high enough before you are allowed to get on. You can get a transit token so you can tap on if you’re cashless. They’re sold without ID checks, foreigners can get them without speaking a word of Mandarin.
You have been lied to and now you’re repeating those lies on the internet without even getting paid.
I literally live in China. The scores apply to businessmen and not the average citizen. China isn’t North Sentinel Island, you can literally come here.
When they reference Xi negatively they use Palpatine or some literary villain as a comparison. Using a yellow bear beloved by most of the world seems counter productive. Imagine if people compared Hitler to Charlie Chaplain due to likeness and not, say, Satan.
Not if they’re foreign enough
I don’t trust the “benevolent superhero” trope because realistically, you may get some Batmen, you’d get twice as many Banes and then a statistically small but present number of Jokers. That’s not even accounting for a Freeze style situation where someone is committing crimes to fund a relatively justifiable cause and your Ivy’s who are doing a net positive for the world but the methods are technically illegal.
Headlines from a Stavros Halkias X PAYDAY: The Heist crossover promotion.
“stopantisemitism”
This group is so antisemitic they snubbed Norm Finkelstein. Surely the author(s) of this list should be on this list for such an antisemitic act.
Trump’s not even bad by republican standards, he’s just vulgar and baffoonish. Replace him with Jeb! or Ron DeSantis or your garden variety Republican and you’d get the same defunding, same deregulation and same enshittification as him, just more subtle.
Come back when he’s killed a million Iraqi civilians over fictional WMDs or getting several million people addicted then dead over opioids by deregulating prescription.
He didn’t commit war crimes in Vietnam, spill over to Laos and Cambodia. Come back when he pardons the perpetrators of My Lai. Come back when he interns Japanese and nukes civilians. Come back when he Manifests Destiny.
Top 5 my ass
Imagining a Star Wars style situation where she gets her apprentice to do the assassing but the apprentice hires a bounty hunter and the bounty hunter hires an assassin and the assassin uses a robot who uses some venomous bugs
Taiwan and Palestine flag
??? Have you met the average Taiwanese?
Both leading political parties are pro Israel, as have the last half dozen presidents.
Don’t get me started on the average Ukrainian.
69% of Ukrainians side with Israel, 1% with Palestine and 30% both or neither)
This is a win for brain worms in every still body of water in the US.
Parasite finds host, alters host behaviour
Host seeks positions of power and influence urging other potential hosts to embrace risky behaviours to the benefit of brain worms
Host successfully gains power <-You are here
Host mandates stale pond water for all citizens
Flawless brain worm victory.
See, poor student drowning in debt? These people are having a mediocre vacation! Don’t look up how much money the publishing companies make btw
Images of a modest middle class vacation
FBI: this should make you feel bad, that modest middle class vacation is at the cost of the publishing company CEO’s second yacht being smaller than he promised his children. It doesn’t even have a helipad!
I think comparing Chinese EVs to shitware like Temu is wrong and potentially harmful.
The PRC can pump out EVs more efficiently in the same way TSMC can pump out chips efficiently. Yes there are government subsidies, but that’s not the main reason why they’re so cheap
China has lithium: China has lithium within its borders, and has the 3rd largest reserves in the world. Unlike Tesla or European manufacturers which needs to import lithium, China can source it locally, drastically reducing the cost. In recent years, due to demand, technology involving the mining of lithium has increased significantly, further increasing output (and lowering price). Unlike Chile and Australia (other lithium rich countries), China has the capacity to mine it domestically at scale, making it extremely cheap.
China has domestic battery production: CATL is actually a world leading battery manufacturer and innovator. CATL, Samsung, LG, Panasonic and BYD account for 75% of all battery production on the planet. Even if a Chinese manufacturer is buying batteries from South Korea or Japan, the shipping costs is vastly reduced compared to shipping to Europe or the Americas.
China has pre-existing industry and economy of scale: I’m sure you may have noticed, but China has laid more railways than the rest of the world combined in the last decade and a half. Building trains, planes, space stations and cities requires steel, factories that pump out steel are located in China. You’re not starting from scratch, there are many, many, many factories that pump out quality steel for extremely low prices because the demand has been there for decades.
China has cheap labour: I’m not sure I have to explain this one
China has a domestic market: There are 1.4 billion people in China, even if 10% want to buy a car, that market is larger than entire nations.
China makes the machines that build the cars: A BMW or Volkswagen factory will have robotics that assemble the arms. Those robots are either made in China fully or partially. That exact same machine, therefore, would be cheaper to acquire within China, and would be cheaper and quicker to repair if it breaks down because the factory that makes the machines is also in China. And as demand grows, guess what? The machines that make the machines that build the cares are also in China. The machine that builds robot arms that attach car doors to the frame is already in China.
Each of these factors (and I’m sure more that I’ve forgotten) has a ripple effect is the main reason why Chinese EVs are so cheap, government subsidies are only partial.
The joke is that a clueless American signed up for the wrong IRA but end up agreeing with the anti-British rhetoric
Man I hate what EA did to the PvZ franchise after the initial success. Such potential
Cucumbers aren’t native to England. They’re not even native to Europe.
The English, get this, incorporated the exciting new vegetable into their diet after being introduced by Indians, and ignored whiny people telling the world “cucumbers aren’t English” until they died out and we’re forgotten by history. Imagine the 17th century version of yourself saying they’ll burn down any teahouse that sells the exotic Indian “cucumber” because it’s not English?
You can’t expand your culture if you never try to expand it and “burn down” any change.
Imagine the bellend in 1650 that went “oh tea? I don’t touch that Chinese stuff, never tried it and never will, and I’ll burn down any establishment that sells it”
A 3 hour tour!
If Mongolians complained that Olympic archery is rigged because it doesn’t take place against moving targets from horseback, that would be a more serious grievance than “guns woke”.
The bus and metro passes are literally transferrable because they’re just a token not tied to any ID. Also they accept cash, and you can buy passes at a kiosk.
I have personally even purchased a metro ticket for another person because we were going somewhere together and they left theirs at home. Within the last 2 weeks.
You have been lied to. There are no WMDs in Iraq, MSG isn’t toxic, and Napoleon wasn’t short either, if you just blatantly swallow everything you see.