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That hat. Why do they always wear weird hats?

Can we exert more influence over China if we work with them?

We thought the same thing back in the late 90s and early 00s. It didn't work out very well for us. It gave them the economic and technological means to surveil their people and build up their military, while we benefited from cheap goods, but at the cost of losing our manufacturing base and electing someone who probably has serious brain damage. Who will now run our country into the ground.

All in all, I expect serious damage to our country, and China to go after Taiwan with their considerable military to grind up their young men, who have no chance of ever having a family after the one child policy screwed up their gender balance so badly.

If you have to hitch yourselves to another state, I recommend Europe over China.

Yeah, no. You're a crazy son of a bitch if you think I'm going to put touchscreens on my oven, washing machine, microwave etc. I learned my lesson from cars taking away all physical buttons, which fucking sucks.

My hands are usually wet and covered in soap or grease in various environments. I'm not going to constantly be cleaning touchscreens with gentle cleansers, troubleshooting whatever "error 503" is on my washer, or compromising my home network with security intrusions beyond what is already necessary.

Also, fuck Samsung appliances.

Honestly, we just have to speedrun vehicles that are so insanely large and so expensive that they physically cannot fit into most American cities/streets/parking garages.

Looking forward to our inevitable evolution towards eKei cars and ebikes, heheh.

That's why ebikes are considered better than analog bikes by some metrics. Outside of electrified trains, there's pretty much nothing as efficient as an ebike for distance /calories burned + electricity usage (minimal, compared to EVs)

https://youtu.be/HW5b8_KBtT8

Can you imagine actively sabotaging your company, putting it in severe financial distress, then telling your boss that you aren't supposed to take meetings with them because your coworkers told you that there could be "disagreement"?

Because this is actively what he's doing, lol.

Perhaps he should grow a pair listen to his constituents. And then grow a fucking spine so he can stand up to this horseshit.

Anyone that doesn't should be voted out next election. We don't have time for this nonsense with the stakes so high.

Might want to find a different EU brand, Tony's sweets aren't just sweet from sugar. They're really high in lead. :P

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/

That's exactly what DOGE is doing.

The children of the sky by vernor vinge. It's the second book in an intriguing sci-fi series combining a high fantasy future with medieval society. Some things are uncomfortably close to today's news despite being written decades ago.

That's literally what some companies are doing, to let consumers know that they aren't price gouging them, and that it's that dumbfuck's fault.

You guys gotta be more like America on the bike lanes one.

Just have crippling, insane traffic, where it takes you three hours to move five (5) city blocks (this has actually happened to me).

Suddenly, a new bike lane gets you across the city in 26 minutes.

It made the bike lanes very popular, haha.