Unless you introduce another vehicle class that doesn't require the same comprehensive crash tests as a regular car. In China bicycles were the number one means of transport until like 20 years ago, so there were bike lanes in abundance, that have then been converted to e-bike lanes, usually with a divider to both the main road and sidewalk. Opening those up for those small cars was easy enough, so traffic flows pretty neatly. That is, totally chaotic, but without different vehicle types obstructing one another unless for major intersections.
Without censorship tools this place would be riddled with spam, porn, and disinformation bots, just like reddit at its peak.
What moderators use those tools for, is in their hands. If you don't like how certain instances or communities handle them, you can just start your own with minimal effort, that's the beauty of the fediverse.
I've been living in China for 7 years and am currently here for the New Year celebrations, and yeah those things are everywhere and they are quite versatile. Best thing is, if they block the road you can push it away single handedly, or even carry it over obstacles with 2-3 people.
They are roadworthy, but wouldn't ever survive an actual crash; but that's not what they are meant for. With top speeds of maybe 35 kmh (22 mph) they are really just intended for short commutes, and may even drive in bike lanes. So there's next to no risk of them getting involved into anything serious.
LOL. Next they start burning books?
Has there been any conclusive evidence on the allegations against Gaiman? I've not really followed the case since it first came up, but a quick google search didn't really yield any updates.
This fucking clown is going to push the whole world into a new recession.
Sure, just give your data to China and get their ads, who cares.
Oh we lived in Suzhou, so not close to Wuhan at all. Just traveling to the village over CNY, year round nobody really lives here.
Covid was still terrible, Suzhou had the strictest measures in all China since they are a hotbed of the medical industry and absolutely wanted to avoid any slowdowns, so we spent a collective total of 3 months in home isolation, experienced food shortages, had alarms taped to our doors that would trigger text messages to the nearest police station if we opened it outside of mandatory testing windows, the whole nine yards. That's also mostly what motivated us to gtfo, made us realize we live there like cattle without free will or rights.
In Malaysia we live in Seremban, capital city of the neighboring state to KL, and actually closer to KL airport since that's so far out of town. I need to travel quite a bit for work, so that comes in handy.
Not walkable either, so had to get a car first thing after arriving; relying on grab was a bit cumbersome. Now I work from home 99% of the time when I'm not visiting suppliers. We have a small representative office in KL that acts as my formal employer, but I'm functionally fully attached to the Chinese/HK company. Thanks to covid we had missed some mandatory supplier audits, and ultimately decided that to counter this in the future, someone qualified/certified needs to live in a third country jurisdiction, and I was the lucky choice.
I'm saying fair wages and no tips would benefit everybody.
I did, it's amazing. Also just replayed HL2 with some fancy graphics mod, pretty cool stuff.
So he admitted to anything? That's the kind of update I was looking for, what I saw were just the allegations without any follow-up.