Filtering, let alone splitting is actually illegal in a bunch of states. Which is awful because it forces bikes to stay in the blob of drivers who you’re basically invisible to.

lol that happened to me on a motorbike, except I swerved, avoided them, but still ate shit. Assume everyone else on the road are idiots or you will get hurt.

Taiwan’s official name, that their government calls itself, is “the republic of china”, “china” covers both places just fine.

That’s what they said

TikTok IS spying on you.

1. No more so than any other social media app, and as someone who lived in America at the time, China having my data was far less threatening than America having my data.

2. Tiktok duplicated their server infrastructure just for America so no American data would leave the country.

3. See the thing about boosting what the state department wanted boosted and censoring what they told them to censo. Tiktok isn’t Chinese propaganda, it’s American propaganda.

But it’s true that the evil CCP is no longer communist: just totalitarian crony capitalist.

The CPC’s tendency to favor the working class over capital suggests otherwise; they’ve raised a billion people out of poverty, while India is a net exporter of food but still has children dying of hunger-related diseases. When a baby formula factory in China killed or sickened a dozen babies due to greed and gross negligence, they took the executives out back and shot them, and opened the market up to foreign imports. When the same thing happened in the US, nobody went to jail and the US didn’t even approve EU imports of formula because that would hurt the profits of the company that had just murdered literal babies.

I would never call China a utopia, but you have to actually understand a thing if you want to make meaningful criticisms of it.

Romanians can afford expensive bikes?

Alright, that’s a start, but maybe we workshop the name a bit.

What even happens to nice bikes that are stolen? They certainly don’t show up on the second-hand market for cheap.

This is the natural progression.

They started hiring a bunch of natsec ghouls when Trump tried to ban them in 2020, and increased it under Biden when the dems jumped on the “tiktik is spying on you! Evil CCP is turning the youth into communists!” Bandwagon, and started algo boosting right-wing content under Trump pt II.

196 is that way.

steaming hot cups of milk and sugar without any bitter, nasty coffee

OK, but what about the opposite, like a shot of coldbrew coffee, served almost frozen, with 300 mg of powdered caffeine?

So you need all the parm to soak up the butter.

Are you being intentionally obtuse?

So communal baths are right out?

Between high rent and low wages, 99% of americans do not and could never have the funds to go 4 years without income. Are you really that disconnected?

China had a serious problem with cults, while Japan and Korea are heavily influenced by America, I don’t see that reflected in their cults.

Its not like the UK is less influenced by America than places were the average person has seen like 1 American TV show or movie.

So your take is that only wealthy people should reproduce?

All the highschoolers are at school, the people left over are expensive.

I mean we did it to build the hoover dam. The legal mechanisms to do so still exist. The political will doesn’t because mass transit is bad for oil and car manufacturers.