America had effective mass surveillance before China, as far back as the 60, and the US government was spying on all backbone data before China even had the Great Firewall, we’ve been imprisoning/murdering people for thoughtcrimes for a century, look into the history of literally any leftist movement in the US.
Which policies are you talking about?
Just bought a bike from a Vietnamese dude here in Vietnam and Holy shit who the fuck thought it was a good idea to put steel Philipshead screws into soft aluminum.
Unrelated, but making both metric and imperial hex was a mistake.
Edit: Turns out everyone in vietnam intentionally replaces JIS with philipshead because its easier to find.
Not Hex, I’ve stripped those a few times.
Why is everyone slandering my favorite cities? Medellin has neighborhoods served by mass transit cable cars!
No, sorry. There’s listicle articles you can google, or if there’s an equatorial region with mountains, any city or town above a certain altitude is going to have little variation. Weatherspark.com can help investigate.
No, no its not. Its extremely weird and offputting to immediately declare how much you hate 1 particular government, especially in the context of someone telling you a positive thing about various places they’ve been to. Maybe touch grass.
Also Kunming is in China (fuck the CCP)
We are discussing the weather. Be normal.
Let me tell you about these magical lands called “equatorial mountain” climates.
See, you go to a place that’s hot year round, then go 1-2km directly upwards, and you get 365 days of spring weather, only variation being how much precipitation you get.
Bogota, Medellin, Da Lat, Kunming, all amazing weather year round. They also tend to have tons of edible mushrooms.
There is a really jarring sensation when you go from wet, cold, and cloudy to hot, dry, and sunny by taking a 5 minute bike ride down into a valley, like you just rode into another world.
Its probably really useful in places where theres no fiber for 100s of km, like Tibet, Xinjiang, and America.
Does not needing as many boosters make the cable cheaper to maintain to justify using it for all future expansion?
Chill.
I wasn’t disagreeing with you, this was a response to “Whats your big plan to win any election ever again without them?”, the answer is that they don’t have a big plan beyond “ratfuck progressives>do poorly in the general>occasionally win after the republicans get their way>ratfuck progressives”. They are OK with losing to republicans, hence all the deeply unpopular shit they did in 2024
They genuinely would prefer to lose to a republican than let a socialist win, because a republican isn’t going to fuck up the bag for them.
The JP-only PS5 model is 350USD new, the non-digital international one is 650. I kinda wonder if Sony is fine with losing the people who aren’t basically captive if it means they can milk the ones who are going to buy no matter what due to price insensitivity.
~10% of consumers represent 50% of consumer spending, and as this increases, business models that fleece the wealthy and completely exclude the poor become more competitive while spending money developing a product most people want and can afford less, as “most people” can afford much less than the top end.
Automated systems to fine people for illegal parking and other driving infractions have been in the US and much of the west for decades. Also automated systems for scammers to send you fake tickets demanding you pay money because some police database must have been hacked.