Hell I don't think most unpolitical people think there is a special relationship, it's like a brainworm infecting uk governments exclusively
I thought Home building standards in Japan are also, just seen on a technical level, fairly bad because it's common to just bulldoze and rebuild? Excluding something like earth quake resistance
It's like they're just openly admitting "if you do business with China you're with the enemy" now.
I don't think they've been very subtle about that one even before this
Can't decide whether the hypothetical oath or the hipocritical oath would be the better fit here
Yeah it does, evidently.
The thing is that criminal head of state has been the go to to paint other countries in a negative light for ages. If an important person gets convicted of anything it obviously means that country and their system is shit, because otherwise criminals wouldn't hold offices.
Well, the guy won the vote and I don't think it's in the power or mission statement of that court to change any of that, hence the only other option is to give him special privileges as to not be punished.
It's something between Asian Peril and McCarthyism where communist china is trying to take over the world to make you share toothbrushes honestly. I don't think the US needs much of a propaganda reasoning to act against China at this point
I swear to god if I see one more post about how annexing greenland would be sooooooooo stupid because then their democratic representatives would all vote for the socialized healthcare and leftist policies they're used to since they're part of Denmark I'm going to become the fucking joker. The layers on it!
being immediatly visited by the feds because your chinese made gpu doesn't have a backdoor (for them) and the NSA Panopticon throws up an error
God I hate that this sounds like the most crank shit imaginable and yet it's still not
why would this need a besides? or do you mean what's the propaganda reasoning?
I honestly think this is less, albeit obviously not-not, mysoginist against women and more racist against asians. I mean they are soldiers of, if you're a chud, an enemy nation. I think every patriot fantasizes about their cool based epic soldiers killing the soy beta enemy soldiers and you see this exact thing of the slack jawed yokel still being superior crop up with male soldiers of other nations, too.
I also think if that were to play out in real life we'd get sort of like the early days of the Ukraine invasion by Russia again where somehow everybody is surprised that the enemy nation reads US doctrine and acts accordingly. Like the shock about how russia has good air defense, except for something else.
Seriously once the "old" TVs I have break the replacement is going to be big monitor because all I need this to do is display content from devices I plug into it and nothing else
New and wired: Using "dutch courage" to being overly optimistic about what you can carry on a bicycle and then just doing it
Frame made out of bamboo, pictured here is a My Boo that touts a partnership with a fair trade social program in Ghana to make the frames.
It's supposed to be more ecological, for obvious reasons. Weight on one is about 15kg, which is pretty good for a kitted out city bike.
I can't speak to longevity of this and whether it actually pans out vs. say, a steel bike that you keep welding back together, on account of these haven't really been around too long. It's held together via a composite glue made out of hemp and resin, so at least they're following through here I suppose.
Reviews I've read is that the ride quality is really nice, being stiff yet compliant in the ride cases as to not make it a boneshaker.
Price of these is, obviously, fairly high, these'd run you around 3000€ euros, I'd argue a comparable bike made out of traditional materials would run you maybe 800€ new. But I'd argue it's more a proof of concept.
I also sell to individual customers but you're gonna either have to be a pretty good runner to keep up or rather more dexterious so you can cycle next to me. Close passing cars and bike lane parkers get a nice squirt of mustard on the roof
Pictured here is the new spacecamper, usually a business for converting vans and such into campers, for cargo bikes.
I'm kind of undecided on this. It feels very convenient, unless you have an ultralight tent the weight of your bike, and your supplies and the tent and the bags and whatnot seems sort of the same as this stuff.
What do we think about the concept? Cool idea to incorporate your bicycle into your sleeping arrangement for trips or dumb playtoy?
Pictured here is a Van Raam, who make some other bicycles for people with disabilities, but they're hardly the only one. I think it's cool people are doing things like this. They are, sadly, rather pricey.
You get a nice box in the back or whatever but it's not really THAT much bigger than a box you could fit on any old regular bicycle
You can plop like two children there but then you can do that with Long Johns and 3-wheelers and such, too and ALSO you have the fuckoff-big box. They don't really seem all that shorter than comparable versions either.
Anyone got one or know why someone got one?
Well the knife part would be bad were I a monarch but otherwise I think the only reason I'd instate a eunuch council would be to bounce ideas back and forth with people who disagree with me. If I wanted a bunch of yes-people who agree and praise my every thought I'd get a harem.