quoll

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[–] quoll 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

bit of a tangent... but if you are travelling japan, it's a great place to get glasses. super cheap, great customer service, free eye test, wide range.

in the past ive got my basic glasses in a couple hours at jins for well under $100.

on last trip i got multi-focals (love them) for ~$170 at megane ichiba, took about a week, but was over the nye break.

[–] quoll 1 points 1 month ago (8 children)

because it was cheaper labor

at some point, eventually, maybe... american's will come to realise chinas economic growth and domination of manufacturing and technology is built on a far more sophisticated suite of policies (good and bad) then they have been brainwashed into believing.

huawei isn't huawei bc they pay their employees less.

you should jump on a plane and check it out, genuinely fun country to travel in and you will learn a lot.

no im not a tankie, taiwan fucking rocks.

[–] quoll 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

mouse sized woolly mammoth would be pretty fucking cool.

imagine the sound when he toots his little trunk.

could store him in the fridge.

[–] quoll 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

good

i kinda wonder if this is motivated as a non tariff trade barrier to chinese cars designed for the china market which loves apps, touch screens and karaoke in your car 🤔

[–] quoll 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

my suburb is build on old light industrial area. close to everything, great transport and bike paths.

the main problem we have is land banking property developers just sit on land and wait for its value to go up so they can flip and make bank for doing nothing. also what gets built is to maximise profits not provide appropriate housing for all, so we get a lot of "executive suites" with italian tiles, european appliance and other wank shit that's only there to drive up the price.

the answer as always is good quality public housing available to all (see vienna and singapore).

[–] quoll 11 points 1 month ago

good bots wear their seat belt 👍

[–] quoll 7 points 2 months ago

counter argument: taco rice and spam isn't actually healthy, but lying about obachan being dead so you can keep pocketing her pension means you can buy more chu-hai.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/530073/scientist-snares-ig-noble-gong-for-work-debunking-blue-zones

[–] quoll 27 points 2 months ago

and nothing of value was lost

[–] quoll -3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

or we could not sacrifice our very limited green space to property developers overlords?!

i'm not saying don't use green space better.. but keep it green.

ps: i live in a very high density area and love it... but build up not out.

[–] quoll 2 points 2 months ago

you should visit honkers

[–] quoll 3 points 2 months ago

noice, i didnt know ross had his own site.

[–] quoll 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

step one should be a change of leadership.

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