Eight One, the First of August.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Day
It's the founding of the People's Liberation Army, anniversary of the Communists' first armed conflict against Nationalist forces in 1927
Just the LED headlights
What about the rest of the car? Terrible invention. Ruins planets.
One singular time. That's how often I've seen a restaurant have both Alioli (Spanish, vegan) and Aioli (French, not vegan), and the pretentious font and italics the menu used made it difficult to see, and 98% of people would have assumed it was a typo anyway.
I personally blame the French for adding eggs to Spanish alioli and taking out the first L.
Hey Soul Sister by Train
Absolute dogshit
Headlines from a Stavros Halkias X PAYDAY: The Heist crossover promotion.
Trump's not even bad by republican standards, he's just vulgar and baffoonish. Replace him with Jeb! or Ron DeSantis or your garden variety Republican and you'd get the same defunding, same deregulation and same enshittification as him, just more subtle.
Come back when he's killed a million Iraqi civilians over fictional WMDs or getting several million people addicted then dead over opioids by deregulating prescription.
He didn't commit war crimes in Vietnam, spill over to Laos and Cambodia. Come back when he pardons the perpetrators of My Lai. Come back when he interns Japanese and nukes civilians. Come back when he Manifests Destiny.
Top 5 my ass
Chefs no less.
You think these "journalists" at the Economist work as hard in their entire careers as a chef does over a busy weekend?
Imagining a Star Wars style situation where she gets her apprentice to do the assassing but the apprentice hires a bounty hunter and the bounty hunter hires an assassin and the assassin uses a robot who uses some venomous bugs
How good is Lemmy dealing with censorship and why does the sign-up process on lemmy.ml involve having to copy a sentence from "The Principles of Communism"?
Taiwan and Palestine flag
??? Have you met the average Taiwanese?
Both leading political parties are pro Israel, as have the last half dozen presidents.
Don't get me started on the average Ukrainian.
69% of Ukrainians side with Israel, 1% with Palestine and 30% both or neither)
Of course he likes newly invented words, the guy is into lolicon. The younger the better for paedofascist powerhouse, V*ushV.
Its about absorbing progressive momentum then dispersing it so the rich won't get taxed and/or have to pay fair wages.
Occupy Wall St. would have been bad for rich people if that movement was associated with a competent political party, so Dems took to it to do nothing.
See, poor student drowning in debt? These people are having a mediocre vacation! Don't look up how much money the publishing companies make btw
Images of a modest middle class vacation
FBI: this should make you feel bad, that modest middle class vacation is at the cost of the publishing company CEO's second yacht being smaller than he promised his children. It doesn't even have a helipad!
I think comparing Chinese EVs to shitware like Temu is wrong and potentially harmful.
The PRC can pump out EVs more efficiently in the same way TSMC can pump out chips efficiently. Yes there are government subsidies, but that's not the main reason why they're so cheap
China has lithium: China has lithium within its borders, and has the 3rd largest reserves in the world. Unlike Tesla or European manufacturers which needs to import lithium, China can source it locally, drastically reducing the cost. In recent years, due to demand, technology involving the mining of lithium has increased significantly, further increasing output (and lowering price). Unlike Chile and Australia (other lithium rich countries), China has the capacity to mine it domestically at scale, making it extremely cheap.
China has domestic battery production: CATL is actually a world leading battery manufacturer and innovator. CATL, Samsung, LG, Panasonic and BYD account for 75% of all battery production on the planet. Even if a Chinese manufacturer is buying batteries from South Korea or Japan, the shipping costs is vastly reduced compared to shipping to Europe or the Americas.
China has pre-existing industry and economy of scale: I'm sure you may have noticed, but China has laid more railways than the rest of the world combined in the last decade and a half. Building trains, planes, space stations and cities requires steel, factories that pump out steel are located in China. You're not starting from scratch, there are many, many, many factories that pump out quality steel for extremely low prices because the demand has been there for decades.
China has cheap labour: I'm not sure I have to explain this one
China has a domestic market: There are 1.4 billion people in China, even if 10% want to buy a car, that market is larger than entire nations.
China makes the machines that build the cars: A BMW or Volkswagen factory will have robotics that assemble the arms. Those robots are either made in China fully or partially. That exact same machine, therefore, would be cheaper to acquire within China, and would be cheaper and quicker to repair if it breaks down because the factory that makes the machines is also in China. And as demand grows, guess what? The machines that make the machines that build the cares are also in China. The machine that builds robot arms that attach car doors to the frame is already in China.
Each of these factors (and I'm sure more that I've forgotten) has a ripple effect is the main reason why Chinese EVs are so cheap, government subsidies are only partial.
No but I'm pretty sure Anti-Feminism Australia is the account that unironically stans Nick Adams (Alpha Male) so it's real to them.
Hopefully they disengage from interacting with women for the rest of their lives with the belief that robot wives are just around the corner, it'll be a huge relief to the women in their lives.
Cucumbers aren't native to England. They're not even native to Europe.
The English, get this, incorporated the exciting new vegetable into their diet after being introduced by Indians, and ignored whiny people telling the world "cucumbers aren't English" until they died out and we're forgotten by history. Imagine the 17th century version of yourself saying they'll burn down any teahouse that sells the exotic Indian "cucumber" because it's not English?
You can't expand your culture if you never try to expand it and "burn down" any change.
Imagine the bellend in 1650 that went "oh tea? I don't touch that Chinese stuff, never tried it and never will, and I'll burn down any establishment that sells it"
Toddler teeth
Commiserating
Pringles aren't legally chips because they're made from mashed potato dough (as opposed to slices of potato), hence why marketing calls them crisps even in the US.
If Mongolians complained that Olympic archery is rigged because it doesn't take place against moving targets from horseback, that would be a more serious grievance than "guns woke".
So all of Greece's enemies?
"Our scouts reported that this Alexander ""the Great"" was seen kissing another man, and he has a weak navy, he will never conquer Tyre" - Phonecian commander, 340 BC
"We are the first Legion of Rome, this Pyrrhus and his army of homosexuals cannot defeat us" Roman commander, right before facing the undefeated Pyrrhus*
*Known for other works