Explains a lot if old testament god was on benzos.
Oh nah it's the 350ml or 500ml bottles, so not as good of a value, but I'm sure it tastes a lot better.
Closer to the panther, where they had this design for a pretty decent mass produced medium tank to counter the T-34-85, but hitler kept going "it needs more frontal armour like a heavy tank", completely missing the point of a medium and making it so heavy that costs ballooned and the poor drivetrain couldn't handle it.
Imagine not having a cost effective light tank couldn't be me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_15_tank
M10 Booker
This piece of shit weighs as much as a T-64 lmao
for reasons i can't put my finger on
Communists tend to have principles. We die on some really dumb hills sometimes, but liberals will concede on everything all the time.
I have to disagree here, I think for it to be analogous, there would need to be a specific focus on marijuana. China has a blanket disdain for drugs excepting alcohol and tobacco, and that's only because those were already deeply entrenched in society and it would have been counterproductive to restrict or ban them, though there are now restrictions on excessive drinking and smoking in shared spaces to curb the worst excesses.
I think perspective matters a lot here, because to Chinese people, it isn't just about weed being no more harmful than tobacco or something; this is something ingrained in the national consciousness, of drugs being foisted upon a people who didn't want it, and having irreparable damage done as a result. Lumping weed in the same vein as opium or meth might seem like an extreme overreaction to you, but it represents a "we're not taking any chances with this" mentality that derives from prior experience of having your society torn apart by them, perfectly rational in their experience.
This is one of those things where its not CPC boomers being out of touch and overreaching, this is something that the vast majority of people in China hold an opinion on and have presented the CPC with a mandate to do something about it.
That said, I do think at least laws on weed will be relaxed further as China becomes more secure in its position in the world, especially since there's precedent for its use in ancient China and its still regarded as having medicinal properties in TCM, its just judged that the risks are not worth it at this time, give it 20 years or something.
China doesn't care about reefer madness, they care about not giving foreign imperialists an avenue to destroy social cohesion by funding organized crime and getting people addicted. Obviously weed isn't that big of a deal vs harder stuff but they are not in a position to take that risk. The century of humiliation and the opium wars were not that long ago, I think it'll be a while before the prevailing view changes.
I'm going to translate your comment for my friend in Urumqi and ask her how she feels about being genocided by being fed charcoal grilled lamb skewers and being given a free apartment.
Purchasing power parity is imperfect but a step in the right direction, but direct metrics that aim to summarize all economic activity in a country generally don't capture much nuance.
Trying to separate non productive things like finance capital jerking itself off and productive things like tangible goods and services is hard since the line between useful service and frivolous bullshit can be quite thin. It might be better to try and compile multiple metrics into an index that measures things like per capita income, purchasing power, home ownership, access to healthcare, education, transportation etc. but that's a massive undertaking in it's own right.
https://www.fiio.com/btr15 yes sorta?
Its a bluetooth DAC with its own battery, but idk how convenient this is vs just a USB-C to 3.5mm dongle. There's other models and brands too varying from very cheap to extremely expensive (audiophile circlejerk material).
It helps that many European cities are not built around cars and have decent public transit. Where I am, if you don't have a car, you have to take 3 times as long to get anywhere, and if the transit system doesn't go there? Well hope you have 50 dollars for an uber. Shit sucks.
I saw a Zeekr 001 a couple months ago, probably the only one in the country. Not sure how they managed to get around the super strict import laws but where there's a will (and a shitload of 富二代 cash), there's a way.
I honestly feel that's a missed opportunity since dense European cities would be served extremely well by something like a Wuling Mini EV or BYD dolphin. Just a nice compact car for around town, easy to park, fits narrow streets, very affordable. I guess the idea is to enter the market in such a way as to enhance their reputation with luxury or premium models first, before introducing the VW Golfs of EVs.
That's why they're putting 100% tarriffs or outright banning them.
The tarriffs won't stop them though, a $20k BYD EV still outclasses $40k american EVs.
Me to other Communists: Stalin was a complex character who did make mistakes, went too hard on some stuff and not hard enough on others, but overall was a force for good, and I can never fault him for leading the USSR in defeating the Nazis.
Me to libs: You will not talk badly about uncle Joe Steel, ender of the holocaust, killer of fascists, beacon of hope to the global south.
I would like more people to become socialist, but I feel not condemning Stalin doesn't help the cause.
Constantly repudiating historical socialists for being the wrong type of socialist hurts the cause far more, and is exactly what the feds want you to do.
Yes lmao, if they didn't ignore the minsk agreements and do a coup (maidan) to install a CIA handpicked government, this would not have happened.
Real revolutionary socialist states: "evil authoritarian red fash, why can't you be instantly perfect utopias?!!!?"
Failed revolutions: pure, good, unburdened by reality and the fact that every capitalist state wants you dead, totally would have established a worker's utopia in a week if it succeeded, despite being besieged on all sides.