Would be more useful than what it actually contains.

China is one of the oldest civilisations and has so much history and culture to offer. You can be born and raised in China and still not have seen it all.

Which is particularly ironic when they go HURR DURR .ml HURR DURR TANKIE AUTHORITARIAN HURR DURR OPPOSING OPINIONS NOT ALLOWED.

Other than the tankie part what do you do differently?

Those “rent a e-bike/scooter for your commute” apps. Doesn’t take that many rides to exceed the cost of getting your own. If you find yourself using those regularly just save up to buy an e-bike/scooter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E

Seriously, everyone NEEDS to get a fire extinguisher for the kitchen. And keep it up to date. We’ve collectively forgotten just how deadly fires are, if someone in the middle ages found out we had the technology to almost instantly put out a decently sized fire and most people just, like, don’t bother to have it in their homes, they’d lose their minds.

Bro literally had a conversation with the soldier in the tank.

Neo implies the original version went out of fashion at some point.

Lol try actually advocating against him. They let you speak until the instant they think you might change something and have gotten really good at gauging that.

Shaped like a gumdrop

Is that a real thing? Like an onsite (let’s be real, workstation, not button) that can turn all the servers off? Not even the circuit breakers do that because there are redundant power sources.

Gonna assume it’s like the Mafia where you never truly “pay off” your debt even when the required amount of money is transferred.

I just use the web UI. It scales really well on mobile.

Do vegetables actually need to be refrigerated? Always wondered. Is it an actual safety thing or just a preserving flavour/texture thing?

Yeah, how amazing that I can see anti-US propaganda Lego movies whenever I want. That’s what will ignite the revolution that makes our lives better, really some serious dissent that can conceivably lead to real change here.

Shitposts and memes about dissent to satiate the mases while all the real political discourse by activists with any real chance of accomplishing anything are censored and criminalised. Look at what happens to journalists objectively covering Iran, Israel, ICE, you name it. Look at how the protestors against oil pipelines or police racial violence are treated. So much freedom of speech for those people.

China and Russia haven’t been “communist” since… Well, forever

Technically correct because they are and were socialist respectively. “Communism” as a system is the endgame of socialism, characterised by dissolution of the State, and unfortunately has not yet been realised. Kind of like truely pure functional programming on our current stateful computer architectures.

So it’s particularly ironic when Israeli “communes” exist under the protection and apartheid enforcement of the checks notes STATE of Israel.

because they don’t have political freedom. there’s no stuff like “you can speak your mind as long as you’re respectful”

And the West definitely, absolutely has that

Hey remember when they accuse Hamas of this? They’re a terrorist group by their own criteria.

Eh, very little though. The components themselves are orders of magnitude more valuable but you have to know how to steal them to make money when even slight damage in a few spevcific places can make it nonfunctional.