CloutAtlas

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Possibly not "unsuitable" but they preferred being closer to running water but not too close as a convenience. And/or a trade/fishing thing, I know the Yellow and the Yangtze are both huge sources of food and trade, not sure about Wangxian

Sort of a "this is going to be annoying to build in the moment but will be beneficial in the long term" sort of thing.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's like one of the older Sims games where if you get a character with certain traits (I think introverted and artist?) you can build them an attic with a fridge, a bookshelf, a bathroom, a bed and unlimited art supplies and they will willingly spend their entire life up there churning out art when they're working and reading when they're not.

Not only are they happy being relegated to a specific part of the house forever, they generate enough to fund the whole entire household.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The little child proof fence in the foreground implies Hasan is in a toddler pen (and not that there's a different toddler in the house)

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's a really good documentary made by a Japanese filmmaker about some of the poorest parts of China and the government's poverty alleviation schemes here

One of the Yi villages in Sichuan is located 1400m above sea level (the capital of Sichuan, Chengdu is 500m, for reference). The cliff side villagers used to have to climb almost 800m of cliffs to go back home if they decide to come down from the mountain, before the government funded stairs so the way up and down is now "only" a 3km stairway where you ascend 800 meters.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not sure about this place specifically, but before we went and built dams, a lot of these river valleys would flood seasonally. I'd wager the buildings closer to the river are newer than those further away.

Hell, my hometown of Wuhan still floods occasionally and that's post Three Gorges upstream

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

The biggest problem him before was taxes and the threat of Chinese EVs that perform better and cost half as much flooding the US market

The biggest problem for him now is the low taxes people trying to axe taxpayer funded subsidies for his dipshitmobiles and thinking EVs are woke.

The biggest threat to him in reality is mixing quaaludes and amphetamines to replace sleep so he can yell at Twitter engineers to make Grok talk about Rhodesia and Afrikaners at 3:30 AM

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's actually kinda wild how more people haven't paused to ask "hey how come this """car company""" that makes fewer than 2 million cars per year is worth more than the next 3 car companies combined, who together make almost 30 million cars a year?"

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Several billion dollars, from what I remember from the TrueAnon series on Tesla, the tax credits on EVs is basically the only thing keeping Tesla alive, they barely make a profit from selling cars, of which they make very few anyway. They do get tax credits which can then be sold which is worth a lot more. They can sell tax credits for cars "sold" but haven't delivered (pre-orders, essentially). The kicker is, even if the car is recalled or refunded, the tax credits they sold off for building an electric vehicle doesn't. They can build shitty and still make money.

The majority of Tesla's stock price is tied to the US government giving them free money for theoretical cars. Now it's so big, pension funds buy into Tesla

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think Interim Admin u/juanguaido69 has the right idea

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

What if we cast Pedro Pascal as Sidney Sweeney as Zelda?

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Big Juul has gotten to Macron

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

The fascists don't differentiate between anyone to the left of Joe McCarthy.

Obama is a communist. Biden is a communist. AOC is a communist. Clinton is a communist. 95% of them are politically illiterate or understand so little so as to be functionally politically illiterate, the 5% that know are grifters.

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