Wahots

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[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 1 hour ago

Can we exert more influence over China if we work with them?

We thought the same thing back in the late 90s and early 00s. It didn't work out very well for us. It gave them the economic and technological means to surveil their people and build up their military, while we benefited from cheap goods, but at the cost of losing our manufacturing base and electing someone who probably has serious brain damage. Who will now run our country into the ground.

All in all, I expect serious damage to our country, and China to go after Taiwan with their considerable military to grind up their young men, who have no chance of ever having a family after the one child policy screwed up their gender balance so badly.

If you have to hitch yourselves to another state, I recommend Europe over China.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 2 hours ago

Honestly, we just have to speedrun vehicles that are so insanely large and so expensive that they physically cannot fit into most American cities/streets/parking garages.

Looking forward to our inevitable evolution towards eKei cars and ebikes, heheh.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 2 hours ago

That's why ebikes are considered better than analog bikes by some metrics. Outside of electrified trains, there's pretty much nothing as efficient as an ebike for distance /calories burned + electricity usage (minimal, compared to EVs)

https://youtu.be/HW5b8_KBtT8

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 2 hours ago

This is why I started ebiking. I'm usually going up steep hills, or hauling groceries or other stuff. Having an ebike totally changed the math on whether I need to actually drive or not.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Whole generations of young people, and older people just retiring now. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, it's usually very interesting when historic leaders have pissed off massive amounts of their constituents.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 9 hours ago

Can you imagine actively sabotaging your company, putting it in severe financial distress, then telling your boss that you aren't supposed to take meetings with them because your coworkers told you that there could be "disagreement"?

Because this is actively what he's doing, lol.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 10 points 9 hours ago

Perhaps he should grow a pair listen to his constituents. And then grow a fucking spine so he can stand up to this horseshit.

Anyone that doesn't should be voted out next election. We don't have time for this nonsense with the stakes so high.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 4 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

Might want to find a different EU brand, Tony's sweets aren't just sweet from sugar. They're really high in lead. :P

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 23 hours ago

That's exactly what DOGE is doing.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago

That's literally what some companies are doing, to let consumers know that they aren't price gouging them, and that it's that dumbfuck's fault.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You guys gotta be more like America on the bike lanes one.

Just have crippling, insane traffic, where it takes you three hours to move five (5) city blocks (this has actually happened to me).

Suddenly, a new bike lane gets you across the city in 26 minutes.

It made the bike lanes very popular, haha.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hate cars, but we've also allowed people to build developments in absolutely idiotic places that either need cars, or perhaps private bus systems. All because some idiot developer built a ton of grey, prefabbed houses 30+ miles away from the city in the middle of (what used to be) untouched forest.

 

These tortoises can live till 200, and it's not uncommon for them to have children at such an age, even in the wild. Their numbers are growing! :)

 

Tonight, I attended a talk on neuroscience and brain research, and there were a lot of interesting links between memories, behavior, and mental health. So I'm doing my own little version of that in this thread. What song do you associate with happy memories, even if it's just a general feeling of happiness? Can you recall one of your oldest ones?

Go your own way, by Fleetwood Mac makes me think of fun car trips with my parents, roughly around 6-8 years old. Nothing terribly specific, though I do associate it closely with one of the city highway on ramps used to go visit relatives, go skiing, or get to the airport. :)

 

The two didn't believe the officers when they were informed that they were wildlife officers and bragged and their illegal hunts, their uncle's illegal hunts, and showed officers an illegal turtle skeleton they had in their bag.

 

We were on Haz 7 on Fori Prime last night, and we easily killed well in excess of 300-600 bugs per diver, multiple bile titans, half a dozen+ chargers, etc.

They just never stopped spawning. We leveled half the city with strategems, arc throwers and flamethrowers and they just kept coming as if the spawners were broken. Are these levels OP for anyone else?

I've played for 160 hours and have never seen anything like this before.

 

Luckily, they are delicious and almost free.

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