“You mess with Michael Bay and you mess with America. I want you guys out of my country by tomorrow morning.”

“But this is Japan!”

“Every country in the world belongs to America”

Brb, double clicking ‘Netscape Navigator’ to go on ‘Ask Jeeves’ to look up what this “PewDiePie” is

KIROV REPORTING

PC towers that light up like a warehouse rave. I don’t need to signal to Rohan that my house calls for aid. It’s why I’ve stuck with a Fractal Design for the past 7 years.

The fancy light bullshit should be add-ons for people who want it, not baked in for everyone who don’t. And you just know they’re slapping a 200% premium on those shitty lights into the cost of the tower.

And the “Room Temperature” room, which is located in Greendale.

Not if they’re foreign enough

I don’t trust the “benevolent superhero” trope because realistically, you may get some Batmen, you’d get twice as many Banes and then a statistically small but present number of Jokers. That’s not even accounting for a Freeze style situation where someone is committing crimes to fund a relatively justifiable cause and your Ivy’s who are doing a net positive for the world but the methods are technically illegal.

Headlines from a Stavros Halkias X PAYDAY: The Heist crossover promotion.

“stopantisemitism”

This group is so antisemitic they snubbed Norm Finkelstein. Surely the author(s) of this list should be on this list for such an antisemitic act.

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

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

Taiwan and Palestine flag

??? Have you met the average Taiwanese?

Israel came out on top, with 35.1 percent of respondents expressing sympathy; 14.8 percent sympathizing with Palestine; 9.8 percent sympathizing with neither; 6.8 percent sympathizing with both; and 33.6 percent expressing no opinion.

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)

This is a win for brain worms in every still body of water in the US.

1. Parasite finds host, alters host behaviour

2. Host seeks positions of power and influence urging other potential hosts to embrace risky behaviours to the benefit of brain worms

3. Host successfully gains power <-You are here

4. Host mandates stale pond water for all citizens

Flawless brain worm victory.

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.

The joke is that a clueless American signed up for the wrong IRA but end up agreeing with the anti-British rhetoric

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.

Man I hate what EA did to the PvZ franchise after the initial success. Such potential