Most Chinese cities have extremely high registration fees which make car ownership impractical for most people. They also have great public transportation which tilts the calculus towards not needing a car if affordability is even remotely a concern.
And it was all consensual
LeWrongGeneration
You have to keep in mind that power tool batteries are kind of the worst case scenario when it comes to lithium battery safety because they get knocked around, shoved into tool boxes, crushed, etc. of all the consumer products most at risk of fire, tool batteries are up there. That’s part of the reason they are so expensive. At the same time, knock off 18650 cells are generally well known fire hazards on their own.
I think it’s up to you what your risk tolerances are, but if a DeWalt battery burns my house down, at least you have a company to sue. If the Temu battery does the same thing, you are going to be SoL. I’ve been building and repairing various kinds of packs for more than a decade and am quite wary of random bootleg cells. I’ve never had a real Panasonic or Samsung cell fail, only knockoffs.
https://www.politico.com/news-tips
I know Lemmy hates traditional media, but it’s still the best way to handle something like this. A book or video by a no name random person is easy to ignore. Real investigative journalists both know how to protect sources and create visibility.
Thats the Hollywood version of a dirty bomb, but there are much “better” ways to use radiological sources for a terrorist attack than just launching some uranium dust around, like contaminating water and food supply chains with certain radioisotopes known to bioaccumulate. Certainly an explosion could be part of this, but it would be arguably more effective to contaminate a reservoir or farm quietly so there would be a delay in detection and mitigation efforts.
Minnesota Nazis!
Obvious troll is obvious
Once you get the script it honestly gets even more Kafkaesque. You can only fill the prescription every 28 days, which virtually guarantees that you will slowly lose a day or two every month just because everything doesn’t align properly between your appointments, the pharmacy filling the script, and you picking it up. Be the timer actually starts when you pick it up. God forbid you are out of town the week you need to refill, because it means you are just going to be down a whole week of meds.
Oh, we’re still talking about this?
This is getting too close to denying women agency for my liking.
Right, I was talking about the .ml goons.
It has always fascinated me how a bunch of people who have never been to China, and who don’t speak the language have such confident opinions about Chinese politics. It’s the exact same racist paternalism they constantly accuse liberals of, but with a triple dose of fart huffing.
It’s not just a binary. It’s a BLOB!
Then work harder to make sure Trump becomes nothing more than a cautionary tale.
This. Fuck man this world is so spoiled by a long peace that people don’t fucking understand the stakes anymore.
Apparently we are rapidly approaching another period of time where just nicely begging people to take this shit seriously isn’t enough and we are going to have to kill a hundred million people or so for another generation can learn this same fucking lesson we’ve been repeating for some 40,000 years.
But no, Love Island is on, so feel free to ignore the incipient fascism bearing down on you and condemn your children to a world where that won’t be possible.
Everything is politics. The moment you think otherwise you become part of the problem.
Get into the emotional state while you are writing, and get your crying out then. The trick to public speaking is always the same - practice enough that it gets boring. Also, if you cry in the middle of it that’s fine too, because shit is sad, and nobody is going to hold it against you.
After taxes that’s like 300k salary.