ive always appreciated the canadians since they had a crack smoking mayor and everyone was like "so what? a man needs hobbies outside of work"

TIL that Indonesia has glaciers of "eternal snow" - but they're shrinking. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

is everything ok in Daily Mail land? apparently making an EV makes you WOKE

What can the Chinese steal from the UK? Railway knowledge? ship building? Infrastructure? If they stole British IP, they'd be set back decades.

Good news

dark days for Italian design after the ferrari and the lancia

nobody is buying this in China because it looks like a low speed electric vehicle and you can buy a luxury performance barge with 1000bhp from a dozen domestic manufacturers already

posted some content Jiande area to my tiktok, content did 100k views in a couple of hours, lady sends me a message saying I can have the keys to her house as long as i post more content from the area

i cant wait for the low speed electric variant for 3k USD from a chinese factory

crazy how the apple design theory works great on thousand dollar consumer goods but the aesthetic doesn't scale well to half a million dollar car

you know what? everyone said it was over for american consumer tech but the GoPro Mission series actually looks good

special dislike for jounos that ask for comment late after biz hours on a friday night then run the line "did not respond to request for comment" the next morning

I kinda prefer the Chinese version of open very early to very late and you can buy unlimited amounts of booze + fags at any time suitable to your own purposes

just finished the paper work on this Geely Galaxy M9 210km in EV mode 1.5T + tri motors six seats air suspension AWD etc etc sub 200k after corporate discounts (i can still use them!) kicked in

kid just called me uncle and asked if i was Pakistani

i like the styling but i cant but feel like the Beijing BJ40 reev beat them to the punch here

Fisker was killed off by less, will Lucid make it? youtu.be/wrz1LXNm9cI?...

cheap energy is the front runner of prosperity, this is a great move

geely auto will sell you an AWD PHEV sedan with 220km range for 129,800rmb aka 19k USD

Very bored reading about the 9th Dabung Infantry Regiment from the Tibetan Army that stood from the 1700s to 1970s, first as a Bow + Arrow regiment then later with modern weaponry within the PLA. Fighting Nepalese for the Qing Govt to siding with the PLA in the liberation of Tibet. Wild story.

Politicians endlessly blame immigration for their own failures. So, when immigration is reduced, their ‘success’ isn’t recognised. No one’s life has particularly improved. Because no one’s life was ever going to improve by reducing immigration. Because our problems were never caused by immigration.

total cringe when i offered a visibily pregnant lady a seat on the subway and she declined "im fat not pregnant"

crazy how stellantis has become a Magna overnight by shipping out spare capacity to the highest bidder

kinda crazy how many people give up data for convenience and safety

when competing with China is no longer a priority:

chinese kid coming out mtb'ing in a cold war era US army jacket he proudly got from a vintage store except the name tag is still saying jamal johnson

Wait, how comes Israel is allowed in the Eurovision thing?

chinese car design has really improved

yer man has saluted foreign troops, again

> fox driver parks illegally > heightened security due to VVIP visit > city enforces traffic law "this is communism"

is this an AI image because ive no idea what the proportions are

going through train station security yesterday when the butch tomboy looking lady patted me on the arse with the metal scanner and said "you can go now" first time thats ever happened, im all for it

you don't deserve Chinese EVs but you also really need Chinese EVs

cant believe he brought all these dorks and not Kanye West or Travis Scott etc

always wondered why homeless folk liked to camp out in public parks and now i get it: this is peaceful as hell

remember in the early 2010s and we had such high hopes of the big tech future and its just turned out to be "palantir has access to your medical files and its AI has determined your life isnt worth preserving"

this thing is absolute ass greatwall makes best in class SUVs and trucks but absolutely cannot make a small car its the chinese GM

that lexus was absolute dog shit, the Subaru and Mitsubishi get a passing grade for being cheap and somewhat fun

sounds like a dystopian environment to me

hang on a second, what do you mean that in the LAND OF THE FREE you have to pay yearly property tax, and the local authorities can ask for more money if they feel your property has appreciated

i thought the DDR ram pricing crises was just an extra 20usd or something its four times its current pricing, from 250usd to over 1000, and its getting worse

love gravel riding now after being pessimistic towards it > still can go fast > baggy mtb clothes ok > drink beer after rides > gravel people arent chasing strava stats

we need to discuss how the only companies making electrified wagons these days are Chinese This Lynk & Co 07GT is HOT.

damn dinner went hard yesterday

listening to a minority chinese citzen speaking about getting married at 16 makes me realize 2 things

thats why Geely launched 70+ satellites to monitor and manage robotaxis + IoT infrastructure within China

tried the caocao mobility robotaxi yesterday, zeekr 9x base car, supervised for now, but fairly smart

its so over for the UK, Uzbekistan gets high speed rail before a Top5 major economy

its so beautiful

i love a good subway map but Tokyo's always makes me go "Mother of God"