And half of those 46,000 are apparently around me, because I can’t go two days without seeing one of those monstrosities. Not surprising though, we were among the first to adopt electric cars in general, and even the Rivian trucks and SUVs are an almost daily sight here too. But god damn if the cyber truck isn’t the single most idiotic looking vehicle I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen f350s with 20” lifts and tiny tires.
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They didn’t even deny it, they just said “they were warning shots because the diplomats veered off the approved path”.
Hoorah! Burn the empire!
热水. Hot water. I tried it in China because if you ask for water that’s the temp they’ll give it to you, and found I love it. It was funny, by the end of the trip, I was ordering it specifically, and they’d always put it in front of my wife and the ice water in front of me because she’s Chinese and I’m a foreigner, and we’d just switch the cups right in front of them.
You think they’re going to close all 38 of their bases across all of Europe? That would be a big strategic break from full spectrum dominance, which is US policy, and part of the plan to contain the growth of China.
People don’t see homes as a place to live, they don’t consider community, family, proximity to work as important. Homes are “investments” and being priced out of your home is “good” because you can “sell it and move somewhere cheaper”. The dominant ideas of any era are the ideas of the ruling class.
The US would never give up its vassals in Europe for a single country.
Coffee culture in China is on another level. They have fast coffee like Luckin, Cotti, and dozens more brands, all of which are better and have more variety than Starbucks, and they have high end coffees with artisan beans, and all of them are cheaper than Starbucks. They’re not going to win there, for sure.
That you can own the building, but the property is on a 75 year lease that can be extended two times for under a hundred dollars for a total of 225 years of that home being in your family for less than the cost of a single years property tax anywhere in the US?
Your federal taxes could go towards local governments if we prioritized it. There’s a choice made, and that choice forces cities to adopt as many taxes as they can get away with in order to fund themselves.
In China 70% of the population pays no income tax, a very small sales tax, and there’s no property taxes at all. Who you tax is just as important as how much you tax. It is not necessary to tax everyone in a society to maintain a modern civilization.
I prefer 人民共和国 myself.