… Can I have some?

I dunno man, most of my negative assumptions about the actions of Americans in position of power have turned out to be true of late. If I’m wrong I’ll take the L but at the minute I’m on a pretty long streak.

*toot toot, I’m a pope*

His first action will be to announce tariffs on other religions (big deficit with the Sikh, they’ve been subsidising deity access for years) and that the Pope mobile will be a Cybertruck.

Tesla and unfulfilled promises… Only slightly less an iconic duo than Tesla bad news and stock price going up.

Forget 5 blades, what you need is the Gillette 3000!

Early 1990s champagne comedy from Australia.

Why did I start rambling? Oh yeah cuz it’s Reddit.

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It’s not really left though, it’s just sightly less right. More maintaining status quo instead of taking a big step right. Which I guess by comparison is left?

Our (Australia’s) progress parties like The Greens actually lost a lot of seats.

I feel people just didn’t want the Conservative party more so than wanted a progressive party. But I’ll take it.

I miss the simpler days

Fair point about AI-generated comments. What’s your take on how this affects online discussions? Are we losing genuine interactions or gaining new insights?

Like what?

Korea has a few (Hyundai, Kia / same,same) but the only Japanese options are [P]HEV or the Toyota BZ4X which is… ugly… if it didn’t have a Toyota badge I don’t think they’d sell any of them. Few old Leafs still hanging in there, but if you want to go more than 100k at a time that’s them ruled out.

Can’t speak for other countries, but in Australia BYD is smashing it.

They represent incredible value for money and it’s not like we’ve got a local industry to protect - our conservative government made sure of that.

We’re already the world’s dumping ground for shit vehicles that don’t meet emissions standards, so having a non-Elon Musk EV alternative is something people are grabbing with both hands. We bought a BYD Seal Performance for $70k AUD a little over a year ago. For that money you get an incredibly comfortable sedan that does 500k on a charge, costs about $1 per 100km to run, and does 0-100 in 3.8 seconds.

EU vehicles are crazy overpriced by comparison, and because they try and position Mercedes / BMW / VW as luxury brands here the servicing and repair costs are through the roof. Part availability also sucks, with everything being a 6+ week lead time. We’ve owned European vehicles on several occasions and never again.

Why the fuck does Aussie zone block so many instances? You guys okay out there?

I’m not entirely sure we’re missing out on all that much with a few porn instances missing.

I will never understand what part of Trump politics appeals to “young men” (or anyone).

The bloke is a loser, yet just keeps bluffing and grifting his way to the top. How is that a trait you want to emulate?

Even in the article the kid says:

"I was watching TV, and he just came out, and told everybody what was going wrong.

… When did this happen? In which particular series of words that fell out of Trumps mouth during one of his insane ramblings did old mate get the impression this is what happened? It’s like seeing a portent in your bowl of spaghettios or something. Just because a brief moment of chance brought something together that appeared to make sense on the surface doesn’t mean you should ignore the 99% that doesn’t.

I dunno, I feel like that’s a bit of a cop out. There’s more flaws than just the story being a bit off.

The fan produced episode was legitimately better in terms of bringing the world to life in my opinion… And it had a budget of about $8. Amazon should have just given these dudes the money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myFCGun_c-8

Actuallly you know what? Let the Amazon one be another turning of the wheel and give these dudes money to do another one. I’d watch it again. I’ve read the series a dozen times over.

I recently learned a term for this sort of story:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/orphan-crushing_machine

As a book reader, it sucks. They did Mat dirty, and they completely ballsed up… well pretty much everything.

As a stand alone series, it’s probably not too bad.

😎^😎

I dunno if I really trust the public to make good decisions anymore though.

It’s the entitlement that pisses me off the most.

Why did she feel so entitled as to think it’s perfectly fine to fuck with a wild animal? Like, why is she so important that she should be able to inflict distress on another being?

She needs to have her visa revoked and a fine given just to stop other dickhead influencers copying her.

Because dogs are rad