Comrade bunny. If you can’t take May Day off - break the production branch and don’t look at your email until Monday.

You can’t relate to what?

For which one?

Not a threat. Just an observation.

Jonathan Ross, will either live in a jail cell for the rest of his life, dying old. Or, he will die young at the hands of vigilante justice.

It’s almost like we’re the drug kingpin.

I prefer the term The Burger Reich.

You’re joking. But, honestly, I’m not sure why these tech CEOs are so excited about AGI. The first thing an AGI is going to suggest for productivity is to replace the CEO and management with the AGI.

AGI would likely turn into a Maoist third worldist at some point.

You’re right to point that out

Interesting. Definitely rings true with my hypothesis on this stuff though. I guess I’d say the taste difference is real. But, having traveled a lot I’d also say that if you “give it a shot” for a couple days your tastes adjust pretty quickly. It’s been my stubborn choice to not buy bottled water that taught me this.

Not to say that some countries may have worse regulations or focus on “more natural” taste priorities. That’s definitely true. But I wouldn’t let the worry of the water being “unsafe” exaggerate those natural feelings.

I’d be more concerned about some small city in America (Flint Michigan being our obvious newsworthy one) than any major city. Though Flint was unrelated to filtration standards and literally just a refusal to remove ancient lead pipe infrastructure.

Though I definitely do trust European standards and regulations more than an American. For the time being, our major cities are still running on proven standards for health and filtration though.

Interesting. Had to look this up. Apparently a lot of Europe uses small amounts of chlorine too in similar levels to America. But some countries like the Netherlands and Germany have alternatives that use Ozone. I could definitely understand this taste difference if you live in a country that doesn’t use it. Thanks for expanding my tap water knowledge.

For reference. The levels of chlorine added to tap in Europe (UK and others) or America are around 0.5 ppm. A swimming pool with chlorine would have 5.0 ppm. 10x seems actually lower than I would have thought. Especially given how much a swimming pool smells of it.

I lived a month in the Netherlands and never noticed a difference in taste personally. Drank tap a lot of the time.

I’d wonder if you’re from the Netherlands or Germany (or maybe a country that doesn’t add chlorine that I didn’t see listed).

Or maybe it’s used less for cleaning in Europe and your sensitivity to it is due to that. I’d be curious to know where you’re from.

Tap water is just dependent on the area you live in. You’re use to the tap water where you live and in similar regions. Whether you drink it or not you’re exposed to it every day. It’s normal.

When you travel. You’ll always have this reaction if you’re not use to it. It’s not unique the US and the tap water here is perfectly fine.

People in the US say the same thing about Europe. But I traveled all over Europe and the tap water is fine. It’s “weird” definitely but for the same reasons you think American tap is weird.

Having said that. Lake Tahoe in California is the top tier of tap water in America.

Rome and it’s public water fountains were my favorite in Europe. Really refreshing and cool water on ancient water infrastructure. Top tier for Europe.

Paying for everything with Visa/MasterCard is better? I feel like a lot of people’s issues with “privacy” around China are correct. But for some reason are ok with the same exact things in the US/West.

In the West we share literally all of the privacy concerns you mentioned above but instead of them being clearly outlined and regulated by our government; they are instead entirely controlled by private companies that use and sell the information for profit.

I guess it’s the illusion of privacy, or really the abstraction of it being violated, that makes people in the west feel like China is somehow doing something different. They aren’t, they are just upfront about their tracking and data collection.

In China they have CCTV. In the US we have Ring. Like, people literally put Ring cameras INSIDE there house willingly. It blows my mind. And the idea that in the US that it’s “decentralized” or “not available to the government” is a lie.

I guess my point is. You’re not wrong about the payment processing or the privacy concerns in China. But, you live with the same exact thing in the west every single day. Arguably worse because your data is being controlled by a CEO for profit and they’re selling that to anyone and everyone. On top of being given to your government.

Edit: I did agree with the concerns of the original comment over privacy in China. So, id really appreciate a response comment rather than a downvote only. My comment is meant to criticize the US/West (the system most people reading this live under). I wasn’t trying to justify China. I am a huge fan of China and it’s progress in many ways. At least in terms of learning from their success. But one major criticism I have of them is their level of surveillance and, what I see as now unnecessary, levels of control on speech related to government criticism. So, id ordinarily be a “look at their high speed rail” Andy on this topic. I am very critical of China when it comes to this specific issue; and see it as a major weakness for them that they need to address. But, since I live in the west. I want to make people aware that this issue also exists here. I am more critical of my own country because I live under it. And being distracted by China’s problems instead of our own is a major failure.

Yeah. That’s the huge red flag in this story to begin with. Nothing surgical would be done anywhere at that age. That’s not how transgender healthcare works.

There is literally no evidence of this in the article. There is no family named, no specific protest the person attended, and not even a specific university.

No investigation in China at all. Nothing being claimed is even worth the guardian posting the article without covering it with “allegedly” everywhere.

Is this really the level of evidence you think is enough for you to instantly believe?

The source of all of this is from an unnamed family in Australia who says their relative was jailed for that reason. Like, we have zero idea of what this is even referring to.

And the article isn’t doing any of this to “protect” the family. If they had any real evidence of this the entire article wouldn’t be covered with “allegedly”.

They couldn’t even get a comment from the Australian universities. They don’t even mention a specific university or protest. Like, there is just literally nothing here that is verifiable.

The entire article is just “Maya Wang” says. Someone who is not involved with the family or university as far as I can tell.

Though she does have several connections to the US state department; with her entire faceless Twitter profile just filled with a lot of posts, with similar levels of evidence (vague or none), about China. Totally unrelated I’m sure.

I don’t know why that’s more frightening

Edit: I realized it’s childhood trauma.

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Supreme_Commander

Carsized.com

Cars have gotten bigger but trucks have too.

A Honda Civic today is like half the “size” of an F150

SUVs are technically more “volume” then a lot of trucks though. Since they don’t lose all the volume having a flat bed. But “volume” is kinda silly. Anyway. None of this is meant to be specific because, I mean, it’s literally just about a title to give a person an idea of the scale of an object they know nothing about.

Mods want to explain why linking carsized.com and telling a commenter they are being pretentious gets a comment removed by mods?

Edit: Maybe it’s my mobile app? When someone blocks you maybe it’s confusing the comment thread? Idk.

God I hate stupid fucking pretentious responses like this. Especially when you can just use something as simple as a Google Image search.

I live in America mate. I know how large an f150 is. Here. Choose a truck and sedan at your leisure. Heres the top selling truck next to the top selling sedan.

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/toyota-camry-2024-sedan-vs-ford-f150-2017-4-door-pickup-supercrew-5.5-raptor/

Not quite double the “size” if by that we mean volume. But definitely close. Quick napkin math of about 1.8x the size.

Or you could just pick a smaller car literally everyone knows. Like a Honda Civic and use that to explain the size.

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/honda-civic-2016-sedan-vs-ford-f150-2017-4-door-pickup-supercrew-5.5-raptor/

You seem to be the one that doesn’t know how big an American pickup is. Though it is always enjoyable when a pretentious reply like yours is so easily proven wrong.

You know what is roughly half the size of an American pickup truck and very common? A sedan. Like a regular sized car.

The annoying thing isn’t using a common object to show scale. It’s that they are cutting it in half. Like, you have other whole objects to choose from. It kind of ruins the point.

That’s what frustrates me about the title at least.