They’re kinda garbage at any creative writing the same way they suck at humor; they’re either weirdly non-sequiturious or incredibly boring.

Good point. Instead of Kelvin, lets go back to Rankine.

With Celsius, you can’t walk outside and exclaim in horror “It’s a hundred and 20 fucking degrees!”. “It’s in the negatives.” doesn’t carry any weight either.

It’s cheaper to make electric motor spin fast with low torque than slow with high torque, a ceiling fan of the same cfm needs a bigger motor than a standing fan.

Just give them a bunch of new potential victims?

Oh, that pic is South Korea, but same concept in South America.

America supports way worse things when it helps the corporations.

I’m not a football hooligan or whatever the preferred term is, but IMO there’s nothing wrong with good humans making the occasional mistake. Use video for verifying red cards when someone’s pretending they’ve just been stabbed, but for stuff the human on the field should be expected to see, a little disagreeable calls because they’re human feels better than disagreeable calls because the computer said they were 1 inch offsides.

You can be a little offsides, if the ref doesn’t notice.

I think I saw more Tesla stores than cars.

I def saw more jeep stores than jeeps.

Why are you coming at Kazakhstan? Can you go see a ballet for like 4USD? Does your city have a subway and tram system?

Tesla stores are pretty common in China. They still buy the Tony Stark tech genius businessman schtick.

Living in America was killing me.

I travel alone, but I make acquaintances everywhere.

Maybe I’ll settle down some day. The longer I stay in software engineering the more I long to leave it and become a mushroom farmer in northern Japan.

The subsidies for chinese citizens has been cut for years and phases out entirely in 2027.

There never was a subsidy for exports.

This narrative is just a way for non-competitive companies to demand protectionist measures so they don’t have to invest in better factories and can continue charging more for less value.

The point of this is to get you to examine why, while you are aware Europe-based companies also scam/cheat/steal, and have the wealth disparity between Europe and the global south to prove it, your instinct is that this is generally a Chinese or Russian phenomenon.

Btw, Bayer owns Monsanto and sells poisons illegal in Europe to the developing world, which cause all sorts of cancers in farmers and kill rainforest. I can also jusr direct you to literally every europe-based logging, mining, or other extractive industry that relies on the global south.

We wouldn’t want to be prejudiced against racists by assuming they’re racist against other groups would we.

Now to your example: Mentioning the US is cheating. :p

OK, Nestle. BP. Bayer.

I didn’t move here, I bounce around Asia while working remotely, though I usually spend a little over half the year here.

The food, prices, and people/culture make up for the language being literally impossible for me and the weather being pretty tough outside the highlands and some mountains north of Hanoi. Some rain gear and I can deal with 4+ hour motorcycle trips in pouring rain, but there’s nothing I can do about walking outside and instantly sweating through my shirt.

I’d mention KTM, but I wouldn’t be shocked if you were also racist against Indians so how about ExxonMobil poisoning the living shit out of various South American countries and literally having people suing them thrown in prison?

True, but the insane injury rate for bikes in the US is overwhelmingly a skill issue; almost half of deaths have alcohol in their blood, most are single-vehicle from bikes taking a turn too fast.

2 wheels includes bicycles and ebikes on sidewalks, though thats not always feasible.

Wear protective gear. I have a leather jacket when I’m going fast and on cool days, but sneakers, jeans, and a rain jacket have saved me from minor injuries a few times riding around town at <60kph.

I know people are going to yell at me for not wearing a full tracksuit and boots you literally cannot walk in, but it’s Vietnam, anything more than crocs, shorts, a t-shirt, and a plastic baseball cap is pretty heavy gear here.

I have been meaning to buy some sturdy boots I can wear both on and off the bike tho, maybe I’ll pick some up next time I’m in China.