Do you think there’s a bunch of people who won’t vote republican, but will vote dem if they’re just transphobic enough?

Modern machines produce a human-readable paper ballot, and we can do exit polling to check for statistical anomalies, us election integrity probably isn’t attacked at the voting machine level.

At least since the 2000s or so.

Well what else do you want? Other than some buttons for AC on the center console.

Probably, but I wouldn’t overstate it, like there aren’t cars driving at speed on sidewalks, but its not like western countries where cars simply don’t drive or park in sidewalks. Bicycles and escooters still drive however they like, which imo is fine, since they’re so much less dangerous than cars, but it is different from further north. Its a but of a transition when you go further north and remember you’re not supposed to walk or ride your bike across moving traffic.

Motorcycles are banned outright, which is bullshit.

Heres a cat I saw last night:

Guangzhou isn’t that bad, have you been there recently?

I learned to ride in Hanoi, I spent a year in various parts of vietnam and was very comfortable in SEA traffic on a bike.

None of that prepared me for the chaos of HCMC. People going the wrong way, people visibly drunk on bikes, randomly finding yourself surrounded by semis on cracked and broken pavement, you and 20 other bikes making offroad detours to get around cars.

The single redeeming feature of Trump is that he makes other ghouls uncomfortable in unintentionally funny ways.

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People downvoting this inconvenient truth the same ones who accuse others of being propagandists.

Well yes, religion exists within society and that society’s pressures determine which interpretations and philosophies are amplified and which are silenced.

I’m in China right now, ama.

Here’s a random bike I saw a couple hours ago

If its Newsom vs Vance, we already lost, gavin will perform worse than a good candidate, and if Gavin somehow wins, it absolutely guarantees a republican sweep in 2030 and 2032

The primaries showed how much pull cable news pundits still have. They just have to tell voters “don’t vote for the policy that helps you and everyone else, the only way to beat republicans is if you imagine a voter who loves republicans dogshit policy and strategically vote for a dem candidate with those policies”

I doubt republican voters are going to stay home in meaningful numbers because of Trump, and if the campaigns aren’t borderline maliciously incompetent, they will be able to use this to recruit energized magats for their ground game.

Biden implementing Trump’s dogshit policies is good actually

-lemmy libs downvoting you, probably

It was fine when all cylinders felt like firing.

Nobody would say “I wouldn’t buy a Cybertruck, they’re so cheap”, if they did, you’d probably go “Haha they’re like 6 figures new!”, thinking the person assumed that because Teslas look cheap they actually are.

My first car’s engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northstar_engine_series#L47

It does, and its not a plugin.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2SyONV_EruQ

Tldr, the ICE engine produces barely enough torque to move the car from a standstill while producing enough hp to charge the batteries, and letting the much more powerful electric engines do the work, whereas previous hybrids don’t go all-in on efficiency, letting the engine provide an appreciable amount of torque to the wheels.

An expensive product can’t be cheap. It can be cheaply made, but a cheap expensive thing is an oxymoron.

Assuming you’re esl:

Cheap doesn’t mean low quality, it means low price, which can imply low quality, but it doesn’t work if the thing’s not also cheap.

You could call US cars cheaply-made junk.