They wanted to see if there were any cut corners that could help explain the low cost other than government funding and the general low cost of labour in China. Did not find any cut corners during their teardown and sang the cars praises.

Unfortunately shifting blame to reporting is not correct. In a democracy the people have a duty to inform themselves, unfortunately people choose to rather inform themselves with, how you put it “feeds”. They think because they are hearing the same thing over and over, due to being in an echo chamber, they are informed, nope you just reinforced your biases. But the people have sold their duty to these influencers to do their informing for them in an easily digestible manner that makes them feel safe and reinforced their beliefs.

And also know this is off topic, I am a big believer in libertarianism, in a classical sense, not the US way. And I am curious to see how Milei does, and I also open myself up that I could be wrong with his libertarian ways, I believe the proof is unfortunately in the pudding at the end of the day, did it achieve success or not. Disappointed in the scandals so far but I hope Argentina one day achieves the success it truly deserves, maybe this way or maybe another economic model.

But I find Argentina interesting as a case study for my beliefs, like I said will change if I see Argentina fails.

I think aid from the US was the last thing on their mind. Never have I ever voted for a party because what US, EU, China or any other foreign power threatened.

These midterm elections are usually an indication of how the general population feels the current administration is doing, think of the blue wave during Trump’s first midterm.

Is there any indication that wide spread voter suppression or fraud was happening, not just anecdotal but like verifiable like what happened in Venezuela last year. If not I would say whether you like it or not, that is the crux of democracy, the masses have decided

Geez, I think you had a good point and now it seems you are being burned at the stake. But arguments are good if held in good faith, and I see your point, and mostly agree.

The problem is everyone wants a good house in a good area, yet there is only a limited supply. Houses are a depreciating asset, breaks down etc, the land in a desirable area is what makes it expensive and appreciated. So by logic the landlord took a chance and bought a place to rent out, that will depreciate but they focused on location, location, location in the hope it will bring in a profit (speculation).

Honestly if the area is desirable, close to working areas, good reputation with low crime… It will sell itself and becomes desirable thus increasing price.

But no one forced you to live in a nice area, I moved to a rural town, where a nice family home is cheaper than a 1 bedroom flat in the city more than 3 hours drive from me. Unfortunately yes that means less comfortable options like work or services a city can provide me. But some benefits like I love the isolation and community a small community brings.

Nothing stops anyone from moving. In my country the government has tried to give RDP housing to the poor, except it stays theirs and if you get a work somewhere else or have to move due to wide variety of reasons, sorry lost your housing benefits, you cannot sell or swap or anything, a stupid law and makes people choose between housing or a better paying work, hopefully opposition is trying to give these people ownership rights and further strengthen property rights in general.

There is a salad dressing that also agrees

Puts an innocent holstered Sig P320 on a table

Same here, played around, but mint keeps pulling me back in. 10+ years going strong

If you want to know how stuffed a cage can be, try boarding a mine cage after the shift is over, everyone wants to get out as soon as possible. People at the back usually take bracing stances because the shit will be squeezed out of them. Ours we stand, no squatting, but there are still two or three levels.

In South Africa, it is illegal to open carry, unless you are a police officer or security guard. So citizens are required to conceal carry. Yet in the rural areas where I am from, most of the firearm carrying people prefer to open carry, they feel it is a deterrent and easier to reach.

It’s really weird how everyone in America, what I assume we are referring to, wants to conceal carry because the government does not want you to, and here in SA we want to do the opposite because of what the government wants.

PS this is my opinion from personal experience, maybe a lot more are carrying but I do not see them.

Clearly a joke to upset certain people

I believe this isn’t 4D chess in which he makes a snide remark about South Africa again, but Cyril Ramaphosa signed a controversial bill called Bela or Basic Education Law Act where the ANC wanted to give more state control and give less control to school governing bodies, in regards to languages being taught at schools. Many Afrikaners, myself included, ( just Google Pretoria girls highschool of you want to read a rabbit hole of government overreaction) felt this was a ploy to try and exert control to try and dictate which languages should be taught wat school, such as choosing English over native mother tongue languages (like suppressing Afrikaans for example). There are merit and drawbacks to the bill, but even if Trump is obsessed with us white Afrikaners in South Africa (sarcasm), I do not think this is what he meant, and if he did, we would like him to allow us to deal with our own issues through dialogue and democratic methods

This, yes if the world did not pollute and all of us changed tomorrow it would have been the best, but let’s not lie, this ship has not changed direction. I really think this will give us time and save the most we have to eventually change the ship’s direction. We have basically already geoengineered our way here, let’s geoengineer our way to a better world

I am laughing thinking in the bottom it is clean and then slowly becoming uncut on top. So basically a little tongue like flap on top of the head

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A nice hearty soup. Can basically travel the world because it can feed you and hydrate you when you cannot find water or sustenance. And I think it is healthy enough to not kill you if you survived on it for the last 3 months, might be wrong.

But most importantly it will not take away your pleasure of better food, such as pizza, which after three months only eating pizza, you will be tired of it for the rest of you life

How did the marriage ceremony go, who officiated the marriage, was it a religious leader or another type of official. I am really curious because I want my Christian GF to have the wedding of her dreams and I am not sure how to approach the topic. I have no issues but I am scared a pastor or similar might have because I am atheist

Yeah in South Africa when our then President, Jacob Zuma, disbanded our independent corruption body, the Scorpions, that started basically corruption on such a scale, even had a commission of inquiry for state capture. Just look at South Africa’s growth since then, basically entrenched poverty and joblessness to our countrymen.

Be afraid Ukraine, even if Zelensky has good intentions, what about the next president. All the advice I can give you is to become active, continue putting pressure on your elected officials. The people have the power, especially through the ballot

Vices are a natural part of being human. But vices can easily become difficult to manage in a healthy manner. But it sounds like you are lonely and your religion and the service from adult workers is trying to fill the void. I get it, life is hard and tough and very lonely.

Why not try to take it easy on yourself. We are all fallible, but we should strive to better ourselves, look it seems that is exactly what you are trying and wanting. This might seem stupid but I started jogging last year. I fucking sucked, but someone told me try moving half an hour a day 2-3 times a week and in a year you would have succeeded in something to further build upon. So I jogged a block and basically died, but almost a year later it changed my life, I joined a jogging group at work, made new friends and running partners, and comradeship. I am not a jogger, still doing a 5km at 57 minutes yesterday, a parkrun with friends. But my point is not to start jogging, but maybe find a hobby or activity that allows you to interact with people, no matter how stupid, and if it is something to be active then there may be a double benefit.

This will not solve your issues or vices, but I learned little by little it becomes a lot, and maybe working on yourself physically or socially, even if you are a fish out of water, will yield results in different ways. It sounds like you are working on yourself spiritually, I hope since you started you have seen a difference. But changing yourself will require work, that is what makes it so satisfactory because you worked for this change, but there isn’t a quick fix or and shortcut, but the answer is easy, small efforts everyday, results in big hard worked changes after a while.

Good luck on your journey, I hope you are able to deal with your vices and issues in a healthy but productive way.