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    Economy Why a small China-made EV has global auto execs and politicians on edge

    Are these the ones that are flooding my social media feeds about them bursting into flames?
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    Social War Room Lounge Thread #320 - Don't tell me what to do, you're not my dad. Wait, are you?

    Pretty sure I'm not, since I've only ever lurked and then used this account. Don't remember him to check the comparison though.
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    Social War Room Lounge Thread #320 - Don't tell me what to do, you're not my dad. Wait, are you?

    Maybe under other circumstances, although I have it on good authority that cat meat is disgusting.
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    Social War Room Lounge Thread #320 - Don't tell me what to do, you're not my dad. Wait, are you?

    Well it was either that or leave it mewing pitifully while it tried to pull itself off the road with a broken back and it's intestines hanging out of it's arsehole.
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    Social War Room Lounge Thread #320 - Don't tell me what to do, you're not my dad. Wait, are you?

    No, only animal I've actually hit was a cat, which I had to pull over and go back to stomp it out of it's misery. I've had to swerve to avoid roos jumping out of the bushes beside the road at dusk and dawn on many occasions though. There's a few of my friends and family members that have...
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    Social War Room Lounge Thread #320 - Don't tell me what to do, you're not my dad. Wait, are you?

    Yeah, I've had a few really put the effort in to try and kill me. Including a car full of teenage girls who pulled out of a lane of traffic turning right without looking and knocked me into the gutter (managed to stay on the bike), a guy who (presumably) didn't realise lane splitting is legal...
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    Social War Room Lounge Thread #320 - Don't tell me what to do, you're not my dad. Wait, are you?

    There's certainly substantial risk, and everyone I know that rides has crashed at least once (especially when they are young, stupid and inexperienced). I felt the same way before hopping on a bike, but the experience changed my risk/reward evaluation considerably. Not that everyone loves it...
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    Social War Room Lounge Thread #320 - Don't tell me what to do, you're not my dad. Wait, are you?

    Italian and quirky. Riding experience is dominated by that transverse v-twin. Beautiful bikes, but just a little bit too quirky for me.
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    Social War Room Lounge Thread #320 - Don't tell me what to do, you're not my dad. Wait, are you?

    I sometimes go riding with one of my mates and his dad (in his 70s) who owns a bunch of classic beemers (and old Jap bikes as well). They had a reputation as bikes for old fuddy duddies, until they started making serious sports bikes in the 2000s. That's a legitimate classic, but there's a lot...
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    Social War Room Lounge Thread #320 - Don't tell me what to do, you're not my dad. Wait, are you?

    Yeah, Goldwings are basically a couch with a (big) motor. Never ridden one, although I've seen them hustled through the local hills at a surprising clip given the sheer size and weight. BMW are their main competition (K1600). 6 cylinders and almost 400kg isn't really the sort of minimalism I'm...
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    Social War Room Lounge Thread #320 - Don't tell me what to do, you're not my dad. Wait, are you?

    Can't say I asked my folks for their opinion, although my dad had bikes before he got married (when he sold his guns and bike) and I've an aunt on my mum's side that still rides in her 60s. They crammed all 5 of us on a scooter in Thailand when we were kids (no helmets either), so chances are...
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    Social War Room Lounge Thread #320 - Don't tell me what to do, you're not my dad. Wait, are you?

    Yeah, the nostalgia I have for the cars we hankered after and bought for around $5K as teenagers isn't worth $100K+ to me. Not least of all because I have a bike collection which I'm more into. I switched to bikes when I was at Uni. A friend left his Suzuki RGV250 in the garage for a couple of...
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    Social Candace Owens has been dropped from The Daily Wire.

    I'm not conflating anything, they literally rank individuals by their wealth (since it's their most popular product, they now have categories for the charts ranging from the original outright wealth to the wealthiest sports stars and even social media/tik tok celebrities) and promote the...
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    Social Candace Owens has been dropped from The Daily Wire.

    By historical definition "right-wing" is the support for hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable. Including the hierarchy of wealth. Forbes both documents and supports that hierarchy as their most well known and consumed reporting. Without redefining terms that's right-wing...
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    Social Candace Owens has been dropped from The Daily Wire.

    For that particular chart they have a few breakdowns of various lengths on how they arrived at their views over on their website. They aren't claiming that it's a global, unbiased, empirical metric.
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    Social Candace Owens has been dropped from The Daily Wire.

    Not modern day. It was Steve's dad Bertie, back in 1917.
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    Social Candace Owens has been dropped from The Daily Wire.

    Hardly. Your image is the result of "up to" 60 American analysts evaluating American media on your American political scale. That is not a global evaluation nor an objective measurement (they don't even claim as much). The political scale is relative to both the viewer and more broadly the...
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    Social Candace Owens has been dropped from The Daily Wire.

    Measured? Via what? The idea that the Stars and Stripes is the height of objective, centrist and factual reporting would literally be a joke in the rest of the world. Likewise the idea that a publication as blatantly pro-corporate interests as Forbes is "centre-left" is laughable.
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    Social Candace Owens has been dropped from The Daily Wire.

    Groups like Forbes are considered right-wing here and if you said Stars and Stripes was dead centre everyone would assume you were taking the piss.
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    Social Candace Owens has been dropped from The Daily Wire.

    Nah, that chart would be shifted entirely to the right judged from our perspective. Noone would consider Forbes centre-left.
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