What does it mean to you then?

Why would he do that if the oil can be sold closer with less risk, for more money?

China’s been helping but with solar more than oil.

Yeah because that’ll be great for emissions lol

Also carbs make it pretty easy to adjust fueling, etc.

Not cheaper in the long term always. Unfortunately it might still be cheaper for them to let it ride out.

I mean at the time it would’ve been more like 2 grand I believe?

Still too much for me to forget a password

That Thing is actually pretty cool tech, particularly for 1945.

Yeah, I learned it after years of seeing it on reddit, because someone finally explained it lol

Yeah I was ready to get a camera and start mapping the unmapped streets near me and then I saw that :/

I know, I’m just too lazy to ever check it out. Usually it’s pretty obvious who’s downvoting me (it’s whoever I’m having a discussion with and their instance is .ml)

I want to see them try Estonia.

If you replace your halogen or incandescent side markers or license plate bulbs with LEDs of the same brightness to get a nicer colour, that’s illegal because “it could blind someone”.

Now I’m just wondering who downvoted you for a literal nothingburger comment

You also have a ton of domestic oil. The only reason fuel prices are up in the US is because the market is global so American companies can sell it abroad.

Either issue could be solved if Trump had the balls to forbid American companies to sell oil and gas abroad. But that’s not gonna happen now is it.

IIRC that’s being done in some places because it takes care of two issues at once. But certainly not the majority of data centers.

On a scale several orders of magnitude smaller, it’s also how car heating systems work. Waste engine heat is transferred to the heater core and then air is blown through it. Engine gets cooled, cabin gets heated.

China adds about as many new billionaires per year as the US. Which is obviously fewer per capita since it’s a bigger country, but the healthy amount is zero, especially for a supposedly communist country.

The truth is, it’s about as capitalist as most western countries. The only major country that’s worse is the US, which is a special kind of shitty. When it comes to workers rights, the Chinese have it worse than most western countries (US being a notable exception). The five year plans are of course great for things like infrastructure though. They get to prioritize government spending in areas where it’s most beneficial. But that doesn’t mean the government always has the worker’s back. Saving face is incredibly important in some Asian cultures and China knows a lot about saving face. If there’s something bad happening and it’s possible to sweep it under the rug to protect the economy and corporations, they will do it. Hell, they’ve protected TESLA from common people. A foreign company. Think of what they’ll do for local megacorporations.

Only if they’re allowed to be caught though. China has swept things under the rug before if it would be bad for national interests.

China is not the paragon of virtue you seem to think it is. The fact that 996 was extremely commonplace just a few years ago until workers cries out en masse is proof enough. Surely the government must’ve known on some level that all of its biggest companies were enforcing 996, but since it wasn’t discussed widely enough, it was kept tidily under the rug since it’s good for the economy. East-Asian work culture in general is toxic and China is no better than Japan or Korea.

BYD does 996 in China. Reportedly the Hungarian employees are being told to work 7 days a week, which the EU is now investigating since it’s not kosher round these parts.

Yes. And the taxpayers will have to fix it for them, that’s how the country works. So why would they care?

Yes, but that’s not THEIR problem. It’s everyone’s problem and in the official country of privatize the gains and socialize the losses, that means it’s up to the taxpayer to fix it.

I mean usually if you can reliably let guests in, you’re the owner or work for the owner. Palestine is a very special case in this regard.

What’s you actual argument for travel being more expensive if Booking.com doesn’t host stolen property?

Given that they can’t really reliably check what property is stolen in Israel or Palestine, the alternative is to exit the entire country. Having only hotels and no airbnb style housing (if both booking and airbnb leave) means travel to that country or inside it gets more expensive.

But by stretching that logic, they should also exit eastern Europe. Not every family got back the homes that the soviet union stole the inhabitants were shipped off to Siberia. Or really, they should exit the entire world, as you can scam people out of their property basically anywhere. Just have an old person sign over the deed in exchange for promises you’ll never keep.

But essentially if they exit an entire country, that absolutely IS the same as saying people shouldn’t travel there. Which in the case of Israel I’d agree with, but most companies don’t want to take political stances since you’ll piss of a bunch of people no matter what, especially since half the western world has been brainwashed into thinking anti-zionism = anti-semitism. Hence what the CEO said about not saying where people should or shouldn’t travel.

Fairly different reason actually, I’d say.

I mean in both cases it’s physics, but it’s different issues!