Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards.

• Vernon Law

Oh right I see what you mean. If you pretend China is a democracy my point is automatically disproven, that is true.

Don’t forget Taiwan as well. They have HSR although to be fair it’s also a very small country.

I don’t know, man. This sounds like some “the enemy is both strong and weak” BS to me. When they can’t build a HSR in California they are an unplanned economy but when I point out the cost of China’s flavour of government suddenly the US is a dictatorship?

I’ve got no issues acknowledging when China does some good things but come on. I was rightfully making fun of the implication of your meme here and you come back with doublespeak. There’s really no need to pick a side and defend it at all costs, we can acknowledge the positive and negative things.

Now I’m confused, what do you mean? I never said they didn’t have a great high speed rail network. I think they’ve done a great job and I’ve got no problem acknowledging that. I was just poking fun at the implication of the meme.

Very good point and one that people often forget. It’s literally impossible to build high speed rail without first becoming an authoritarian dictatorship.

It was a joke on the dual meaning of “user repository” which I didn’t think about that deeply but that would have been smart.

And the Arch User Repository is really handy when you need some more users.

The ones that come to mind are Beyond All Reason and Battle For Wesnoth.

🎶 The hills are alive … with the sound of uzi’s 🎶

The clockers born starin’ at an empty plate

Momma’s torn hands cover her sunken face

We hungry but them belly full

The structure is set ya neva change it with a ballot pull

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Oh man this was rough. Virgin GTA player vs chad Driver player.

Somebody set us up the mandatory online accounts and telemetry!

All your PCs are belong to us. You have no chance to back up make your time.

What would happen if you lather yourself in soap so you’re really slippery and then you sit in a bath?

Actually you’d probably hurt yourself getting into the bath so maybe don’t try this.

The thing that bothers me most is that it’s marked as urgent but clearly there is no action required.

Band of Brothers

I think exercise selection is a pretty personal thing. There are going to be exercises you like that feel good and some that you don’t really get into. I’d say mix it up until you find a routine with exercises you enjoy or at least don’t mind that still hit the muscle groups that you want.

I don’t really know how to answer the rest of it. If you find exercises you enjoy and they are helping you towards whatever your goals are I’d say who cares what people think but that’s just me.

Last time a batch of these popped up it was saying they’d be bankrupt in 2024 so I guess they’ve made it to 2025 now. I wonder if we’ll see similar articles again next year.

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