Chinese real estate drama

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Must be ebike riders trying to avoid being hit by idiot entitled car drivers. I try to ride on cycle paths as much as possible, because some fool piloting...

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You realise those signature lines are no longer shown, since the big forum update?

Pete...

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Funny, I do the opposite when I do my 5km run - count the number of vehicles that drive by, before an ev comes along. I don’t count parked cars, as...

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This would probably make HRD's head explode if he was still here.
Country Garden, a large developer with close to 15 Billion in debt coming due...

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That assumes an awful lot about the nature of the relationship and conception, the capability of either of the grown-ups involved to raise a child, and...

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I see Sandy is back onto minorities. Which ethnic groups does he think the Russians are mostly sending into the meat grinder?

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Many modern V8's "skip fire", or drop back to four cylinder firing under light load. And have done so for years....

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Link to a closeup pic of the damage to the submarine Rostov on Don, in the Sevastopol dry dock. It's toast.
https://reddit.com/r/RussiaUkraineW...

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It's very cleverly done, and works on a lot of levels. I saw it with the wife, boy (26yo petrolhead bogan), and his partner. We all enjoyed it.
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Harm goes with the territory, you can't bend the natives to your will without deep sixing a few tens of thousands of them. Alexander, Ghengis, the Romans,...

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Chilled?...

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^ Which it is - at least in the US, and to a slightly lesser extent, the UK.
Ukraine should never have been put in the position where they were...

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One of our kids did a school project on this topic, and turned up all sorts of interesting 1800's horse related DUI articles from old scanned newspapers....

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John, here is a CNBC story, containing the admission from the author of the book that everyone has been quoting, that starlink was NOT turned off....

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The holes ship separately from the donuts ....

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Report that Kadyrov is in a coma.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...n-Kadyrov-coma...

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I'm 59, and have never lived in a house with a gas stove, only electric.
NZ has offshore gas which is reticulated around the North Island - I'm...

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Brabham BT46 anyone?
The F1 car with the "cooling fan" that sucked air from underneath.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham...

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Yes, though to be fair, it took another two minutes on Google to confim US government ownership.

https://spacenews.com/u-s-army-hands-ov...

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Murica:
https://www.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/...20Satellite%20...