The author himself said he wasn’t making any points about human nature, but of his observations as a school teacher of the children of rich British “people”.

Well what else do you want? Other than some buttons for AC on the center console.

Yes, but their point is that concept cars are just that, concepts, they’re not designed for production or regs so the version we get is usually way more bland than the concept. There are a few exceptions where the vision of the concept car makes it into production, but 95% of the time the real thing is bland af.

This does not apply to limited production cars that don’t get redesigned to come off an assembly line making 5 other models, such as very expensive cars, loss-making models produced for homogulation, fleet regulations, or flexing purposes

Probably, but I wouldn’t overstate it, like there aren’t cars driving at speed on sidewalks, but its not like western countries where cars simply don’t drive or park in sidewalks. Bicycles and escooters still drive however they like, which imo is fine, since they’re so much less dangerous than cars, but it is different from further north. Its a but of a transition when you go further north and remember you’re not supposed to walk or ride your bike across moving traffic.

Motorcycles are banned outright, which is bullshit.

Heres a cat I saw last night:

Guangzhou isn’t that bad, have you been there recently?

I learned to ride in Hanoi, I spent a year in various parts of vietnam and was very comfortable in SEA traffic on a bike.

None of that prepared me for the chaos of HCMC. People going the wrong way, people visibly drunk on bikes, randomly finding yourself surrounded by semis on cracked and broken pavement, you and 20 other bikes making offroad detours to get around cars.

Who is downvoting this? The forsworn are native.

Sorry, your bot is in another data center.

People downvoting this inconvenient truth the same ones who accuse others of being propagandists.

I’m in China right now, ama.

Here’s a random bike I saw a couple hours ago

Lemmy just can’t handle someone who’s anti-genocide

They can’t when that stance conflicts with their party. Hence why “The dems need to stop the genocide, people are not going to vote for genocide” gets you downvoted.

“fuck Biden for arming Israel” meme that has 1,500 upvotes

Those exist on .world? I see too many “You have to vote for genocide because trump would do genocide and also other bad things” type posts, it’d be weird if they coexisted.

can do some version, though, if you’re interested

Sure if it’s trivial I’d be interested, but don’t put too much work into it.

At one point I tried to illustrate with data just how big a jerk you have to be before it starts banning you. If you’re interested, I can start doing that again.

Would you?

My understanding is that downvotes reflect whether or not someone agrees with a post or comment much more than whether the user is making a constructive comment or not so they can only be used to infer how agreeable the comment is.

I’ve also offered to delve, for any user who feels that this has happened to them, into the breakdown of why they’re being ranked down, which almost always is because they’re being a jerk about their “dissenting” opinion, and not the opinion itself.

Use me as an example, I regularly get dozens of downvotes for such hot takes as “facilitating genocide hurts the dems chances of getting elected, we need them to stop that if we want them to win.”.

So it would delete people’s posts if they get downvoted a lot or if the poster tends to upvote heavily downvoted posts?

You’ve automated the suppression of dissenting voices.