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I think it is because the EU listened to the people. This is what you get when elected representatives are not bankrolled by big business, and are allowed to enact legislation that doesn’t only benefit one side.

I think things may have moved on with the tech, my Yaris Hybrid would average 3.8 l/100km with is 74 MPG (UK).

So people are fools for not interpreting the incoherent ramblings of the mango shitgibbon? If a US presidential candidate is incapable of basic communication, and is ahead in the polls, lord help the world.

We’re doomed.

But 10 years ago when we met it would have been outside that range.

Half my age plus 7 would have been 4.5 years older then her age then. How can it be acceptable now, but not then?

What if half my age plus 7 is 6 months less than my other half’s age? Too close?

I would ask why op didn’t use IMDb.com or trakt which catalogue every Hollywood movie?

His followers will love it, most run gas guzzling trucks and hate electric cars and their owners with a passion.

As a boomer, I don’t recall my parents teaching me anything about prejudice, the same at school. The only guidance on prejudice came from my religious education (I’m RC by birth) and to be honest it was completely the opposite to this sentiment. We were taught, for example, that Protestants were evil and that we should never befriend them or trust them.

I stopped going to church when I was about 11, it no longer felt relevant and the teachings were against my own personal beliefs. I had grown up with friends who were of different faiths, Jewish, Protestant, Muslim as well as Catholic, and didn’t consider them to be anything other than buddies.

Some religious teachings have value, but by promoting prejudice as well, the impact is diminished. The only times I have been in church since I was 11 were for weddings and funerals.

You can travel in a car, Uber, Grab and taxis allow you that convenience if you really need to go by car. It’s not about rich and poor. Having lived in SG and in HK, the public transport systems are really good, but I never felt the need for a car, indeed in HK the cost of parking alone is way higher than to use public transport. I have friends that live in the smaller villages that cannot survive without a car, but all they use it for is to drive to a convenient public transport hub.

I’m a petrol head, I love cars and now I’m living somewhere that has almost no public transport, so I now have a car again and I enjoy the freedom and fun that I love about car ownership. But it doesn’t change my opinion about using public transport where it is the better option.

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People who complain about paywalled articles should learn how to internet.

Ok, I’m not an American but I work for and own shares in an American company, so I have an interest. As an outsider it looks obvious that the right wing GOP do not command majority support, if it wasn’t for the archaic electoral system, billionaire backing, obscene gerrymandering and outright cheating, denying votes to people who would never vote for them and making it borderline impossible to vote, the GOP would be largely an irrelevance. It’s “base” are growing old and dying off, and younger people despise them, their only hope of gaining new younger voters seems to be crippling the education system so they are too stupid to realise they are having the wool pulled over their eyes so they vote for party that hurts the people they have been taught to hate rather than they ones doing actual harm to them.

Against this background, the GOP faces a bleak future, it either modernises, helping those who vote for them rather than just those who pay them, or it goes full authoritarian, while they still have enough voters to get them in power, guaranteeing them the power to rule without majority support. It seems like they chose the latter.

It’s truly frightening, the thought of TFG , a soon to be bankrupt felon rotting in jail, a traitor who launched a coup to overthrow democracy is the front runner for the GOP nomination.

I lived in Singapore without a car, there is no need to own a car. I used public transport and ride sharing without ever feeling that having a car would have improved my experience. In Hong Kong it was the same, and I lived in the Northern Territories, however in Sydney we had a car even though public transport was great, because its a big fucking country. Now in Penang, Malaysia there is no usable public transport, so a car is absolutely essential.

These shopping malls in BKK have metal detectors on their entrances, I have set off the detectors many times with cameras and other equipment but never once been stopped. I was in this mall a few months ago and none of the entrances with metal detectors were manned.

The UK wanted to introduce full democracy in Hong Kong prior to the handover to China in 1997. China’s response was to threaten to send in the tanks.

Hong Kong has zero democracy today, the majority of the Legco seats are unelected, and those that are elected, Beijing nominated all the candidates.

Contrast the reaction of the UK to people with direct access to a security minister and foreign affairs committee chair arrested for allegations of having spied for the CCP, bailed until trial next month, with the reaction of the CCP in Hong Kong to individuals like Jimmy Lai, a newspaper owner, held without trial for years for “collusion with foreign powers”. There are thousands of political prisoners in Hong Kong, held without trial.