[–] 4 points 1 day ago

I can see the republicans going for the 25th if they dress it up in very flowery language about how "the president has done a fantastic job but he's become very unwell and for his own health he needs to step down and it's a shame that he isn't able to make that decision for himself any more" or some crap like that, then they might get enough defectors on board for it to pass. They get to keep praising him, claim it's for his own good and that they're doing it because they care about him, rather than the betrayal of voting to impeach and convict.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago*

    OP's is in the street (we call that Tram here, often in cities) while yours is beside it (light train).

    Unless you're New South Wales government, in which case you call your Sydney trams "light rail" because you don't want to admit that Melbourne was right all along to keep its trams instead of ripping up all the tracks because "everyone has cars now". Sydney used to have one of the biggest tram networks in the world until 1961. That was over two decades before I was born but I'm still mad about it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The first game in the reboot series does suffer from a bit of ludonarrative dissonance

    spoilerwhen Lara first kills somebody it's a traumatic experience for her, but after that cutscene she massacres dudes for the rest of the game without batting an eyelid

    but it is a very good game. I really should get around to playing the others, they've sat unplayed in my library for years.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    They drive on the right. Chinese traffic is kind of controlled chaos and people park wherever their car fits, but at least there's still some semblance of order unlike some other countries where it really is just a free-for-all. Road rule enforcement is basically done entirely by fixed cameras (which are all clearly marked on every navigation app), and in between those anything goes. I've never seen a cop pull anyone over in the nearly 3 months I've been here.

    By contrast, Hong Kong is quite different. They drive on the left (a legacy of British colonisation) and drivers are much more predictable. The road rules are more strictly enforced and it generally feels much less chaotic.

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