They're still part of the seahore-pipefish family at the end of the day. Article made it sound like they were a completely different branch of fish pressured into convergent evolution.

His speed impressed everyone on the assembly line.

It was the third one this week. All he could think to say was "Well well well".

Don't open the seeds and don't return to sender. - https://www.agriculture.com/mysterious-seed-packages-from-china-raise-concerns-spark-warnings-11696780

I got a bit of this from working with pipes in Elixir (no surprise since it was Clojure-inspired) but I fall back to the simplicity of syntax lisp offers. I definitely recommend Janet for ease of tooling and built-in networking.

Reminds me of the time George Costanza finished composing his meta-circular evaluator before instantly transforming into the software installation wizard (relevant timestamp). Never again has the eval-apply dark arts of metaprogramming been conjured so deeply.

Remembering those killed by their government is only "xenophobic" to the government in question.

Nice callback. Kuddos on owning up to the inevitable downvotes.

Optical Disk Drives should be renamed Flash You Invested Worthwhile Dime Windows Yanks To Misappropriate - Drive?

Streisand effect getting the news' attention, guys. Good job.

I say they all have equally horrific connotation. But "forced labor" sounds like "slavery lite edition" when I read it.

Or from another perspective, a 3D Wooly Willy.

You can never get off the corporate AI train.

I mean, "car" is just short for horseless carriage afterall.

I don't know that I've ever seen one of these... Looks like it has gotten tossed around between being classified as a kei-car, compact SUV, and truck. Even the Wikipedia article isn't sure what to do with it.

Thanks for sharing. Watching this on my lunch break now.

Indeed, I should have affixed that context. North American Showerthoughts.

brofu

When things look gnarly they pull out root.

Here's a more-recent article then: https://carnewschina.com/2026/01/22/catl-unveils-worlds-first-mass-production-sodium-ion-battery-for-commercial-vehicles/

Public buses in areas of China trialed these batteries and they didn't live up to their claims which is they can be bought on Alibaba second hand. I don't have the "energy" to find the articles in English as it's out the scope of my original comment anyhow. It's not just claims around CATL batteries, it's an industry-wide problem.