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BYD Seal tips, tricks and help
Is the Seal Performance sold out? I went to two dealerships. The first one said they don't have it, but might have a used (test drive car) for sale, but it was not in that shop (I want to look first) and not the color I want. The second dealership asked me for a 10k deposit which I paid, and the salesman asked me for up to 2 weeks to confirm that they have it. If they don't (which I think will be the case), he said I'll get my deposit back. I would wait a few months if I knew for sure that the new model is coming, but there are zero confirmations or even rumours about that. -
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Ukraine (and everyone involved) is loosing the war.
We all use language that reflects our worldview. You seem to have a very partial view of Northern Ireland, which may be outside the scope here, but it appears aligned with the maximalist Protestant domination of the statelet in the years leading up to the civil rights movement. That movement simply sought equal rights and fair access to housing and employment on par with Protestants. For their efforts, however, peaceful demonstrations were met with violent resistance from paramilitaries. Initially, the Catholic community even welcomed the British Army, hoping it would defend them from escalating violence and pogroms. As for the Jewish protests around the Soviet exhibition I’m not sure I witnessed them, or if I did, I no longer remember. What I do know is that Jewish progressives made an enormous impact on the development of socialism and Marxism. Marx himself was Jewish, as were Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and countless others. It’s also worth noting that Russia hosts the only other self-governing Jewish autonomous state in the world, and historically was often more accommodating to Jews than many of the Ukrainian nationalists you appear to favour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast And I don’t subscribe to a simplistic “Russia good, West bad” view. My position is straightforward: the UK is an island nation with nuclear weapons, but we are effectively bankrupt as a country, weighed down by vast entitlements and a shrinking productive economic base. Given this reality, we should step back from acting as the world’s policeman and stop trying to reshape the world on our own terms. And with the election of Trump who has effectively withdrawn support from international commitments the situation is doubly precarious. I subscribe to a realist, pragmatic view of the emerging world, not a knee-jerk reaction to the old one that is disappearing before our eyes, and one that could otherwise lead us toward World War III and a conflagration that might destroy us all. Look at this video it came after Hungary - the "tankie" year of a break on the left , in the very year I was born. Only a fool discounts Russia’s ability to wage total war and rally its population behind it. The idea that it is “an Upper Volta with a gas station” is nonsense, peddled by those who wish to downplay the threat in order to gain support for provoking it. The Western crime is that we have goaded and manipulated Russia through Ukraine for decades, incubating this terrible impasse that is now slowly but surely destroying Ukraine, while also unraveling European security and weakening the projection of Western power. As Lindsey Graham tellingly pointed out, the West has damaged the Russian economy and degraded its armed forces without a single drop of American blood being shed. Yet in the process, we have also crippled our own economies, especially Germany, the powerhouse of Europe. We have stripped our arsenals to the bone, leaving us barely able to fight a war against anyone, while driving Russia into the arms of China, the rising hegemon. We have even given North Korea the chance to gain combat experience, just as America edges toward abandoning South Korea to its fate. When the history books are written, two pivotal moments will stand out in the decline of the West. The first was the fall of the Twin Towers what Osama bin Laden chillingly called “the beginning of the end of America” and the vast lives and treasure squandered chasing shadows in the Middle East. The second is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and NATO’s fateful wager under American leadership that it could “win” this confrontation. As Thucydides warned, “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” In this gamble, we risk proving ourselves neither strong nor wise. Batten down the hatches - everything is going to get worse everywhere - the Ukraine war is merely the amuse-bouche to that bloody buffet. -
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On the street view of whats really going on in the UK right now
That's what they said with Brexit, this and that will happen, immigration will be brought under control, UK will be sole sovereign, not Brussels. Yet, years down the line and you're still moaning about Brussels. -
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Russia braces for eventual return of its enormous army
LONDON (Reuters) -For Russian wife killer Azamat Iskaliyev, the war was a one-way ticket out of jail. The 37-year-old had served less than a third of a nine-year murder sentence - for stabbing his spouse to death in his car in the summer of 2021 because she wanted a divorce - when he was freed and pardoned by Russia in return for fighting in Ukraine. The six-month battlefield stint didn't diminish his appetite for violent revenge against women who spurned him. After returning to civilian life, he knifed an ex-girlfriend more than 60 times in the shop where she worked in October last year after she rejected his advances. In July, he was jailed for more than 19 years for the frenzied murder. Many of those returning to civilian life will never earn anything like the generous salaries they now receive, which will create discontent, the same source said. Heroes and villains: Russia braces for eventual return of its enormous army One reason why Putin may not want to stop the war. The return of psychos, both killers released from jail to enlist, plus those turned killers by war, causing mayhem throughout Russia. FILE PHOTO: Azamat Iskaliyev, accused of the murder of his ex-girlfriend, stands in a courtroom cage as he is sentenced to 19.5 years in jail, in Saratov, Russia July 9, 2025. Saratov Regional Court/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo© Thomson Reuters -
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ATTENTION Bangkok members who use K-Bank (Kasikorn Thai)
The Chaengwattana location will close effective the 12th of Sept and the closest location will be the one at IT Square Laksi Plaza <- which BTW; doesn't open until 11am. 😮 This is the notice on the K-Bank location on the 1st floor of C/W Someone on another thread asked about when it was closing and as I was out at Chaengwattana today I checked but sadly couldn't find the thread where they asked 😞 -
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On the street view of whats really going on in the UK right now
Reform will end the ECHR so we can deport who we deem illegal no court appeals lock them up in a security unit identify if he or she can stay with evidence to back it up and if not removed from the Country.
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