It improves blood sugar levels by helping the pancreas release insulin and limiting the release of sugar into the bloodstream. Making you less hungry is a side-effect of this.

If I saw one of these clunkers in downtown Milano I would have been as much in the fog as you were, but because I saw them in the villages around the French - German - Swiss triple border, I can give insight. Now, I’m not up to snuff with local vehicle registration, but if it’s a local matter, that makes things very simple. You’re a rich prick living in a village of 250 people, you personally know the mayor, and at least one of his three clerks. The mayor doesn’t know or care about contacting the national vehicle registry to double check if some new fangled car design is road-worthy. After all his drinking buddy already owns a Tesla registered in the locality, and that’s fine, this is just another Tesla right.

And by rich I mean, of course, a bunch of these places have private airstrips. So there’s the perfect mix of local corruption / incompetency, always giving the rich the benefit of the doubt, but also, a very low volume of these vehicles driving very far away from any of the big cities (meaning next to zero reported incidents). And as long as you’re not driving the damn things through people’s barns, the local police has no reason to actually check what’s up with these vehicles, or indeed, if they were even registered properly, and they didn’t move the plates from a literal tractor. But again, there’s little reason to assume plate shenanigans as they might be much easier to register out in the sticks.

Long answer short, how can they be driving cybertrucks if the model is illegal to drive on public roads in the EU? Illegally, of course. How did they get them in the first place? They were most likely rich enough to buy the car from the US and have it be shipped overseas. How can you drive that horrible thing on European tiny ass roads? Out in low density mostly empty roads.

you probably meant it as a joke, but it’s original and intended use was for type-2 diabetes

Oh yeah, the thousand talents progam, which is very public knowledge. Crackers are mad that embargoes cannot be enfored on human beings that might, just like every CEO in any industry, just be persuaded back to china to spill the beans in exchange for a larger paycheck.

I remember trying it for some very basic TTRPG campaign prep and it gave me the most hokey by-the-numbers boring derivative shit I’ve ever seen. You have to keep in mind TTRPG writing is a genre of writing that mostly consists of ripping off books and movies you liked, anyway. And it couldn’t even reach that very low bar. Genuinely concerned idea scroungers never heard of hitting the “random” button on TVTropes.

oh, i’ve seen these things out in the racist villages of europe; they must be registering them as tractors or something and then banking that as long as they drive them far away from the city the local even more racist cops won’t stop them

mark rutte couldn’t save a hot dog stand, you can’t both care for NATO and let rutte anywhere near it

surely, they mean a dyson swarm

no, no, at a restaurant, you feed the animals, not yourself, of course the bunny is still alive when they raise the cloche

Economists have long complained about the low labour productivity in Greece – one of the lowest in the EU, while Greek workers already have the longest working hours in Europe compared to the EU.

Surely, making the hours longer will completely solve this and not make people spend even more time on cookie clicker.

this is one of the reasons why european nations drag their legs on the NATO 2% GDP commitment, because all the money goes to the US anyway, imagine levying a 2% GDP tax on all your allies

OOOHHH, nvm, sorry, i was out of the loop on this one, flew right over my head

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china sent more drone to russia? it’s ok, we’re sending more posters over

no, you don’t get it, russians are for sure making economic decisions on the basis of websites they cannot access because of sanctions and whose trending algorithms work on a per-country basis

he needed to warn him about the cannibals

there are dozens of us, dozens

oh yeah, let’s talk about the people who are really affected by the european elections: the ukrainians; you know, those people who are unilaterally not allowed to live in the EU anymore because Ukrainian embassies and consulates refuse to renew their documents

not beating the allegations

oh yeah, well, the jerk store called, and they’re running out of you!