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[Probably @Probably99]

Why do #HKPF allow illegals parking in a bus top just 50m from their HQ?

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Just like MTR then 🤣

[John Herbert @johnherbert]

NY cant afford running escalators now 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@omid9 The VAR decisions are made by full body scans taken before the games. Maybe wear shoes a size smaller when being scanned? Chinese toe binding, anyone?

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@johnherbert Even if the pathetic fine doesn’t deter offenders then 3 points on their driving license should be a major deterrent for fear of losing their license?

All it needs is some policing and I have seen thousands standing around idly these past few days.

[Probably @Probably99]

So $2000 fine for ‘jaywalking’ as a 50+kg person at 5 kph but only a $480 fine for a 2 tonne vehicle running a red light at 50kph?

Do the energy calcs and tell me which is more dangerous?

Better than a $5000 fine for not wearing a seatbelt on a bus that one has no control over

[Aaron Busch @tripperhead]

Hong Kong police are launching another bad driving/jaywalking blitz for the next two weeks starting today.

Which means it's time to bring out the 15m rule. Remember, crossing the road within 15m of a crosswalk or over/under pass may cost you $2k.

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Maybe if you were driving a car at 50kph through a red light then your fine would only be half.

Interesting concept of what HK government considers appropriate laws and fines to protect public safety

[Lee @LP1980AA]

@Probably99 :D I got a $1000 for cycling on the pavement. It was the 1 metre between the road and the start of the cycle lane!

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@johnherbert The answer is to have traffic cams that ticket cars when they jump red lights.

They put up some red lights to shine at the ground at Hennessy Road /Fenwick St. junction but if I stand there for 5 minutes I can guarantee to spot vehicles running the red lights.

Public safety?

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@johnherbert @transit_jam @CleansedTweets The problem is not the vehicles but the drivers and lack of regulation thereof

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@CleansedTweets Hong Kong taxis are a stretch version of the basic Toyota. If you go to Macau you would see the difference. As such they are not ‘small’.

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been formally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026.

Retweet if you believe Zelenskyy deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Probably @Probably99]

@transit_jam I will add that his girlfriend talked me down such that i did not punch his lights out

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@transit_jam I was told by friends afterwards that my initial reaction to want to pull him out of the car and punch his lights out was wrong for HK and I should have just laid in the road pretending to be dead 🤣

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@transit_jam @seanpaulday Yup, been ripped off by Uber in HK myself when I booked a pick up from the Chai Wan crematorium only the third booked car turned up.

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

Is it true that "Taiwan has been a part of China since ancient times", as Beijing often claims?

No, not at all.

Here are some inconvenient facts which most people don't know. I invite the swarm of CCP trolls to try to unpick them.

✅ FACT: Before 1624, Taiwan was inhabited by indigenous Malay-Austronesian populations with no official Chinese administrative presence.

✅ FACT: The Dutch established formal administrative control over Taiwan in 1624, which was recognised by Ming Dynasty representatives as being "beyond [Chinese] territory." The Dutch found no evidence of Chinese administrative control.

✅ FACT: In 1662, the Ming loyalist Koxinga expelled the Dutch after himself being expelled from the mainland. He founded an independent kingdom, seeking to reestablish Ming rule. But the Ming Dynasty itself had already collapsed. This was not rule by "China".

✅ FACT: From 1683 to 1887, Taiwan was managed as a province of Fujien; but Emperor Kangxi considered Taiwan beyond his domain. Indeed, he said as much: ‘Taiwan is outside our empire and of no great consequence.’ There were popular revolts throughout this period.

✅ FACT: Taiwan was formally administered as a province of China for eight years, from 1887 until it was ceded to Japan in 1895. This is the only such period. Shorter than the Dutch.

✅ FACT: Following the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Qing Empire ceded Taiwan to Japan "in perpetuity".

✅ FACT: Local leaders briefly declared an independent Formosa Republic in 1895 to resist Japanese rule, but the Japanese shut this down within five months.

✅ FACT: Between 1926 and 1942, both the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT) supported independence for Taiwan, viewing it similarly to Korea (as an essential part of an anti-Japanese military strategy).

✅ FACT: The CCP changed its mind. After WW2, the party coalesced around an effort to reclaim "lost territories". In 1943 Cairo and 1945 Potsdam declarations were issued which, while not formal treaties, maintained that "all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa (Taiwan), and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China". The 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty left Taiwan’s legal status "undetermined."

✅ FACT: The People's Republic of China (established 1949) has never, in any capacity, exercised control over Taiwan.

As to the territorial claim of what constitutes "China", worthy of note is the highly variable claims to territory (not to mention autonomy and governance structures) over even the past 150 years. See below.

[Probably @Probably99]

@tripperhead Or maybe because they need a large number of crew to run a near empty ship that costs 30x more than a bus with one driver that will use a fraction of the rapidly growing cost of fuel?

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@TheRealThelmaJ1 His ear was hit by a piece of flying Perspex from the rostrum. This is already documented by the medical response team.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

What Privatisation has done for you.

Most expensive Energy in the world.
Dirtest most expensive Water in Europe in England.
Slowest most expensive Mail ever.
Slowest most expensive Trains in Europe
Least number of Hospital beds ever.

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@fhcluk No Apple Daily