Never used them myself but other videos I found make these seem very much like a children's PE class / therapeutic kind of thing. Hopefully some kind Germans can enlighten us on the use case of Pedalos
DashboTreeFrog
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Non-American here. There's a huge market for cheap Chinese goods outside the US. There are a lot of little things where you don't need quality, just "good enough to get the job done". There's a chain of stores all around SEA called Mr. DIY that is basically full of worryingly cheap made in China products and it's thriving.
Then there's the various electronics brands that at least have reliable quality with good specs for the costs. Huge market for those despite bloat, spyware etc. outside of the US. As if you don't get that with practically all mainstream electronics from any country anyway. Plus for non smart electronics, they're fine. Xioami makes a great and cheap precision electronic screwdriver for example. Then there's car companies like BYD that is just killing it in the global EV market.
Not saying the Chinese government is great or anything, they've got hands as bloody as any other global superpower, but I do think Chinese companies can find plenty of willing customers outside of the US.
Tl;dr A lot of the world is willing to buy "cheap garbage", and not everything China is producing is seen as "cheap garbage" anymore.
My first thought reading your comment is of the award winning director of No Other Land who got attacked and detained after having already received his Oscar... Then there's photo journalist Fatma Hassona who was the subject of the documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk who got killed in a bombing alongside her whole family.
We are unfortunately learning that becoming famous doesn't necessarily protect people...
Oh right, and then he said he loves using the laptop now or something like that
I believe he said he started with Mint then moved to Arch, partially because of the memes.
There was a gigantic one back in March, killed over a thousand. A building in Bangkok, Thailand even collapsed.
Not like Myanmar hadn't already been bombing their citizens up to and after the quake though .
Honestly yeah, that was it for me. Seeing him get elected this time was really this feeling of "Oh, that's just how it is over there huh?".
The first time I could just believe your voting systems are messed up with the electoral college and all, and the massive push back that happened. Feelings were also optimistic coming off the Obama years.
But now that he's spent the last several years fully mask off, investigated up and down revealing all the crazy things we'd been hearing about him and his cronies were true, and he still gets elected? By majority vote too?? There's no excuses.
The US is actually just like that huh?
Not saying you ARE definitely neurodivergent, but difficulty with jokes and sarcasm to the extent you're describing is not neurotypical behavior. Basically, no, the behavior is not normal, it's atypical.
Regarding your longer comment, having rigid, unconventional, self-made rules is another behavior I see in a lot of the neurodivergent individuals I work with. Again, not saying you definitely are neurodivergent, but these are not neurotypical behaviors
The fact that I'm learning this from your comment enhances this meme