I guess it probably varies by location but 5 over the limit doesn’t usually result in anything either. It’s normally just people going significantly over that get fines.

Also it’s a limit, not a target. Plenty of roads have a limit that is too high to actually drive at safely too.

Alternative option is not to pirate the books and instead read the public domain ones that are just free. Project Gutenberg is a good completely legit source of free books.

If libraries didn’t already exist and you tried to make one now, you would be arrested and likely get pretty hefty sentencing for copyright infringement.

Why would you help someone driving dangerously and putting others at risk?

The US seems especially fucked politically. At least here in the UK we have greener options.

Search for information. Get reddit with a mix of bot posts and a long list of Ai generated sites that don’t even make sense.

You get economic depression and oil wars under the banner of a child fucker.

Pretty depressing hearing the media about it here. Countless people were killed in missile strikes across the middle east today, now we talk about the real issue, petrol prices have gone up slightly.

You still use coal for power like it’s the 1800s? Solar panels are pretty cheap at this point.

Somehow, Trump is doing more to push renewables than any other president.

Only one I can think of that hasn’t already been mentioned: rsync

I often struggle with pacing in general, park run here is like 600 or so people so I usually keep with others for a while.

This is why I generally avoid live services, and new releases from devs I have never heard of. For a new game I have found giving it a month or two to let the hype die down, then check if it’s still worth getting.

If people still love it, like Valheim, it’s probably a safe buy.

I haven’t found the first 5 mins too bad. It’s the last 5 mins that suck on a 5k. Just did my first running end to end and by the end the only thing keeping me going was determination to keep going as I had already been going for so long.

Without the need to spend 40 hours a week on making profit for unproductive members of society (shareholders) just to be allowed food and shelter, just think what people could achieve.

There are countries with less sun than the UK?

Joking aside, don’t people in poor countries use less energy in general. Being poor means they can’t afford much energy in the first place.

But another point, if I can afford to do it myself on below average income, why can’t the country do it with the benefits of scale for bulk ordering things? Not only can I afford it, but the payback time is getting surprisingly short.

I am not even rich though, I earn barely over minimum wage.

If I can consider going fully renewable (partly driven by pure spite toward energy companies and the oil industry) then surely many others could too.

All people, but yes. Also more bike infrastructure.

I live in a country with communist healthcare so at least that isn’t too much of an issue. Looking to move my house to ~100% renewable energy within ideally the next few years at most, got a few other things to look at first like replacing all the windows to hold heat in better. Already moved completely off gas, but as the grid isn’t doing it any time soon I guess I will just build my own solar generation instead, my usage is already low enough it should be pretty achievable too.

Its more that I have seen for over a decade now “think of the poor” often used to talk about things I couldn’t even dream of being able to afford in the first place. Its as if people only care about poverty when it is convenient to them. I am pretty sure that the disabled get the same treatment. Disabled people need cars! Ignoring the fact that some are disabled because of cars, or completely unable to drive because of their disability while being able to walk/cycle or take the tram if those options are available and safe to use.

When the cost of living became popular I saw a lot of “I make <8x my income> and am struggling to afford food” on TV from middle class people, at the time it felt very much like no one gave a shit about the poor until they were also struggling to afford what I had always considered to be a luxury. To them food was now £150 a week, to me it was £20 a week largely comprised of things like fried onions and beans, rice, potatoes and various other root vegetables.

Cycling is just cheaper than a car. Walking too. Some of us have to because we don’t have any other choice

Can’t really be that poor if you can afford to drive a car, for a long time I only had enough to ride a bike and pretty sure my bike was older than most cars on the road.