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Public transportation seemed to work well in Brussels, Paris, Prague, Copenhagen, and even Edinburgh. Just thinking of the last few cities I was in outside of the Netherlands (leaving out the USA, which is obviously a nightmare for transportation of all kinds). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In Europe:

In the US:

Not exactly the same years, of course, and comparing data sets is tricky.

I don’t think that we see the same increase in pedestrian fatalities in other countries though, which do have smart phones but do not have massive personal trucks.

He can still veto it, right?

In principle we shouldn’t worry so much about individual consumer actions, but…

By 2020, the most recent numbers available, the E.P.A. estimated that the emissions controls had been removed from more than 550,000 diesel pickup trucks over the prior decade, or roughly 15 percent of all diesel trucks originally certified with those controls.

This seems to have become an commercial industry at scale, so is a genuine problem.

Ultimately since we have such a huge wealth gap, normal people won’t be able to compete with the rich who can buy homes as investments.

I guess it’s nice that it’s not just a handout to developers.

It’s in the fine article:

The EA’s main complaint seems to be that the dredging was significant enough that it constitutes a flood risk.

China is by no means perfect, but framing a country doing exactly as what every country should be doing as somehow sinister or having nefarious motives smacks of deep anti-Chinese indoctrination.

Killing any news source that values truth in any way is a goal. So, mission accomplished by the fascists.

Are you being ironic? I can’t tell. 🤔

Surely all screens should be sapphire then?

Either make them more circular to give the nostril a more round appearance, or make them taller on the other side to show the profile of the nose a bit more. At least, those would be my first options.

Maybe find a closed mouth solution too.

I didn’t see a single ad. I recommend getting an ad blocker!

The police exist to protect capital and the capital class. They’re not incompetent, they’re doing their job just fine.

Subtitles, comrades. Subtitles.

If you live in a country with 19th century banking where people still pay each other by IOU on little pieces of paper, then sure. In modern countries a lot of places only take electronic payments.

In the USA there is an assumption that people speed a little in their cars all the time. So speed limits are set lower than they should be, because people will go over them. People know this, and assume that the speed limits are deliberately set too low.

This leads to nonsensical situations like where you have a road with a 35 miles per hour speed limit, and then a yellow warning sign in front of a bend in the road warning that 35 miles per hour is the maximum safe speed. Like, why is the sign necessary if that’s already the speed limit?

One day when the toungin’ is done, we’ll take our leave and go.

https://youtu.be/UgsurPg9Ckw?is=f6uoQN0J7Choy_ow

Oh yes that was it!

So, mod removed. I feel less annoyed. 😄

I did notice a post that was looking for help, then apparently labelled “solved”… then deleted for some reason. 😞