So this is going to end up with them using lots of public transport budget to build the dedicated high speed bus freeways, the idea immediatly falters for reasons obvious to anyone that hasn’t been kicked in the head by a horse and then ah well, since we have the dedicated bus highway network but no busses might aswell open it to cars

They still make It’s Always Sunny lmao

Play around with some higher graphic settings on Arma 2, maybe it runs better. Odd quirk of the engine that if you run everything on low it offloads more stuff onto the CPU and your GPU might not even be fully utilized

serious question since the article doesn’t go into it: can’t they buy eurospec stuff or is there another law that they have to buy these things from the oligarchy

Shimano Tourney derailleurs are just genuine garbage and I don’t come at this from an elitist standpoint, I’ve spent a lot of time fixing those into somewhat-workable for friends cheap bicycles and they’re the only one I’ve come across that manage to warp out of true while sitting unused in a shed. Definitely not low maintenance at all and especially not if you’ve never even adjusted a properly working derailleur you’re gonna pull your hair out especially with that insane ratio drop on the first hill gear OPs picture has going on.

Also that website has to be wrong, they’re listing an SRAM MRX twist shifter and the tourney derailleur. They have incompatible pull ratios, that’d never gonna work out. I’d assume it’s just a tourney twist shift on OPs picture there and honestly those are garbage, too and a PITA in to service.

That says “critics warn” and they do do that a lot. The FT doesn’t really have the kind of anti-china slant that those critics do honestly, their audience is basically people so wealthy national states don’t particularly concern them and if there’s money to be made in china that’s fine. I mean look at this:

Woke Bond would end up like the Tomb Raider remakes where what that character is and does is so un-uniteable with a concept of woke you’d get an “I’m Bond, James Bond, he/him” before he sexually assaults a nonbinary person

The zizek gnome is a pretty fun marxist look at the fantasy parts of the world

trying to do representation or whatever with the character i think is a weird move, since he’s basically the personification of empire. it makes sense, because how is the character going to stay relevant as the literal west collapses? post soviet collapse, they did a lot of bond villains critiquing arms proliferation, wealthy moguls, and even some blowback with Bardem’s villain. but i think they’re stuck in a self-eating loop and they know it, so this is their “shake it up” play.

what if he just becomes asian again

this is why we need the 3 day weekend, one night of gettting sploinkered off the yoinky, one day to recover and maybe mild chores, one day to appreciate sober and not hungover

as much as I hate cars the 70s - early 2000s station wagon is like the perfect private car. Like if we’re gonna have cars to this amount ideally you’d have one that you drive as little as possible and only when needed, i.e. hauling some shit or 3+ people or similar and the ye olde station wagon does all of that brilliantly

but herbie isn’t a bus?

I straight up don’t get how this looks like an oldschol VW Bug

the fancier models come with screens and lite OSs now where you can do useless stuff like set lights and track puffs and what have you

As other people said, reckless endangerment, criminal negligence, and manslaughter are real charges, but ideally we should be trying to prevent these things from happening beyond simply punishing people who do them.

Just for the understanding, this is still going off of the notion that seatbelt laws are primarily or at least in a major part on account of so other people don’t get hit by people getting thrown out of cars, right?

Dude you’re arguing against points I’ve not made. My point isn’t even about the broad category of “casualties from vehicles”

I mean I am the man with a hammer to whom everything looks like a nail here but it feels sort of autonormativity to figure safety or “safety” laws around cars surely must start from a place of the protection of other people

therefor the creation and enforcement of a social norm is how to make people feel natural to wear a seatbelt. which is a minimal safety mechanism understood about for years with minimal drawbacks.

So why isn’t the dutch reach encoded into law? I’d say that’s about the same inconvenience as wearing a seatbelt which is to say basically none

So if one were to lead a low car or car free lifestyle should that person be eligible to apply for a permit to not have to wear a seatbelt?

What percentage of ski slopes are public utilities exclusively filled with 2-ton+ iron skiers?

What percentage of car drivers do you figure weigh in excess of two tons and are made out of iron? The argument I’m replying to here suggests seatbelts aren’t enforced self-preservation but rather enforced safety for others as if you don’t wear one you could fly through the windshield AND hit somebody else

Skiing at excessive speed is “reckless skiing” or “reckless endangerment”, which is minimally a fine and escalates to criminal charges based on severity in the same way that reckless driving does. In Utah, the class B misdemeanor could put you in jail for 6 months.

Okay so then flying through your windshield into somebody else because you didn’t wear a seatbelt seems like it would be illegal even if seatbelts weren’t mandatory?

Can’t you just boil and filter creek water at home? Do we really need to get the legislature involved over a little giardia risk?

Is there a law against boiling and filtering creek water at home?