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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • I’ve seen over an over an “environmental” measure that causes this: disallowing cars only in central areas.

    This means that people who actually need to use the car to get to work have to drive a much longer distance, only through less affluent areas, as if pollution didn’t matter over there.

    I was in a situation a few years ago (not in the UK) where I had to drive to work because the only other way to get to the office/factory in time for the morning would have been to take a train the night before and camp in front of the factory. During that time there were some similar measures by the local government and I kept thinking how bonkers it was that using more fuel could be more “environmentally friendly”. It wasn’t - I was just polluting near people the government didn’t care about.






  • A very minor one, but only in a roundablut way. Valve weren’t targeting a performance boost, but a battery increase. They went for a newer generation of their processor with roughly the same processing power and slightly more efficiency. The thing is, because of the added efficiency it can sustain high loads without throttling for longer. Between that and the minute differences in processing power, it happens to have a tiny bit of a performance boost, but it’s very very minor.