VibeSurgeon

Why would you even build these as stand-alone houses. Homes of this size make far more sense as apartments

I assume most of them will have no citizenship in a second country for them to be accepted in.

A pragmatic solution would be to deport them out to sea.

You can quite literally buy him on Cameo, is this a joke or something

Definitely. It’s set back progress decades, sadly.

Vehicular cycling is a bad idea in the General case, i.e when used to advocate against protected bicycle infrastructure, but sometimes it’s necessary for me on account of the very limited bike lane width. It’s not fair to the slower cyclists to have to contend with me riding at twice their speed. Since I’m also riding at the speed limit for the road, I don’t think it’s unfair to the drivers either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Very_Light_Rail

This has a certain gadgetbahn-smell over it and I remain skeptical.

Ditching catenaries for batteries make the vehicles heavier, requires them to be out of service for a part of the day to recharge and increases capex per vehicle instead of taking the capex on catenaries.

The claims of autonomous driving seem dubious - this usually warrants a level of separation that’s rarely afforded to trams. It’s possible, but it for sure requires not cheaping out on the infrastructure.

Ditching timetables in favour of some kind of demand-driven dispatch reduces the predictability of the network, and also seems unnecessary if the claims of autonomous driving are actually true. Maybe they have to cheap out on the amount of vehicles when making each vehicle more expensive with the batteries.

Who knows, maybe the numbers work out better than what we can see here, but until then, I remain skeptical. I hope to be proven wrong.

You might want to get that checked out.

Spotify and Major Music Labels

Queue the chubbyemu intro music

Must be ragebait, right?

They are great, but the price tag is a bit hard to justify to be honest.

A bidet attachment for about €75 though? Incredible value

This doesn’t match my experience with them at all - the sizing of them was comparable to the standard sizes found in Sweden where I live, which was more than enough.

The right-wing that is currently in power doesn’t really see it that way, unfortunately.

I’m not sure it’s even possible for me to cringe harder at this point

Wind and solar just aren’t enough.

Wind + solar + storage is both enough and beating nuclear at this point, and by the time the next nuclear power plant actually manages to get online, the calculation will be even further in favour of that mix, on account of the absolutely plummeting cost of storage, which is following the same trend as solar used to, with costs reductions >98%. Not to mention the built-in resilience you get from having a more widely distributed instead of having a few nodes producing the lion’s share of your power.

I don’t have any ideological opposition to nuclear. If you manage to build it without massive subsidies and taking care of your waste, feel free to build them. That’s happening in exactly 0 places worldwide though.

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison