“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”

• Henry II, exercising his right to free speech.

I have never owned a car that did not already belong to 2 family members prior. Surprisingly, I have yet to be kicked down the social ladder and sweep dung for a living.

Also, used cars are like 3000€ here. I have no idea of used cars, but at some point having them be serviced every year should be cheaper than monthly payments, right?

Isn’t it super normal to move and turn while sleeping? Is sleeping on the left side so much better that doing it for the first hour only has a noticeable impact? Or do you also need a weighted blanked to keep you in place for it to have that effect?

Sounds like pseudoscience to me.

Toasters. Specifically the Sunbeam Radiant Control toaster, with the tag line “Automatic Beyond Belief!”. There is a fan site (https://automaticbeyondbelief.org/, excellent url). Like, what other appliance line has a fan site? Surely no modern day toaster!

But of course I first heard about it from Technology Connections video.

It might just be my personal experience, but I am German and my personal birth rate has been steady all my life.

To add anything of substance here, there’s a good ol Kurzgesagt video on this. TLDW: Global phenomenon, hard to predict, just investing more money on parents and their needs has been tried and did not really work. Governments should still try to ease the burden of new parents because Jesus Christ they have it hard enough.

Somewhere else I heard that maybe our pessimistic look at the future is to blame and we should try to spread optimism more (or lay the foundation for a better future so people can actually be optimistic), but that’s less well researched. Not least because optimism isn’t easily quantifiable.

I don’t know if it’s me, my country or my perception, but “delivery contractor” isn’t really a thing here. I believe because our government was just good enough to spot this obvious skirting of labour laws.

Since they couldn’t as easily exploit the driver, they made the service more expensive and worse. Or they just acted as the ones who would forward your order to the restaurant… but then most people I know just order directly to have better service. I think we ordered via such a service once, after much delay the driver told us the order took 30 minutes to even get to them. Could have lied, but couldn’t have used that excuse if we ordered directly.

Now to your point, as they are just regular employees, they don’t have to wait in the car, the company doesn’t want them to get stuck in traffic, and high urbanization means you can only drive 50km/h 90% of the time anyway, delivery is done with Scooters.

Tomorrow.

You claimed that lack of skill is the primary reason. How about you back that thing up before claiming that the video is wrong?

We can argue that some more regulation is needed, sure, but that is missing the point. It’s not like the Netherlands only has good drivers, it’s that a bad driver can rarely deal heavy damage because the infrastructure was well designed. You cannot remove all bad drivers from the road, the best driver in the world makes bad decisions if they’re stressed and late.

You can blame the driver for making a bad decision and see the casualties as unfortunate. Or you can see the fault in the infrastructure, which made what could have been a fender-bender into a head-on collision, and see the casualties as preventable. Those views are not exclusive, but only the latter will actually prevent accidents.

Are you sure it’s not that the road design is much safer in the Netherlands, like the video said?

You seem to do exactly what the video is criticising: finding someone at fault and moving on, instead of changing the street design so that a lack of skill does not result in catastophic crashes.

There are like 4 days a year everyone just puts their old sofas, broken TVs and other junk outside to be collected by a garbage truck the next day. As this furniture is mostly usable, people in white vans go around to collect the most valuable stuff, which makes up most of the traffic in villages on those days and causes old people to complain about Polish immigrants.

The village children also have a look around if the weather is nice. Village adults don’t, not because they are above it, but since there is a genuine risk a neighbour you’ve known for decades will sue you for stealing; the garbage does belong to them still as the courts have determined.

Edit: Sorry for forgetting the most important part.

I have nothing but contempt for this business model.

Really? I’m also not sure why exactly he’s being downvoted, but only bc there’s many possible reasons.

• There’s no way transit-stabbings are a real problem, anywhere. Even in the grungiest places, it has to be a fake problem like elevator cables snapping or plane crashes and it’s all fear-mongering.
• You can make these comments everywhere and they’re always unhelpful. Oh, a “bus is high capacity” post? Yeah, but they’re unsafe here, I’ll pass. Oh, a “bus is super safe” post? Yeah, but they’re very infrequent here, I’ll pass. Oh, a “bus is super frequent post”? Yeah, but we only have small ones, I’ll pass.
• The comment implies smug dismissal, yet that problem and the post’s problem have the same solution: more investments in public transport.

I’m starting to develop a vigor for public transit to match the one forced on us for car infrastructure in the 60s. Bigger, taller, more, I want 3 bus lanes and a tram line to any town in the country. We can do no wrong taking back all the space we gave to the car, as long as the garbage truck fits on the street, car users can share 1 lane both directions. Take their parking, take their license for rolling stops and using their phone, gift them e-bikes.

Make transit free, let the highways rot, expand the railways. Sorry for that pothole, all the money was used up by rail.

Just anything better than we have now. If we have to act fast and break things, so be it.

I’ll assume since I am someone else, but kernel level anti-cheat is basically Spyware, or at least a privacy concern.

As implied in my first comment, I’m luckily not a US citizen. So asking where my line would be is a bit weird.

But when there is a better option with any chance of winning, they would have my vote. But since the Palestinian Genocide is happening either way I’d vote this election, Dems it is to reduce the suffering inside the USA. Support is, to me, something different, and I don’t think I would support the dems right now.

The Democrats and Republicans are both 99% Hitler, ergo voting for either is voting for the greater evil.

If you are a woman, POC or queer, it is usually really easy to choose a lesser evil here (or idk, a neo-nazi, as I framed this as why a non-voter might also help the democrats). Most people can choose a lesser evil, and they help the greater one by not voting/voting 3rd party. If you literally can’t see a difference, that’s fine, but this is the reason why most people are better of not voting 3rd party right now.

If the Democrats lose left wing voters by pushing rightward and lose, are they going to go even further right?

Yup, they can make that decision. Maybe they think appealing to the block of Republicans is easier, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they do considering that’s where their money is and how much they need to change to appeal to the left.

(…) may shift leftward to regain lost votes. Unconditionally supporting the Democrats only furthers their genocidal tendencies.

So, you don’t know how it would help. Either the Democrats stay in Power and won’t change, or the Republicans gain power and nothing will change until 2028 (or later, depending how project 2025 comes along). Hoping that they may change on Palestine is foolish. You are correct about the support, it should never be unconditional.

By your logic, Libertarians and Non-Voters are also helping Trump.

Whomever they think is the bigger evil, they help by not voting for the lesser evil. For why, see my first comment.

Depends on where they lost their votes from.

Disagree.

Kamala and Trump are united on Gaza, voting for either will only result in more death and destruction.

And voting for neither will also result in more death and destruction. You are refusing to explain how your choice would help, and I can make some damning assumptions why.

Leftists hate the dems and the reps, but now you are saying they help Trump by voting for their interests.

Correct. You seem to know all about the voting system, I don’t need to explain to you why that is.

If the Dems lose votes to Leftists, and they wish to regain those votes, they have to move leftward. They won’t ever be Socialist, correct, but they move to where they lose votes.

They will move in the direction they think they can get more votes. The past has shown that even when they lose, they prefer to move “center” rather than left.

No, voting for genocide is not the best for Palestinian Genocide, unless you support the Genocide.

Please explain how voting for your alternative 3rd party candidate, sitting at 0.3% at the polls if I’m not mistaken, will help.

The part of them fiercely fighting any 3rd party was a good point though. Still, the Momentum isn’t there.

Voting 3rd party is not and will not lead to revolution.

Nothing I said implies Democrats are entitled to any votes, just basic statements about options and their outcomes.

Because of the terrible voting system, all those voting for Jill Stein will not affect the outcome. Voting 3rd party is barely better than not voting at all. If they would have otherwise preferred the Democrats, this helps Trump.

I also don’t think voting 3rd party will make Democrats adopt more leftist policies, as that risks losing centrist voters and their big business sponsors they rely on.

It’s a shame, but the best vote is one for Harris. Even when it comes to the Palestinian Genocide. If you want more 3rd party options, try to win a local election first and build momentum from there, don’t start with nothing 6 months before and try to win the federal election from there.