Step one: build rapidly, with little more than token acknowledgment that there is an alternative to cars for transportation.

Step two: act shocked and surprised when cars (trucks, really) travel at high rate of speed through the streets (that are designed to move traffic around quickly) and kill pedestrians and cyclists.

They’re running generators to power the data centre. Apparently they’re incredibly inefficient if they’re releasing methane

The reason q3 and q4 are slow is because people like you who suffered from severe cranio-rectal inversion a) don’t want to approve vacation and b) won’t let people accrue vacation so everyone suddenly is pressured to take long weekends (instead of a real vacation) towards the end of the year.

I don’t really sympathize with the government or media producers on this one, but I do see it’s a challenging problem they’ve built up in their mind. However, legalizing at-will censorship is not a great way to address this

It’s also a job as you allude to where early retirement needs to be part of the plan. It’s a good job but hard on the body and it’s hard to create an efficient way to reduce the amount of weight that they need to lift in a day.

I know a few who were union and pensioned off, retired in their 50s but that doesn’t change the way their joints feel.

Not sure if it’s better or worse than turd herding.

Just a small quibble.

In the late 1950s, a cheap American car cost about $14k.

You’ve shifted a decimal point.

• Bel Air $1987
• Studebaker $1855
• Oldsmobile 88 $3541

https://www.rd.com/list/this-is-how-much-classic-cars-cost-in-the-1950s-and-what-theyre-worth-today/

One thing to bear in mind, though, is that these cars were generally shit. Today, 100,000mi is a reasonable distance for a car to go before the first owner considers selling it on; in the 50s it was easily half that. I’ve heard, but can’t cite a source, that 3-5 years was the upper limit for most of them.

This was a time when a lot and custom home could be gotten for $5-10k

Do you have to retake the exams and tests? Think about the logistics involved in that as you won’t have a car to take them in.

You’ll need an alternate ID card. The ubiquity of a drivers license as proof of residence and photo ID is highly convenient.

Save a penny, spend a dollar is what this sounds like. Give it 5 years and see how often you use it. There’s a lot of Canada you can’t get to on public transit.

Yeah I was going to put the background reference in but the study didn’t have it. I feel that’s important.

14.9dB is a BIG increase.

Thanks for including the 2000 Corolla. I forget how big they’ve gotten.

Bad example on BMW; their recent design language with the beaver tooth grills is terrible

Look at the 1950 American cars. They’re wild.

One reason for the perception that cars look fancy or not is that you become accustomed to a design when you see it all the time.

Supercars are wildly impractical, and slapping that body on a Corolla chassis would make a Corolla that only seats 2 and has no space for bags, but somehow takes up a lot more space than a Corolla. Also, downforce is bad for fuel efficiency.

Your note at the bottom is interesting. The perceived luxury of a car is not related to the quality of the vehicle. As a car guy with a penchant for German cars, I do have to admit that while they’re wonderful in many ways, a beige Corolla or Civic will stand far more abuse.

Signing an email generates a string that can be used with your public key to verify the contents haven’t been tampered with and that it came from you (assuming that you haven’t leaked the private key).  Encrypting an email is a different process; you’ll need the recipients public key, and they will decrypt with their private key.

The intent of the design of public key cryptography is that the public key can be shared freely without risk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography

Awesome! Keep at it and you’ll be smashing multiples!

They are so fucked up when they leave that they don’t have the capacity to do much.

And even so, the institutions are protected. The people who get out “have a track record”.

Sounds about right. The trash collectors around here work like they’re on piecework.

Complete garbage way to treat people - offer the appreciation bbq but no reduction in work.

I made it to chapter 60 over the last 90 minutes.

I can’t even describe how angry I feel about that. Expletives don’t fit. I’m not big on death penalty, but I think these people deserve it - more than some who are sentenced to death.

I also am feeling incredibly grateful that my parents didn’t get caught up in the scam.

Sounds like they’re choosing to work instead of attending. A bit of an odd situation.

Latin incantations are all you need to get out of trouble!

How about them abandoned wells?

Better to address the problem before it starts. All these massive projects should have a cleanup fund before they put a shovel in the ground, whether it’s renewable energy, a factory complex, or a mine.

Dodged that bullet, wow.