It is so messed up how every part of our society is secretly tuned to make being poor trapped yet every rung up the ladder to being wealthy, the journey gets a little easier by hidden subsidies like this.

The post mentions it is at 2 am so our toilet tumbler may have entered the bathroom without any lights and just went through the motions.

A dragons meat would be somewhat toxic since it so high up in the food chain. It has a long life and a lot of prey that helps it bioaccumulate things like mercucry and lead.

How would you tell you’re looking at a synchronized digital clock or cheap battery model?

There are tons of equipment and tools out there that very closely resemble an analog clock and require the same skills. Pressure gauges for example. These skills are not out dated.

IMO all the more reason to keep them. In the real world we all have to perform under pressure. With practice they can learn to read the clock under pressure, maybe take a breath or two and slow down before trying to read it. It may be a simple hurdle to overcome but practicing overcoming these things is important for development.

So what OP is saying is that UBI won’t get rid of landlords

Whoever bought the land first gets to profit, just like real life. Oh you can’t afford to pay? Guess you’re out of the game now

Beer before is typically okay if you don’t drink a lot of it. If you crush a 6 pack without eating anything then do some shots your guts might not be happy

Beer before liqour, never been sicker. Liqour before beer you’re in the clear. Some of them just tapered off the night with some cold ones.

He knows that their age is high enough or their IQ low enough that they won’t likely be alive anymore by the next election cycle.

Which is a big part of the problem. But not all Netherlands cities are super dense, many have suburbs serviced by transit and with cycling paths. When they were built they considered transit and cycling access when they built them.

There is also the issue of land use. Many of those cities have looser zoning laws than the states which makes it easier for stores to open near peoples homes and scattered throughout the city rather than having to go to a massive commercial district with walmart and 5 other big box stores in a wasteland of parking.

No one is saying a tiny farming town of 500 people needs high speed rail but cities into the 100s of thousands of people can certainly support a transit network, and many did before their trams were ripped out and their right of way given to cars.

The new york city subway is often faster than driving. Many cities in the Netherlands have faster transit or cycling times than driving due to careful planning and priority. Japan has high speed rail connecting many of its cities, most trains going faste than highway speeds, some doubling or even tripling highway speeds.

Also north america was founded on trains. If we could build trains 100 years ago we can build better ones now.

All of those issues could be fixed by building around transit being the prioirty instead of the car. Some cities actually have transit that is faster than a car because transit gets priority at intersections and can take a more direct route.

The majority of trips people make are within their own city/local region. Thats where transit should be implemented first. Your country is not “too big” for transit

If your country is too big for transit, it is certainly too big for all sorts of sensors and such in the roads to assist autonmous driving.

Or just buld a tram that rides on rails. More effecient and no need to over engineer an autopilot system

I don’t want to waste any more tax money trying to make one of the least effecient modes of transport more autonomous. Just build an electricrfied tram if thats what you want.

Okay but forty and fourty are pronunced the same way. And I’m sure fivety wouldn’t sound funny if thats how we started off.

Edit: and seventy, eighty, ninety all use their original number spelling.

To be fair, it is kinda dumb that four has a U, but forty doesn’t.

All the “self driving” cars are trying to evolve into proper trams and railways