Important detail: they weren’t just warned by the Americans, but by multiple countries.
Just to add:
Etc. etc. etc.
Better than ICE cars. Way more efficient
Not necessarily.
Just compare fuel consumption figures, and bizarrely a small car can consume less fuel than a relatively modest bike. Especially if you factor in hybrids or diesels.
And that’s for a car that hopefully transports passengers at least some of the time.
Obviously, I am talking as someone who lives in Europe. While I assume they still sell plenty of small, underpowered and very efficient cars in Asia, I suspect there’s less market for those in the Americas.
I suspect the safety problem is mainly a car problem.
They should have been first in line for electrification but instead they’re lagging behind cars.
Depends on where you live. Asia and Europe there are plenty, although they’re often scooters or slower speed bikes. Not that you need much more in an urban environment.
There’s also the whole electric bike thing. Depending on where you live, at least some electric bikes are actually closer to motorbikes. And if they’re not, the electric bike is often subject to less stringent legislation and regulation than an electric motorbike. That can mean the difference between having to get a license or not.
e: relevant FortNine video:
Why would you need a freezer to treat rice?
I do genuinely enjoy buying enough rice to last a year. Also bought a great cheap rice cooker at my local Chinese grocer. Idiot proof and almost certainly saves electricity.
I think I once worked out that the rice based meal I’d just eaten had cost less than a euro to make.
Meh.
Homelessness is heavily correlated with mental health issues, childhood (sexual) abuse, and/or childhood deprivation. A lot of these people were fucked before they even got a start in life, through no fault of their own.
It’s easy to think they’re in the position they’re in because of some kind of moral failing. It’s comforting, it allows us to pretend it couldn’t happen to us. It’s good for our egos, we get to pretend our relative success is a result of how great we are.
But the sad reality is that for a lot of people, especially outside the western world, life is fundamentally unfair and no amount of talent or drudgery will do much to significantly improve their situation in life. Realistically the most they can hope to improve their children’s chances, and it’s still a long shot.
Hell, it is almost certain that there are cleaners working at Tesla, who are both more intelligent and hardworking than Elon Musk. But they were born in the wrong place, to the wrong parents, and with the wrong skin colour and/or genitals.
You’d be surprised how many homeless people have hard science degrees or previously ran succesful businesses. Bad luck, ill health, medical bills, a family member who needs to be taken care of, (government) corruption, fraud, theft, builders didn’t fix your roof right and you’re stuck with the bill and negative equity, etc.
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.
The idea that hard work will set you free, a slogan that historically featured above many a concentration camp gate, is a comforting lie but a lie none the less.
AI.
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How do you say “I’m very lonely” in C++?
For example, you hear a word that sounds (exactly/a bit) like another word, and can tell it’s not that other word, because the other word has a different gender. Or you only really need to learn one word because both are very similar. Some examples:
Spanish : La Nina/La Nino. Both basically the same world (female/male child) and sound the same, unlike boy/girl in English.
Dutch : Het jacht = the boat / yacht, de jacht = the hunt. No need to guess the meaning of the word from the context, you can go by gender.
Spanish: El Capital = Capital as in money, La Capital = Capital as in Capital City.
French: Un Livre = a book. La livre = pound sterling.
A common beauty hack is to match your lipstick colour to the colour of your nipple, so yeah.
This being said, maybe the Romulans or Vulcans in question have a fetish for humans.
I live in a western European country. A few anecdotes to illustrate what Americans don’t get about healthcare:
I was involved in a serious accident and the passenger in my car was taken to hospital in an ambulance and had to have scans, etc. It ended up costing 1000 Euros.
One of my teeth needed to be replaced by a dental implant. I had it removed, a bone graft was necessary, then a few months later they drilled a metal pin into the jaw bone, then they placed a crown on it. The pin was Swiss made, the dentist did a 3d scan of the inside of my mouth for the crown. I had a few return visits. It ended up costing me 3000 Euros total, but I specifically spread the appointments around the new year: november - january. This was a big deal for me, as I was unemployed and needed to dip into my already small savings.
I had a headache, so I bought myself some paracetamol(tylenol?) at the drug store. 50 for 2 euros.
Sounds ok, right?
Here’s the thing that Americans don’t get. These are all fully private prices.
The first incident, I received a bill because it would have to be paid by the other party’s insurance. 1000 Euros was the fully private cost without government intervention. The accident had happened just across the border in another country.
The second anecdote, this was also the fully private cost. Dental implants are not covered by healthcare. I have supplemental private dental insurance (20 Euros per month), which has a maximum deductable of 2000 Euros per year. Spreading it out meant I ended up spending only a few hundred euros, after I received money from my insurance a few weeks later.
The US system isn’t just absurdly expensive for people who aren’t insured, it’s absurdly expensive compared to fully private healthcare in plenty of developed countries.
Hell, have a look at how much it costs to get plastic surgery in the US. A boob job is likely to cost you less than a visit to the ER, despite the latter being a far more involved and expensive operation.
It seems obvious to me that a lot of price gouging and anti-competitive behaviour is going on in US healthcare, and simply regulating (not privatising) properly would already make things far more affordable. How else can you explain healthcare costs per capita being up to three times as high as comparably developed countries, but outcomes often being worse? Healthcare shouldn’t have to cost this much. The healthcare industry can make a reasonable profit while charging far more reasonable prices.
TLDR: you’re getting ripped off, but you have no choice in the matter, because what are you going to do if it’s an emergency? You can’t just leave the country.
You can mask the noise with nuclear strikes.
A lot of stuff is meditation.
Eg. so called ‘motorcycle emptiness’ is very similar to zen meditation. You’re entirely focussed on the here and now. Same thing for driving (fast), gardening, golf, sports, etc.
Vanity. It’s the Devil’s favourite sin.
Given this is nostupidquestions, I’m going to treat this like it’s a serious question.
This being said and not that I believe in it, but you might as well do it right and start by reading something like this:
Or this:
https://archive.org/details/the-book-of-abramelin-german-to-english-translation/page/32/mode/2up
(For the Fallout fans, this is almost certainly where the name of the Parson’s State Asylum Abremalin Field Generator in Fallout 4 comes from.)
Or this:
Or read up on Crowley, who was also inspired by lots of this kind of stuff.
It’s all super interesting, because this kind of thing has been bubbling under the mainstream for centuries, often vestiges of pre-christian pagan religion basically, even if a lot of it is quite modern. Movies and fictional works which do their research and incorporate elements of this are also quite interesting:
Examples: Antichrist (2009), The Witch(2015) and Annihilation(2018).
Obviously, be careful with this kind of thing. Take it too seriously, spend hours reading up on it, and you start thinking “hmm, maybe there’s something to this.” at which point you’re literally engaging in delusional thinking. It’s a rabbit hole basically. And obviously you know it’s all nonsense, but humans are inherently superstitious animals.
