• Be a huge country of 300 million spread around thousands of islands
• Have centuries long naval tradition
• Your Navy is shit

Indonesia 🌈

Back when I was a kid my school had a large plastic topo map of Yugoslavia. Well by then technically the country didn’t exist any more but it took a couple of years for teaching materials to catch up.

I don’t really disagree, it works with tobacco, so there’s merit to the approach. I’m also hesitant to put the emphasis on overt pressure, nobody likes paying more taxes and it’s easy to undo.

Patience. Do you really want to read everything neatly digested and miss the pleasure of arguing in comments 🙂

My main argument is that being able to buy a car without too much hassle will make it less likely to actually do so, as long as public transportation can cover most of your needs. Just knowing that you can will give you enough peace of mind not to actually do it. Because you can.

Note: I’m making a point about car ownership, not making it convenient to drive in a city. Driving the car should be discouraged through urbanist policy and design.

Being able to own a car ≠ owning a car.

This is my main argument here. The relative unaffordability of a car makes it more desirable and more likely to be bought once a person is financially capable of doing it. See every Eastern European country where car ownership was extremely low until the exact moment an average person could afford one.

Note: I’m making a point about car ownership, not making it convenient to drive in a city. Driving the car should be discouraged through urbanist policy and design.

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Everyone should be able to own a car, and be able to afford keeping it in a garage for rare situations where it makes sense to use one.
This is a winning narrative.

M23 won the battle in the end, shows you can just walk around fortified positions if you have a high enough noncredibility rating.

Rwanda/Congo wars are always extremely noncredible. M23 leader has announced their main goal is marching on Kinshasa. It’s about ~1.500km away on the other side of Africa. With what logistics? But I don’t think it will stop them from trying (and maybe even succeeding)

Thank you for creating this community. I’ve long thought that the patriarchy and gendered norms harm everyone.
And that the hostile approach of some “feminist” and “men’s rights” movements are only adding fuel to the fire.

khm, khm
let gender

please don’t use deprecated syntax

Instantly redecorate. For best results use one per room

For all the romaboos around, they also make one with SPQR letters (only visible on the initial page)

D-ticket was well intentioned but a bad idea from the start. Discalimer: not a German and I only used it once (well twice because it was impossible to buy just one month)

The administrative overhead of centrally gathering all the funds and then portioning them to individual agencies must be hell. And according to what criteria? It makes the responsibility for funding even more murky than it is. Regional tickets also have to keep existing so it means the entire old ticketing system must remain functional even though few people are using it.

Germany led the way on tariff integration with it’s “Verkehrsverbund”. The difference being that service planning and ticketing were done by the same agency. Involving the central government doesn’t seem like a good idea, sooner or later national politics will start influencing local transit.

I strongly suspect the modern “spectrum” is just grouping and labeling certain personality profiles that have always existed in roughly similar proportions. Meaning that it’s not the proportion that is increasing, it’s that we chose to define certain combinations of human traits as ASD.

On the whole this labeling is probably useful since more people will get the support they need. But the point of delineation is mostly arbitrary.

And what about Ghibelline mayor?

/s (sorry it was too tempting)

This is car ownership, not car use. While there is some correlation (if you have a car you’re more likely to use it) I think it reflects purchasing power rather than preferred transportation choice.

Regarding 1 - data is hard to find, apparently electric busses are 50-100% more expensive, but with lower operating costs. How much is uncertain. (requires digging into agency reports in languages I don’t understand)

The good thing is that you don’t have to throw good busses away in order to switch. Busses have a relatively short lifespan, about 15 years. They naturally come up for replacement anyway, and then you can buy electric ones instead.

Still, big cities seem to have a lower rate so I wonder if there’s something about the methodology that depends on population density

Not sure what I ate but I just nuked my toilet. Does it count?

US in the 1970/80s were very deluded by thinking that “whoever we support == good guys”, no matter what they do. Huge foreign policy fail, and the reason they lost many potential allies.
And the reason Henry Kissinger had a website celebrating his death.