I’m not American and don’t much care about American politics but having a debate between 2 people both so old they can actually die on stage while age cooked their brains at least 5 years ago is a spectacle I’m not missing.

That too. I actually didn’t think of that because roads here aren’t in a grid like ever so I failed to understand how numbering your roads would even make it easier.

It’s because one road is indistinguishable from another while malls, towers and tall buildings in general are quite memorable.

I’m in my 50s and I can’t do paper maps. I can navigate just fine without Google maps but I navigate by landmarks while paper maps seem to rely on knowing road names, which I don’t.

Around here when swine flu went through the country we basically lost the whole pork industry because the first priority was to eliminate the disease. Does the US want a pandemic to be named after them? Because it seems to head in that direction. I think Freedom Flu is a pretty catchy name personally.

Majority of cars here are sold used for 2 - 5k euros, very few people can afford new cars.

I have never said to remove all roads. What? I said reduce the funding for repairs and new construction to build the rail infrastructure…

You can go argue with the person in your head instead, I’m not sure where else your pulling these position from.

You seem to have an issue with making assumptions while going out of your way to assume and strawman everything. Even the comment at you being American was a jab at you for assuming I’m young though I’m in my 50s, I was hoping you notice that and stop making assumptions.

I said government funding for transit should focus mainly on rail as that would actually reduce pollution. Private entities should obviously be free to develop EVs but I never advocated for the removal of busses, ambulances, firefighters and enviourmental regulations. Where the fuck did you even get that, or are you arguing with someone else?

EV adoption would take far longer than decades since it relies on each person to switch over which will not even start happening in the next decade if you can stop all ICE vehicle production tomorrow. Outside of really rich people most buy used cars that are at least 5 years old, commonly even 10 years. If you want EV mass adoption there needs to be used EVs available for around 5000 to 2000 euros that don’t need a new battery before you can use it. That kind of tech doesn’t even exist yet.

To fix climate change you don’t need to serve literally everyone with EVs, you need to reduce emissions enough and rail would serve the transit needs of more people than EVs ever could so that’s where I want government funding for transit to go to. You seem to be more in the camp that we need a perfect solution that serves every person on the planet but EVs can’t even do that.

All in all getting rid of carbon credits and taxing all emissions no matter where you are in the world would help even more but this post is about EVs.

Oh yea, shipping by water is obviously more efficient but creating waterways everywhere is quite a lot harder and expensive than building rail. I’m mostly addressing transit for humans but for ships nuclear may be a better option for pollution but that’s not something I have looked into.

Wait, so you want government investment to focus on electric cars even though it won’t have an impact on climate change? I want that investment in rail because rail is most likely to have the largest impact while being doable in a short term for the vast majority of the population. Electric vehicle adoption has zero chance to reach a point where it would have an impact.

I get that your an American that car companies have propagandised to oblivion but public transit works and it works better than electric cars for most people. If you are a farmer living 200km from any other human you aren’t using an electric vehicle anyways.

People who live away from all settlements make up maybe up to 5% of population if being generous and they can all roll coal and it would still be a net win if the vast majority of people take a tram or train instead of a car or plane. Also people living in the middle of nowhere have no infrastructure to recharge their cars anyway if they need to drive outside the car’s range so it’s not like electric cars help them.

You are not living in reality if you think electric vehicle adoption can be fast enough to have any effect on climate change. Building a proper electric train and tram network on the other hand is doable in a short timeframe while being cheaper.

The money used to maintain car infrastructure could be used to build all rail ever. Rail is both insanely cheap to build and maintain compared to asphalt roads. If every larger city builds a tram network in the next 5 or so years instead of doing endless road maintenance that will have more impact than any investment in electric vehicles ever could in the same timeframe.

Also electric vehicle adoption is far slower than building public transit as only very wealthy countries have any chance of mass adopting while everyone else will keep buying 10 year old ICE cars. So any chance of electric cars being a solution is pretty much null. It’s fine to develop them but any government investment has to go to more effective solutions, like building a rail network to replace air travel.

Ya know what would reduce carbon even more and pretty much eliminate microplastics: Rail. Like all the problems with pollution from transit are mostly solved like 200 years ago with trains and trams, why do people insist on reinventing the wheel?

I don’t doubt it, Apple has never had good gaming performance. But a non apple laptop in the same price range with X86 aimed at gaming can run it a lot better.

I’m pretty sure the old AMD APUs from the Bulldozer era can run factorio and that’s like a decade old.

Like sure, it’s some metric but I’m pretty sure any computer produced currently can run factorio.

That heavily depends on what the previous machine was. Like factorio runs on my laptop without taxing the system much more than just idling and on my desktop I can’t even tell it’s running based on performance monitoring. So yea, I’m not sure factorio is a good indicator.

Yea, obviously, that’s the case for most people. A lot of people for who a chromebook would be enough would not be effected, yea but for example software that isn’t getting new updates and like all gaming would just not work on other architectures currently.

I don’t use apple’s stuff but alternatives to X86 could be the future. The one thing they need is compatibility with X86 software otherwise mass adoption is heavily crippled. It doesn’t matter as much for Apple’s stuff since their whole ecosystem is under strict control but for general purpose consumer hardware that compatibility is required first.

Raising global oil prices should not really be a consideration when you’re fighting a war for your survival. Anything that can help Ukraine survive is good.

Not in real life but I have yet to not find one in the comments of anything Linux related.

In the US or Germany: Straight to jail

In Japan: Your organs are now the property of Nintendo to repay this heinous crime.

Rest of the world: it depends.