Similar product, similar market (first world). Not sure why anyone should need that explained to them.

Driving a cab over is not hard. We got a diesel pusher bus where you're way further out in front of the front axle than that, and the only adjustment really is turning a little later. You get reasonably used to it in short order. If you don't have to deal with an 8' vehicle in a 10' wide lane (yeah they're meant to be 12' but then there's bridge crossings and such) then I bet it's not even scary.

That's a feature of systemd, but it's also a feature of other systems which predate its adoption, so it's not actually a change for most users.

Starmer is a lame duck

Oh FML, how did we end up with that clown. He doesn't appear to stand for everything except a kind of vague authoritarianism with him in charge. But not even for traditional reasons like massive self enrichment, or a desire to bend the world to his will. He has no apparent guiding principles at all which means he has no idea which way to go on any given issue, no reason for any decisions he does make and no overall coherent direction.

It's the dead rat on a stick effect. A dead rat on a stick could have won the leadership election over Corbyn after that massive failure, and a dead rat on a stick could have thrashed the Tories after their shit. And, well, pretty much a dead rat on a stick won. Unfortunately the dead rat is convinced that's because he's awfully clever and ought to be president rather than PM.

Thanks for the assist. I really loved how you included Mechahitler's supporting comment, even a literal bot knows better than that meat bot.

The great thing about licking boots is that they will always find a new boot to put in your mouth. Great if you love licking boots, that is.

Whaaat! Why are you talking Britain down. It's the will of the people! The advisory referendum is mandatory, but the rules for mandatory ones don't apply! Johnny foreigner will give us everything we want and more for free for no reason! Somehow erecting trade barriers will reduce red tape!

To be fair, he kind of undermines his own argument there by only uses stock footage of people cycling and walking in dry weather. It's not that you can't have walkable cities and cycling in the rain, so why not show how it works?

Stock footage, are you sure, or just rushing to judgement really, really fast? He films most of his own footage, and as he says, it's a bit shit standing outside for hours in the rain, rain footage doesn't look as nice and his best camera isn't waterproof.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

He then goes on about low density and single family homes taking up too much space.

Well... no. What he actually advocates for is mixed use with viable alternatives to driving. There are detached homes in the Netherlands, and he even points out how the extra space leads to really good bike infrastructure, and lots of room for transit only lanes for good public transport.

What he does say is specifically the way America builds things is a huge and very expensive waste of space that's demonstrably financially unsustainable.

Making decent cities would be a lot easier to sell if people like him didn't avoid those obvious issues

He doesn't.

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Cry more, bootlicker.

In Europe these types of van are used for all sorts of things beyond delivery. Because they are enclosed you can build a little workshop in there, or at least have nicely organized tools on shelves and racks. With seats they can be used for crew transport as well.

Basically most of the times an American would have a truck, Europeans have a van.

AND EVs bring additional inconveniences.

AND ICEs bring additional inconveniences.

A lot of delivery and vans spend the entire day tooling around the same city. This is very predictable, and the ranges aren't huge. Electric vans are better in stop/start conditions, need less maintenance and don't even need refuelling, you just plug it when it's returned to the depot, end electricity is cheaper than fuel.

The other thing that's frankly weird about American is the obsession with huge pickup trucks. They're like inefficient vans which are less convenient to load and if it's ever rainy you need that funny box cover which means the carrying capacity is much less than a comparable van.

And if you want open back, most vans are available in a dropside configuration which is basically like an old fashioned pickup with seating for 3 at the front, an absolutely huge bed, reasonable towing capacity and vastly superior forward visibility.

It's also like the new twitter, in that there's a bunch of censorship. And ironically (one hopes) it's often aimed at people spreading anti-Trump messaging.

That's pretty good. I'd see if they have service in my area but unfortunately they are one of the corporations that paid a build-the-ballroom bribe so now they're dead to me.

I haven't used one in a bunch of years (10 or more) but last I looked, Homebrew was a system for installing software.

If you were to search for "Macintosh Homebrew" I bet the top search result would be what you want. I know Google isn't what it used to be, but you have to do your part. Did everyone move on to prompt engineering for LLMs and just plain forget how to do prompt engineering for search engines?

Have they? It looks mostly like they've been working to make their operating systems shittier. I fucking hate 11. When there's a transient network failure I can't even open an explorer window to C:\ to access my backup local copies. I guess a system I cannot use is potentially secure?