Hi. Congrats on being a mod. This is pretty nice but honestly I'd prefer if each of these was a separate post and we could just read it and upvote each individual item. I do like your summary / thoughts though, it's pretty cool.
The other nice (hopefully) side effect is that it can provide the seed activity to hopefully encourage others to also contribute.
Sad thing is, if bikes were invented today, they'd be heavily regulated.
I think part of the issue is that the Greens ended up dependent on Russian Gas, and this was overall a bad move.
Liberals will break the law, or create new laws, to stop the left, but think the law is enough to stop the right. The reason is that the Liberal cause is a "nice to have", but the protection of neoliberalism is a "must have".
I learnt that from Shaun's video about JK Rowling, which is eye opening. Basically, nothing bad in her universe ever changes. Slavery remains, because the slaves like it, for instance. Maintaining that status quo is a "must have" for her. Having the heroes fight for what's right is a "nice to have", despite being the main story.
I'm extremely worried about India. While, luckily, Climate is not a politicised issue, they are still spending their energy on religious bullshit instead of climate adaptations. They really need to be spending basically all the wealth they have on adaptations across regions or they are in for a massive shock.
"Opinion". Yeah, to be honest I'm kind of over reading opinions.
Wonder why conservatives are all neoliberal tho? Wonder why history in their books goes back to a certain time and no further?
Conservationist?
I have a full fat rack, but I'd like to adapt the 10" onto it, is there some sort of adapter thingie to maybe go two-wide?
This mostly doesn't happen in Australia. Zebra crossing means stop. A lot of pedestrians won't even check, they just walk onto the road on a crossing.
I feel like maybe we did these in the petrostates to get them out of the way. The next one is in Brazil with (hopefully) Lula. Let's see how it goes.
I watched a Youtube video about this, and yeah, induced demand affects everything, but when it affects Buses, you get more buses, and that's more efficient. When it affects Trains, you get more trains, and that's more efficient. The only time it gets less efficient is when it affects cars. The moral of the story was: It wasn't the Induced Demand, it was the Cars that were the problem.