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I think I read that the pro-car candidate in second place there was wanting to change that. Edit: Oh, or do you mean that there’s still too much cars around that they all get stuck in traffic? Yeah I can imagine.

Quality shitpost

The global economical system with its built in assumption of infinite growth is on a collision course with the material realities of the world. So it will either change drastically, or collapse. The latter seems much more likely.

I think cracks will form and new, more local, decentralized and equitable frameworks will sprout from those cracks as people help each other, because the system can’t or wont help them.

Huh, either I’m completely blind or then op edited the picture 15 minutes ago.

How’s the person who’s currently leading the polls?

Musk isn’t even the founder of tesla though.

Good meme regardless.

Cycling to work. I happen to have a nice and scenic route largely within parks and nature, so starting to use it improved my life quite a lot. It’s a bit faster and more reliable than public transit, cheaper and a good exersice (30km there and back). And the scenery is way better than looking out of the window of a bus on an arterial highway.

The US military budget is inflated as hell, but lasers are neat for this kind of stuff precisely because shooting something down costs only the electricity needed to power the laser, instead of a missile or some fancy airburst shells.

And here I actually thought that this shitty idea would stay in the realm of Black Mirror…

Huh, I wonder how it compares to that other country to the west there.

That’s the angle at which light is reflected by water droplets. The drawing is incorrect in that the cone is horizontal while the light appears to come from a higher angle. The cone is always directly opposite to the direction of the light source. Here’s a better drawing, with more reading about what exactly is going on.