Sadly so far only Belgium, Germany, and France. Why those already managed to put in Wero while the rest hasn’t, is beyond me.

Are there actual, practical reasons? Or are other countries’ governments being lobbied too hard to not put through with Wero?

iDEAL from what I know is basically Wero, just local. So you’re already kind of using it, if you do so.

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Should also add that a lot of libertarians in reality tend to be more of the “I want the freedom to repress others” people, eg wanting homeschooling (which can increase abuse), opposing measures that would improve every person’s quality of life (such as universal healthcare) etc.

Anarchists on the other hand, tend to be more often on the socialist or communist kind, in where they favour the abolition of hierarchy and thus favour an egalitarian society, by abolition of private (but not personal) property.

Yeees… yees… all is going according to plan

Been around in both areas often, I’m Dutch and went to Oslo. Family has visited Copenhagen.

Of the Nordic cities, Copenhagen is the most bicycle friendly, very clearly the winner. Oslo is a relatively good one as well, lots of bicycle paths. Stockholm has a better cuisine and nicer architecture. Helsinki I’m not sure about, but according to the Copenhagenise Index, it’s number 6. (The index only takes into account cities with 100k+ people, though).

Amsterdam is on par with Copenhagen, but it suffers from a lot of tourists walking on the bloody bicycle lane. I’ve had to ring more than often to yell them away.

Utrecht I’d actually label more bike-friendly.

More like, why does the street cross the bike lane like that.

Also, just noticed, but the photo in the article is photoshopped. It’s in the Netherlands lol.

Doubt it’s that expensive. A locker can be made for like $500. But then you’re thinking of sheds with a simple lock. If you want something actually safe, you’d need a bike garage, and those can go up to like $4k a piece., or $5k if we’re counting cargo bikes.

To install them, you need labour as well. Assuming a a $40/hr wage (could arguably be higher, depending on source), and a team of 8 people doing this, that’s $640 a day. Two isolate the area and get keep the area clean, two drill holes in pavement so the poles can get in there, two transport the materials, and two assemble.

So, assuming 4 boxes a day, that’s about $5640. Let’s assume $5500 here per day. In total, that’s $2,750,000 for 500 lockers.

But we’ll also need permits. The build plan needs to be assessed for transparency, environment, construction drawings, and the impact for the neighbourhood. It’s complicated but let’s say $500 per balcony-like area.

So, let’s add another $250,000 - so, it’s $3,000,000, or $6,000 per locker.

I doubt it’d cost $50,000, but then again, I’m not knowledgeable in this field.

As a Dutch person, my recommendation:

get a folding bike. They’re pretty cheap and useful primarily for biking a few km.

Alternatively, get an omafiets, make it look rusty and shoddy. Nobody wants to steal a bike that doesn’t look valuable. You can also twist how it steers, takes training to bike on it, but thieves will always fall.

I think that between corporations abusing copyright protection and us using it, he’d favour the latter, as there’s no profit motive and we still credit him.

I say screw corporations. Precisely that was what Bill Watterson gently protested against.

So in his spirit, I think we should let them have it on their bum - we do what we want. When a law is unreasonable, it is time to decide for ourselves.

Let the comics stay here and don’t attract too much attention, but when they try to take it down here too, make a loud, big fat stink about it to sympathetic people (while readying another place).

It will also make our image stronger, as everyone likes Calvin and Hobbes, and getting those taken down by that guy will result in him getting a big side eye.

The lowest diagnosed IQ is 40.

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