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I don’t know mate, I wouldn’t replace my electric tools–drills, grinders, saw… with gas ones. But these outdoors tools are a different kind of beast. I’ve only used an electric chainsaw and it was an absolute crap, maybe there are better ones but it was crappier than the smallest and shittiest gas chainsaws I’ve used, and a cord around you in that setting isn’t great either.

Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no

I’m using the Kbin pwa on an iPhone and it works much better than I expected it to, I don’t know they must have better support now. I think the functionality should be more than enough for many companies and much cheaper than a custom native app

I’m right now browsing the fediverse and writing this from the Kbin pwa. It seems to work quite well, with some quirks that I guess could be polished, but overall better experience than most installed apps that should be a website instead

I was curious so I looked it up but everything I could find said 0% protein for Tazo English breakfast, so I went to my box of tea, another brand English breakfast, and alongside the table with the information for just the tea infusion (calories are specified as less than 4kcal, <4kcal) is another table for a serving with 30ml semi-skimmed milk with 1.2g protein. Could you post maybe a picture of the labeling?

Many of us don’t celebrate Jeez’s birthday, we just get together, eat, drink, sing… if we couldn’t enjoy the little things in life because some horrible war is going on in some part of the globe thousands of miles away there wouldn’t be any merriment EVER.
I’m also a bit confused by your choice of words, who are you talking about when you say ‘his people’? His homeland (Judea, under Roman occupation at the time, and arguably occupied by others ever since), is occupied by whom right now?

I was trying to not give out many details but I think I’ve already commented about Madrid in another post so here you go: https://www.capitalradio.es/amp/programas/movilidad-sobre-ruedas/cuanto-tiempo-pierden-madrilenos-buscando-aparcamiento_94445259.html (in Spanish sorry, but you should be able to make out the numbers, maybe some aid with automatic translation).

You are right that my case is a bit above the average, but it’s not that uncommon as you could think, it’s almost the same for all my tradesman friends, I drive more distance but having to go from inside the city to one of the surrounding towns or the other way around is super common.

From and to populated areas, or even some less populated areas really you can get everywhere by bus, when it’s a couple connections most people choose public transports (as I said they all get saturated at rush hours, and I mean packed full. I don’t know how you could push the system much further), but when it’s a few of them, specially changing from one type to another (bus-train, or even bus-other kind of bus), it adds up. If you happen to work in an industrial area on the outskirts of another town the times can go crazy high, twice or thrice more than by car even with jams and parking.

As you said you don’t understand the pain, but you sure understand that really most people just choose the less hellish option. For many of us that means a car, even with top notch alternatives, most of us hate it but the alternative is even worse.

I don’t know if I’m sounding like a car lover or something, I’m not. I firmly believe if we put all the money we collectively put towards cars into good use we’d have futurama pipes or some shit by now, but we have to work with incremental improvements as you said.

Planed parking could improve the situation. For example here they’ve put lots by some metro stations at the limits of the city so people can park there and take the metro and not drive into the city. I must say I was thinking in ‘regulated’ as in the local government somehow controls and manages it, mandate business to build the lots/spots seems like a very American thing and I see now how it contributes to this necessity for cars over there. But having into account where the people are going to drive and park when approving any development like a residential building/area, or a mall, or anything seems like a good idea, people driving around without going anywhere is the absolute opposite of taking cars out of the roads.

About leaving it to the free market, I don’t know some things that are inherently collective and limited like space and its use within a city/town should be administered more democratically by the people that live there through some rules. The market has shown it doesn’t have any problem to fuck a lot of (poor always the poor) people in this regard if it’s profitable when left alone.

I don’t think your situation is much greener, but the costs of emissions are all but hidden over here we have a perpetual ‘pollution bonnet’ and all the children have lots of respiratory illnesses almost unheard of thirty years ago. Everywhere’s grey and dangerous here too but not flat, you have to lean backwards to see a small portion of the sky most of the time, and everything’s always full. This isn’t quite optimal either.

I’m not disabled, parking wouldn’t be a problem if I were, there’s lots of disabled parking spots, they set one at the person’s home and at the workplace if needed and then some randomly (not random, there are rules, like a spot every x shops, restaurants, bars…or something, don’t know very well how it works).

That’s another for the list of nice things my city have, but they doesn’t solve the problem, they too get saturated just like the streets and roads, we all want to get to places at the same time. There are free spots in my neighborhood when I pick my car in the morning, we go and then come back at the same time to drive around trying to park putting our fumes into the air.

The problem is the same for cars and public transportation. We need to have enough buses, trains, trams, rails and roads, people to operate them for the rush hour, and then what afterwards? And for cars is the same. Even my car, and I put an insane number of km and hours on the poor thing, is just parked, unused 92% of the time, same for the work van (a bit more use but still at 91%, so not delivery). Think of American school buses, it was really a sight for these European eyes to see one of those massive parking lot full of buses, they take the roads for two short periods five times a week and then back to the lot. There’s no obvious solution to this, if you ask me I would say we do too many things, we should slow down the doing things, specially working (it’s gonna be a chore to convince bosses and landlords tho).

You could say it’s optional, I could commute (I posted some details in another comment) by metro-train-bus but that would be like five hours and a half round trip on a good day, or I could find another job closer to home, or another place closer to work. I just chose the option that makes my life less miserable, we all do.

Doing things miserable for drivers is not the best way imho to take cars out of the road, and planing ahead for future use is usually good practice even if it means you have to build more parking lots and lanes, yes I know ‘booo lanes’, planing public transit, PROPER bike lanes, pedestrian streets etc must be imperative as well. You would not say that by setting those disabled spots you are inciting them to take the car instead of the pretty accesible public transportation, because going to/back from work in those packed to the brim trains/buses can be hell even for an abled body person like me I’ve done it for many years, I can’t imaging doing it in a wheelchair or waiting for another crammed bus or two because the chair spots are all occupied, out of the worst hours though can be a nice bus ride no matter what, wheelchair or not, or blind or whatever but accessibility goes down pretty fast when the conditions worsen.

So I would not say it’s exactly optional for most people, or that there’s as much as a transition yet definitely not gonna go smoothly, and you can’t just through more trolleys at the problem (sorry) it has to go on many fronts, from wfh, working fewer hours, maybe banning suvs in city’s (everywhere?)… but well planned parking can also take cars out of the road, they are literally parked.

Sorry for the wall of text I just got carried away

That doesn’t seem very likely, I already live in a big, dense city where everybody except the very rich live crammed in apartment buildings like sardines. We already have metro, buses, trams, municipal renting bikes, lots of kilometers of bike lane (mostly crap tho). It’s all this Lemmy’s wet dream, but traffic is still hell

Fucking lol there it is. I was talking specifically about my commute to work, which would be 100-120km (depending on the route) round-trip, that would be cycling 500-600km a week, and my work is already pretty demanding physically, I don’t sit at a desk and do fuck-all all day. Also this is by highways when bicycles aren’t permitted, the ride would be even longer. I bring with myself my work backpack with some tools, protection equipment, lunch… not huge but not small or light by any means.

Riding a bicycle is not an option for me, I’ve considered a motorbike but decided it’s too dangerous to ride that much, which is another con for bikes. I know that the danger of riding a bike is mostly due to share the road with cars, trucks, vans… not because of the bikes themselves but the danger is mostly for the rider and I don’t wanna put myself at that risk

Edit: also the parking time is only when I come back home, there’s plenty of parking space at my job

Lol I left with the APIcalypse, and I was an official app user, no regrets and never looked back. Why would anyone go to that shithole when you have the fediverse?

Looking for a spot where I live takes me like 20min on average, not uncommon to be 45min-1h. Maybe minimum parking regulations aren’t complete bullshit

That’s why I click on ‘Things everybody get wrong about black holes’ after it, mostly right but the guy’s voice is annoying as fuck and the video lasts 20 min when it’s 3 minutes actual content and the rest filling and ads. Damned youtube

Madrid did this. Massive fail, basically no one was going 30km/h, if you did (which I used to, just to fuck around) you could expect lots of honking and comments about your mother. It was reverted shortly after

Nope, if we are talking about the actual speed of the signal optical fiber is relatively slow at ~1/3 c, compared to air or copper where it’s almost c. They’re using ‘speed’ meaning bandwidth. A van full of sd cards would have a massive bandwidth, but a very slow actual speed

The CC company knows exactly what you bought

No they don’t. They know when, where, to whom, and how much you paid tho

He’s an idiot. He was screen sharing during a joint project with his former employer (Valeo) and had the stolen code behind the powerpoint, that was then minimized or closed, it even was in a dir called ‘valeoCode’ or something like that

Yeah for $100 an hour many people would give a fuck about you

Every government should be removed from power

Everyone’s hair is different so you’ll have to find what works for yours, but there’s three things you have to do: washing, conditioning and untangling, how often and in what order you’ll got to figure out.

My hair’s curly and dry so for me is washing, conditioning and untangle with lots of conditioner applied. If you have straight and more greasy hair maybe you’ll condition first, with more conservative quantities favoring the tips/avoiding the scalp, and wash after, untangling with a daily dry brushing.

Hair ties are ok, just don’t go for too long with a very tight pony tail or bun. I keep my hair tied most of the time and my hair line is not the same as when I was 20 but I would say that is better than most of my short-haired peers (maybe improved uv protection).

And then you have styling products, there’s a whole world of them. I use leave in conditioner and/or gel, or nothing, or whatever shit I just got to try and see if my hair likes it (spoiler: the fucker usually doesn’t, and they’re not cheap). I would say in general foams and mouses give a dryer look while oily/waxy products give a more wet finish.