The weight of a heavy electric Hummer is 4.5 metric tonnes.

The maximum allowed weight of a fully loaded cargo truck is 44 metric tonnes.

According to the fourth power law, this would make the impact of the truck more than 500 000 that of the Hummer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

Sure, the Hummer itself is already 16 times worse than a regular 1 ton car, but in the scale of things, the difference between any personal vehicle and a truck is about the same as whatever the truck is.

Aother interesting thing about roads is that they’re build to withstand the wear and tear from heavy vehicles.

This doesn’t seem interesting, until you also find out that the wear from all other vehicles is completely and utterly negligible. Doesn’t matter if you ride a bike, a motorcycle, car, electric car, pickup or SUV. None of the personal vehicles make a dent on the roads of any meaningful size, even if they make up a majority of the traffic.

Obviously we still need the roads for small vehicles, but the cost of constant maintenance all comes from cargo and busses.

If you see it this way, then almost all road construction is a hidden subsidy for the cargo industry who uses trucks instead rails or boats.

It would make a lot of economic sense for the society as a whole to demand fewer cargo trucks and more cargo rails.

Depends on how long it’ll sit there before I run it.

A “move in” fee is not a deposit. It’s more like a goodwill payment, or you could call it a front pocket fee, even if there’s nobody else in queue. Obviously whoever is willing to pay the most gets the first choice.

It’s shady as fuck and also illegal where I live, but people still pay it instead of risking not getting the apartment. Sadly, nobody cares enough to take these scumbags to court over it. You can choose not to pay it but then you just don’t get the apartment, and if so, why’d you want to waste your time and money on a lawyer, when there’s nothing to win from doing so.

I think the easiest way to grasp this is to take (or visualise taking) a basket ball and a tennis ball in each hand and sit in the center of your kitchen.

Consider the “constallations” in your kitchen: Big sink, Cold Fridge and Hanging Lamp.

Then try if can you see these from the tennis ball if you hold it in various positions around the basket ball.

It does seem a little odd to see an American soldier in a car with right side steering.

If you have 20 minutes, you can watch the entire World War 2 on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/-CQatuQdQv4

No, only in Sweden. And if you look up someone, they will be notified of who did it.

I think it’s a variation of the “call of the void”.

Your brain has an instinct to imagine the worst possible situation to keep you safe.

People lose stuff at subways all the time. Contact the staff and they’ll fish it up. Keys in drains can be retrieved with a magnet on a rope. If you lose something in a drain indoors, you can probably open the water trap and take it. Heavy things don’t just flush out easily.

Just tilt the fridge backwards before moving it in.

They’re not losing billions. They’re just selling less for more.

The price increase is working for them, because it’s pretty certain that oil consumption is already decreasing with more cars and industries turning to electricity in the future anyway and supply is going to decrease as well. So this way, they already have customers accustomed to higher prices. Isn’t that neat…

Ryan Dunn.

Ha, yes I guess I called it before it happened. Honestly I just woke up from a nap and figured it out.

I guess we’ll have to see what Israel does before we can tell the outcome.

I don’t think anyone else is going to anything crazy right now. Trump is likely out golfing and cashing in on whatever investments he made before starting this shit show. Let’s not pretend that he gives a flying fuck about who does what in Iran.

There’s no positive end game in it for him.

If he turns this into a “Look at what you made me do!”-moment, he will have nothing but enemies and they’ll all know that nothing will ever please him, which is dangerous for them.

Thus, their only option will be to assassinate him shortly after. Either by Iran getting back at him with a dirty bomb, or the Saudis getting pissed about the oil prices dropping and making a Diana out of him, or even by some lunatic MAGA who “didn’t vote for this”.

Literally everyone would be out to take him out, and he has nothing to gain from it.

If he realizes this, then no.

His best option is to chicken out. He will claim to have reached a tremendous deal with Pakistan that stopped him from bombing Iran out of his own kindness and generosity, and he will mispronounce all the words.

Then OP ought to change the second “to” to “will” to avoid confusion.

What if the system you know doesn’t make sense to you?

For plastic the trick is to wrap the entire thing and the pull the thing to tear the plastic straight off the serrated edge.

Most American cities use a distance or block system.

Most European cities use the odd/even system. Each plot increase by two on either side, so one side of the road has 1,3,5… and the other has 2,4,6…

If a plot is later subdivided or more houses are built on a plot, its new addresses will get post-fixed letters a,b,c,d…

For people to demand anything you’ll need a democracy. For people to want universal healthcare they need to understand that socializing the health cost is a benefit for the population.

Add the words together and you get social democracy.

In most countries this is what lead to universal healthcare. In most countries the social democracy parties were founded by labour unions.

Despite USA being first with labour unions, they never really succeeded, because they were violently struck down early on.

Anyway, it’s that simple: Join a union, let the union establish a political party, let the party make universal healthcare. I know that seems very uphill, but it doesn’t actually have to take centuries to do.

When the first unions were formed in Europe, the workers also expected it to be a multigenerational battle, and yet decided to try it in the vague hope that it might eventually benefit their grandchildren. However they were so successful that they achieved the goal within their own lifetime.

Yes it is. Their entire vendor shit can go to hell. I don’t need a Samsung app-store, Samsung photos, Samsung parental controls etc. on a cheap phone that already has Google’s versions of the same crap. It’s like having 2 operating systems in constant conflict on the same phone, and the only real purpose is for Samsung to collect your data.