No, transportation in general is. Cars are by far the least efficient form of transportation and therefore the worst for the economy.

People who say driving is freedom have never lived within walking distance of the amenities they need. You think driving to Costco/Walmart is convenient? I’ve left the house 5 minutes before the grocery store closes. When I want to make a recipe, I don’t check the fridge for what I have until literally right before I need to start making it because forgetting something adds at most 15 minutes to the prep time. I’ve never had to haul ten grocery bags from my car because I never need to buy that much at one time and then watch half of it go bad in the fridge. I can go get snacks when I’m high as a kite on weed without killing someone on the road. True freedom for me is never needing to drive or own a car.

Europeans hate isn’treal more than most places anyway.

Somehow I doubt that’s true. But if it is, it means y’all aren’t as free from State thought control as you think if your governments are using your biggest event as propaganda. Either that or this is exactly what Europeans want.

Wouldn’t intelligence also be a material condition? How your brain is wired plays a significant role in how it interacts with the environment, so if humans evolved with a more intelligent brain it would significantly alter our trajectory from early civilisations, no? Would probably also kick off civilisations much earlier.

I mean sure, but that’s irrelevant to the discussion of intelligence and cognitive faculties.

A paralytic also can’t build anything, does it make Steven Hawking less intelligent than the average redneck?

AFAIK some scientists have argued that some porpoises (dolphins, orcas, etc) are more intelligent than us period. They’re just severely limited in what technology they can develop because of their bodies and where they live.

More specifically I think because it pushes back against the “communism was just like fascism” notion and Western countries can’t have that.

Both Spain and Ireland as far as I know are aggressively liberal/socdem and anticommunist.

So instead of seeing an opportunity to do the same, they burned bridges with one of the only companies not locking down their OS?

You’re welcome 😊

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Kombucha is pretty good.

Everyone asks wherewolf

No one ever asks howwolfdoing

QwQ

From a worldbuilding perspective it fucking sucks. Like if you’re going to build a strawman commie totalitarian state at least make it interesting.

panic! at the disco

If you’re a Rust developer

how you can keep 13[.5] tonnes of an incredibly dense object in an apartment

Gold’s density is 19320 kg/m³

13500 kg / 19320 kg/m³ = 0.6988 m³

Rounding up to 1 m³ since gold bars don’t stack perfectly.

So basically a closet can store it all. And people like this tend not to give a shit about or even be aware of silly things like “safety” or “structural load” so I wouldn’t be surprised if the building’s fucked from this.

Edit: Actually I got curious so let’s calculate some more.

According to this website, concrete can have a compressive strength of anywhere from 5 MPa to 60 MPa. I don’t know what they make apartments out of but let’s go middle of the road and say 30 MPa, which is the first category where you need a design mix (mix, let cure, and test, presumably) and not a hard and fast ratio.

Assuming the gold is stacked at 1m by 1m by 1m (so it has a 1 m² base).

An online converter tells me that 13500 kg is 132389.802 N, or 0.1324 MN. Pa is N per m² so it would be 0.1324 MPa, a small fraction of the concrete’s rated load by my non-physicist non-engineer guess.

Obviously most of the load of the concrete is taken up by the building itself, so I don’t know how much load in the apartment it can tolerate, and this also assumes the gold pile is resting directly on a vertical beam and not on a horizontal beam without anything underneath. But from the looks of it (again, not an engineer), it wouldn’t be nearly enough to immediately collapse the building, just eat away at the safety margins and reduce the building’s lifespan.

I don’t use make I use msbuild /s

I do that sometimes, but because it’s one of those shitty intersections that has separate call buttons for parallel crossings. Where, for example, if the east-west car traffic is stopped and the north crosswalk call button was pressed first and the south button was pressed too late into the process, it will give the pedestrian signal for only the north crosswalk, not the south one, even though the cross traffic is stopped for both. It will make you wait an entire cycle before it lets you cross. This happens all the time because if you want to cross diagonally, what do you instinctively do? You press both call buttons at your starting corner because you’re not sure which direction will clear first. But that screws you over on your second crossing because the other parallel side, the one you’re no longer on, now gets priority. I watch for protected right/left signals and if there aren’t any, I cross anyway because the traffic is fucking stopped and the lights are being stupid.

Not recommending other people do this because obviously it’s risky. The protected signals can come on after you’ve started crossing, and in general drivers might be looking at the pedestrian signal instead of actually scanning for people. But if it’s an intersection I’m familiar with, it’s not super busy, and I’m in a rush, I’ll foolishly take the risk.

I’m thinking of making an entire rant on /c/fuckcars about the shitty crosswalks of the Vancouver BC area and how they go out of their way to inconvenience pedestrians if people are interested.

Any of the classic Disney animated movies. First movie is a ripoff of classic fairy tales so most of the heavy lifting writing wise was done for them, the instant Disney has to write the whole thing is when it goes to shit. If it’s “Disney presents [insert fairy tale here] 2” you know it’ll suck.

Better for security too. A game is a full program and can do basically anything on your computer. I don’t even trust games from legit sources to run on my main OS. So if you pirate a game at the very least run it in a VM.

Would be more useful than what it actually contains.