noobnarski

I wouldnt say its the energy prices that are destroying German industry (I am German too), but the lack of innovation and way too much bureaucracy (and no, that doesnt mean we should lower emission standards, etc., but we should simplify processes and remove rules that serve no one).

3. Instead of driving something that is almost always too big and burns fuel and money, why not get a small trailer (or just rent one)?

4. Maybe it is better that our fuel prices are higher here, because then people actually have an incentive to buy something efficient instead of wasting resources.

5. The US used to have good public transit until it was torn down by the car lobby, and cities were only allowed to almost exclusively consist of single family homes with large yards front and back and no stores closeby, its no wonder people need cars. (Street maintenance also burns so much money that it cripples local governments)

Just imagine how nice it would be if the US had as many high speed train lines as they do highways. It would be quicker than driving your car.

While I dont want to ban cars completely, it would be nice if cars werent the only option and car owners would pay the costs that the cars create.

As a German I dont get trucks at all.

If you need a lot of loading capacity, a van is almost always the better choice.

Especially when you sometimes need to carry a lot of people and other times a lot of material. You can just take the back seats out or fold them down, now you can use the same space for two different purposes.

And you can even install shelves for your tools and material, they are also protected from the weather and some thieves.

I have a Nissan NV-200 (which is almost too small to be considered a van) and I can seat 7 people or I can remove/fold away the backseats and I can suddenly carry more than I almost always need.

It is Diesel and right now I get 7l/100km (33mpg) even though I dont have a fuel saving driving style. I did some experiments when I was on vacation, if I drive a constant 120kph (74mph) I get 6l/100km (39mpg). If I drive around 90kph (56mph) behind commercial trucks, not hugging them but following them so I dont hold up traffic anymore than they do, I get between 4 and 5l/100km (59-47mpg).

Try doing that with a truck, especially when its got a big V8 engine that basically just burns fuel for nothing.

Here in Germany it is illegal and you can get fined (no jailtime, as long as you dont try to show your dick to everyone).

But I have never heard of anyone getting fined for it, but I only know people who pee in bushes and shit, no one that is so trashy that they pee on buildings and stuff, because I would imagine that those cases are prosecuted much more stringently.

If you stop at any reststop at a highway or country road its also not very unlikely to see someone peeing into some bushes.

The older star trek also usually had one story in each episode, and just a little bit of an overarching plot, so much of the time of the episode was actually used to tell a story.

Discovery adopted this soap-like storytelling, where there is one long story broken up into episodes. Each episode has something interesting at the start, then just a lot of filler, and when it finally starts to get interesting again the episode is over and they spoil half of the next episode with the "coming next" segment.

So instead of making something people want to watch because its interesting, they just manipulate you to watch it because they string you along.

Picard does the same, but at least they have some interesting content in the middle of an episode sometimes.

And Celsius is 0 for freezing water and 100 for boiling water, sounds much more practical to me

(Almost) my entire house is smart, but nothing talks to the cloud anymore.

So nobody can get that data except me. Some exceptions are that I dont have or want smart locks, that just seems to insecure and unreliable.

It depends where you live, here in Europe a lot of trips in the cities can also be done by walking, biking or other micromobility options because a lot of the trips are small distance.

It would be possible to slowly restructure the cities in the US to enable it there. It would also make the neighbourhoods much nicer in terms of livelyness and social interactions.