I really love these posts almost as much as i love the signs blocking cars from a certain area of my city's center, except for -amongst the common sense exceptions- cars owned by the office of the mayor. Rules for thee, or something or other. Is it fair to have more public transportation, bike lanes, bus lanes, walkable paths? yes. Is it fair to lock entire urban areas from cars? Not at all.

I think there's a distinction between limiting cars and banning them outright

Yeah, semantics. In the end, the outcome is the same.

I don't pay nearly weekly road taxes for my freezer. I pay for my cars and bikes, so that the law grants me that ability to park. It's easy to understand.

(...)I'm trying to do some things to extend the battery's life as long as possible (...) Not driving like a maniac.

Oops. My work daily is the same Leaf, my personal car is a '95 1.8 Turbo Miata. The Leaf suffers.

There's a palestinian guy living in the US making the rounds on tiktok, talking to random israeli people on something like omegle. The amount of hate he gets is nothing short of depressing. Children cursing at him, IDF soldiers saying they want to kill every single person in Gaza, calling them sub-humans... sounds like the fourth reich is here already.

All this to say you're right, but the government is indocrinating more and more people for these views.

Be very wary of any such weaponized truth: you don't know how much selection bias is at play, how much confirmation bias is requested, you don't even know if the interviewees are what they say they are.

You raise a very valid point, which i will take in consideration. I don't believe it to be the case, since the person in question also shares positive interactions, and i believe some of the worst "contacts" have been doxxed. But your point still stands.

You can find the videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@HamzahSaadah

It is indeed sickening. They straight out tell you how they want all Palestinian children to die.

People seem to use the down-vote on my comment, why? I pasted it for discoverability. It is exactly what the parent is talking about, and it indeed is sickening, go check out some videos where many people say disgusting shit. If you do not think it is disgusting, then please imagine they are talking about your children?

And if you disagree with the guy, go dislike his videos.

Right, you can fire really awesome warning shots with mortars.

We appreciate your biased comment, aimed at portraying Palestinians as terrorists and non-indigenous to the area, cherry-picking history as it suits your narrative. We're not interested, though. Thank you.

Maybe it's not "Active Noise Cancelling" but it's "White noise louder than the brown noise". Still useful though.

next black mirror episode will be someone screaming for help as they are trapped in the bathroom while their anti-brown-noise device drowns out their pleas and they are left to die in there

I would just have a boombox ready to play Sabotage by the Beastie Boys whenever I go

HASS, Roon, a PIR, and Ride of the Valkyries… :s/would//

I prefer So Spoke Zarathustra during my morning constitutional.

I mean if it's configured to drown me out when I'm having digestive troubles, I think they might need to adjust the bit in the Q&A about it not disturbing my sleeping partner

It seems to have a clock so it doesn't turn on at night?

Correct.

I've lost power at 11:30 and regained at 00:12 (Portugal). My hat's off to those brave engineers and technicians that managed to black start the ancient, under-invested grid in record time. Massive respect.

Great article, but the comments section of that blog is pure cancer. Jeez.

More anti-car drivel. Sure there must be a balance but car-free isn't the way and won't be a thing. They had to scrap the Streatham Wells LTN after a three-mile bus journeys took two hours - and not everyone can walk three miles, let alone the entire route.