Taking a car for a 3km distance is unconscionable when walking or cycling are valid options.

Driving less than the speed limit will not kill you.

The article states that the “Intelligent Speed Assistance devices” are supposed to prevent drivers from driving more than 5 mph over the speed limit. So I’m fairly certain GPS and/or Road Sign Information systems will be used.

GPS Data. Most dedicated navigation systems have the speed limit data in their maps for the last decade or so. They’re probably also going to add the Road sign information systems that newer cars have.

And a car that cannot speed can? You might not have thought that one through.

Funerals are for the living, not the dead. Grieving family members care about the person as a dad, brother or son, not as the hollywood record breaking super scientist.

The hardware store had 100 fender washers, or 1kg, for 1€, so I’ll be using them for a while.

Yes, the number of Intergers is ℵ₀, the number of real numbers ℵ₁, and this is what people generally mean with some infinities are bigger than others. Infinities can also be seem bigger than another, but be mathematically equal. The number of natural, real and rational numbers are all infinite, and might seem different, but they are all proven ℵ₀.

Claypidgin was talking about the real numbers between [0,1] and [0,2], which are both ℵ₁ infinite. Some infinities are indeed bigger than others, but those 2 are still the same infinity.

They are literally both ℵ₁ though?

Yes, but those are both the same infinite according to math, so no, they’re still equal.

Restaurant fries and drinks.

Was on a really tight budget for a time, so I know I can feed myself for a few Euros a day. Going back to fast food restaurants at all still instils some guilt in me, but there is 1 that has unbelievably good prices and I can still appreciate the convenience at times.

But fries and drinks are just a scam with how big the profit margins are, and not even hard to prepare at home if you’re ordering take out or have it delivered (I also don’t pay for delivery, my bike is free).

A AAA-battery to AA-adapter. I randomly had 50 of the smaller ones lying around, so it really came in handy.

Can’t share a link, but there should be dozens of this kind of model on any site. “Can’t”, because the model I grabbed was definitely among the worse ones.

Yeah, we’re all mad, fuck the suits and all that.

But why does the distinction between “real-world adult material” and “creative, non-realistic”, “artistic, animated works” that “do no harm” matter? Last time I checked, realistic adult material can be just as artistic, and the harm done by negligently letting children watch it seems comparable.

Are they in favour of age verification for “uncreative, realistic” pornography, or is the real distinction just between real-life and online?

I’m never sure if I am a hair splitter or other people have an America-centric view, but the first manned flight was with hot air balloons in 1783 in Paris. Like, I know the invention of the aeroplane is the more relevant event, but a balloon is still flight.

In here absolutely everyone knows this stuff and it’s all just common knowledge.

Buying a cheap 2nd hand E-bike (right now) means the same as buying any other broken bike: You need to know how to switch a chain and adjust brakes. The electronics themselves however are surprisingly resilient.

After reading the comments here, I see the problem: You judge past things by what they have become, and new things by what they are. Nothing will ever be “truly innovative” by those standards.

The automobile was for a long time just a more expensive carriage. The airplane was a pass time for the ultra rich, while anyone else got by with hot air balloons if they wanted to fly. The soviets got to space first by pointing a ballistic missile upwards.

We have CRISPR and can alter the Genes of any living organism to match our needs, but oh well, it’s only used by labs right now and anyone else got by perfectly fine by selective breeding, can’t call that innovative, can we?

Well, I disagree with the premise.

But perhaps one of the more obvious physical examples are Blue and White LEDs (1992). Small gadgets used to always have red LEDs, maybe green ones, or an unlit 7 segment display, everything else was too expensive or too energy consuming for battery powered devices. And not only that, RGB Diodes also saw the end of pretty much all cathode-ray tubes.

You see kids, back in the olden days before white LEDs, the only way to get blue light was to throw high energy electron ray on a phosphor coating. So anything blue or white before the 90s was made with that technology, from car radios to TV screens.

I’d personally also keep an eye out what the cheap electric motor will do next. From “hoverboards”, civilian drones, e-scooters and the modern e-bike, it’s only a matter of time before the new use case will emerge.

The right to free speak can be compromised if it interferes with other, more important rights…

… like the right of shareholders to make money.

But that’s no excuse for the wrong per 100g price listed, is it?

Oh, you mean that video, about blind boxes and gachapon.

Seen that one as well, really absurd to see that channel promote “healing your inner child”, by buying into something that feels like an amalgam of lootboxes, that ruined online games, and Funko-pops, which cannibalised physical game stores. I read through the comments many times to maybe understand, but it seems few people actually care about the gambling addicts there as well.