It certainly opens a can of worms though, I can see the democrats pushing for 16 (Scotland’s done the same and it’s further pushed the conservatives out of power there).
It’ll also be far easier to fight the GOP proposal in court as there will be people who are actively disenfranchised by raising the age, but it’s not clear that existing voters could have standing to sue if we enfranchise younger people.
Totally agree. I think the lack of mixed zoning is fucking weird about this country. When I lived in edinburgh I was upstairs from a bar and an indian restaurant - but where I live now it’s almost a mile to get to any kind of retail or dining.
I was also reminded in a recent story about revitalizing downtowns that lots of asian cities have all kinds of stuff inside high-rise buildings. Like you’d got a noodle restaurant that was on the third floor of a random building in hong kong. But the US seems to practically require that they be entirely office space.
I suppose, but it seems like dropping COD altogether would be great
It’s the same as the pick-up truck argument. It seems insane to me to drive a $60k vehicle so that when you need to move a piece of furniture you can… i can literally rent a pickup for an hour for $20. For the half-dozen times a year that I need to move something it seems ridiculous to own it.
Yeah, you can get electric car chargers where you can set rules something like “Charge whenever power is under 5c/kWh, but try to make sure i’ve 60% charge by 8am each weekday”. Logically you could have a thermostat control AC - we’ve been playing with that at work because our power goes up at 1pm, so we turn down the thermostat at 12:00 and then turn it up at 1:00 so it shunts some of the cooling a little earlier.
I’ve never seen a tumble drier that can do it, for some reason mine has WiFi but can’t do shit like that. But, yeah I imagine the rule I’d want would be : Dry this anytime in the next 4 hours, and try to spend as little as possible.
Maybe in some places, but that’s definitely not true in my city. The intersection i can see from my home office window has a 35mph speed limit and their are accidents there all the time. I haven’t seen anyone badly injured, but there was at least one that went up a berm, over a multiuse bike path, through a fence and crashed into a neighbor’s house.
I’d totally take my 9 yr old on a 3-4 mile bike ride if we’re going somewhere that we can get to on protected bike lanes, but there are lots of places in this city that aren’t accessible that way and I’d be much happier in a small city car. I’ve taken him along a 45 mph road on a few occasions and it’s nerve-wracking, legally you aren’t allowed to pass a bike until you can give them 3 foot of space but it happens ALL THE TIME and it’s a real deterrent to cycling for us.
The 28mph top speed i think is a european classification thing, but yeah that’d be the showstopper for me - not the size or range.
I can see that they are a bit caught in the middle here, but it seems insane that they can leave a package and send a COD bill later. That part is bonkers… doesn’t COD stand for Cash on Delivery?
You can definitely achieve more if you can work the supply-side as well. In theory if the smart grid were well executed then it’d be possible for consumers to modulate their heat, charging, tumble dryers etc… to provide more elasticity.
Unfortunately in a lot of places the incentives aren’t that high. I don’t have that option where I live, but in denver the lowest consumer rate is around 7c and the highest around 17c/kWh. It’s hard to invest in new appliances to exploit that difference, but if the off-peak number were 1c then I think you’d see much more take-up of smart car chargers and people delaying when they do laundry.
As a parent, I don’t know if I agree. It takes significant effort to get my kid out on a bike as our road system isn’t great for them. (My city is actually fairly good, but we still can’t, for example, get to his school without needing to ride on the road)
If it could do 45mph and had a 40 mile range then it’d work for nearly all our in-town trips. We have a phev that can only do about 20 miles on battery and at the start of the pandemic we went 9 months without needing to put gas in it. I wouldn’t want it as our only vehicle but it’d be pretty viable as our secondary one.
Their Oli concept car is probably even cooler and would likely work better in the US market.
It’ll be interesting to see if Americans would ever go for a “City Car”. I believe Citreon are bringing the ami to the USA and I’d be tempted to get one a second car - it’s certainly well under that pricepoint.
Since i’m already running it otherwise, i’ve been running stuff through Home Assistant and using lovelace dashboards.
True, though there’s also the general absurdity that you can trademark a single letter. Surely meta have the best case as their trademark is actually for social media use, but even still it doesn’t look that similar
I think it’s really a difference about whether you approach meat consumption as a moral issue or an environmental and social one.
I tend to agree with @Melpomene that any improvement is a good thing, maybe a better analogy would be in CO2 emissions. If we can convince 10% of people to bike to work one day a week then that’ll make meaningful difference, and it’s exactly the same from an emissions standpoint as taking X cars off the road.
Convincing someone, at least in the USA, to do without a car is fundamentally difficult, but convincing them to use it less is a significantly more accessible proposition.
Hey - it’s only 2.7k short, it just sounds bad when you put it in meters
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Yeah that’s exactly what i do. I have an A record that points to my house and i update it every 4 hours from a script on my router. Been really happy with cloudflare, they have a weird restriction about using your own nameservers, but as long as you are happy with theirs then they seem to be great.