people who think it’s ok to live over 25km from where they work
This isn't always a choice, especially for those with families and those who own their homes. Moving is expensive, risky, time consuming and harms children's sense of place. And that's assuming moving would actually reduce the amount of commuting. If the individual and their partner both have jobs moving might trade one commute for another. Maybe the kids are really heavily involved in a local club or activity that they'd have to leave or commute to after moving. Maybe the commute makes sense because one stops at a friends' or family members' place on their way home from work.
Honestly, your opinions seem to be based on very limited sets of experiences and have a lot of externalities that you don't seem to have considered or have simply accepted without challenge. I appreciate your bold vision and encourage you to keep envisioning bold change for the world, but please do try to consider alternate viewpoints and experiences so you can create a vision for the world that more people can share in.
My opinion on commuting is we simply have way too many office workers commuting 5 days a week without good reason. We saw in 2020 the kind of incredible improvement for everyone that remote work provides, rapidly improving air quality, reducing congestion, making people happier and reducing costs for the masses. I think its an obvious solution to institute a road use tax for employers of office workers and combine it with an equal tax break for remote work scaling based on how many days a week employees are allowed to work remotely. This would push employers who might not otherwise allow remote work to embrace remote work or pay for the negative externalities they create
Yeah I primarily buy frozen for that purpose and observe better texture from it, but I've got more cupboard space than fridge space, so keeping some cans for when I'm out of everything else has been good
it’s strange that they all “need” to rush around all over the place and travel much larger distances then they did in the past
Honestly this is a good thing. The world is an incredibly huge and varied place and getting to experience different places is awesome. Generally someone who travels will have better perspective on things than someone who's never left the town they live in
I think its about the same? I haven't looked too hard and typically purchase based on what I'm intending to do with the veggies, but I do like to keep a few cans of veggies in the cupboards for a rainy day (or more accurately for when the whole family is sick and none of us have the energy to go to the store, which happens at least once every winter thanks to having young kids)
I've been seeing more and more kei cars around. I live in a small college town and I've seen a couple of personal kei vans, the college has a small fleet of kei trucks and vans for use around campus and there's even a few local contractors who use kei vans and trucks as affordable vehicles with decent fuel economy for running from site to site. Honestly if I'm seeing kei cars where I am they have to be getting increasingly common across the country. I can see why the auto lobby might want to try to get them banned, since it's an unfilled market niche that the American auto market refuses to fill
I mean the island of Sark was unsuccessfully invaded by a single dude in 1990
(apologies for the terrible linked source, its just one of the first search results that wasn't a random reddit thread or other even less reputable source)
The local volunteer Constable, the only law enforcement on the island, being informed of the invasion thanks to the notices, decided to take the threat seriously. On the morning of the invasion, Constable Perrée began to plan the island’s defense, which was a two stage scheme. First, he went looking for Mr. Gardes. He found him sitting on a park bench in army fatigues preparing for the massacre that was about to befall this island. As the Constable approached the invading army (a.k.a. Gardes), he saw Gardes loading his automatic weapon.
The first “showing up” stage now complete, Mr. Perrée executed the second stage of the plan. He complimented Mr. Gardes on his choice of gun and convinced Gardes to remove the magazine and let him see the instrument of the island’s assured defeat, so the constable could better admire it. When Gardes acquiesced, the Constable took the gun and punched him in the nose. The invasion was over. The gun used in the attempted coup now sits in the Sark Museum next to old ships and a dedicated exhibit to one of the island’s two original telephone calls.
Edit: I'm a little disappointed there isn't a Wikipedia article on the subject with a list of belligerents, details of the strength of forces and a tally of the casualties and losses like this:
In the US, depending on the store carrots might be sold in bunches placed into loose unsealed plastic bags (and priced by weight) I can't find any photos of this practice in a quick search, but I suspect its more for branding reasons than anything
Canned veggies are cheap and great for mixing into a pot of other stuff. For a really cheap meal, toss a can of veggies into a pot of ramen. Ma fairly filling meal that hits multiple food groups yet it only costs about a dollar. I imagine most people buying canned carrots are doing so for cooking with
Probably is still true, but I've not been paying close attention to the AI market in the last couple of years. But the point I was trying to make was that it's an apples to oranges comparison
Seeing the person chewing out folks for calling for a fork is pretty funny in hindsight. They aren't wrong, but now they're the recorded naysayer in a pivotal moment for a major open source project. It's like anyone who said Open Office shouldn't be forked when Open Office was purchased by Oracle. Now Open Office is abandonware with only functionally useless commits and multiple unpatched security issues and Libre Office has completely replaced it
I dropped my music library into Jellyfin just as an extra. I've built up quite a collection over the years of CDs and always rip and tag them as I acquire new CDs, so while the collection is a little messy it's sizable and mostly correctly tagged
Jellyfin's music playback has been buggy but getting better with updates. At the current rate of improvement it'll probably be really good in a 2-4 years, but right now it's kinda meh. It exists but it's buggy enough that I don't use it much
Okay, y'know how vanilla is very mid? Go buy a pint of vanilla yogurt, a bowl and a spoon and have it for breakfast or brunch. Or as a late night snack. My wife had a pregnancy craving for vanilla yogurt one evening and we've just kept a pint in the fridge ever since
I enjoyed Andor but I think that has more to do with it seemed to focus far more on telling a good story than relying heavily on all of the tropes that make Star Wars content Star Wars
This isn't always a choice, especially for those with families and those who own their homes. Moving is expensive, risky, time consuming and harms children's sense of place. And that's assuming moving would actually reduce the amount of commuting. If the individual and their partner both have jobs moving might trade one commute for another. Maybe the kids are really heavily involved in a local club or activity that they'd have to leave or commute to after moving. Maybe the commute makes sense because one stops at a friends' or family members' place on their way home from work.
Honestly, your opinions seem to be based on very limited sets of experiences and have a lot of externalities that you don't seem to have considered or have simply accepted without challenge. I appreciate your bold vision and encourage you to keep envisioning bold change for the world, but please do try to consider alternate viewpoints and experiences so you can create a vision for the world that more people can share in.
My opinion on commuting is we simply have way too many office workers commuting 5 days a week without good reason. We saw in 2020 the kind of incredible improvement for everyone that remote work provides, rapidly improving air quality, reducing congestion, making people happier and reducing costs for the masses. I think its an obvious solution to institute a road use tax for employers of office workers and combine it with an equal tax break for remote work scaling based on how many days a week employees are allowed to work remotely. This would push employers who might not otherwise allow remote work to embrace remote work or pay for the negative externalities they create