If you're confused about a specific term, ask about that specific term, and you'll get many people eager to help. Sorry nobody wants to get on an open ended video call with a stranger to teach you how to run a server, but that's just how these forums work. Everyone's setup is different so there's not much I could do to help in your video call.
Learning this stuff is hard, don't let anyone tell you any different. We all went through the same struggles, perhaps for some people that was so long ago that they forgot how hard it was.
If people took existential threats seriously, we should immediately devote all our resources into escaping the simulation to prevent it from being turned off. But yeah... we'd ignore it and go back to TikTok
Bikes shouldn't have to pay road tax because they don't cause wear on the roads, and the roads aren't built for them. Road tax doesn't come close to covering the cost of roads, the rest comes from general tax, so in reality it's bikes subsidizing cars.
Bikes aren't riding in the middle of the lane just for the sake of it, there's nothing worse than having a car riding up your ass. They're riding in the middle of the lane because of visibility and to prevent unsafe passing. Once it's safe to pass, they will pull over and let you pass. They aren't "obstructing traffic" by riding along as fast, safe and courteously as they can, even if why they're doing it isn't always obvious to you.
You shouldn't have to lane shift in roundabouts. On a well designed multi lane roundabout you choose your lane before you get there and simply follow it to the exit. The only reason to change lanes is if you screwed up.
The example I'm thinking of is New Zealand, where there's endless studies into causes of erosion most of which mention the introduction of grazing game animals(e.g. deer) as a contributing factor.
deforestation and overgrazing by livestock and
introduced game animal
By the 1930’s the deer population in New Zealand was out of control and causing serious environmental damage through grazing, severe soil erosion and slips from the thousands of hooves ripping up the ground
Because humans are powerful enough that we are a bit like gods, and we have to make these choices between which lives we keep and which lives we kill.
Is it ethical to allow the hunting of African game if that money funds the conservation of many more animals? We have to make that trade off. Ethics are subjective, and I'm firmly on the side of allowing hunting as are many other people.
In New Zealand, as with other isolated islands, there's a unique population of indigenous birds that are now being massacred by introduced mammals. Is it ethical to hunt and trap and poison the introduced pests to save the indigenous birds. We have to make that choice.
A runaway trolley is going to kill 5 humans unless you switch it to another track where it will only kill 1 human. Is that ethical?
A politician could choose to lower the speed limit of a road to 10 km/h, saving lives but costing the economy, quality of life, and future election wins. Is that ethical?
You're absolutely right, but this argument about a "tax on the poor" is used to justify everything that's wrong with cars. We need to solve this properly with a social safety net and alternatives to cars.
Uhh, this garbage ewaste is still wasting people's money. This piece of crap will not be able to run modern apps. There need to be more accessible used options at this price that will not be thrown in the garbage in a few months when she needs a functional phone.
Sorry for the rant, I'm mad at Vodafone and PB tech for ripping you off and wasting your time, not you.
I tried to find a reference to OEM that built it because there might be other identical phones with different names, but I couldn't find any reference outside of NZ or AU. If you can't find anything either, you could try to find a similar shaped phone using the gsmarena phone finder. https://gsmarena.com/search.php
And yeah, Aliexpress and Temu are the best place for things like phone cases if you aren't in a hurry.
Not so much with ebikes, although I understand that those are also hobbled by speed restrictions. It seems ironic that the country of unlimited speed limits for cars has such slow speed limits for safe transport, but I guess that's what carbrained thinking does
In my experience cars do that all the time, and the only reason it doesn't happen more is because all our laws and infrastructure has been built to ensure that cars get absolute priority. Let's be clear, the reason we are having this debate is because 90% of our transport corridors have been surrendered to only cars, while the rest of us are left squabbling over the few tiny un-prioritized slivers that aren't blocked by yet more cars. We need wider footpaths, and wider better cycle lanes to allow e-scooters to travel at higher speeds. This space is avalible by slightly shrinking the traffic lanes.
That's an arbitrary line too though. Insects experience some form of emotion, but it appears not as complex as a mammal. If you're going to define value of life by (estimated)complexity of experience, then we're both agreed on a similar heirachy with humans at the top.
My point is that there's nuance. Everyone has their own opinion and none of us are right or wrong.
If you're confused about a specific term, ask about that specific term, and you'll get many people eager to help. Sorry nobody wants to get on an open ended video call with a stranger to teach you how to run a server, but that's just how these forums work. Everyone's setup is different so there's not much I could do to help in your video call.
Learning this stuff is hard, don't let anyone tell you any different. We all went through the same struggles, perhaps for some people that was so long ago that they forgot how hard it was.