Long term you’re probably more stressed. It helps in the moment, but you’ll be more stressed and anxious when you’re not drinking, plus it raises your blood pressure, so if you’re worried about a stress induced cardiovascular event, alcoholism probably making it worse.
Thats nice for you, we also have highs of 36C, but I live on the top floor of an apartment and the temperature in my living room at its coldest today was 26C. Thats using shutters and awnings as early as it makes sense to, opening all windows and doors as soon as the outside temperature drops below inside, sleeping with everything open so we wake up at dawn, nobody’s home during the day, and by the time its cool enough to open the windows its 30C inside.
So I just ordered a new AC. Yes its bad for the environment, but not as bad as if I would drive even an electric car to work.
Similar vibe to “you claim to be vegan and yet you eat bread, and some field mice probably got killed when harvesting the wheat to make it. Checkmate, I’ve just invalidated your entire belief. Why aren’t you ordering the steak now?”
You mean I don’t have to drive to the gym anymore if I cycle to work?
You’re right, if homeowners downsize they’ll lose out with lower prices. People don’t downsize very often.
But what policies are you talking about? How can the answer be anything other than increasing the supply of housing (or decreasing the demand i.e. the population)? Prices are only as high as they are because people pay them because they don’t have any other options. Rent is high because demand is high relative to supply.
The only thing I can think of would be higher taxes specifically in places with high house prices in order to fund huge investment in poorer areas to make them more attractive to people and businesses.
They might be the biggest group of home owners, but they’re not themselves the issue. The optimal situation would more or less be every family owning a single home.
If house prices go down equally across the market, single home owners don’t really lose out because people typically sell houses when they want to buy a different house. People who recently took out big mortgages will complain about negative equity and some idiots are happy to see a number go up but by and large single home owners will be fine and won’t even complain a lot - they know from their children or other sources that its too damn expensive to buy a house.
The real losers would be people who own property as an investment, and developers. And those two groups have powerful lobbies and the majority of politicians are in the first group.
The single home owner NIMBYs are a problem in cases where prices will be affected but only locally. Then they really stand to lose out. So you basically need to have a massive nationwide house building program, either done by the state or through strong legal incentives to force developers to build a lot more of the right kind of homes and prevent them from sitting on land waiting for the price to go up. Or probably both.
If you get all your info from Lemmy you’d probably think that AI is a worthless hype bubble that can’t do anything right and will collapse and go away in a few years.
You can make the same argument against public transport though. People who live in rural areas with no viable public transport options tend to be against subsidies for public transport which they themselves can’t use.
A tax on mileage/big cars is more or less already achieved through fuel duty.
The problem is that its a very unpopular tax and chancellors have a habit of using a fuel duty cut as a carrot in a budget where they’re cutting other things and/or raising other taxes.
IMO there should absolutely be a large hike in fuel duty to discourage driving ICEs. And bigger cars should have higher duties in general. I don’t really have any faith that the red tories will do anything like that however.
In the UK at least tolls have been a way to get private companies to finance the infrastructure (e.g. a bridge) in the first place, and then they collect the tolls for some decades until they’ve made back their investment + X% and then the tolls are removed.
Not to mention in a car you’re putting pedestrians, drivers and other road users in danger. On a bike you’re pretty much just putting yourself in danger.
Yes I know its possible for a cyclist to injure/kill a pedestrian, but its very very rare compared to cars killing people.
So do something about it. If you just sit there and post “I don’t want this” on the Internet they’re just going to keep doing it.
You forgot the step where they invent a logo that looks almost the same as the recyclable logo and stick it on all plastics but it doesnt mean its recyclable but instead just says what kind of plastic it is.
When I visited one part of China I was looking for a big bottle of water to keep in my hotel room and went to the local store. I found a big 5L plastic bottle but when I looked at the label I realised it was Baijiu, not water. Something like 57% ABV, and it cost the equivalent of a few US dollars.
Not even a parent, just have friends who are and empathise with their situation.
Holy misinterpretation batman! Its fine to not want to meet. OP seems to think its rude that someone with a baby can’t just dump them somewhere so they can meet up for adults only coffee. Its the indignation that makes them the asshole.
So most Americans can’t find California on a map? It’s smaller than France.
YTA. People with young kids tend to socialise way less because they dont sleep and its a lot of work. When they do socialise the kids tend to be around because organising childcare is difficult to organise, can be expensive, potentially stressful for the kids. Very frequently the options are take your kids with you to socialise, or dont socialise at all. Its why new parents suddenly start socialising a lot with other parents.
And it might not be as bad as you think, depending on the kids. They may be happy entertaining themselves and sleeping, and you can have a relatively normal time until they wake up and get restless at which point the mum might decide its time for them to leave. Or they could be crying and screaming the whole time.
You can still have a road next to the bike lane, it just needs to have a barrier in between.
In the Netherlands you’ll see roads with three lanes of equal size in each direction with dividers in between. One for bikes, one for buses, one for cars.
In North America you will make drivers absolutely furious if you take some of their driving lanes away and make them exclusively for bikes or public transport. But they will eventually realise that such a system makes driving far more pleasant because there are so much fewer cars on the road when most journies are done via bike or public transport that you don’t need the extra lanes.
Because the restaurant pizza in Norway costs like 30 usd.
I cannot tell the difference
I cannot tell, even when gaming
Only had an issue once in a busy airport, otherwise not an issue for me.
I’m not saying my case is universal and there’s no reason anyone would ever want a 3.5mm jack, but there’s plenty of people like me who would really never use it.