There’s an argument to be made that flights less than, say, 4 hrs should be taxed more, as a train can easily and more efficiently handle that trip. What with the pre-checkin time, it gives a good 2-3 hrs buffer for transfers. Flying from London to Amsterdam is just silly.

“Why aren’t the proles making babies? I specifically requested it!”

It’s utter madness that healthcare professionals are allowed to work (in many countries) longer than truck drivers. It’s even more ridiculous that many countries have a medical doctor internship program that is designed by an absolute cocaine fiend assigning 30 hour days - and see nothing wrong with it.

You’re getting food on Black Friday special!? Lucky you.

Bezos’ mantra is cut, cut, cut and squeeze. Everything and everyone. Then ask for more. He’s the kind of guy who searches the backpacks of office workers on the way out, even when they’re being paid $200k a year. There’s middle managers all around the world who look at him as an idol. They’re awful people.

Saved this for later.

No shit. Raw materials are tariffed to hell and back.

Just the occasional holier-than-thou speed crackdowns. Nothing for the people totally ignoring the road.

That’s great news, as an EV owner. I don’t need to worry as much about the future state of the pack.

Yes, but that’s a different group. The boomers and billionaires do form an overlapping Venn diagram but there’s a lot of boomers who are just plain ignorant.

“Why do the children always have screens in front of them? Back in my day”

Same person:

“You’re not taking my beautiful stroad away from me, hippie!”

Are (over)pants underpants if you don’t wear something under them?

Fucking.

Wild.

That kind of behaviour should just be an immediate and permanent revocation of the license, car towed on the spot. Fiddling with phone to get directions or dismiss a notification is one thing but actively watching entertainment?

I have ADHD. It’s not super severe but it’s not great. I can drive 16 hrs (with appropriate breaks) without the radio. I will admit, I tend not to be super respectful of speed limits. But driving is enough stimulation for my scatterbrained self. Brain rot is a hell of a drug.

As company profits grow, so should the compensation of the workers. A war is a good time for bomb companies to profit wildly. 60 hour weeks are not sustainable though, in the long term - workers simply hit a productivity ceiling.

If there’s a war, and the 60 hour weeks are spent productively fighting the war, instead of keeping chairs warm for the managers, I’m confident many people will accept the effort.

We’ve never had better technology to build safer cars and streets, and yet here we are. Pedestrian detection and all, installed on a vehicle that’s got a front grille as tall as a person.

I saw someone watching a movie on their phone as they drove the other day, also a probable factor.

I think there’s reasonable high and low bounds as you say, but i think there’s a lot of factors as others have said. Income, culture, and cost of living are big factors. If you live in the USA and basically need to do a weekly shop at Costco for a family of 4 you need a lot more space than a single person who is able to eat out for nearly every meal in a dense urban area with affordable and moderately healthy street food (so a tiny hot plate suffices as a kitchen). But a family of 4 living in an urban area with lots of shops might do the groceries on the way home from work several times a week and then the refrigerator doesn’t need to be enormous.

Lifestyle plays into it as well. If you have a serious hobby you need space for it - whether it’s sewing, machining, fitness, or gaming. If you live on a rural property, you need space to keep chickens and a lawn tractor and a lot more necessities than someone in a flat in London.

Can you elaborate on why how a court ruling from a province in Canada is really France’s fault?

OVH has two DCs in Canada. I wonder if that constitutes “offers services” or if it’s just that OVH exists on the Internet.

Found the American.

Don’t tell him that in some countries it’s illegal to undertake!

I have bad memories of apps built in qt but that was decades ago, and my objection is visual.

JavaScript, despite any popularity, is a trash language for an application that runs outside of a browser

In a comment, OP provides the other reason that libraries may not want you to read a book and return it (other than putting it in the wrong place, which occurs). Libraries may be collecting data on usage.