Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious plan to build 500m tall, mirrored, 170km long parallel skyscrapers, forming a 1.5M population desert city has been curtailed to 2.4km long....
Yeah I find it hilarious when Europeans make all the jokes about Americans not traveling abroad when traveling through several countries for them is just driving from Miami to Disney World for us. And if that comparison is big to them, they’ll lose their minds when they realize how big Africa is.
Which is a separate topic from whether are all state-of-the-art (spoiler: the vast majority are not, I doubt much has changed in that regard since I’ve been out).
I have been reading a lot lately about not wearing outside shoes in the house and it interests me even more because I’ve been saving to re-carpet my whole house. It hits me every now and then about how to do things though, like, say I’m cooking all day on Sunday then need to take the trash out. I’m assuming it’s change...
Then you just take it off at the front door area. Have some sandals you can slip on in half a second if you need to take the trash out. “Check your privilege.” How fucking cringey.
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The US has a problem making shit ugly as fuck if it’s cheaper. We’re still in the mindset that something needs to be expensive to be good, but then complain when it’s expensive. The Bolt and Leaf are cheap because no one wants to buy that shit.
Half of this thread is people who would never have been getting an EV in general. Just complaining to complain and parroting the most popular clickbait points.
Finance guru Dave Ramsey slams 'awful' Gen Zers and millennials who live with their parents: 'They suck. They can't buy a house because they don't work' (fortune.com)
Fallout 4 is Getting Free Updates April 25 (fallout.bethesda.net)
Plans for Saudi Arabia’s linear city cut from 170km to 2.4km (www.newcivilengineer.com)
Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious plan to build 500m tall, mirrored, 170km long parallel skyscrapers, forming a 1.5M population desert city has been curtailed to 2.4km long....
Residents in wealthy California town block access to public hot springs with boulders (www.theguardian.com)
County officials alert Montecito homeowners that they face prosecution, including daily fines of $850 if stones are not removed...
More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs (www.androidauthority.com)
Biden administration announces $6.6 billion to ensure leading-edge microchips are built in the US (apnews.com)
On a huge election year for the world, Meta will shut down CrowdTangle, it's tool for election integrity observers without replacement (foundation.mozilla.org)
This is quite concerning
How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house?
I have been reading a lot lately about not wearing outside shoes in the house and it interests me even more because I’ve been saving to re-carpet my whole house. It hits me every now and then about how to do things though, like, say I’m cooking all day on Sunday then need to take the trash out. I’m assuming it’s change...
Caitlin Clark's reward for a record-smashing NCAA career: A $76,000 WNBA salary (www.motherjones.com)
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Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)
'We pay taxes so the corporations don’t have to': Amazon to get 100% tax cut for project in Mississippi — when the state has the ‘highest rate of poverty in America.' (finance.yahoo.com)
Over 150 elementary schools have no 1st graders: Korean ministry (www.koreaherald.com)
Ford Mustang Mach-E Sales Soar After Discounts, Proving Cheap EVs Are the Way Forward (www.thedrive.com)
Buyers Are Avoiding Teslas Because Elon Musk Has Become So Toxic (futurism.com)