If you’re replacing your phone surely it’s better that it doesn’t come with the charger (from an environmental point of view), since you don’t have to ship it back and they don’t have to ship you a new one. And what does it matter if they’re on different ships? It would still be pretty much the same amount of emissions released, which is probably less than the amount needed to drive it to your house. Adding the extra packaging for two separate items isn’t great though, and I agree that as a customer it isn’t great to get less for the same price.
The Biden administration’s plan to slap heavy new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and batteries would provide temporary protection for U.S. auto jobs, potentially at the expense of White House efforts to fight climate change by accelerating U.S. EV adoption....
Moroccanoil is an israeli company. The connection to Morocco is that they co-opted a Moroccan product and sell it under their name. There’s no reason to believe that their sponsorship would influence a potential Moroccan entrant.
I’d previously assumed that the logo that showed up on the title screens for Moroccanoil was just another state owned oil company putting sponsorship money into random things, but the haircare ad at the end of yesterday’s broadcast let me to do some investigating....
Beyond the fact that adding five more lanes would still leave you with a horribly inefficient transport system, you also ignore that externalities that you are exacerbating by doing so. You’re displacing thousands more people, worsening the division of communities, creating a lot of noise and air pollution, increasing car dependency etc
Your last paragraph is tangential to what I said. It doesn’t disagree because it says something different. It’s also oversimplified in some ways and just wrong in others.
Did they though? To some extent, yes. But most people just want to get places and will take whichever mode makes the most sense for that journey, and what a city invests in will make that mode make more sense for more journeys. There is also a portion of journeys that just won’t happen if they are too difficult.
Just to be pedantic, the dumb car tunnels (or Loop), are the weird thing elon “invented” to “solve” traffic and reduce competition for his cars for urban transport. This eventually became one tunnel in LA to get between elon’s house and office, and the dumb taxi tunnel in Las Vegas.
The hyperloop, where elon “invented” the vacuum train, is a separate thing that exists to distract from CAHSR, and elon didn’t want to work on himself because “he’s too busy”, and not because it’s effectively just a scam and won’t work, and most of the companies that started up to develop it have since gone bust.
For me the first thing that comes to mind is Tales from Earthsea. I don’t think it’s excellent or anything and has plenty of problems but people act like it killed their dog. While it has its problems that have been covered extensively, I think it has a beautiful atmosphere and art....
I really enjoyed Oppenheimer and I’d say it’s highly rated because it is good and lots of people enjoyed it, however nothing can please everyone and there’s nothing wrong with that. You not enjoying the popular thing doesn’t make it bad.
It’s deadly in Florida because people drive around the barriers at level crossings. That won’t be a problem here because there won’t be any level crossings.
Bad take. You couldn’t have pretty much any modern country without their previous problematic leader. You can learn just about them in history class and not honour them though statues.
iFixit: We’re Ending Our Samsung Collaboration (www.ifixit.com)
Car Journeys Up In 2023 With Bus And Bicycle Journeys Down, Reports U.K. Department For Transport (www.forbes.com)
Kia is testing an electric pickup in the US that looks like a Ford F-150 Lightning (electrek.co)
Eurostar plans up to 50 new trains and more services to tap ‘huge’ demand (www.ft.com)
Why Downtown Asheville is So Empty (www.youtube.com)
Why Paris Tore Down A Highway To Build A Tram (youtu.be)
A US-China EV trade war threatens Biden's clean-car agenda (www.reuters.com)
The Biden administration’s plan to slap heavy new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and batteries would provide temporary protection for U.S. auto jobs, potentially at the expense of White House efforts to fight climate change by accelerating U.S. EV adoption....
Furious Brussels wants answers over ban on EU flags at Eurovision (www.euronews.com)
The European Commission has expressed anger over a ban on EU flags at the Eurovision Song Contest and demands explanations....
On Eurovision's main sponsor - Moroccanoil
I’d previously assumed that the logo that showed up on the title screens for Moroccanoil was just another state owned oil company putting sponsorship money into random things, but the haircare ad at the end of yesterday’s broadcast let me to do some investigating....
A new trolley era (lemmy.world)
E-Bikes Should Not Require Pedaling, Proposes U.K. Government, Diverging From E.U. (www.forbes.com)
E-bikes could get faster, more powerful and not require pedaling, in a move announced today by UKGOV. Cycling organizations are opposed to the plans.
This Freeway Sucks -- Let's Decommission It (www.youtube.com)
Just one more lane (sh.itjust.works)
West Midlands air pollution causing up to 2300 early deaths each year (www.birmingham.ac.uk)
What animated film or tv show is this? (i.imgur.com)
For me the first thing that comes to mind is Tales from Earthsea. I don’t think it’s excellent or anything and has plenty of problems but people act like it killed their dog. While it has its problems that have been covered extensively, I think it has a beautiful atmosphere and art....
Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Nearly 45,000 households had nowhere to live in the three months to December last year, official figures show...
Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas (timesofsandiego.com)
Bicycle use in Paris now exceeds car use (english.elpais.com)
Taiwan will tear down all remaining statues of Chiang Kai-shek in public spaces (www.scmp.com)