You claimed that lack of skill is the primary reason. How about you back that thing up before claiming that the video is wrong?

We can argue that some more regulation is needed, sure, but that is missing the point. It's not like the Netherlands only has good drivers, it's that a bad driver can rarely deal heavy damage because the infrastructure was well designed. You cannot remove all bad drivers from the road, the best driver in the world makes bad decisions if they're stressed and late.

You can blame the driver for making a bad decision and see the casualties as unfortunate. Or you can see the fault in the infrastructure, which made what could have been a fender-bender into a head-on collision, and see the casualties as preventable. Those views are not exclusive, but only the latter will actually prevent accidents.

Are you sure it's not that the road design is much safer in the Netherlands, like the video said?

You seem to do exactly what the video is criticising: finding someone at fault and moving on, instead of changing the street design so that a lack of skill does not result in catastophic crashes.

Before commenting, you should know there are 2 types of solar panels:

• the ones owned by people (which may or may not feed into the grid)
• the ones owned by corporations

The article is probably about the 2nd kind (if you can only sell energy when there is a surplus, your company will fail), while the twitter user makes it seem like the 1st kind was meant. We probably need to built more of both types. Identify what type the other commenters are talking about before getting in any arguments here.

Potatoes are ridiculously cheap here right now (0,60€ per kg), so...

Home-made mashed potatoes with pumpkin. I've eaten instant mashed potatoes all my life, so I expected it to be more of a hassle than it was. Could eat this an entire month, its a meal to me.

There are like 4 days a year everyone just puts their old sofas, broken TVs and other junk outside to be collected by a garbage truck the next day. As this furniture is mostly usable, people in white vans go around to collect the most valuable stuff, which makes up most of the traffic in villages on those days and causes old people to complain about Polish immigrants.

The village children also have a look around if the weather is nice. Village adults don't, not because they are above it, but since there is a genuine risk a neighbour you've known for decades will sue you for stealing; the garbage does belong to them still as the courts have determined.

Edit: Sorry for forgetting the most important part.

I have nothing but contempt for this business model.

Really? I'm also not sure why exactly he's being downvoted, but only bc there's many possible reasons.

• There's no way transit-stabbings are a real problem, anywhere. Even in the grungiest places, it has to be a fake problem like elevator cables snapping or plane crashes and it's all fear-mongering.
• You can make these comments everywhere and they're always unhelpful. Oh, a "bus is high capacity" post? Yeah, but they're unsafe here, I'll pass. Oh, a "bus is super safe" post? Yeah, but they're very infrequent here, I'll pass. Oh, a "bus is super frequent post"? Yeah, but we only have small ones, I'll pass.
• The comment implies smug dismissal, yet that problem and the post's problem have the same solution: more investments in public transport.

I'm starting to develop a vigor for public transit to match the one forced on us for car infrastructure in the 60s. Bigger, taller, more, I want 3 bus lanes and a tram line to any town in the country. We can do no wrong taking back all the space we gave to the car, as long as the garbage truck fits on the street, car users can share 1 lane both directions. Take their parking, take their license for rolling stops and using their phone, gift them e-bikes.

Make transit free, let the highways rot, expand the railways. Sorry for that pothole, all the money was used up by rail.

Just anything better than we have now. If we have to act fast and break things, so be it.

Maybe he's into crazy girls and it was a compliment? 😏

I'll assume since I am someone else, but kernel level anti-cheat is basically Spyware, or at least a privacy concern.

As implied in my first comment, I'm luckily not a US citizen. So asking where my line would be is a bit weird.

But when there is a better option with any chance of winning, they would have my vote. But since the Palestinian Genocide is happening either way I'd vote this election, Dems it is to reduce the suffering inside the USA. Support is, to me, something different, and I don't think I would support the dems right now.

The Democrats and Republicans are both 99% Hitler, ergo voting for either is voting for the greater evil.

If you are a woman, POC or queer, it is usually really easy to choose a lesser evil here (or idk, a neo-nazi, as I framed this as why a non-voter might also help the democrats). Most people can choose a lesser evil, and they help the greater one by not voting/voting 3rd party. If you literally can't see a difference, that's fine, but this is the reason why most people are better of not voting 3rd party right now.

If the Democrats lose left wing voters by pushing rightward and lose, are they going to go even further right?

Yup, they can make that decision. Maybe they think appealing to the block of Republicans is easier, and I wouldn't be surprised if they do considering that's where their money is and how much they need to change to appeal to the left.

(...) may shift leftward to regain lost votes. Unconditionally supporting the Democrats only furthers their genocidal tendencies.

So, you don't know how it would help. Either the Democrats stay in Power and won't change, or the Republicans gain power and nothing will change until 2028 (or later, depending how project 2025 comes along). Hoping that they may change on Palestine is foolish. You are correct about the support, it should never be unconditional.

By your logic, Libertarians and Non-Voters are also helping Trump.

Whomever they think is the bigger evil, they help by not voting for the lesser evil. For why, see my first comment.

Depends on where they lost their votes from.

Disagree.

Kamala and Trump are united on Gaza, voting for either will only result in more death and destruction.

And voting for neither will also result in more death and destruction. You are refusing to explain how your choice would help, and I can make some damning assumptions why.

Leftists hate the dems and the reps, but now you are saying they help Trump by voting for their interests.

Correct. You seem to know all about the voting system, I don't need to explain to you why that is.

If the Dems lose votes to Leftists, and they wish to regain those votes, they have to move leftward. They won’t ever be Socialist, correct, but they move to where they lose votes.

They will move in the direction they think they can get more votes. The past has shown that even when they lose, they prefer to move "center" rather than left.

No, voting for genocide is not the best for Palestinian Genocide, unless you support the Genocide.

Please explain how voting for your alternative 3rd party candidate, sitting at 0.3% at the polls if I'm not mistaken, will help.

The part of them fiercely fighting any 3rd party was a good point though. Still, the Momentum isn't there.

Voting 3rd party is not and will not lead to revolution.

Nothing I said implies Democrats are entitled to any votes, just basic statements about options and their outcomes.

Because of the terrible voting system, all those voting for Jill Stein will not affect the outcome. Voting 3rd party is barely better than not voting at all. If they would have otherwise preferred the Democrats, this helps Trump.

I also don't think voting 3rd party will make Democrats adopt more leftist policies, as that risks losing centrist voters and their big business sponsors they rely on.

It's a shame, but the best vote is one for Harris. Even when it comes to the Palestinian Genocide. If you want more 3rd party options, try to win a local election first and build momentum from there, don't start with nothing 6 months before and try to win the federal election from there.

Well, that's a new thought. Donating blood is necessary, so we get paid by the Red Cross to do it, in money or a small meal. But the Red Cross then immediately upsells that blood to the hospitals that need it. In a sense, we are exploited workers without a contract.

The real reason donating blood is unethical is because we cannot unionize.

All he had to go off was a vehicle with 2 teenagers inside and the call from his girlfriend that there were trespassers on the property. Depending on what exactly was said on the call and what happened between him blocking the vehicle in and the shot, he might just have shit trigger discipline and his girlfriend is the one who is super scared of anyone she sees on their security cameras. He is still an idiot for trying to block their vehicle in any case though.

Really not that complicated. If a person who would otherwise vote Democrat instead votes 3rd party, it helps the Republicans. So the Democrat politician says it to that person. Likewise, the Republican says it to those that would otherwise vote Republican. Both parties now claim that it helps the other, but whom it really helps depends on who would otherwise be voted for.

From my outside, proportional representative having-position, 3rd party voting only becomes viable if it is discussed outside of the 6 months before an election. And not in the general "3rd party" term, but with an actual party name attached.

Would you like the Placebo with Diarrhea or the one with vomitting for your headache?