My Australian town is almost as bad as American ones because it was built after cars became necessary

It has decent bike paths and painted bike lanes on many roads. Riding to local centres is easy, or to any of the five or so nearby schools (which gets a lot of kids onto bikes), but if you work a desk job it is probably in one of the three big centres and you’re likely to live up to an hour by bike away. So few adults get around by bike

That’s only because America makes terrible public transit

1. Are you saying the problem is cars are too expensive and too expensive to maintain because they are too complex?

Cheap cars are more dangerous. Simpler cars have higher emissions. I think the more complex ones are better. I would like to see legislation against the anti repair methods manufacturers use

2. Cars let you take longer trips. One of the Australian capitals had a train to the beach towns. That right of way was taken by a highway and the railway now only runs a tourist route between the three or four beach towns but not to the city

With cars less needed other transit methods get built for popular trips

Failing all that, hire a car the few times of year you want an out of town holiday would be cheaper even than a very cheap car

3. This one is completely correct. Last time I had a car problem I had a choice of tow companies and mechanics. Government services are monopolies but they’re pretty proof against failure. The worst that might happen is you might buy a car that turns out to be less valuable than you expected because it’s bad quality or the company owner turns out to be a nazi. But even that only costs you if you need to sell the vehicle.

I envy you for your walkable city. I don’t think I did better by getting a thousand square metre block and a detached house. I’d like to see our cities made walkable and the outer suburbs connected by rail so no one needs a car. I’d like to see cars banned from the city centre except working vehicles, taxis, disabled people, tourists with a hotel in town. For long trips off the transit network one would take a train to a car hire depot out of the city and drive from there. Hopefully cars will be sufficiently smart that the fact the drivers will have little practices will be mitigated

Kelvins are abbreviated to capital K

Cool to 25, heat to 20 (Canberra, Australia)

Musk is a shit, but lying doesn’t help

I really loved my Trinitron, but it needed so much space

Flat CRTs were excellent though.

Depending on how closed loops of time work

Owners of such cars should be required to take extra training about where they can operate them, restricting them like large commercial vehicles (which these try to be)

Let them have them; don’t let them drive them in tight urban areas, don’t let them park in parking places that can’t fit them

Australia is much like America with places designed for motor vehicles. So American light trucks fit here, but many of our carparks do not allow vehicles longer than 5m to enter

Searching I found one Tesla 3 that caught fire after hitting road debris, several that caught fire after being shot at, several that caught fire after a collision, and many destroyed in arson attacks

Please link some of these “many that caught fire while driving”

Then 10 minutes later the war was back on no holds barred

IT worker in system analysis and design in the public service in Canberra, Australia.

There’s no official policy though many of my co workers believe a lunch time drink is not allowed. I have often enjoyed a couple of glasses of wine or a beer at lunch, have never made a secret of it, and have never been told off or warned by anyone above me

If they want to hurt Tesla, attacking their customers’ cars won’t help

So it’s fine to destroy insured private property? It’s not like that’s zero cost for the owner of the car

Fight Nazis by random arson against random citizens property

Sure they’re on the right side /s

Teslas aren’t prone to spontaneous combustion

(For the half that wasn’t joke)

If they use Firefox sync, you are most likely only protected by the Firefox terms for anything synchronised

I don’t have a problem with the character, just the way she was written especially in the second film, I didn’t watch the third. And that film was terrible. The plot was bad, all the characters were bad, their adherence to star wars space stuff was bad

I don’t know if the writers were bad at their job or whether they were required to change it

The bit I didn’t say was I meant such a character in a hero’s journey style story