Video for anyone who hasn't seen it
bstix
joined 2 years ago
History is a circle.
First we had bicycles. These then got helper motors. Then we got motorcycles and the two stroke engines had helper pedals to start. Then the pedals were removed.
Now we still have bicycles. These then got electric helper motors. Then we got electric bikes, that still have pedals, but people hack them to run entirely on the motor.
Make up your minds already. Everyone of these changes upsets the elderly.
TEMU om to år, når affaldet ikke er fjernet og vi sidder grædende på gaden:
"Er du sikker på at du downloadede fra det rigtige link?"
Is that close to Nassau without the N?
There's the Pipistrel Velis Electro. It costs about $200 000. It's a regular plane. Been around for some years.
What I'd like to see is more of is stuff like the Ehang 216 eVTOL drones. I don't know if they're actually commercially available yet or what kind of places they're allowed.
No, but there are fees for late payments and other special situations.
Their main income is from the transaction fees that they charge the merchants.
The idea is that people who don't have money can spend money and create a transaction fee on a sale that wouldn't otherwise have happened if they didn't lend the money. That way it's the same as a credit card that you only pay monthly.
The difference is that the payments can be split, so that the customers can .. uh .. utilize their entire credit maximum every month..
Needless to say, this kind of credit maximum optimization can end really badly for people who have unstable incomes. The same kind of people who might be tempted to use it.
But seriously though, in hindsight, the invention of asphalt roads was a mistake. The oil industry doesn't just own the production of fuels. They also own the production of materials for roads and tires.
If we were to reinvent the car using contemporary knowledge, materials and technology, we would have to use something else for both cars, tires and roads.
Or we can wait 50 years and let our grandchildren deal with it when the oil has been depleted.
Going into fiction, if we were to settle on another planet covered with plants and natural resources, I seriously doubt we would be able to justify what we did to the Earth when we paved the roads. We only use roads because we upgraded the existing dirt and rock trails used by horse carriages. If those hadn't existed already, it would have made much more sense to redesign the vehicles to actually work without a paved surface. Like the horse carriages and early cars, which had really large hard wheels and softer suspension. It really is the invention of asphalt roads that caused modern cars to be such whiny rubber glove bitches.
Perhaps the whole flying car science fiction isn't that stupid after all, because it eliminates the need for roads and tires and all the shit that comes from it. Small electric personal planes already exist. Roll out the solid state batteries and autopilot and we're almost good to go.
This is what billionaires ought to spend their money on instead of drilling holes in the desert.
Det vil være mærkeligt for en politisk regering at indføre en religiøs helligdag.
Jeg skal ikke bede den dag.
Giv os hellere en ekstra dag i ferieloven, så vi selv kan bestemme hvornår den skal afholdes.
Jeg kender godt problemet, men det er udelukkende fordi min arbejdsgiver ikke kan finde ud af at læse ferieloven.
Yes, the kids will be alright.
Mine are that age, so I see a lot of them through their school and activities. They're not that different from what we were at that age.
It would be nice to read a more in-depth presentation of the project.
Wikipedia to the rescue:
view more: next ›
It's a famous quote of Churchill about USA during WW2. Unfortunately he never actually said that, but he said something similar.