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I'm all in on the Wild Emperor arc. When he finds out the neo heros are just as corrupy as the HA he's in for a bad time.

Absolutely, these are all totally valid questions to ask and answer as we build walkable places.

Goods do need to move: from hubs (ports, airports) to distribution centers (warehouses) to their "last mile" destinations (stores, restaurants etc). Cars and vans are great ways to move goods even to destinations: even pedestrian streets allow delivery trucks in at low speeds and/or off peak hours. It's just private cars not allowed in these people-centric places. Though bike delivery is increasingly popular in dense walkable places.

As for heavy industry, it's true that these places tend to be underserved by useful transit. In a lot of walkable places these kinds of places do have transit: especially industrial parks which can be pretty dense if designed properly. But if transit is truly infeasible, driving is totally acceptable to these places. The goal of a walkable community isn't to eliminate all car trips. They're absolutely a useful tool that will continue to play an important role in our cities and towns.

The goal of a walkable trip is to reduce the number of car trips and eliminate the low hanging fruit. Going to school, going to the shops or to get groceries, visiting your friends and family, going to the doctor: in a lot of places these trips can only be done by car because of how we build our cities and towns. There will always be trips for which cars are the best tool: we just need to make it a goal to reduce those trips through thoughtful land use and city building.

You're misunderstanding his point. Yes, from cradle to grave EVs are better than ICEs. But they aren't better than other alternatives. The other costs the commenter is referring to is all the other costs of car ownership: building roads and parking lots, building sprawling car-dependant suburbs which destroy ecosystems and inflate infrastructure costs, the tens of thousands of annual car deaths and millions of car injuries, microplastics from tires, heavy metal dust from brakes, the induspitable contribution of car dependence to the obesity epidemic, the exacerbation of inequality, etc. etc.

EVs are better than ICEs but they're still cars, that's the main point. They're touted as a solution to environmental problems: which they are not, period. The solutions revolve around better land use (eliminating zoning laws which establish car dominance and sprawl), less subsidization of the auto industry (it's to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year in the USA), more subsidization of the public transit industry, and a commitment by people and politicians to build walkable places and enable car free living.

EVs are a small part of a complex and multifaceted issue. They are part of the solution, but only a small part compared to the commitments we silently ignore because of the plea that EVs will save us.

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I've never met an engineer who wanted to intentionally design products to break.

The beancounters on the other hand...

And this is the second biggest shopping season of the year, only beat by Christmas.

Einstein's most famous equation relates mass and energy: E=mc^2 . So, if you're not matter (mass), you're energy. Which, by the way, is how we make energy in fusion reactions, converting mass to energy.

That's the main joke, yes. There's also a subjoke that's a (relatively) obscure internet meme: Loss

Uhh, something tells me hair clippers are not pulling 160+W. It's a small DC motor that vibrates some clippers, not an electric scooter.

Sounds like you might benefit from some white noise sleeping at home. Can play it through your phone or even an old radio set to some quiet static.

Yup, tried and tested on the most recent alpha. I can confirm it works.

Jerboa had both in its latest alpha release on github, you should check it out.