Magnetrons are a lot less efficient than magnetic induction (which most modern electric kettles use). Magnetic induction is about 90% efficient at converting electricity to heat in the vessel, whereas the most efficient microwaves are about 60% efficient at converting electricity to microwaves.
Lol at the picture of that baby speed hump on a 40’ wide road.
That’ll do it.
Would make authentic GATs way easier to find.
Violence (or the threat of it) is the only means of influence that the people have ever had. As you’ve correctly identified, when other avenues of enacting their will are stymied, violence results, but that threat of violence must be what sits behind every vote, or the vote would have no power.
To put it succinctly, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
My ideological opponents are already silencing speech. I gain nothing by ceding that tool solely to them.
As long as fascists exist they must be silenced. When they seize power, they will not do you the courtesy of allowing you to speak just because you let them. It’s naive to think otherwise.
Not asking you to dox yourself, but that number outside of context means very little.
If I’m remembering a book I read (either Human Transit by Walker or Street Fight by Sadik-Khan, I forget), with protected bike lanes the gender disparity between cyclists also starts to disappear.
The investment costs for protecting a bike lane are almost nothing for any competent city, though. There’s a reason it’s possible for guerrilla urbanists to do it overnight with no money.
Censorship of speech is a powerful tool. Why, if you have the true conviction of your beliefs, would you fight with one hand behind your back?
Moreover, I’ve seen no evidence in my lifetime that letting my ideological opponents speak leads to positive results.
The US has slave labor and all they do is pick cotton and staff call centers. If I’m living in a state with slave labor either way I’d probably take the one with the trains.
Well we’ve got all that in the US already, so can we just do the version where we get trains in addition to the other stuff, instead of just the other stuff?
I went to an onsen (hot spring) town in Japan. They have hot spring water, so on a lot of the streets business owners just turn the hose on and point it downhill. Worked pretty well for keeping the streets clear of snow, but requires a lot of existing geographical conditions.
Smaller cars is the only thing that would fix Monaco.
The outer Richmond and outer Sunset are incredibly reactionary, car-brained NIMBYs. Only reason this went through is because it got put to a citywide vote. Left to the Board of Supervisors there’s no way it would have gotten through. I think the Sunset dipshits are already trying to recall their supe for letting it happen.
I’d be interested to know whether the majority of those cost increases came from labor or materials. Or, possibly, just additional graft off the top by the contractors if Pasadena doesn’t use in-house crews for their paving.
But cities like Pasadena have some of the easiest conditions possible for maintaining roads since they never (or only very rarely) get below freezing.
That rideshare driver’s name? Albert Einstein.
Yeah. Microwaves are more efficient than most non-induction stoves.