All car manufacturers world wide are subsidized.

https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent-totals

Of course China can make cheaper cars, because most car manufacturers get their parts produced in China anyway.

It really depends on the reference. 0 today is not the same as 0 was when I grew up. By the standards then, it was probably a 4, but by today’s standards it would be in the negatives, -2or so.

That’s no moon.

https://lemmyverse.link/sh.itjust.works/c/desire_paths

With enginuity like this it should be possible to make a water trap to keep the smell contained.

“Allowed until someone is sued for doing it and insurance can’t keep paying out” more likely.

Norway did it in 2015, and it seems to have been a success.

There has been surprisingly little debate about it here in Denmark. I haven’t heard a single argument against it.

It should be noted that the draft is for training only, and that it’s possible for pacifists to opt out of the military training by doing work for other institutions.

Personally I think it might be a great help for modernizing the military, because they’ll need to rethink the old “one size fits all” procedures.

It’s a response to Neil Young’s songs which criticized the racist south.

Basically, it’s what-about-ism in song form, mocking the liberals for being upset with Nixon.

I refuse to believe that a majority of Americans are fascists.

Things would look very different if they had a democracy.

What they need is a democratic election, without gerrymandering, without voter suppression, done on paper ballots with a pencil, on a holiday, with all ballots counted and checked.

You know the quote: “You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.”

Same thing applies to politics. They’re doing illegal things that people didn’t vote for. There’s no way this can be fixed by voting when they don’t respect anything anyway.

States need to secede and form a different government.

No, you.

If I could drop out of everything for 29 days, I wouldn’t come back at all.

Jazz.

Try this page if you want to read more about it:

https://erich-friedman.github.io/papers/squares/squares.html

I’ve seen the evolution of the one to the right. It now has a USB connection on the tail.

The caps was a problem yes. Not just littering, but also in sorting for recycling, where they’d often end up in the wrong place.

It obviously depends on where and how it’s done, but the thing I’ve heard is that due to (the lack of) weight and size the bottle caps would end up in the paper badges, which would ruin the paper from being recycled. It’s better if it follows the bottle. PET bottles (including caps) are shredded, washed and used for new bottles.

Same thing happened to the pull tabs on aluminium cans. Those used to be separate too.

I feel the same way about Charles Bukowski. I can read, understand and appreciate the books without liking the guy. He also paints himself in a negative picture, but the thoughts are still worth considering or just knowing of. Whether or not it’s intended, I think it’s okay for litterature to provoke the reader to think that the author is wrong or plain crazy, because at least it makes me think about stuff instead of just entertaining my existing views.

I did read Lila 25 yeas ago, but I hardly remember it. It’s been a long time since I last read any books at all. Perhaps I ought to give it a second chance.

It’s worth a read.

I think it’s often frowned upon for being somewhat of a naive juvenile pocket philosophical rambling, or the dairy of a madman, but I’d say that it introduces some valid points about the concept of quality that you can then think about yourself.

It’s definitely on my top 10 list of books. Not because it’s great, but because I can often relate to it in miscellaneous situations even 30 years after reading it.

Their people?

The mentioned cars are somewhat outdated.

You might also want to consider newer models like Renault 5, Skoda Elroq or Hyundai Ioniq.