And was driving a ridiculously oversized fragile ego compensation vehicle

Nur 3 % von nur 13,7 Milliarden Litern Erdöl pro Tag sind natürlich keine Kleinigkeit.

Überraschenderweise verbraucht das Recycling von Aluminium viel weniger Energie als das von Glas oder Kunststoff.

Aber ich trinke mein Bier viel lieber aus Glas, schmeckt am besten. Bier aus Plastik ist zum Kotzen. Bier aus Alu überlebe ich wenn es sein muss.

Das niedrige Pfand auf Glas stört mich vor allem deshalb, weil Glas schwer ist, in meiner Tasche klappert und sich nicht wieder verschließen lässt. Das macht das Zurückbringen von Glas immer so unangenehm, und deshalb möchte ich dafür mehr zurückbekommen!

Diese 8 Cent werden irgendwann so wertlos sein, dass sich nicht einmal Obdachlose mehr die Mühe machen werden.

Diese Regelung ist ein Albtraum. Döner in Alufolie: 50 Cent. Döner in Papier: 50 Cent. Kann mir mal jemand erklären, warum ein dünnes Stück Papier genauso schädlich für die Umwelt sein soll wie Alufolie? Und es gibt überhaupt keine mehrweg Alternative zu einem Döner.

Ich habe viele Probleme mit Merz, sein Alter gehört nicht dazu.

I think their idea behind it is to convince relatively tech savvy people how great it works (it does) so they talk about it in their relatively tech savvy professional role at small and medium companies.

And at some point they will either start charging money for the small time user, or it will turn to shit, or both. You just know it will happen, the question is when not if. It isn’t free, it’s corporate.

A fine is brushed off in a quarter. They should be forced to split into seperate companies.

It’s not 2007. Devices are everywhere now, smartphones, TV’s etc. The social dimension (social pressure) and implications are very different now. Their power increases, amount of people caught in the loop is immense now. 2007 was all still fun and games.

Some things you should only eat when they’re in season near you…

Because a lot of pension plans are very disappointing. They for example offer a ‘guaranteed’ minimum intrest of up to 2 % per year, but don’t forget the ‘management costs’ they charge. That’s very very low compared to regular inflation. Pension funds exist to make pension fund managers, traders and banks rich (now, not later) and so that the government can point at them and say “it was your own responsibility!” instead of offering ALL weak and old people enough to cover basic needs. And that’s to “motivate” as many people as possible to work as much as possible. If relatively young right now: you’re probably better off putting money away in time deposits with higher guaranteed intrest than putting it in pension funds. Or ETF/random stock picking for those who feel lucky. The state subsidies to choose pension fund instead of time deposit or direct market investments is in many cases also misleading: you get tax cuts when depositing into the pension funds, but you get taxed when you get paid out at pension age. All differs a lot in different countries, but the core of it is pretty similar all over I think.

plenty of herb alpert and his tijuana brass band here too :D

When I had more time than I do now, at a few of the local shops like that I went through a lot of the mess. The good thing: most of it barely moves. So now, a few years later, when I go there, I still notice pretty easily when a new batch got added. They tend to add it to the front of easy to reach shelves…

Of course the response is to just start of with high speed rail connecting major cities in high mobility demand, high population areas. You got plenty of those. Looking at population density of the entire country to decide on the feasibility of better passenger rail in the most densely populated regions is dumb.

Putting zebra crossing on 4 or 5 lanes is sending people to certain deaths

New records are ridiculously priced! There are jewels hidden in thrift store bins or in some of the more “messy” looking record stores for very reasonable prices. Digging through the pictures and the names you may or may not know, to select albums based on their title and cover: there’s an incredible charm to that. I visit a lot of record stores, the ones that look too neatly organised and every single record is in a sealed shrink wrap, are the ones I leave rather quickly. I want my record store to look and feel like an old attic :)

Don’t forget obligated resting times!

Because I fail to configure wake-on-lan and such and I sometimes want remote access to it. I do have cron put it to sleep in low-hours and wake up next day…

Almost everyone with a playstation 1 I knew, had the ‘special’ version with a custom chip so you could play copied discs…

Same with pc games, copying was very common and not even looked down upon by others, more sort of admired (“can you copy this one for me??”)

yeah, same :')

I think I agree! Are we talking about the same? I was talking about e-bicycles (regular looking bicycle with battery and motor, which doesn’t help you anymore above that cut-off speedlimit), not e-scooters (the one with tiny wheels, stand-up while riding, no pedalling at all). The e-scooters can just all have licenses and license plates imo, it’s a normal motorised vehicle, has nothing at all in common with a bicycle)

No idea unfortunately