Kretinsky

I'm glad that you behave like this; many don't respect those basic rules, especially with kids.

A stroller goes at 3km/h, I'm pretty sure that a collision with a wall at this speed is pretty innocuous.

How about a cargo bike at 20km/h? I can twist my foot while jumping on the ground, however I wouldn't say that base jumping is the same since you go up in the air in both cases.

I don't see why cars should have the precedence over bikes since cyclists behave just like them. Cars respect traffic lights and don't drive on the sidewalk. Bikes don't.

Because many people don't. The sheer amount of cyclist that don't respect red lights and run through pedestrians crossing demonstrate this. I could film a busy crossing where I live and catch an infringement in less than 5 minutes.

My wife, while pregnant, got hit by a cyclist while crossing in Paris. She was well aware of what she was doing, had a very expensive bike and surely was riding everyday to work. But heh, can't slow down to let the peasants cross the road, right?

Honk Kong, Taipei, Beijing or Tokyo have top notch subways, but people there are very respectful and organised, which is quite different than Europe or the US, for instance . Also, they built their network very late, and weren't constrained by the existing infra.

You're implying that everyone should live in a densely urban zone? I grew up in the alps, and spent a reasonable amount of my teens waiting for the bus (1 every 2h) to go in town. Cars are decentralized means of transportation that, in some cases, can be useful.

Amsterdam NL is an outlier as the city is extremely flat and and built around bikes, with a very low amount of cars (and very expensive real estate also as a consequence) and a high density of shops. Not sure it can be transposed elsewhere?

I'm very happy for you that you took this risk.

- Did you drive on the sidewalk? If yes, you basically transfered the risk to other walkers. - How is the infrastructure? In many countries you'll see potholes for instance. - In case of a frontal crash, what is your % estimation that none of the kids will be injured?

I support bicycle lanes, but I believe that riding on the sidewalk is a very dangerous behavior that should be punished handsomely.

It happens in many cities, and those are the ones where bike riders are the most respectful usually.

Ask any deaf/old/parent about how it feels to walk while being overtaken at 25km/h by bike riders with headset on the head and phones in their hands. If you don't care about the weakest on the road, you don't deserve to be protected.

Cargo e-bikes are dangerous for children. Urban infrastructure is not pristine and contains risks even without cars. In Estonia for instance they don't salt the streets in winter. In Paris you have random public works stuff that were forgotten on the road. You can have potholes. Etc etc.

I don't see how a children wouldn't be injured while sitting in the front of a cargo bike, protected only by a thin slice of wood. Please show me a crash test.

The problem is that even in streets with no risk for bikes (on way, low speed limit), bikes ride the sidewalk. And why would bikes have the priority over walkers, endangering them in the process? The weakest has the priority. You're ok to threaten my kid who's learning how to walk because you feel unsafe on the road? I don't see how a bike riding at 25km/h is innocuous for pedestrians at 4km/h. You're just behaving like a car driver, accept it.

I rode a bike in Paris for 3 years, and it's as hostile as it can get for bikes. Never had a problem,never rode on a sidewalk. Why? I know how to behave with cars. I stop at red lights. I ride in the middle of the road to prevent them from overtaking me dangerously. I'm speedy and I can keep the pace with a late taxi driver if needed.

This kind of reasoning confirms that indeed, bikers are not reasonable and bikes should be forbidden on sidewalks.

Please show me a crash test for a cargo bike with a baby in it.

Cargo ebikes are very dangerous for kids, and you can't sit a 0-3 year old in it. It can't be used in winter.

Aside from this, in many european cities, it will get stolen if you leave it in the street a bit too long.

Main problem currently is with bikes, where I live (Riga). Everyone rides on the sidewalk, making it a very dangerous place for pedestrians and kids. I would be keen to forbid bikes in the city center (and electric scooter), as bikers really can't seem to understand that they should go on the road.

I enjoy dense and quality mass transportation, which is often faster and cheaper in large cities.

However, the trigger that made me buying a car was to start having kids. Between groceries, medical visits and leisure, it started to be very, very complex to manage it without a car.

Most public transportation infrastructure is hostile to strollers and babies; you don't want to see a crackhead do his thing next to your newborn (classic in the french subway); peak hour in a bus is hell with a baby; taxis often won't take you if you don't have a child seat, which is quite inconvenient, etc etc.

Until we solve those problems, and I believe we won't, then I'll use my car.

On the contrary, all metrics show that VC activity is at the lowest, personnal experience tell me that right now new funding is very hard to come by.

I went to a pediatrician near where I lived. Long story short, she was very toxic, making ultimatums and giving what was revealed as dubious practice. I consulted other similar pediatricians, who all gave me radically different answers than hers.

As a result, I chose to write a detailed review explaining why I thought she was unprofessional, citing examples. Of course, my review got nuked.

Same happened with a photo shop that screw up a photo development for some films. I left a factual review, with a sample in pictures. I can see my review with my account, but no one else can.

Thanks, but the poor are not necessarily drug abusers. Drug abusers may fall into poverty, but not the way around. There's a wealth of drug abuse in rich societies - the fact that SF, one of the richest city on the earth, became a drug hot spot is an example.

It was the case in Weimar Germany, as a result drug use and antisocial behavior exploded.

An interesting part of the article: "state-funded nongovernmental organizations that have largely taken over responding to the people with addiction seem less concerned with treatment than affirming that lifetime drug use should be seen as a human right."

It's almost like if NGOs that live off the existence of drug abuse didn't want to kill the cash cow. That's another case of why such public services shouldn't be externalized.

How about firearms? US Constitution said you had the right to own one, so the law should be the same for muskets and RPGs? I know it's an ongoing debate in the US ;-)

Also, Bitcoin was made to be an alternative to cash, not an alternative to banks. So it can be discussed that KYC/AML should apply.

Sorry, I think I meant wardrobe*

I don't know where you live (Ikea has local lineups), but for instance, where I am (Baltics), I couldn't find a wooden dressing cabinet last week.

Bitcoin has been created to avoid regulations and intermediaries when exchanging value. Smart contracts allow you to have tokens tradable 24/24 7/7 with no government oversight whatsoever and complex interactions with users.

It's not “identical”, just as trading coconuts for pearls is not the same with options trading, executed by an OTC dark pool in the US market.

Also, the regulator doesn't agree with you : Gensler refuses to say if ETH is a security or not. Following your line of thought this should be a no-brainer. Maybe there's a political reason behind this unprofessional behavior from the American regulator?

Anyway, crypto leaving the US is a net positive for the world, as it will further free itself from imperialistic domination.

Knowing well Latin makes it easier to learn new languages that inherit from it, both on the vocab side and the grammar side. French doesn't really have declinations, for instance. My wife studied it extensively during her studies, and she can pick new languages much quicker than me due to this.

Unfortunately, the range of Ikea products made from wood is getting smaller and smaller each year.

What's great with this is that you can spy on your political opposition, and jail any dissident trying to raise funds for their cause. China is already doing it in Hong Kong: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2019/06/17/cryptos-connecti...

The FATF and its minions are the harbingers of the authoritarian world of tomorrow.

*meat. Stop using "flesh" for food : the right term is meat.

You're not better than the guy who work in slaughterhouses that you despise if you want to push your ideology on kids, while they're still vulnerable. Quite a carnivorous behavior, truly.

Or please, we'll show to your kids Iraqi children dying from malnutrition and from depleted-uranium induced cancer each time you use your credit card.

https://www.newsweek.com/watch-madeleine-albright-saying-ira...

Also, your UN report is quite laughable. Why would such a solution should be imposed everywhere on the globe? There are places where you can't do traditional farming (e.g pastures). Again, you're thinking like if we were all overweight Americans.

Regarding Covid-19, my country prevented me to go outside for more than 1h a day and used helicopters to find hikers camping in forests. Many other countries did the same: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-stay-home-restrictions

What you're saying about Sweden is plain wrong: https://fee.org/articles/sweden-once-mocked-for-its-covid-st...

How's your 5th booster going by the way?

What is the % of the top 100 F1 drivers that are vegans? Do F1 drivers train for pure muscle mass?

Sorry, but that's false: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... 2022, for households, on average: Germany 0.32€/kwh France 0.20€/Kwh

The spread was much tighter before. Because "renewables"* are unreliable and needed gas plants to make up for when the wind doesn't blow, or the sun doesn't shine, price spiked up after the Ukraine war started. They wouldn't have had this problem with nuclear.

French woes are mainly linked to an aging infrastructure and delayed maintenance due to Covid-19.

Ah, and fun fact, did you know that coal emits more radioactivity per kwh than nuclear? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

The German's foreign affairs office was funding the Henrich Boll fundation, which campaigns in France for renewables along with the anti-nuclear movement? https://archive.is/tSY2w#selection-1357.95-1357.108

The renewable sector is for from being "clean", there are many cases of corruption, influences, and vested interests behind the main proponents of this solution. Gazprom funded antinuclear movements in Europe. Many "fundations", acting for the fossil fuel industry, fund the movements that suit their agenda. https://twitter.com/GeWoessner/status/1498411537144463360

As we saw since the start of 2022, this bet has paid handsomely. EU citizens will have to deal with pollution, increased electricity prices, and wind turbines impossible to recycle.

One could also go on about how China killed the EU solar panels industry by handing out unlimited subsidies. The EU was so slow to act that when they started to tax chinese panels, it was too late already. The funniest thing being that those panels are made using coal power, so it's likely that solar panels from China are worse than their alternatives. Just like electric cars in Eastern Europe emit more CO2 than thermic due to the widespread use of the worst kind of coal there to produce electricity. https://app.electricitymaps.com/map

Sure, you can be a vegetarian. However, an omnivore diet is superior for the reasons I exposed. Interestingly, India, the country where vegetarianism/Veganism is the most widespread, has almost no high-performance athletes, and has probably the lowest Olympic medals/inhabitant in the world.