When I went there we did everything by foot. The only time I was in a train was from the airport to the city. It’s really good sized

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That’s what I did last fall.

It’s great!

That was a very enjoyable video to watch!

*A Texan that recently moved to Amsterdam and now only owns a bike and LOVES it!

Ok, and the other 49 states? Lol we are not just California.

That's what happens when the auto industry doesn't have a hand in it

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I live in Copenhagen which is very comparable to Amsterdam. We have great public transport with busses, trains and metro so it’s easy to get around even if you are not biking. There’s space in all of these for prams and wheelchairs. More importantly, obviously people can still take their cars. These cities are not car free utopias. I have lived here for more than 20 years and I’m in my 40s. I’ve never owned a car nor do I miss having one, but it’s not uncommon to own a car and a lot of carowners will still frequently bike or take public transport as it’s just easier and faster.

> The sensible ones of us know that the real polluters and wasters is big business who have done a very effective job of convincing the public they need to recycle when we all know that waste is their #1 product.

That’s not sensible though, that’s also just shifting the blame. Those businesses are producing goods/services for us. The emissions required to manufacture a TV you bought is a part of your carbon footprint. The emissions generated by the banking system or by Reddit servers etc are also part of our carbon footprints.

Germany is a liberal country. We had the mayor of Berlin proclaiming "I'm gay and that's good". Was that yesterday? No, 20 years ago. Can you marry? Yes. It's really not an issue here if you're gay, lesbian, transgender or identify as a garden dwarf. Noone cares.

It's tip-toeing around everything that's related to that episode of history.

Babies just go on the bike like this https://i.pinimg.com/originals/13/92/1b/13921b53871f8194c390b4c3d50b7640.jpg

There's a government service where they pay 3 Euro to go somewhere. Works all around the country, it even fits your walking machine or elderly scooter.

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it's very doable, suburban sprawl costs local governments more to upkeep than it would to develop more dense housing. Just think of all the needless tarmac and intersections and carparks that need to be continually maintained. Not from the US but from what I understand, many, many young people over there want to live in apartments which are in mixed urban centres. There is a reason why they are so expensive right now.. The problem is lack of zoning for mixed low rise, and commercial. You don't need to drive 75 miles across the city if your work, shops, bars etc are a mile away. If zoning was changed, with improvements to public transport and road design (less lanes, no stroads, more pedestrianisation etc) US cities could change in a couple of decades.

That’s if you use emissions from all “light duty vehicles”. They break it down further in the pdf, for “passenger cars” it’s more like 9%. I think the 11% was assuming you add some portion of light duty trucks to that as well but I don’t quite remember.

I’m not saying 11% +/- isn’t significant. But the transition to EVs and renewables is already going to dramatically reduce that number. So perhaps it would be more productive if Reddit devoted half as much energy as they do to cars to other sources of emissions.

I asked chatgpt how to make a new type of cleaner that will solve oil spills and I'm just adding the Cobalt to the plutonium core no

Did you know there is a desert in Canada?

Before this did they pretend the Nazis were pro lgbt or is this just the first time they've been specifically named?

It's a bit more than 15% (and probably higher once you account for all the supporting infrastructure and induced sprawl). Moreover the "it's only xx%!" schtick is itself disingenuous. I've seen an Australian argue for example that "we're only responsible for 1%, we shouldn't have to do anything!" (completely ignoring in that case their high per capita emissions), the problem being that if you take these locality/sector exceptions to the full logical extent then nearly everything is exempt and very little gets done. 15% is a significant slice of the pie, and there's very little else that's "much bigger".

California has a dozen cities just like that, aside from SF which is hilly (amazing climate though.) California’s three largest cities have some of the best weather in the US and all of them are mostly flat in the densest areas. They would be perfect.

Took them long enough.

The cool part about the 3d printing communities is alot of designs and projects get made public so I'm sure they were able to use available resources and retrofit it for his particular hand. I've definitely seen that model before so it wasn't made from scratch. Still a really awesome project and thing to do though!

I absolutely love this. But I do wonder how cities like Amsterdam are for disabled people (and parents of babies for that matter). Are people who cannot bicycle just left out of society? Do they have to exclusively take taxis?

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