Kinda need a war for that, but yeah.

Also finding people outside your borders guilty, sentencing them to death and carrying out that sentence without even knowing their name might be just a tad excessive.

Same way they knew about enemy casualties in any conflict, they “estimate” from observed data before they pull the trigger.

FYI did you know that the us claimed 1.1 million kills in Vietnam? The Vietnamese claim less then 500,000 where killed (with many many more civilians killed)

Do they think the sun only shines on earth?

That’s the neat part! They can’t! No one is counting bodies in person, this is all remote us murder, as is tradition.

Its just naked greed, the sooner the world can move away from america and these companies the better.

I got unreasonably upset the other day when I realized that windows can no longer seem to sort folders by size anymore.

The non tariff nations getting hit with higher then us prices just shows how little they think of customers. They assume we will pay, they feel entitled to our money. The products have stagnanted, the prices are made up and clearly based on nothing but good old fashion “fuck you pay me” logic. My guess is they are assuming “AI” companies will just buy whatever they make.

If people keep buying however they will keep doing this. If the market drops out from them (AI bubble bursting at the same time people cut back on buying new systems) then they will likely ask for bailouts (your money again).

More boosters!

There is a 1000 hp tesla with 3 motors that all together weights about 450 killograms, this seems to support your idea until you look at how much the batteries weigh…

The batteries are 550 kilograms to start, and are generally considered to not be big enough. So yeah, great they solved the issue that no EV had (EVs always had lighter motors, and very heavy batteries).

Edit: The 1000 hp telsa is 2200 Kg total, so yeah this would cut out 400 ish Kgs (assuming cooling and inverter and all that) from the total, not nothing but not really a game changer ether. Also 1000 Hp engine is stupid and not needed, maybe if it was a 200 Hp version but then also that would be diminishing returns as this motor would be what 4 kgs?

Ah good thing the batteries are not the heavy part of the system otherwise this would be awkward.

the OP picture is not bad civil engineering, it’s great civil engineering doing exactly its job in a bad society.

It is bad civil engineering as in it costs more, does less and looks silly. I am stating that we have the same issues here, and the sidewalks are not at all standardized. The solution is not some massive societal upheaval and rebuilding of all infrastructure, but to just don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The engineers in this case used more material, more complex forms, more design work to do a worse job. There is no more risk to the public unless you have some info I don’t. Hell whats the risk of having sidewalks vs not having them (as most american places I have seen just don’t have them at all)? What is so different in the us then Canada that a small strip of grass after the curb makes such a difference? This seems like more of that terrible american exceptionalism that bleeds over here.

Put the sidewalks in, don’t overthink it unless you have the budget. That is all I am saying.

You are saying that you should not have a sidewalk directly next to a street, due to the speed of the street. A uniquely anti sidewalk us-centric view, not saying you are against sidewalks but that you have bought the bad civil engineering at work there. I have not demonstrated to you anything about my knowledge of civil engineering, just that I disagree with yours.

This same argument has been tried here to not put in a sidewalk. Its weak and silly. Sure having a barrier is better but a having a sidewalk is leagues better then not having one or having the one pictured above.

I live in Canada, the sidewalk abutting the street is not an issue, and the only time I hear such antisidewalk nonsense is from americans (in MPH of course). That 30 cm of grass is not a meaningful barrier of any kind and the pole is not built to be a car barrier.

This is the us right? Many nations would struggle to fail at sidewalks this hard. Those are poured slabs, they could have connected them to the curb for less work and more space, enough to fit the sidewalk in the right place.

The kids can be alright.

Unfortunately they are not uncommon, adults that are more childish then their children at times. I try to help but there is only so much I can do.

Oh I do what I can, but those kids (3 of them) are not going to have a good time.

People like him are sadly common, don’t seem to need a reason to be asshats.

We are not american, and no he is (or was at one point) a card carrying communist (a really really bad one).