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Another interpretation of the high modal share of cars in the US is that there are no viable alternatives to driving in many US cities. In Europe, public transport and biking are v…

I might be ruining the joke, but are you talking about kids?

As a support for this comment: doing some estimations, the of average kWh household use in the US is about 10,500 kWh, with about 19% being used for Air Conditioning. The energy mi…

Ernst & Young officially change their name to just "EY" some years back. Unfortunately, they forgot to check the name beforehand, and it turned out that "EY!" already existed: a ga…

Alas, it is unfortunate that the founders did not consider a mechanism for amendments to be introduced

I also did a double take on this one! New word discovery. Sharing the same root as e.g. 'Emporium' I would assume.

But it's not clear how to interpret the date code: 05-06 could be 5th June or 6th May; same sorry for 06-05. Very confusing due to American-style date formatting. Versions number a…

As an outside observer, I believe that it's dangerous to disregard the threat of a dismantling of the democratic system. The current administration seem to have little regards for …

We visited a manufacturing / assembly plats for industrial vehicles in Sweden during the autumn. Everything was spotless, bright, and almost silent. All the tools were neatly organ…

This is what happened in Sweden about 10 years ago, when they started charging a $7 "administrative fee" on all packages privately imported from China. Prices for resistors went fr…

It's all vehicles who got early access to the auto pilot features

This resonates a lot with me, and I think you expressed what has been running through my mind lately. Sometimes, I feel like I lack agency; lile I'm not a primary character in my o…

We are born meat and die meat; our life spans are short "Hyrdogen core clusters" might be around a bit longer On a related note, it would be curious to see how many years a compute…

I live in Sweden and we live with slightly-above-freezing temperatures (often with rain) for 4-6 month per year. Perfectly possible to bike if you put on the right clothes. Even wh…

Scooters live a hard and short life from what I have understood. So they are not very environmentally friendly given their resource intensity over their life cycle.

But most cars are not filled with 4 people: quite often it's only one or two And many don't drive a Honda civic: they are driving the biggest, heaviest car they can get their hands…

Actually, in accounting Money turns into Goodwill when a company is acquired, representing the premium that is paid above a company's assets. I accounting, this value is not amorti…

There are dedicated keys for this on most keyboards: PgUp, PgDown, Spacebar (context dependent)

It's due to the higher interest rates A higher risk-free rate of return from e.g. Government bonds entails higher 'required rate of return' for all other investments in the economy…

You should continue to be scared of horses. There are quite a few injuries and deaths related to horseback riding every year.

Start menu search is unfortunate broken in Windows 11 (even more so than in W10). It needs to do a Web search before returning results, which makes it too slow to be reliably usefu…

The marginal tax rate is going to be quite a deterrent when you're working two jobs. 55%, and then an additional 25% VAT, and you're at about 67% tax. In Sweden, it's difficult to …

Looking at the raw statistics, it seems that the US could do more to improve road safety I'm not a traffic engineer, but I believe better street design (meaning slowing cars down) …

"Tubi is the largest free movie and TV streaming service in the US. Unfortunately, we're not currently available in your area." Oh well...

No, no. You need to fine each person for the maximum potential harm that they inflicted to the licence holders. Downloaded a movie that's not available to buy anywhere via P2P? Tha…