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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • An easy first step would be making licensing more strict. Where I am there are classes of licence for passenger vehicles, larger transport trucks, busses, and finally semis/lorries. Each step up requires further testing and more stringent requirements.

    I feel like it’d go a long way if your typical American pickup was moved up a class. How many people just wouldn’t bother with a big truck if it meant another driving test and visit to the DMV? Any vehicle over X height, X length, X wheelbase, whatever would become a “commercial truck”. Smaller trucks from back when they made small trucks wouldn’t meet the requirements.

    Sadly I don’t think a politician running on a policy like that is winning an election anytime soon.



  • I have three, I’m a car enthusiast. I want to enjoy my car without the entirety of society being required to own them to exist.

    Even if the dream is achieved and taking my car is more expensive and slower than public transit (which it should be), I’d still drive most of the time because I actually enjoy it. I’d rather not share the road with people that also actually want to be there. It’d be a safer and more pleasant experience.



  • Produce? Priced per pound (usually). BUT the comparison price is per kg for some reason? Except not always?

    Liquid? Per 100ml, except for the one specific thing you want to compare, which is measured per volume of a size 10 sneaker.

    Dry goods? Per 100g or kg (or rarely, pounds) with no rhyme or reason as to which they choose.

    Toilet paper? Compare “sheet”, which will require a terminal degree in advanced mathematics to calculate (one roll of SUPER PLUSH is equal to 7.2 rolls of MEGA PLUSH, which is 4.875 of double, which is anything except twice as many as).

    In Canada, we actually have a big colourful wheel that Chrystia Freeland spins to decide what unit we use when measuring a specific thing.