My heart goes out to all you who don't have any other choice but to drive

Yep. You can get them installed on basically all cars. The next car I'm looking at is a Lexus. By the looks of it I'll have to get my dual controls made bespoke for that which could easily cost upwards of £600.

I honestly much prefer doing it in my own car as opposed to having to hire.

That's pretty standard in the UK

The Power Broker. I've never heard of 99pi - for that matter, I'd never heard of Robert Moses before stumbling on the book.

There are also two episodes on behind the bastards

Don't the farmers have to wait on the chickens to lay some tho?

I get what you mean, but I'm in a conservative state. But yes, just being able to work from home and afford to live close to the city is a privilege, and I'm aware of that.

It usually tells me things like 150 km, and then I go though and it's another misclassified train trip

I walk double that per month if I believe Google maps stats.

I found my job on Reddit somehow, but there are plenty of overseas jobs on LinkedIn and the other major job exchanges. I work in a customer facing role so I look for jobs that need someone to handle customers in X timezones. For example, my company is based in Berlin but they wanted someone to manage the US customers.

NGL the timezone stuff is HARD at first. I am six hours behind almost all of my coworkers so I sometimes get completely excluded from discussions and meetings. I occasionally have to wake up early for things (4am product launch...) and there isn't the technical help available after noon my time, so I have had to develop my own troubleshooting and coding skills. And of course it can get lonely when there's no one else about.

But they fly me out to HQ every year and also offsites in Rome, Spain, and Portugal. So it's an alright tradeoff.

Not op but at least in Sweden we often get 6 months trial employment and after that they are honestly kind of stuck with us (cannot really fire us unless very specific things happen). So you can actually get some better conditions as they do want you to do the job and can not just replace you. If all fails you can also get help from the union.

I agree entirely with you here. All these nutjobs like *ndrew t*te who think we're coming for their hobby cars are missing the point. I couldn't care less if you like to drive cars or not. Heck, I would probably by myself lots of cool cars if I had tons of money. People don't commute by car because they like driving, they commute by car because it's the easiest mode of transport in their area. And a lot of cities would benefit immensely if that mode was instead changed to a combination of walking, biking, and tramming or similar.

I'm not entirely sure that horse riding is more dangerous, I'm not that experienced with motorbikes, but I ride horses all the time, I reckon you might fall from a horse more often, but it's usually a fairly simple thing, not going too fast or anything. Unless you're talking about horse racing which is quite dangerous, but most riders do other, much safer thing on horseback.

That said, I live in rural Ireland where from what I understand, the roads are significantly more dangerous for motorbikes do that might be skewing my perspective.

Though random fools telling you that what you're doing is dangerous are, to me, overstepping. As long as you're not putting others in excess danger you should be left alone.

Maybe it's rather inconsiderate approaching people like this, but I think it's implying danger for the others too, not just yourself. I personally don't see a lot of people riding horses in dense traffic.

I would never bother you about it but horses don't wake me and my family up at 1 am, and a horse didn't come out of nowhere yesterday (while it was dark) and cut me off almost causing an accident. So I imagine you can see why there is a bit of hostility.

But hey they are fun to ride and fuel efficient. My inlaws run their whole farming operation with motorcycles and an overworked tractor. Maybe people would like them more if we went after modifications that make them too loud.

wait until you hear about redneck tonka trucks. You're gonna love those.

The street I used to live in Rio had cars parked, some of them abandoned, at both sides of the sidewalk, forcing everyone to walk on the streets. Because of that, the street was an infacto mixed use street, never reccomended by navigation maps. A quiet street thanks to the parked cars.

There's a lot of free on street parking.

That was my plan, I should have articulated it better.

Not really in the Netherlands too, but you can import them. And there are companies who import them for you.

That was brilliant in the Expanse, when the Earth was orbital bormbarded one of the protagonists immediately goes for bikes.

The only vehicle we know for sure will be used commonly in the far, technologically advanced future are bicycles. Given sci-fi’s massive blind spot with acknowledging bicycles it is pretty funny that sci-fi writers fail to include the surest bet.

Like any possible future, even one with magic hovercraft that fly around on limitless power or one with teleportation, huge amounts of people would still use a bicycle to commute to work for the pleasure and health benefits. Or… work on a massive freighter starship that is most empty? Why WOULDNT you use a bicycle to get around? On the other hand if the far future is an apocalypse… well everyone is definitely by going to be riding bicycles around.

I mean throw a futuristic battery in a bicycle and based on the power output of other sci-fi machines I assume the electric bicycle would have a range of like 1000 miles.

Colonizing a new planet? You could not only bring enough bicycles and associated maintenance equipment to easily provide transportation for current and future colonists, you could also easily bring the equipment to manufacture new bicycles besides maybe the tires. Almost zero infrastructure is needed to start building a bicycle based transportation system and on a volume and weight basis they would probably be one of the most valuable tools to a colony that was going to receive a shipment of supplies from a starship and then be left to fend for themselves for an extended period.

How do I get to my boat?

Might be a bit difficult for people in landlocked areas.

I'm sure I'm going to say this poorly, but one of the things he focused on was meaningful decisions. So there's a joke that goes:

Jean-Paul Sartre was sitting at a coffee shop when the waitress came up and asked him if he wanted anything else.

He said, "I'll take a coffee, with no cream."

She responded, "I'm sorry, but we're all out of cream. I can get you a coffee with no milk though."

Can confirm. I don't drive. Don't habe a driver license. I still habe a card that look a lot like one, has an ID number, and is used exactly the same for everything except driving.