Without being able to read that article, I choose to interpret that quote as if a renown personal chef was on offer for a number of years to provide world class sushi rolls whenever the mood strikes.

Oh I hadn’t meant an actual stadium, moreso stadium-level money for public works That said, there are stadiums that are defacto multipurpose community centres. Those aren’t half bad.

It surprises me from time to time just how cheap some of these politicians sell out for. If I could get together with my neighbours all contributing $50 and buy a legislator or two, we could probably get funds for a stadium.

I wish I could share in your optimism.

Cheaper for the industry to manufacture, certainly. Cheaper for the consumer to purchase, I have my suspicions.

I would love to see a return to smaller cars - sedans even - but the shareholders might not like lower profits per unit, so I’m not sure we’re going to see prices plateau let alone decline.

Just a guess but, I wouldn’t consider anything that was an order of magnitude more expensive than what I was looking to spend.

The rare occasion I’ve even noticed this, the difference is usually under a dollar. Probably intentionally, so it’s less likely to be noticed. In practice it doesn’t mean much for someone purchasing fewer higher ticket items.

In a dollar shop though, that’s inverted. The fifty cent difference between tag and register adds up a lot faster for many low priced products. Just like grocery shopping, it’s easy to overlook an extra dollar or so here and there, but on products that are only a dollar or so, suddenly you’re spending significantly more.

Soon enough, when every price label is digitized and controlled by a automated machine that guesses customer income by scraping our purchase history, this problem will be even worse.

I suppose there is something to be said for solitary moments. The clandestine excitement is funny.

It brings to mind Daniel Craig in a DB5, nonchalantly scrolling the web, catching a peripheral glimpse of a uniform and peeling out down a staircase.

Call me dull but unless spaces are egregiously hard to come by, I’d pay ~£2 to not babysit a car looking over my shoulder and instead have a few extra minutes with my better half.

There are some little organisations like Pedal People that collect and dispose of waste via bicycle. I don’t have something like this in my area, but it’d be nice.

Having experience in waste handling, I’m not sure how that estimate at the end came to be, indicating a year long effort to collect and transport the material. It is a remarkable amount of material to be disposed of like this, but it certainly wouldn’t take a year to tidy up.

I’m all for alternative transportation but that blanket statement is closed minded.

Do you own clothing? Do your groceries come in packaging? Do you live in an insulated, electrified, and plumbed dwelling? To dismiss someone with ‘buying x supports big oil’ ignores the lack of viable alternatives and the society we have to live in.

It’s the same line of thinking that leads talking head of corporate media to question Stop Oil protesters about the plastic buttons on their shirt as if exemplifying hypocrisy.

Many people do not have their needs met in terms of public transport, cycle infrastructure, or even sidewalks. Buying an old combustion vehicle for a few thousand dollars is leaps and bounds better than spending tens of thousands an electric vehicle.

New off the line, or new to you? It doesn’t really support the manufacturer when buying used.

A used Suzuki Wagon R. Bumped into somebody with one last year and they were quite happy with it.

Kill death ratio - or rather, kill save ratio - would be rather difficult to obtain and more difficult still to appreciate and be able to say if it is good or bad based solely on the ratio.

Fritz Haber is one example of this that comes to mind. Awarded a Nobel Prize a century ago for chemistry developments in fertilizer, used today in a quarter of food growth. A decade or so later he weaponized chlorine gas, and his work was later used in the creation of Zyklon B.

By ratio, Haber is surely a hero, but when considering the sheer numbers of the dead left in his wake, it is a more complex question.

This is one of those things that makes me almost hope for an afterlife where all information is available from which truth may be derived. Who shot JFK? How did the pyramids get built? If life’s biggest answer is forty-two, what is the question?

Are you asking about single family homes specifically, or commenting about the architectural uniformity this place appears to have?

Part of the reason we chose Tempe is it’s right in the middle of Waymo’s first market. Today, you have investors that were skeptics saying things like, "My daughter sends my grandkids to school in a Waymo and thinks Waymo is the best thing that ever happened because she doesn’t have to be a chauffeur anymore.”

sigh

I’m adding this to the list of things that I would have used if not for learning about it from a shutdown announcement.

I disagree they are bozos. I’m actually coming around on the idea. Not the mirror thing of course, but the VC grift using a flashy idea. Millions of dollars and the only thing you make is a slideshow? Brilliant.

This reminds me of the venetian shade idea. ‘Trillions of dollars’ hahaha okay let’s see who wants to pitch in.