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.”

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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.

The point was that it’s a shame the taxpayer is on the hook for this. Not that the mother is solely at fault and the administrator isn’t.

Perhaps the two areas should recolour as one another for the next Halloween season. It would make for quite the postcard.

Ours is steel, so that would probably help. Though if you have raccoons in your area, it might require a large safe to keep the bin secure.

That’s a convenient thought to absolve the mother.

While the administrator carries responsibility for the lack of action, they did not shape the child’s mind nor circumstance that led to this situation in the first place.

For some time we had a bin lined with a bag in the garage large enough for two weeks of our waste. Within the house were small bins, about the size of a shoebox stood on its end, with no bags. When they fill, we tipped it into the garage bin. Two bags a month is pretty good in my mind.

Smell, vermin, rotting exposed food waste were all solved by the garage bin having a lid.

Don’t tell Santorini that.

Could you elaborate on this comment?