HiddenLayer5

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

There is no excuse for any country not to do this TBH. The math is really easy and uses already available information: take the year’s total federal spending for different things, specifically in the form of percentages of the year’s total tax revenue (hopefully the government has been keeping track of what they’ve been using the money for) and multiply by the total taxes paid by a specific person and you get exactly how much of their money went to what. This assumes every person’s tax revenue is treated the same which I’m pretty sure is at least mostly the case in every country.

If they release the national spending percentages (which they should) then it’d be pretty easy for individuals to calculate these themselves.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

Used to have a really nice commuter rail that connected to the city, now there’s a six-lane highway that clogs up twice a day.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

Third option: they’ve fallen into a pattern recognition fallacy and think it’s a number when it’s a completely different symbol. This happens a lot more often than most realize and even knowing about it, it can be difficult to go against the human instinct to find patterns that may or may not exist and then fit the data to it.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

Railroad suburbs exist! Streetcar suburbs as well. Was actually the norm outside of the city core until they started ripping up all the rail lines to build highways.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

I can’t imagine this being used for anything other than daylight VFR flying, which doesn’t need radio guidance or even guidance in general beyond the airstrip itself. It’s also possible that there are lights, and they’re just too small to see when not lit.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

Imagine showing up to an HOA meeting with a presentation on why we need to spend ten million dollars on a localizer and glideslope array so Larry wouldn’t have to divert to O’Hare when it’s foggy again.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

Clarification: Only piston aircraft require leaded fuel. Which is unfortunately a pretty big part of the general aviation market, but similarly sized turboprops do also exist (though are more expensive) and it doesn’t apply to modern commercial aviation at all.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

bike pollution is slightly more than nil just because of the CO2 we breathe out while riding

Technically, the CO2 animals exhale is carbon neutral because it’s from plants you eat (or your food eats). Unless you’re eating petroleum derived products of course.

I say technically because while the plants themselves are carbon neutral, modern food production and distribution, especially meat production, still has a large carbon footprint. So your breath is only truly carbon neutral if you foraged for food in the forest on foot.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

To be fair, he did say he’d walk to her if he had no other way. However, since there are said planes, trains and cars, he’s just being efficient.

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

Yes because every single person of Chinese ethnicity did this. Don’t know why you had to drag Chinese into this, just say “this company” or the name of the company or something. Does OceanGate represent every single American person too?

HiddenLayer5, 1 year ago

They’d ripen faster in open air too. This whole packaging fruit trend is just stupid.

Unless it’s for accessibility. There are some niche prepackaged fruits specifically for people with arthritis and other mobility issues that actually can’t reasonably peel fruit, but these aren’t even peeled so obviously it’s not for that.