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As a European I'm glad that Trump was elected, despite his personality flaws.

Biden was openly hostile toward my home country (the UK), and was a dead end when it came to negotiating the free trade deal we should be aiming for now we're free of the EU.

Trump, and the Republicans have more love for the UK than the Dems have shown, although this isn't reciprocated by the current UK regime, which allegedly attempted to meddle in the US election https://theconversation.com/what-us-election-interference-la...

At the end of the day I want to see a strong and safe USA, because the US is our #1 ally. The markets have responded very well to the Trump victory, and I believe that the world was a more stable and safer place under Trump than it was under Biden. If Trump can complete his Abraham Accords he will be remembered as a remarkable peacemaker in the Middle East.

I suspect most people haven't even heard of the Abraham Accords, because the mainstream media is so weaponised against Trump.


A lot of people predicted WW3 as soon as Trump took office in 2016.

The reality was that Trump's unpredictability and Machiavellian approach to diplomacy put a chill on many of America's global rivals.

With the Abraham Accords, Trump brought the Middle East a step closer to stability. And despite some rhetorical silliness with North Korea, the situation on the Korean peninsula was more stable under Trump than it became under Biden. Regarding Russia, I feel Russia waited for the election of Biden (a decrepit, predictable leader on the World stage) before invading Ukraine.


I have a rather different view - I thought Trump was so scattered, and his party ungovernable due its internal splits, that he was unable to implement his crazy ideas.

Regarding Russia, I may be wrong, but I think Putin's judgement of the situation was so insular, based purely on everyone agreeing everything would go just fine and no one thinking for one second about what might go wrong and what to do if it did, that Putin's assessment of the situation was not meaningful.


Firstly, Roe vs Wade was overturned in 2022 during the BIDEN term.

Secondly, Trump has never called for a federal abortion ban, nor, in fact, a state abortion ban.

Thirdly, there are currently exemptions in ALL states that protect abortion if it is a life-saving necessity for the mother. Trump has never proposed removing these exemptions.


>Firstly, Roe vs Wade was overturned in 2022 during the BIDEN term.

That timing is all about how long it takes a lawsuit to work through the system to reach a stacked court.... not so much who was President when it finally was resolved.


Search the news for mothers and their babies dying because doctors in states which have enacted abortion bans refuse treatment. That's what happens.

Rove vs Wade was overturned because of a right wing stacked supreme court, which has nothing to do with the sitting president. Unless you think the executive has control over judicial decisions?

Trump is enabling all sorts of backward thinking ideology to fruit, directly or indirectly.


Just to be clear I am pro-choice and I support mothers and their bodily autonomy.

I think the Dems will continue to lose elections if, in their hysteria, they attibute bad things to Trump that had little to do with him.

If the Dems and their supporters care more about the Two Minutes Hate against Trump than creating their own positive vision of America, then they'll continue to lose.

Americans are a positive and patriotic populace. That's why Trump's "Make America Great Again" messaging resonates with them.


Why do right wingers think democracy is about beating some other party, rather than improving the lives of citizens?

You're implying that unless the major left wing party kow-tows to the emotional needs of extreme right-wingers, then they should be allowed to destroy the country because mummy wasn't nice to them?

How about actually focussing on improving things instead of crying about every little thing.


The delayed throttle response is really aggravating whenever I get into an ICE car. And the noise, the vibration and the smell of the fumes.

You really start noticing these things around you when you’ve got used to the clean and silent operation of an BEV. And I’ve certainly noticed the cost savings - going from filling a tank with £60 of petrol to charging my car conveniently at home for £5


>charging my car conveniently at home for £5

Emphasis on the "at home" part. Unless you have your own home with private parking and charger, EV ownership is a pain due to how expensive ,lacking and shit public charging infrastructure is. I'll have to stick to an ICE until they fix those since owning a house with my own parking space doesn't seem to be on the cards for me financially. People somehow forget this demographic exists.


Stop start engines on non-hybrid cars are a shock. Takes that delayed throttle response to a new level.

> And the noise, the vibration and the smell of the fumes.

In this day and age? Which car do you 'smell the fumes' or 'the vibration' unless the vibration is intentional (for the experience).


Unless you’re driving a very high end car, pretty much any ICE definitely vibrates. It’s especially noticeable at start/stop with cars equipped with auto start stop.

Also, the older the car, the more you’ll start getting weird smells and more vibrations. Oil leaks, motor mounts wearing out, etc. Most of those can be fixed, but who hasn’t driven a car earlier in their youth that perhaps wasn’t in the best shape? I knew a guy who drove a car that he had to put a liter of oil in it every 1000mi… none of those are problems with an EV besides perhaps aging suspension components.


I certainly smell the fumes when I fill the tank.

I never felt more isolated and lonelier than when I was in a dense urban environment and reliant on dirty, unreliable, often unsafe public transport to get around. If I ever blew my nose after travelling on the London Underground, the tissue would be black with brake dust and other pollutants from that awful environment. If I tried to cycle, I'd be stuck behind diesel busses for much of my journey, breathing in their pollution and slowed down. And obviously, cycling is completely impractical for many people, or if carrying luggage or passengers.

Living in a countryside town where I have the freedom and flexibility granted by my car has opened up a world of better possibilities - travelling to any part of the coast with my family. Doing bulk shops. Carrying heavy loads etc. Driving regularly to my parents, avoiding excruciatingly long journies on public transport.

Having a car has made family life possible in ways that public transport does not, and cannot achieve.

> We organize large meetings were we discuss architecture and city planning with politicians, architects and property developers on stage.

I would prefer that politicians, architects and property developers minded their own business and let me choose the mode of transport (an electric car) that works best for me, my family and the environment. I don't want to live in a dense, grey, impersonal urban cluster. I want to be surrounded by countryside and have the freedom to roam. I don't think I'm alone in that.


Making public transit clean, reliable, and safe are important goals, and very achievable goals too. There are many examples around the world.

But few transit advocates are saying that we have to 100% eliminate all personal vehicles. They will remain an important part of the overall transportation infrastructure for the foreseeable future.

It would also be folly to advocate for eliminating all rural living. There are many necessary activities that take place in rural communities, such as agricultural production, that will remain critical to society.

The thing that I see most transit advocates targeting is excessive suburban sprawl, communities that aren't really countryside, but also aren't dense enough to be urban. They sprawl on and on for miles, with nothing to distinguish them, often simply the same tract home design repeated with only minor differences over and over and over. I am sure there are some folks that prefer these communities, but I also think that many residents would prefer wither moving into a less dense rural setting or a more dense urban setting, and many of those left that like the density would still prefer that the way these communities are structured be changed.


Fair comment. I'm very much opposed to the "Croydonisation" of the countryside in the UK

With rising pressure to house hundreds of thousands of new arrivals every year, there are no easy answers. Do we make miserable dense cities even denser? Do we build new sprawling, characterless "garden cities"? Do we build around historic countryside towns and ruin their character?

Personally, I'd rather see net immigration returned to the manageable levels it was prior to New Labour (who doubled net immigration) and the Conservatives (who further tripled net immigration).

In recent years of high net immigration our economic productivity has fallen, our public services have worsened and the prospect of owning a house has slipped away from our children and grandchildren. We need a political re-think on this issue, as opposed to trying to patch over the inevitable environmental and congestion related issues.


I haven't yet been to the UK, so I can't comment directly on the state of things there. But I grew up in a rural town in USA, and I have traveled to communities large and small across the USA and other countries, including one of my favorites to visit- Japan. In my experience, dense cities don't have to be miserable to the majority of people. I still live in what would be considered a small city, though not nearly as small as the one I grew up in. The city I live in could definitely see significant growth and increased density while maintaining the qualities that make it unique and special. But it would take a lot more planning and vision than what I have seen from current political leaders.

I meant to add that of course there will always be those who prefer small rural communities, and that I think we we build more densely ( in an intelligent, thoughtful way) in the urban areas, we can easily meet the demand for housing while continuing to preserve plenty of small towns for those who prefer that. Of course, I can't say what the situation is for sure in the UK exactly, but here in the US, there are plenty of small towns that are slowly shrinking and disappearing. Many of these communities had much higher populations 50 or 100 years ago, and in another 50 or 100 years may not even exist as a community anymore.

You have to be joking. Having blown my nose on many subways, tissue turning black is absolutely baloney. Either you have a truly horrible disease or you're lying. I've raised two kids very successfully in a city with no car.

Can def echo that sentiment in London, how do you avoid the commute? Work from home? Found a job outside of London? Job opportunity/pay inequality is often the biggest constraint for most people.

No offense, but this statement seems like an ignorant lack of understanding around the issues with the growing problems around urban sprawl and the issues it causes environmentally or otherwise. No one is going to take your countryside home from you, but it’s worth educating yourself on the issues.

Surprising that my personal account, all of which is a truthful reflection of my own lived experiences in both urban and countryside settings, is considered "ignorant."

I'd be interested to explore the reasons and/or psychology behind your judgement.


I think it might boil down to the „anecdotes vs data“ problem and how “lived experience” is sometimes treated as if it were some universal truth.

I'm in the UK. Our healthcare is socialised.

My elderly nan had a fall this morning and has badly hurt her back. She has been lying on the floor in her house since this morning (six hours so far), immobile, waiting for an ambulance to arrive. I wish I lived near her so I could help. She needs an ambulance unfortunately as she literally cannot move - she is in terrible pain.

When/if the ambulance finally does arrive, it will take her to a crowded, failing hospital where she will probably have to wait several more hours before being seen by an underpaid and overstretched nurse in a miserable ward.

Our system is failing, and not because it is underfunded (it gets nearly £200 billion a year and it has had real-terms increases in funding for decades, and employs 2M people). It is failing because:

* it is monolithic and unwieldy

* it has no efficiency incentives

* it is a state monopoly, so it is able to underpay and poorly treat its staff

* politicians are not the right people to preside over healthcare

* it is considered our national religion, and it doesn't get the scrutiny it deserves

The European public/private model provides much better quality and outcomes. The American system, expensive though it is, provides far better quality and outcomes.


It'll be interesting to see if protectionism works better for America than Yugoslavia. Domestically, America has a strong free market economy, and it has healthy trading relationships with most other nations. What Trump proposes with China is mostly a geo-political play, and will be done in targeted fashion to restore America's industrial production capacity.

Apologists for socialism will state the usual: "But that wasn't /real/ socialism"

Socialists tend to believe that real socialism hasn't been tried properly yet. That's how they explain the litany of failure.

And if anyone wants to try the "but Scandinavia is socialist and look how great they are" trope then bring it on...


Does anyone know of a video online demonstrating this app? I've had a look but can only find screenshots


Here you go, https://youtu.be/qvtRfWO_J2M

compiled on my laptop on WSL.

sudo apt install x11-common libx11-dev

make

ran with

cat horizon.sc pittsburgh.sc | ./banks


Amazing, thank you!


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This is a clip from "The Young Ones S02E03", "Have We Got a Video" montage.

Not a video of the program running.


To avoid anyone else wasting a click, this isn't the video


Compile and run it?


On a related note, I recommend this short presentation by Hacker News regular @simonw on the history of airships, including a look at the future of airships:

"When Zeppelins Ruled The Earth" (6m47s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omobajJmyIU&ab_channel=Simon...


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