While full independence from the US is going to take some time, the US has done such a good job of permanently killing any interest in being dependent. So, thank you Mr. Trump, so when you go to hell, you at least have one good thing that you managed to accomplish, albeit inadvertently.
Here’s the strategy: first we’re going to give 5 billion to the auto industry.
Farage giveth, Farage taketh. -1984 or something.
IMO: the DSA & DMA should hold executives accountable for their company’s behaviour. Someone is making those decisions. And all of the corporate law in the world would be abided a whole lot faster and a hell of a lot more diligently if there was the executive’s skin at stake for breaking it.
Also: Fuck Musk, as he’s a Nazi cunt making a Hitler salute at when being inaugurated as a minister.
Edit: Also, the only thing destroying european culture are the Techno-oligarchs in the USA.
No matter who your girlfriend is, she won’t ever be softer than this cunt. Elon musk is a child throwing a tantrum.
What? After stalling every negotiation effort, they stalled again? Who could have seen that coming? That is so surprising.
Excuse me, gentlemen. I need to have my lobotomy freshly redone because I think I may develop pattern recognition.
IMO I have a few suspicions:
IMHO: I hope the cunts in the Danish government that try to force this die of cancer.
First try: No.
Second try: No.
Third try, trying to force this through a back door: No.
Fourth try: maybe we can still get away with violating citizen rights, but this time only slightly less. See you next year.
Edit: I want to know who is responsible for this.
I’m genuinely curious why is Denmark so hellbent on getting this through? You think it’s some sort of tool for the intelligence services? Anyone got ideas?
Um, no not really. The gearbox only exists because the engine can only go so fast. The tyres can spin way faster than the engine. For example, you could take your foot entirely off the throttle and still drive 70 in sixth gear while the engine essentially idles. On the other side of the spectrum, the slowest the car can go, while having full contact with the gearbox would be 8 kmh, give or take. So, in the middle of the spectrum you could drive about 30kmh with 3rd gear fully clutched in and the engine on idle. Slower is also possible, naturally. Most cities choose 30 kilometres an hour because that’s when road deaths sharply increase. The reason for this is complex, but one of the main reasons is the field of view. The faster a car goes, the smaller your field of vision becomes. You can clearly see the pavement on your side, the other side of the road, and even some of the pavement of the opposite side. When driving 50, however, you can basically only see your own pavement and some of the opposite road. When doing 130 you can essentially only see your own lane well, with rudimentary details in the other adjacent lanes.
It does not. It would violate simple physics.
Yeah, this is still a problem. It’s being fixed however. It’s going to take until 2040, plus minus. Thanks to the EU standardising the gauge, the platform height, the electrification system, and most importantly, the protection system, it’s all really coming together. But rolling all of this infrastructure out takes time. Europe always was a fractured continent. Then the EU came and made life better. Problem is, due to the car mania in the 70s and the privatisation mania in the 90s, railway was neglected. In Austria, there were even discussions of privatising the national railway operator. And look at what good that has done Britain. Luckily it didn’t go through and the public perception really has changed about that. On the side of technological innovations, there are now many locomotives which are certified for multiple countries, which have all the necessary bits and bops for their protection system to drive in other countries. And when 2040 rolls around, all of that additional baggage is going to be obsolete anyway, thanks to everything being harmonised to ETCS and (mostly) 25kV 50Hz. Then most of the problems will disappear. And that may sound expensive and cumbersome, but all of that infrastructure has a finite usage duration anyway. So 2040 because everyone is essentially replacing the old stuff on the fly with the new harmonised stuff. And from there on out, it’s really going to be smooth sailing, technology-wise anyway.
That’s interesting, but do you think, is it because lorries are so heavily subsidised compared to trains? Because think of, for example, the Brenner-based tunnel in the EU. When that thing is finished, it’s going to be one of the longest tunnels in the world. That thing would bring unprecedented transport capacity through the Alps. And while 8 billion € may sound much for a single building, said building is going to be used for 200 years.
I’m curious, do you still think that if lorries had to reimburse the actual cost of transport that it would still be competitive under these conditions?
Crazy idea, but what if we were to use a wire? Like such that it doesn’t have any sort of contact with anything else. Then how about we, like, couple more of them together, meaning less congestion and less traffic jamming? Okay, and this is the least feasible part of my proposal, I know, but then What if we make it go on steel? So the wheel is steel and the floor, the wheel rests on, is steel as well. But because of the optimised friction, we can now make the contact surface super small. I think these improvements could really bring a massive benefit to the transportation industry.
No sarcasm though: Why do goods get delivered over long distances by a lorry? It doesn’t make sense financially and from an economy of scale perspective. It asks for trouble. The infrastructure gets used up super quickly, thanks to them being absurdly heavy, compared to the surface and what it can withstand. Plus, because it may seem like all of these lorries are going the same way, no they absolutely aren’t, they come from a thousand different directions and go through a thousand different directions. They only go through the same bottleneck, aka the pinnacle of inefficiency. It is way easier to transfer it from goods terminal A in city A to goods terminal B in city B and everyone just goes to the goods terminal and picks it up from there. It’s faster, more reliable and does not clog up the infrastructure. It’s good for the businesses providing the service because easier service means more money, customers benefit from it as well naturally because they get the goods faster and more reliably, and the taxpayer benefits most of all. Since they do not need to subsidise a motorway that breaks within 10 years anyway. On the other hand, we have a few megacorporations that make good money selling cars, so I can answer myself, why trains are a thorn in the eye of some infrastructure ministries around the world.
Tldr: No. Look at Britain right now. It’s finally flourishing.
!/s
And I’m glad that the UK left the EU, because now the EU has its own Cuba in front of its shores. Makes life more interesting, doesn’t it?
IMO: look at what Vienna is doing. Affordable housing for everyone is keeping prices in check and avoids corpo-thugs gangraping the public.
Edit: typo.