My mistake, I meant to type suburban rail (S-Bahn) not light rail.
Anyway, light rail is and extremely loose term and can mean a lot of things, up to a „light metro“, but it’s commonly understood to have exclusive tracks separated from roads. A tram (or streetcar) runs on the street.
Pretty much the point of trams are that they’re in populated areas, are in walking distance, and have many stops. They’re local public transport.
In cities they’re equivalent to buses, and in many countries existing trams where replaced by bus routes starting in the 1960s.
If you need longer and faster transport, metro and light rail are the modes to bring people to and around town.
Scythes are awesome, but you need to get the hang of it. They’re best for something like a meadow.
If you have an actual lawn I‘d recommend a manual lawnmower. You have to look what the quality product in your country is, sadly they’ve become cheap trash mostly. And you need to take some time to align the blades properly, but then these things are so much fun actually.
straw polls at the pub
So last time I was visiting friends in Northern England one of the really important events was going to the pub to watch the match. There you go, one room full of people clicking „watched live tv last week“.
Yeah, everytime I read reports like this I'm like "where are all these people" as well, but Germany (where I'm from) reports similar numbers:
81% tune in at least once a week, and 65% (!) daily ( https://www.ard-zdf-massenkommunikation.de/files/Download-Archiv/MK_Trends_2022/2209_Egger_Rhody.pdf )
There might be a number of reasons, but I do think if you only know 1 out of 50 you either are quite young but I would think you are just not aware of them doing so. Even 35% of the 14-29y age group in Germany report they watched TV yesterday. And you'd be surprised how common it is to still watch the evening news or the "sunday crime show" even among younger people, for older age groups it's simply not a question. In Germany, people above 50 are 50% of the population. Also it heavily depends on your status/class/whatever.
But I do also doubt the validity of the data, since it's prone to be skewed heavily (I should know, I actually did similar field tests in the past). For once, they're relying on people's self reports and those are always terrible. If you ask whether people did anything chances are they just click "once per week" without even thinking about it. Also, the German questionnaire for example asks for "TV programme currently running" but also "watched in a Mediathek" (our version(s) of the iPlayer). However, you can watch the current programme in a Mediathek, so that doesn't make much sense.
No, we absolutely do not need tougher laws, we already have ridiculously tough laws.
The problem is that people can not and probably will never agree on what is actually copyrighteable. And if you look into the respective laws you’ll always find rubber words, like „elements of originality“, in Germany it’s „threshold of creation“.
I pointed out two cases in some other comment here, but here are two more:
European newspaper publishers (lead, of course, by the Germans) established a EU law that it’s infringing their copyright if you take a snippet of a news article, even if you directly link to the newspaper in question. They were salty about google doing that, so they made it a law. Then google said, „well fuck off“ and threw them out. I don’t know what the current status is, I think the publishers realized they fucked up and now everybody acts like nothing happened or something.
Or: there’s a legal dispute going on between the German hip-hop producer Moses Pelham and the band Kraftwerk, about a 2 second (!) Kraftwerk sample Pelham used in 1997 (!). This thing ended up IIRC five times in front of Germany’s highest civil court, once in front of Germany’s constitutional court (freedom of art, you know), and a few years ago it was handed to the EU court, which handed it back and the last thing I heard is that they need to bring it to the EU court again because they still have questions… And all of this revolves mainly around the question „when is it okay to sample someone else’s work?“. For 25 years courts are trying to find a definition, and every decision is full of ridiculous money quotes.
Edit: I guess it has long passed the point of being a legal dispute, it’s become more like an extremely elaborate discussion of platonic idealism or something.
So, no, I disagree, we need less laws. And we can do that. Take science: yeah, we have creator’s right, but it’s treated as a moral failure to outright plagiarise someone without attribution, and you will lose your „scientist“ badge. Other than that reusing other people’s work is not just okay but a fundamental principle of science, you know, „standing on the shoulders of giants“, like that.
We could treat art the same, yet somehow we don’t.
Lol, tell me you’ve never been outside the US without telling etc
You do realise everybody else on this planet can tow everything they need without those BS pavement princesses, right? Or do you think people in the US are the only ones going camping, owning boats?
Nothing of that changes that calling Marxism „the one and only true/base communism“ is ridiculously wrong on several levels and absolutely not helpful for an „ELI5“ on communism.
And if you’re so concerned about leftist infighting you might just stop acting like there was an apodictic definition, that would certainly help. Someone already pointed out the irony to you hours ago, it seems you still haven’t realized that.
I’m not necessarily disagreeing with your conclusion, very likely eating meat is less bad than drinking e.g. Coca Cola (but FWIW I’m not a nutritionist), but your premise is wrong: just because we evolved doing something doesn’t mean it’s not bad. It’s a classical „appeal to nature“ fallacy.
Nature doesn’t care about your „health“, it just needs you to be able to reproduce. Now with regard to humans we’re able to reproduce at age ~11-14y, but we also do need to take care of our offspring (roughly) the same time, so that would put the needed lifespan of any given human being at ~25y. Give or take, just trying to make a point here.
But we are able to live much longer than that, in industrialised countries we’re clocking in at >80y, so being and staying healthy at that age is not something that evolution prepared us for.
Having evolved to eat meat doesn’t mean anything beyond the reproduction timeline.
(Also, the poster above was making a point about industrial animal husbandry being one major factor to climate change, so it goes beyond human evolution.)
The greatest appropriating committee, certainly. Development? Not yet
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Somebody corrected me, apparently that’s no longer true and I just didn’t notice (I guess it’s still the default setting), I have to try this out today: https://support.1password.com/autofill-behavior/
There are many different concepts, but generally a tram shares a space with the road traffic, hence streetcar (German: Straßenbahn). There are other terms, e.g. Stadtbahn, that are used when they are separated from other traffic.
While there are no hard rules and different approaches, I think it’s not helpful to mix up terms. A tram is not a metro. And it’s not helpful to mix modes on the same tracks, since you will run into trouble with scheduling due to vastly differing occupancy rates.