Love it (I'm from Berlin)

berliner (sedan)

People still use that term where you live? 😳 That's like, old, real old, it used to be a horse carriage and then was used for early cars. Haven't seen it outside a museum until now.

There is no "kill all cars community" except in your head...

From a brief search, a commuter pedelec here in California is closer to $1.5-$2.5k,

I don't know, what I have seen is that somewhat reliable companies like e.g. Trek also seem to be in the 2.5-3.5 range? I mean, yeah you can buy cheaper ebikes here as well, on Amazon for example. But I have never seen one of those in real life, maybe it's just more common to buy those in the US.

Also bear in mind that prices here are including VAT (19% in Germany) while in the US prices are usually given excluding VAT.

This leads me to believe it must be due to the much lower volumes of cargo bikes sold here.

Probably also because in the US the clientele is exclusively wealthy, while in Europe it's much more diverse. Cars are expensive here, since you have regular inspections, mandatory maintenance, mandatory insurances, etc. Even a small used car will cost you several hundred € per month, all in all.

The amount of people in the US who cannot afford a car but can afford an electric cargo bike is probably zero – in Europe that's totally possible (example given: me 👋).

I also don't believe we have the breadth of cargo bikes as Europe does

I guess so. There's generally no shortage of US bikes here, Giant, Trek, Specialized, Marin, etc. are well known and readily available, but except for Radwagon I don't know a single US cargo bike (and they're leaving Europe at the end of 2023) from the US. Except Tern from Taiwan everything that's being sold here is either Dutch, Danish, German, or Swiss.

rough equivalent of a Europe pedelec is an American class 1 ebike, with max power of 750W and speed of 32 kph

EU pedelecs are limited to 250W and 25 km/h, and then up to 45 km/h for which you need a helmet, a license plate and a driving license.

Congratulations, you found three pictures of the two largest cities in Europe and the US at their time. Where there streets with mostly horse carriages? Yes. Where they the norm? No.

Why and when do you think traffic lights and zebra were invented. Why didn't they exist before?

Irgendwie widerspricht der ganze Teil dem ersten und der letzten Satz.

Die Aussage, dass arabische Menschen in Israel durchaus strukturell diskriminiert werden, aber prinzipiell alle Rechte genießen, widerspricht der Aussage, dass es sich bei Israel nicht um einen Apartheidsstaat handelt? Aha. Interessante Interpretation.

I’m not sure I was disagreeing with you in the previous statement

Then don't repeat things I explicitly mentioned, as if I said something else?

Also get better examples. Brooks break down as easy as Asics, Saucony, whatever. They are exactly the "single use" product I spoke about, making the shoe and clothing industry in general highly non carbon neutral, which was my point.

it isn’t exactly easy to find good shoes unless you invest a lot of money into them

Yes, it's called the Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

You could blame that on car-dependency

I don't blame that on anything but capitalism.

As a European who knows imperial units, it's not how it works for us, and it's not the point.

I can tell you approximately what a litre is the same way you can judge a gallon. By experience. By comparison. You know a "gallon of milk", I know "a litre of milk".

I can tell you what a meter is, but that doesn't give me the power to tell your height to the centimeter.

Just today, I had to mop up a water leak. I couldn't have told you how many litres it was until I had it in the bucket, because it was spread out on the floor.

The point of the metric system is not that everything is tidy, that a screen is not 38 cm but 40 cm.

The point is that I can tell you that 10 40cm screens are 4 meters. That a ton of water is 1000 kg, which is a cubic meter, which is 100x100x100 cm.

The problem with imperial units is not the units themselves, it's the confusing calculations you have to take because you have a different unit which is 3, 12, 16, etc times the other unit.

How much is 16 1/3 cubic foot in inches. That is the issue at hand.

Shrike. Ts. Cute. Wanna know what’s it called in German?

NEUNTÖTER

(killer of nine)