My main two puzzles with Google Maps are: - on my timeline I have a few driving and motorcycling, and I have neither of those, I only bike to work. But my puzzle here is: how do they know that someone is riding a motorcycle or a car? - when I ask it for walking routes, the estimated time is always way longer than my walking time. I get to the destination in half of time. So what do they do with all the tracking?

Maybe he said it as in you feel you have it with you when you run. I've tried many things (arm bands, phone belts), but I still can't find a good place for it. There's always something too tight, too loose etc.

Because in some places you will limit yourself to a few leafy greens. Never seen rucola sold without plastic, for example.

We should also extend that to firefighters, they do nothing most of the time, anyway. Let the fires burn everything and after that let the insurance solve the problems for those who have it.

For small trips through France you'll probably get cheaper without this pass. When I'm in vacation I do 2-3 days in a city than move on. If I exclude Milano-Lyon, I don't think I ever payed more than 40€ through France and I did Lyon, Paris, Rennes, Brest, Nantes, Bordeaux and a few other cities. The only thing is that I book way in advance.

When I returned from Germany, two months ago, the lady next to me was amazed that I payed Munchen-Verona 37€ while she did 100+.

If the companies would keep their own word and never overreach maybe nobody would overreact. How many times did we hear in the past "It's just for..."

People's only complaint with Valve seems to be lootboxes and their inability to make a 3rd game in a series, and thats true. So... maybe?

Honestly, I also miss, sometimes, those days, when every website had a toolbar to install. I didn't have high expectations in those days. Now you see these billion dollar companies and you ask yourself what are those people doing there? Can't they afford at least one guy to do the bugs?

Am I the only one who barely knows people who think of making money by buying a house? In my circles, everyone buys a house to live in it and that's it. Same goes with NIMBYS, never met someone saying: "Don't build here because the value of my apartment/house goes down." What I've usually met, it's people who just been lucky because grandpa, grandma, and/or other very old relatives, usually after WW2, bought large plots of land and they build there something and now their younglings are asking incredible sums of money for rent or selling.

Pretty much everyone in my life growing up and into young adulthood preached about how you needed to buy a house because it was an investment you could use as a retirement account. That I resisted this was seen as kook behavior as I kept repeating that your primary residence is not an investment - it’s a lifestyle choice and expense.

Pretty much everyone I know cares a whole lot about how much their home is worth.

Same goes for NIMBY behavior. Plenty of relatives preach about how there needs to be more cheap housing, but whenever they are directly impacted they at least talk negatively about the changes. Almost no matter what they are. From the “nuisance” of too much density, not liking renters in their neighborhood, not wanting subsidized housing near them, or not wanting rural land near them developed on since it ruins their view on walks or whatever. Basically they are for building in everyone’s backyard but their own.

> In my circles, everyone buys a house to live in it and that's it.

Really? Are they buying the tiniest cheapest apartments or chalets to live in while they save up money to upgrade to something bigger later? Or are they buying the biggest and best thing that the bank will allow? Because I'm mostly seeing the latter. Which means they are using the monetary system to get the best deal they can.

The only people purchasing tiny apartments and houses are doing it to extract rent from others, those places hardly even get out on the market.

Most people want to buy a house or an apartment just to live in, I agree there. But they usually don't have the money for that. They have to pay rent, taxes and other tributes to the non-working class in this global feudalistic system.

I currently live in Italy and always lived in an European city. Most apartments are tiny here.

Do people buy a tiny apartment to live in as their first real estate purchase? Or do they buy something bigger?

I don't know how many travelers use train instead of a car in New Zealand, but if it means 20% less traffic on the road, those taxes are probably worthy. That's what I say to all drivers which get nervous for sitting behind me when I bike to work. Think, that if I can't bike, there will be another car on the street.

You're mixing urban and national rail. The national rail system is freight focused (and some token tourist services).

Our politicians are involved with a very large money pit for a ferry between the islands: railcars being a VERY expensive requirement (I think because terminals for rail require much more engineering). It's a mess.

But wouldn't be better if people would invest in better home insulation and ventilation? It would help in the winter also. I say this because since the early 90s, my father installed air conditioning in our home, but in 2020 the building was redone (the building is from 1986), and whenever I return home in the summer, I don't need air conditioning. Just lower the roller blinds and open the windows after the sun passed.