On the use of dollars internationally in tourist contexts, I once spent a few fairly unpleasant days in Cancún (the rest of the Yucatán peninsula and CDMX were great, though!), I noticed that a lot of shops and services would accept dollars, which Americans more than happily made use of.
The crux of it was that anything paid in dollars had its price, when compared to pesos, inflated to about double.
It was essentially a form of idiot tax.
I can think of some things
Communal laundry rooms are better for spreading the capital costs among the residents - energy still costs more or less the same on a per-load basis, and it gets charged to the residents in one way or the other at the end of the day.
They’re also successively being replaced by in-home laundry machines. Lots of places offer a communal laundry room, but the residents also have a machine in their homes for the sake of convenience. Some new builds have started omitting a communal laundry room in favour of in-home machines.
A bit of a pity, to be honest. Spreading capital costs is societally good. I say this while having had a laundry machine in-home for the past 10 years (came included with the purchase of the apartments), which I do use and enjoy the convenience of.
I do! I’ve done some DIY repairs on it several times. It’s a Roborock S5. I’ve had to replace the lidar motor and the charging station, but it’s still going strong.
I’ve had a robot vacuum since 2018, and it’s still going strong.
It’s easily in the top 5 of best purchases I’ve ever made
Support for Donald Trump
It means “replace ‘USA’ with ‘Trump’”
Delicacy is maybe not the word I’d use, but it certainly exists
It’s hardly viable as a temporary step when the time to bring a new one online is 20 years. The economics are already bad today and have been trending to be worse every year, while renewables and batteries are trending in the complete opposite direction.
The time for transitionary measures has passed. Renewables and batteries are here today. All we need to do is build it.
The real gigachads are running TempleOS and you know it
I don’t think most men make $100k/mo
Wanting to do anything with video for one
Buyer beware - farming is actually really hard work
M1 16’’ has:
Back in the intel-days, lack of ports was a real concern, but I can’t say that I’ve ever felt this with M1.
In fact, most of the common gripes with Mac hardware choices were resolved with M1. A sufficient amount of ports, real keys instead of a small touch screen for Escape- and Function-keys, and no undue focus on making the device as thin as possible at the expense of performance.
Add the fact that they are ridiculously fast and you’ve got yourself a very competent development machine.
I’d still hesitate at paying full retail price for one for personal use, but as a work device? I will gladly use one.
There was a time when investing deeper into nuclear would have made a lot more sense. That moment has passed, though. The economics are not on the side of nuclear and the numbers are getting worse by the day - nuclear is getting more expensive over time while renewables and batteries are trending in the complete opposite direction.
It’s basically impossible to get any nuclear built without heavy subsidization because of how poorly they function economically, not to mention how impossible it is to buy insurance for such a venture. This is not inherently bad, but it does definitely displace other areas we could be subsidizing instead. I would be in favour of this if nuclear didn’t have a completely natural replacement in renewables and batteries.
Definitely. It’s set back progress decades, sadly.
Vehicular cycling is a bad idea in the General case, i.e when used to advocate against protected bicycle infrastructure, but sometimes it’s necessary for me on account of the very limited bike lane width. It’s not fair to the slower cyclists to have to contend with me riding at twice their speed. Since I’m also riding at the speed limit for the road, I don’t think it’s unfair to the drivers either.
They are great, but the price tag is a bit hard to justify to be honest.
A bidet attachment for about €75 though? Incredible value
This doesn’t match my experience with them at all - the sizing of them was comparable to the standard sizes found in Sweden where I live, which was more than enough.
No