Things were getting better and people still had some hope.

I’ve read other articles about it the consensus is that the lights are not actually brighter:

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/oct/31/headlights-too-bright

“”"Although headlights feel significantly brighter than they used to, Brannon notes that the maximum standards for light output set by the US transportation department’s NHTSA haven’t changed in decades.

Part of the issue, he says, is that the temperature of the light in headlight bulbs has changed.

Experts point out that more drivers are buying bigger cars. Because these cars are taller, their headlights are more likely to shine in the eyes of drivers of smaller cars.

Additionally, many vehicles on the road have misaligned headlights. Over time, the regular wear and tear of driving can jostle headlights out of alignment, meaning the brightest part of the light ends up illuminating areas it’s not supposed to – say, right into an oncoming driver’s eyes.“”"

And this is also my experience. I see a lot of cars with LED lights but few cars in on the roads blind me and when they do they are clearly shining right in my eyes. In Europe huge cars are still not that popular so I’m guessing it’s mostly misalignment, people driving with long beams on or some custom lights that are way brighter than the norm. I have no idea if most people don’t know that they are blinding others or if they don’t care.

Some people are are more sensitive to sharper LED lights and they have bigger problems when driving at night now. In that case properly aligned LED lights are better (and safer) for some, and worst for others.

The airports can be far away from the city center. I recently paid 10 euros to get to the airport by bus but it was 1h drive. Where I live it’s more like 15 minutes and it’s about 2 euros.

No one said loud exhausts or LED lights* cause crashes. They are just annoying to other people. So I would say they are exactly the same.

*we’re not talking about all LED lights here. We’re talking about misaligned and excessively bright LED lights. I’m sure new, modern lights let drivers see better (that’s why they are put in the new cars) but they don’t have to blind other drivers to do that.

Same reason we just accepted increasingly loud exhausts. Too many selfish idiots on the roads to enforce it effectively.

The current government tried to pass a law to lower the full-time week to 37.5h but it didn’t pass. The Catalans voted against it. Thanks Catalans!

If the issue is identifiability why not just change it to another, more common family name? Fix the misspelling so it’s not as rare or change to your mother’s maiden name. Or some of your grandparents.

Back in the day people in US would never leave their cars. They lived like hermit crabs, working, eating and sleeping in their cars. If they had children they would move to a bigger car. The cities were simply considered too dangerous to move around without the protective shell of a vehicle. Only after WWII they invented suburbs and started moving from their cars to homes. Today it’s safer so they sometimes leave their cars and move around on foot but it’s still not very common and seen as liberal invention.

That’s still weird. What if someone doesn’t have the money? In Spain you never pay for public healthcare. I thought that maybe as a foreigner he’s not covered by social security but if he’s living there he should be.

It’s right in the graph. US-White is at 14.5. Only Mexico and Chile ls higher (and US-Black). US has a well known problem with maternal mortality.

Some of them had to go back to work because they have no savings.

hahaha fuck them

You only see as “car people” the part that’s not obnoxious while willfully ignoring huge part of it so I would say you’re the narrow-minded one.

I’m a cyclist. I’m sure a lot of people hate me but to my defense my community kills way less people.

Are they boomers?

The fallacy is that you’re now claiming that obnoxious idiots are not “car people”. According to you, people that “love cars” are only “car people” if they have money and like “fancy” cars. Idiots that get exited by tuned up BMWs are not “car people”.

Which of course if false. All of them are “car people”. Rich car people driving expensive cars are the minority. Majority are the loud idiots. Of course you’re looking down at them and don’t recognize them as part of your group. You’re “superior” because you go to car shows, not parking lots outside of town. For me you’re all the same. Silly people getting exited about silly machines. Your distinction is meaningless.

P.S. And of course I know plenty “car people”. Everyone does. You’re not some secret society. We went to school with “car people” and we work with “car people”. The roads are full of you and we all see bunch of you every day.

Is UK really a country or just 3 shitholes wearing a trench coat?

We’re talking about Sweden.

Wait, are you also talking about Sweden?

That’s the sequel.

The Hungarian Maneuver

Oh, I thought you meant European far-right governments. If we’re talking foreign governments than yeah, many terrorists attacks are some sort of hybrid warfare.