Russia actually isn’t as spread out as the US in a way. You can literally ignore anything east of the urals, all the cities that matter are in the western part of the country.

YouTube people?

At this point it’s Trump who’s influencing us to be anti-US. But there’s a vocal group of people who wished death to the US before that as well. You know who they are.

I also kinda doubt they have the bandwidth and storage space to ingest billions of phone call recordings.

They’re like a couple of megabytes each if compressed properly. Short calls could be less than a meg and long ones in the tens of megabytes. Billions would be petabytes. That’s actually… Kinda doable these days if you’re a country with the resources of China.

I agree with you technically (and the UK has always had some dictatorship vibes going for it), but even the UK doesn’t have a “supreme committee for deciding who we want in the country or who we’re racist against”

From your own link:

From 2010 to 2018 (the latest figures on record), on average 19 people a year were deprived of their citizenship where it was conducive to the public good.

Kuwait however is doing it by the thousands apparently

Hell, tens of thousands annually

This is something that Trump would love to have in the US, but as it is I don’t think even he can get people’s citizenships revoked en masse yet.

Yes, it is

To be clear, the thing that hit 700 km/h (a different unit from mph) in under 2 seconds was essentially a sled. Not a full train car.

Japanese trains go up to 320 km/h on current lines.

Anyway, the camera movements in the video kinda look sped up too.

Here is the same video without being sped up

Here is a future Japanese bullet train doing 500 km/h if they build out the maglev line.

Don’t like 70% of Canadians live in urban environments though? Meaning a lot of people could probably get by with a bicycle and public transit. Not everyone of course, but the “~100% of territory is not urban” line is kinda misleading when ~100% of territory is also devoid of human activity in the first place.

HUDs are great, you get to see your speed without taking the eyes off the road. They’re also an optional extra even in expensive cars.

Power mirrors have been around since the 80s. Heated seats are pretty much required in my climate, cooled is nice too - and only the former is standard (and only costs like a hundred bucks per car at most to implement tbh, it’s a REALLY simple system). Actually if you want to go real cheap, the Dacia Sandero for 15k€ doesn’t even have heated seats either. You have to pay 500€ for the thermo package to get those + automatic climate control.

If these things (cooled seats in particular) are now standard in base spec low-end cars in the North American market, it must mean people weren’t buying cars without them. Because they’re still optional extras in Europe.

North America needs wagons back. Diesel especially. It’s all I drive anymore.

Imagine this, you’ve got 5 people in the car, a full boot and a trailer. You’re still getting 30 mpg on the highway. That’s a diesel wagon for you. Sedan body size with slightly more cargo space.

And the ad could be that an empty truck pulls into the fuel station twice as many times on the same journey as the loaded wagon with its trailer.

I write stupid long ass comments like that all the time, I just have ADHD. If you’re incapable of reading such comments, perhaps you also have a disorder of some sort.

1000km? So like two thirds of a tank?

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It is weird, but that’s what we’ve got. A criminal defense attorney on reddit pointed out that if these are used in the court case it’d be extremely unlikely to fake them because the defense usually gets access to all the metadata and such.

The groyper narrative doesn’t make much sense anyway. FBI itself doing it on Trump’s order is more likely at this point lol

Sure

I like this issue in the form of a quiz

Can’t tell anymore tbh, seen too many stupid people online in the recent years lol

Highway driving is actually where things like ESP and airbags matter most IMO. ESP can save your ass on unexpected black ice in a curve and airbags can save your ass when some oncoming assface decides to fall asleep and drift into your lane. Most highways in my country are not separated, so that’s pretty dangerous.

Direct injection becoming commonplace has done a lot too, espegially with piezoelectric injectors that can do multiple injection events per combustion cycle for diesel. Modern transmissions have more speeds, quicker shifts and less efficiency loss with fewer moving parts.

Hybrid in comparison doesn’t do much for mpg unless it’s plugin hybrid which of course can be a true game changer.

Resistive heaters aren’t particularly fancy or expensive tech, but that’s irrelevant, 90s cars also heat up fast (since the engine thermal efficiency is usually worse), I’m more interested in the UTV comparison here since you literally can’t drive without heat here half the year.

Agreed on the transit. But is there any real need for new car manufacturers? It’s very expensive to get started with a new one.

There’s exactly one thing America needs to get smaller and cheaper cars. Proper taxation on fuel. Right now there’s no incentive to sell cheap small cars if everyone wants a brodozer and crossovers are seen as tiny.

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