Kann nicht einfach Toyota mit einem Monitorhersteller fusionieren und dann Modellnamen wie "bZ4X3261UHSCP-W" machen? Nicht zu verwechseln mit dem bZ4X3261UISCP-W, der das äquivalente Modell ein Jahr später ist, aber völlig andere Komponenten verbaut hat, und dem bZ4X3261UHSCN-W, den es exklusiv bei einem spezifischen Elektrohändler in den USA zu kaufen gibt.

Perhaps this supposed pizza is penance for that.

For the record, as a German I do remember the lessons we learned from our grisly past: That genocide is evil and that it's very easy for a country to sink into utter barbarism. I wish we could take the principled stand we owe to our past victims and condemn Israel for its actions.

Unfortunately, that's just what the German people learned. German politicians apparently learned from our past that our mistake was to genocide the wrong people and to lose the war.

That assumes uniform marked parking spots. A lot of cities make heavy use of roadside parking where your car takes up as much space as it's long plus what's needed to be able to pull out. With roadside parking there's a big difference between a 3 meter ultracompact and a 5 meter SUV. Likewise, wider cars might take up space on the road and/or the sidewalk.

Even with marked parking spots long cars may exceed the length of a parking spot that was perfectly adequate when it was designed. I have something like that near me. There are parking spots perpendicular to a road and long cars routinely obstruct the sidewalk because otherwise they'd be obstructing the road.

I'm all in favor of having way fewer cars around in general but I also want the cars that are there to coexist better with everyone else.

I think vehicle taxes should be proportional to vehicle footprint and empty weight.

Footprint because larger cars need more parking space, which is generally at a premium in cities. I get that many people need a car but we really don't need people to fight over where to cram their giant SUVs when they usually need to move one or two people and very little cargo.

Empty weight because most cars are nowhere near fully loaded most of the time. And if you spend 99% of your time driving around with one or two people plus maybe a half dozen kilos of cargo there's a big difference in road wear between a car that weighs one ton versus one that weighs two.

Wanna pay less car tax? Get yourself a kei car. Wanna drive around in a battleship with wheels? Pay up for the road wear and space you take up.

If you think that's too onerous for people in rural areas who actually do move stuff regularly you can introduce a truck rebate for vehicles registered in rural areas. (Note: This assumes a system where the car has to be registered where the owner lives.)

You don't need that many people to have cafés with outside seating. Basically speaking, if your town is big enough to have a pedestrian zone it's big enough to have those. Heck, my hometown lacks a café or a pedestrian zone but does have a bakery with outside seating and it's rural enough that you can smell the pig stables from any point in town.

It's more a question of whether you're willing to dedicate space for people to be outside (rather than just traveling from A to B) and whether people actually want to be outside. Culture matters a lot here. Where I'm from people will happily use outside seating right next to a busy arterial road because sitting outside when the weather is nice is seen as desirable.

As for urban vs. rural, a six-lane road practically screams "urban sprawl"; that's the kind of road generally associated with major population centers in Europe. I know that many municipalities in the States like to overbuild their car infrastructure to the point where you can walk nowhere and then wonder why there's so much traffic. But from a European perspective that very much looks like a commercial zone on the outskirts of a big city.

One factor is that your brain absolutely doesn't care about long-term consequences when it believes it's fighting for your immediate survival (or that of someone sufficiently important to you like your child) so it completely ignores all the warning signs that normally keep you from overtaxing yourself. You need 100% performance right now, no matter if you end up tearing a muscle or breaking your own bones.

If he cared that much for his career he wouldn't be so committed to making deeply unpopular choices. I think he only cares about extracting money for his friends in the short term so they'll give him a cushy board position or two after he leaves office.

I think there's more to Lower Decks.

Lower Decks shows a crew that's certainly not as professional and dignified as the TNG-era ones but also one that still feels like the crews we saw back then. They might have issues but they're also dedicated professionals and they're all interested in becoming better versions of themselves. Even Mariner, who has a whole menagerie of deep-seated issues, manages to work through them with the help of her fellow lower deckers (and sometimes even the bridge crew).

"Cerritos strong" may be a particularly blunt implementation of the Starfleet ethos but it is one. The idea that they're all in this together and they're all working towards a better future for everyone underpins everything the characters do, even when they get drunk off contraband hooch. Ultimately, Lower Decks shows that flawed individuals can come together and achieve great things and that you don't have to be Jean-Luc Picard to do the right thing.

The show highlights the silliness of the Star Trek universe but it also takes a firm stance on the side of idealism at a time when the writing room seems to be staffed by 1990s comic writers.

Eh. Still closer than in Germany where he's "Meister Proper". "Meister" translates to "master" and while "proper" does carry vague connotations of cleanness, it's more akin to "neat" or "tidy". Master Neat disapproves of your untidy floors!

Yes. That's how art works.

Most musicians, including many bands that fill stadiums and go on world tours, pay the bills with regular full-time jobs and do all of their band stuff in their spare time. It's similar for artists, authors, etc.

A really good game takes years of hard work. It can take surprisingly little money; a small team driven by passion can be very efficient. But it does take effort. And sure, not everyone can be Tynan Sylvester or ConcernedApe or Pixel or Team Cherry; most tiny indie games aren't genre-shaping mega hits.

But they don't have to. There's plenty of small games out there that are just good and that's good enough. The idea of even just a hundred people playing one's game and being entertained is enticing enough for thousands of developers to sink hours and hours of their spare time into.

Will there be a bazillion lame asset flips in the future? Yes, just like there have always been lame derivative bands, shitty overhyped artists, terrible indie movies, and drivel-slinging hack authors.

Just like there have always been shitty AA and AAA games, for that matter. 90% of everything is crap. But that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of gems hiding in between all the chaff.

(And while I'm at it: While making a game does requires a lot of knowledge, that knowledge can be acquired along the way. The original Cave Story was a one-man project and Pixel certainly didn't start out as a professional programmer/artist/composer/screenplay author. Learning how to do all that is part of the fun for some people.)

Haven't had either but the Bramble is another example of gin being turned into something portable.

But yeah, I have French violet mints and violet bar syrup that I just put into water. Floral can be tasty.