Apparently someone doesn’t get to hug or kiss his wife in public.

How does this even work? Do they realize there is no border control or tolls within the EU? If I imported a shitton of GPUs to Germany and shipped them off immediately to Hungary, it would be highly illegal for anyone to stop me.

Even this makes more sense:

And the curvature of the Earth.

Someone should just ask him to explain what BVR stands for, and what exactly visual range means.

https://www.progressive.com/

Some people are obnoxious and ruin the fun for the rest of us. See drones.

I agree with your horsepower argument, that’s what I’m saying too, the rated power limit means nothing.

You can buy an ebike in the EU that is configured to be compliant with the EU, so throttle disabled, 25 kmh pedal assist limit.

Then turn the limiter off by long pressing two buttons, no tools, 30 seconds, and the bike does 60 kmh on throttle alone.

If you crash a car at speeds illegal everywhere, so above 130/kmh, I’d doubt your chances of survival are higher than if you crash a bicycle at above 25 kmh.

You don’t need a supercar to accelerate to unsafe speeds, a 20 year old Daewoo Matiz can do 160kmh and is cheaper than most ebikes.

Finally, ebikes are a sometimes dangerous annoyance, cars are a leading cause of death.

So here’s my take on this.

• Prosecute reckless drivers, confiscate vehicles whether they are ebikes going 50 kmh on a sidewalk or pickups rolling coal.

• Somehow nobody cares about overpowered cars like overpowered ebikes. Why is selling a car that can go 240 or 400 kmh okay while selling a bike that can go 45 kmh not okay? IMO stopping both would be great.

• Performance limits in Watts are stupid. The limits are for rated power, which is completely arbitrary. The most common Bosch ebike motor sold here is rated at 250W, yet “peaks” at 800W, and can maintain that peak for hours. So what is even the point?

Both them and China try very hard not to.

I drove this rental Toyota a few weeks ago that did not let me not use the autobrights, and they blinded a bunch of people and I’m horrified.

Sorry everyone.

And also dollarization.

The French being right officially makes this the worst timeline.

Could someone tell him that Trump is not the president of the EU? Not our circus not our fascists.

That’s the bank’s money.

That’s true of Trump and Hitler as well, does that mean the Dems are happy to be on the same platform as them?

Oh, I thought of Europe as a whole.

UK & EU is a given.

You’re missing like 3 copies of the Sims for that.

Nah, the topic of the month is going to be Trump declaring war on Mongolia because UFOs and Jewish Space Lasers.

Can’t have the plebs talking about real issues.

So on the one hand, I didn’t read the article, and from the headline saying “Iraq amends bad law” I thought they are going from marrying 9 year olds to something more sensible, but they seem to be moving in the opposite direction. I was a moron, and I do apologize for that.

On the other hand, I wasn’t saying any of this to make excuses for either the Islamic world or Iraq. It’s just that we also have so much shit to clean up on our own plate, that laughing at the Middle East seems counterprodctive as to me, it tries to relativize our own shittyness. I’m not saying that it’s not horrendous, but we can do precious little about it, while we can do much more about Hungarian oligarchs using orphanages as brothels (I’m sadly not making this up).

No, neither is okay, but at least it doesn’t make Iraq uniquely wrong in this. What I’m saying is that there are shit laws all over the world, and trying to move past them should be celebrated, instead of “well they are unwashed Muslim barbarians, look at how much better our culture is”.

All I’m saying is don’t “start with Islam”, all of this shit is equally bad.