Many drivers won’t stop unless they’re forced to by a physical barrier, and some still won’t stop. Ever seen those videos from Europe of bus lane bollards that retract when a bus approaches and pop back up again after the bus passes, and the cars wrecked on them? Those are much more solid barriers than these plastic things.
We have those where I live. Crosswalk compliance is decent here, but these don’t get anyone to stop who wasn’t going to stop anyway, and they get stolen all the time.
They won’t last long enough to be damaged by ice before someone drives into them.
In my extensive experience with Canadian GST, I can say with some authority that Americans just fundamentally cannot comprehend a value-added tax, and also refuse to try. Bonkers insane to use an American company for this.
This used to come up a lot in meta-fedi talk on Mastodon. The general feeling (from my own observation) is that a central authority for user accounts would defeat one of the big advantages of decentralization: that one service going down does not bring the rest of the network down with it. If all logins have to authenticate to a central service, then if that service is offline then nobody can log in anywhere.
There is capability for federated login in ActivityPub, though, it just doesn’t seem to be very widely adopted. Pixelfed has a “sign in with Mastodon” login option, where you can use your login on a Mastodon instance to authenticate to Pixelfed, and then presumably you can use Pixelfed with your Mastodon account instead of having a separate Pixelfed account. My masto instance doesn’t seem to support it so I don’t know what it looks like.
US automakers designed EVs that are really just toys for the wealthy, not a family mover or grocery getter or daily commuter. It’s not just the EVs: I’m in Canada and the market is different but not that different, and I don’t know anyone who drives a US-brand vehicle smaller than an F150. I haven’t set foot in a US dealership in maybe 30 years. US automakers are apparently baffled that they’re not selling luxury second vehicles at a time when affordability has been on the decline for 40+ years.
Meanwhile, in markets with reasonably affordable, well-built, and compact EVs available, they’re selling like crazy.
I hope everyone who gets one sends a letter back telling the government to get on with taxing the damn billionaires.
Not with that attitude
The funny thing about that is Canada offered to buy the Ambassador Bridge in 2009, but the owner wanted almost double what the government offered. They only started talking about building the Gordie Howe after that.
Before anyone jumps on the translation error, there are four words in the original. “en cuatro palabras: No a la guerra.”