Every time you’re about to order from Amazon, first check if what you’re looking for is available directly from the producer or at another retailer or webshop.

They didn’t have to keep it proprietary, and I think in many “computer problems” the certified dealers will just replace 1 circuitboard by a new one, but it’s a part which private customers are not able to order and replace themselves

They didn’t do it for that purpose, I am saying they used the opportunity of cars becoming more digital to make them less repairable outside of “certified dealers”

Nice! I didn’t find anything. I consider buying it even overpriced, it’s mainly about avoiding buying another one just because if this

As far as I know, home quality 3d printing is never food safe?

I have a super common type (in EU) of Philips water kettle. It’s a reliable machine. Unfortunately the little filter “screen” for the pouring sprout is starting to break now, after many many years of use. I can’t find a replacement. It’s a super easy to manufacture part, must be a very common “breaking thing” on this widespread device… Nope.

Philips HD4646 if anyone knows a source 🙈

Car manufacturers screwed over consumers the last 10-15 years big time! Cars used to be the big thing many could fix a lot on by themselves and were proud to do so. Then they basically just said incrementally to the DIY’ers “it’s all computers now, not your cup of tea”, purposely made cars less and less self repairable and got away with it! It’s infuriating.

The EU ones will become a lot more valuable on second hand markets…

Why do you think they’ll become valuable? Did you buy a first pressing? Vol 1 is at 11th pressing already… In general what becomes valuable is a combination of growing appreciation+ scarcity. Without scarcity, it just becomes a good well ageing, yet relatively easy to obtain record?

Poop decomposes and becomes greenhouse gas. Fancy new filtration plants capture some of that gas and produce electricity with it. Most is not captured.

Fertilizer mainly helps 1year crops grow, aka food. Not forests that will bind carbon for hundreds or thousands of years. The typical large scale agricultural industrial operations cause more release of carbon than they bind it.

A very large part of the produced fertilizer is used to, often on land where there used to be carbon binding forests, grow soy, corn etc to feed enormous amounts of livestock. Which we then eat. It is a manyfold less efficient way for humans to consume animal protein rather than plant proteins. Producing and using lots of artificial fertilizer is for sure not a positive effect on global climate change.

it’s still putting energy into pumping it up. And what happens with the fertilizer, or plastic, or whachamacallit? It gets consumed.

The fertilizer best case becomes plant, gets eaten, pooped out yada yada eventually it becomes the greenhouse gasses. Worst case it’s spilled into the environment as overfertilizing runoff, where it offsets soil balance which helps to release… greenhouse gasses.

The plastic: after use: what happens with it? It gets burned best case, which will release greenhouse gasses. Or it end up in the ocean, not greenhouse i guess, but also not that fun.

When we extract fossil carbon from deep down to the surface, there is a very high chance it will become greenhouse gas. Some of it becomes greenhouse gas almost immediately, some of it only after a few decades, but it’s still offsetting the balance of the globe and adding to climate change.

Fossil fuels are not evil by themselves (how can anything without consciousness be evil?), but many other uses than burning it to go vroom vroom also pose problems to global environmental systems, many uses will also end into processes that will also have negative influence on greenhouse gas situation. Plastic is a miracle material with many very good uses, but the way it is still mostly used now (use once, throw out, burn) is still adding greenhouse gasses.

most people at this point chosing fuel over electric, the main motivation is best case “habit” or worst case political statement, it has very little to do with money or the technical limitations of the vehicles anymore. They just don’t like change, they’re scared of it. They have driven a fuel car all their lives and they will continue their habits as long as they are allowed to. The range on EV’s is crazy now. For christ’s sake, an electric bicycle has a reach of 100km! How far out away from what they need do the average 90% of people live… less than a few kilometers.

It’s really not that hard to put a price on societal collapse and the end of humanity: the money it costs to try to mitigate that is infinite and every decision every person makes right now should be made in that light of exponentially higher costs later if bad choices which now seem slightly less expensive are made now…

The trick in many genres seems the market border crossing. Country might sell low priced in USA, where it originated, but might sell higher priced in Europe or Asia. In Brazil many vinyl records that in Europe easily sell for double or triple digits can still be found for silly prices by crate diggers. Similar until a decade ago with classical music: super common garage sale 1 € records could sell to China for 15 € or more if they were NM…

I consider trying to contact another person in the administration before it happens… It’s just so stupid, the super expensive hard to build piece of infrastructure to make it safe is there already at the next parallel street (a concrete street bridge over a railway that runs right next to the priority cycle path, that bridge is wide enough so the cycle path also crosses underneath the street together with the railway). Yet for some to me really impossible to understand reason they choose to redesign the streets around it to guide more car traffic from the neighbourhood around it away from this safe crossing of the cycle “priority route” and towards the dangerous level crossing with it. Putting up the extra “you have priority” signs for the cyclists is just the crazy drop too much. Yeah, you have priority but you should be extremely fucking careful here anyway because you are crossing a street with cars that just drive straight for the 800m before it and 800m after it! Nothing but paint and signs in the middle of long straight street… especially at night or in fall/winter when there’s often a thick low hanging fog in this city, cyclists should absolutely not be encouraged to blindly take their priority there!

But it is. In pedestrian friendly areas people move slower and consume more. A shopping mall is a gated community imitation of a walkable city.

Local city made a new “safe” crossing for a priority cycle path where it crosses a local road with medium relatively slow traffic. The local road now has a mini very soft speed bump, lots of white and red paint and a sign saying you have to yield to the cycle path. On the cycle path they actually even put the “you have the priority” sign. None of this solves the issue of it being a for the cars super unexpected weird priority to give, and the view on the incoming cyclists being super obstructed by level difference and bushes. Not even mentioning distracted or drunk or foreign drivers. I tried emailing the city CYCLING INFRASTRUCTURE responsible person about what a death trap they conceived there. He’d have none of it, saying it’s super save now because of all the paint and the signs. Meanwhile, parallel street to this one actually already has a non-level conflict free crossing over the cycle path… Which they’re closing to cars and thus sending more cars towards the super dangerous level crossing… I’ll experience a very weird mixture of sadness and “I told you so” in a few months to a few years I think… At a similar crossing a bit further it already happened, car hit cargo bike with 2 kids in it (they were severily injured). The car driver “oversaw” them while visibility is better there than at this new crossing :( It’s incredible how much traffic planners assume car drivers to be good drivers at all times.

The only neighbouring country with certainly better train travelling imo is Switzerland.

French tgv is fucking expensive and trains are a lot less comfortable.

Dutch has great trains but it’s basically all intercity/regional/local. It’s more like a very large S-Bahn Network, Not comparable to ice experience.

Belgian trains are just shit often and just as much delayed, also no real long distance trains.

Luxembourg is free but the trains are also very unreliable…

Is it really that great in Poland, Czechia, Austria? I don’t know.

It could be better, but DB Long Distance travel is really not that bad. It’s mainly the infrastructure that’s lagging behind

I planted a raspberry bush a few years ago on a strip of unused leftover nothing land in the neighborhood. Neighborhood kids loved the bush and ate the berries. Birds loved it and ate the berries. Some old hag hated it (“looks untidy!!!”) and sneakily had the bush removed (it’s not her land either) although she knew damn well who had planted it and that kids and birds loved it.

On your balcony or on your windowsill, no excuses.

I reuse plastic packaging of things I buy for trash. Plastic bag from toilet paper fits the trash can perfectly