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Very interesting but the article - for me - was too scarce on details of this farming system so I took to google. For anyone who wants a TLDR: This is basically a combination of "forest farming" and "terraforming/re-wilding"

• forest farming uses a mix of different plants with different grow heights so the available are isn't just fully utilized in 2 dimensions but the third as well. This mixing avoids many issues with monocultures, and better protects the ground against the sun.
• the second aspect is using different stages of plants, first to reclaim dead land with primitive but hardy "pioneer" plants, follow them up with "bioaccumulator" plants that have higher needs but are excellent at enriching the land with biomass before culminating in plants that have the highest needs but also support the most diversity and are most productive.

We made delicious Jambalaya Tuesday evening. Such a great dish! Tasty and you're basically just throwing ingredients in a pot and make sure they don't burn...

An older more polluting car migth not be the better option. But if the new car is one of those giant murde boxes then it's not going to be an upgrade either.

Exactly

Remove? No. Overcome? We're already doing it.

Our society is far more accomodating than it has ever been. Different sexes, ethnicities, skin colors, religions, sexual orientations, gender identities and whatnot enjoy more acceptance and equality now than ever before. Something like the EU - a voluntary alliance of this size - would have been unthinkable probably just 100-200 years ago. And for all its flaws the participating nations have grown closer through it.

We still got ways to go particularly internationally and we must be ever vigilat against those that want to drag us backward but the progress is undeniable.

So producing them and shipping them around the globe needs to be reduced dramatically. So that point still kinda stands?

The supply side is the wrong place to tackle this problem though. If you limit the amount of new cars that may be produced, people will simply drive their older ones for longer.

Yeah. Just pipe it to /dev/null

As much as that one kiffer in my building bothers me with his constant smoking I think it's amazing that we're at a point now where the police basically have to give the drugs back and we even have some places with a legal pilot program.

Yes your honor, the whole department got together to ensure the confiscated material was indeed incinerated. Do you happen to have a snack with you?

to each their own. I'm just happy there will be a choice

If you integrate the digital into an analog game, it's no longer an analog game. It's now a video game with a physical dongle. Looking at you LoTR:JtME!

They seem to have a real problem with speeding (the article mentions up to 50 in a 20 km/h zone). That's massive. 20 is really just barely more than the idle power of a car. It's what we have in Switzerland for "encounter" zones where cars are allowed but pedestrians have full priority. Speeding through that at 50 is crazy.

It's an interesting approach and it seems to be working. So I say good for them. But at the same time I can't help but think that there might have been more conventional things to try. Signs don't really work well on drivers. Physics does. A few hefty dips and bumps get drivers to slow down real fucking fast. Looking at a top down image of the intersection there's a REALLY wide turn on one side that is very obviously tempting to speed through. But there's also a small "square" next to it which could have easily been extended to make the turn more sharp. A few more of those fat concrete planters and drivers will learn really quickly that this space isn't for them anymore.