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They have good traffic designs in a lot of places but also horrible multiple lane passways without protection. And a significant minority of Finnish drivers break the law by not stopping on a crosswalk when other cars have stopped on the same crosswalk.

Also there have been plenty of near misses due to electric scooters. Children and drunkards are being extremely reckless with those, and in fact a 15-year old girl died near the second largest city Tampere just this summer when she crashed into a car (not publicized yet whose fault this was legally).

But good luck Helsinki!

I bet there’s some Linux application that is able to connect to it and create a virtual output device you can pick for the tidal app, or any other audio.

Yeah I should've been more clear what I'm looking for. Obviously I can stream via Bluetooth or perhaps even something like Airplay. But the native Spotify client uses Spotify Connect also on Linux, which means that the device can independently play the music. I just issue it commands from the client.

A similar thing exists for Tidal: Tidal Connect. But unfortunately the Linux client does not support it. Android, MacOS and iOS do, though.

I've been just pondering between tidal and spotify, and I primarily use Linux and Android. Tidal's client doesn't seem to support outputting to devices like Wiim in Linux. The Spotify client does.

Spotify's client can be installed via AUR (a repackaging of that DEB essentially) on Arch Linux.

FWIW, both tidal-hifi and the official spotify client are available in NixOS's repository.

In this context: Doing better stuff better than they do.

So just to clarify: Do you think that boycotting USA is more important than being better than USA?

I would say that there's quite a lot of reason to believe that infrastructure investments can be one of the best ways to help poor people rise economically. Which has obvious paybacks.

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure/publication/infrastructure-and-poverty-reduction-innovative-policies

This still requires creating infrastructure that is actually needed, otherwise it's just wasting money (which ultimately is just an abstraction over wealth, opportunity, materials, workers' finite time and energy, etc etc).

and buzzy

A feature of rail is very high building costs. If they wasted money on building HSR on a lot of places where it's not needed, this means there's gonna be a debt that never gets paid by the utilization of the rail. Bad investment.

So it's not about maintenance, but the up-front cost.

Not doing an investment where an investment would make a lot of money is of course a kind of reverse of this, but which leads to a similar outcome.

Also the US isn’t good at making things. If they were, they would have a positive trade balance with most countries. Instead they have a negative balance and a lot of their exports are crude resources and other low-level refined products from them.

Yeah, perhaps I'm being a bit myopic here because I'm in IT. And it seems to me that in my field almost everything is either made in USA or significantly funded by them.

https://www.pekingnology.com/p/china-massively-overbuilt-high-speed

Good luck dealing with that financial bomb.