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aziaziazi commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
crazygringo · a day ago
Because half the year it's freezing cold or blistering hot?

With CitiBike and so many bike lanes it basically already is a biker's paradise. Obviously there could be lots more improvements, but the people who want to bike already do.

aziaziazi · a day ago
Every fall on Brussels there's an ad for public bikes. It reads "Ride a bike, it warms you up" (Faites du vélo, ça réchauffe).
aziaziazi commented on Beyond Meat headed to Chapter 11 bankruptcy   thestreet.com/restaurants... · Posted by u/delichon
CorrectHorseBat · 3 days ago
Easy is definitely a big part of it. It's not impossible to make tasty and nutritious food without meat, it's just not as easy. Especially if you don't use any animal products at all. From an environmental and ethical point of view those don't really differ that much anyway.

Fake meat doesn't really taste like real meat yet, which is one reason why they aren't selling as well as hoped. I think it will be easier to develop fake meats which are indistinguishable from the real thing than convincing the majority of the people to forgo meat without having an equivalent replacement available. Making really really good fake meat is going to be extremely hard, making the majority of people vegan (or even significantly reduce their animal product consumption) without it will be borderline impossible.

aziaziazi · 3 days ago
> It's not impossible to make tasty and nutritious food without meat, it's just not as easy

I respectfully disagree: while vegan cooking isn’t common for most of us, when you get used to it it’s not harder to cooking delicious and nutritious dishes. It’s also probably easier sanitary-wise.

Just to cite a few:

- mushrooms sauté - tempeh cubes in broth or sauce - dal

aziaziazi commented on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookmtn
lopis · 5 days ago
Why would you think that? It's much more urgent to replace commonly eaten foods like beef, chicken and fish than foods that for most people are little more than a curiosity.

With that said, vegan caviar has existed for years make of algae, and it's honestly not far from the real thing.

aziaziazi · 4 days ago
Agree. Foie gras also is very well replicated with vegetable ingredients.

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aziaziazi commented on Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia   cam.ac.uk/research/news/l... · Posted by u/hhs
5pl1n73r · 14 days ago
Don't go outside. Move only in cars. To be honest, going outside sucks in most cities.
aziaziazi · 14 days ago
In Paris a study showed +3 years of life expectancy for cyclists and +2 for public transport users, compared to car commuters. They correlated it with (not a surprise) the benefits of exercice. Sure the pollution effect is worse outside of your car but the gains of daily light exercise offsets the drawbacks of air pollution.
aziaziazi commented on Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia   cam.ac.uk/research/news/l... · Posted by u/hhs
linotype · 14 days ago
My wife and I don’t have children, but my exit strategy is assisted suicide. I have no intention of living past my brain.
aziaziazi · 14 days ago
Willing to share if/what’s your plans? Do you live in a somewhat helping country like Swiss?

I’ve a similar view for myself but my GF find it creepy and don’t want discuss it, yet. That’s embarrassing, I don’t want to cause grief by a surprise disparition.

Practically speaking there’s NGOs that can help and even send kits after a (long) checkup. Inert gas asphyxia seems to be a classic as it’s fast, painless and quite cheap/easy.

aziaziazi commented on Our European search index goes live   blog.ecosia.org/launching... · Posted by u/maelito
usr1106 · 15 days ago
and even there only a small part. Goal for EOY is 50%.
aziaziazi · 15 days ago
more precisely:

> We’re aiming to serve 50% of French search queries by the end of the year, and will soon start rolling out to other countries.

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aziaziazi commented on Tesla must pay portion of $329M damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says   cnbc.com/2025/08/01/tesla... · Posted by u/koolba
aziaziazi · 21 days ago
For those not aware of the circonstances (as me), here’s Tesla defence:

> this driver was solely at fault because he was speeding, with his foot on the accelerator—which overrode Autopilot—as he rummaged for his dropped phone without his eyes on the road

There’s lots to blame in auto makers « security marketing » and phone addiction but it seems obvious that driving a 1ton+ vehicle while not constantly looking at the road can lead to bad outcomes.

I’m all in for (mass surveillance) onboard eye tracking. Make it optional with 50% bonus on your car insurance and driving state tax. I see many, many drivers every day that are looking at their phone in very inappropriate moments like intersections and line changes.

aziaziazi commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year   helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale
bluescrn · 21 days ago
Zero MPH = zero traffic = zero road deaths.

But without transport significantly more people will die from other things, due to reduced access to healthcare, employment, food, etc.

In a modern society, road transport is a critical part of our life support system. Those pushing for a what they see as a car-free utopia tend to ignore this.

aziaziazi · 21 days ago
There was a study [0] in Paris that demonstrates a signifiant life expectancy and positive benefit/risk ratio of bicycling or commuting by public transports: the effect on physical and psychic health largely outweighs (sometimes to x30) the risk of accidents and pollution disease.

> without transport

Nobody argues to remove all cars altogether, and certainly not other forms of transport. However we certainly can rethink the millions of individual cars in each cities: does everybody needs its own 1ton vehicle to bring food back from the local supermarket? To go to work 2-20km away?

[0] (2012, french) https://www.ors-idf.org/nos-travaux/publications/les-benefic...

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