Comments by "Blackadder75" (@Blackadder75) on "Not Just Bikes" channel.

  1.  @mushroomsteve  lucky for the 1% of Americans that live in Oregon I guess...
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  2. it's still the richest, you guys just have a strange way of dividing up and using those riches... That makes it one of the poorest developed countries at the same time.
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  3. We have a system for clearing the sidewalks. It's called De Buurman. But the system got in disarray a few decades ago.
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  4. In badly developed countries (and yes USA, falls in that category these days) public transport is often dirty, full of homeless people etc. When you have been harassed by a drunk guy in the bus a few times you might not want to use it anymore. Of course these problems are almost non existent in areas with good funding and less social problems . so the circle is: public transport not funded -> not reliable to use -> people with money don't use it. -> stigma of poor -> less funding -> repeat
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  5.  @PK-tt5kk  it's pretty understandable for poor countries to see more cars as a sign of success. We did the same, when we escaped poverty in the 1950s-1960s. I don't blame them. We can only hope they learn faster than we did, because they can see the mistakes that others made before them.
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  6. good observation.. Also I think the Swiss are actually richer per capita than the Americans.
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  7. video idea: Zwolle. Zwolle has both an old medieval city center and modern city planning like Stadshagen. I think Stadshagen could be a nice topic it seems to be designed with a lot of car restrictions in mind, yet still car friendly. And it's quite new with thousands of houses build in the last 10 years. it has 20,000 people and is a great example of the latest Dutch city design policies.
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  8. Yet americans are still richer on average, but they only want to be rich to be able to buy their own small kingdoms of luxury and comfort, in gated communities, the rest of the country can rot away for all they care. I never understood that mindset, those rich folks also have to get out in 'the wild' I would be ashamed if I saw how sloppy my country is
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  9. Basically, in the US, most of the old conservative GOP voters are a lost cause. We can only hope they will die out and their (grand)children will become more reasonable. And the political right needs to reinvent themselves and turn away from the Trumpism that drives them right into self-destruction
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  10.  @rangersmith4652  those with a car are still not free, they are prisoners of their 4 wheeled cell.. At least they have AC to make it a bit less uncomfortable.
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  11. I never realized how bad it was in the US because the kids in the Simpsons and South Park actually do bike around.... But those shows originated in the 90s
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  12. Actually Americans are thinking about the future with those high stack interchanges. New settlements can use those high ramps for safety after the nuclear apocalypse 😉
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  13. indeed. the USA was the world leader from the 1940s till the 1970s.. it;s gone downhill ever since. Unless you are among the top richest people, it;s a shitty place to live
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  14. Me, Dutch, really like the Spanish cities.. Despite the disadvantageous terrain (lots of rocks and hills usually) they really try to make their cities bike / e-bike friendly. and their public transport is pretty good as well. (note: I am only familiar with tourist destinations in Spain)
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  15.  @bodhid  it worked because everybody would clean their own bit because if they didn't the Neighbours would Gossip
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  16.  @minhuang8848  Switzerland has the best train system in the world (maybe shared for #1 with Japan) Both countries are mostly mountains....
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  17. I never see ads, I have adblock + sponsorblock , but I did see the cat, so the addon works perfect. I am very fanatical in avoiding ads of ANY kind, I really can't stands ads. No exceptions. If I want to support somebody I can become a patreon or sometimes donate something directly.
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  18. Some Cities in SPain are getting very good at this too. I am not sure if it's just the tourist places at the costa del sol, but when I was there a few months ago I saw a lot of room for bikes / electric scooters and pedestrians and a lot of techniques to repel cars. Also quite a lot of streets where cars were totally banned. They make it nice for the tourists who are often on foot on on rentals
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  19.  @notthatcreativewithnames  yes, but that is less of an issue in 1st world countries that got richer earlier. it was the same here in the 1950s-1960s Once you have a few generations where everybody (who wants one) owns a car, that effect goes away.
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  20. yes, in the winter my home work commute is 30 minutes by car, in the summer its 20 min. But in the summer I want to bike, in the wet winter, not so much... aaarch!
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  21.  @MajorMlgNoob  you car infrastructure is also poorly developed and has 30-40 years of maintenance neglect. it looks really shitty . sorry, truth hurts
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  22.  @MaximeKG  the problem of developing countries is that bicycles is associated with poverty , if you never had anything else for generations, and you make a little bit more money you really really REALLY want that car that you and your parents could only dream of before. This is a tragic thing of human psychology.. Note: people in the West think exactly the same, only they have been rich for a long time now, so they can use other material belongings to feel good about themselves.
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  23.  @mnm5165  to be fair most Dutch people also live in houses that have dozens if not hundreds exact copies in nearby streets, and yet our cities are portrayed as utopia. the strong points are the city centers, the infrastructure and all the services that are available for everybody with or without car, but not the common housing
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  24.  @rjdverbeek  touché
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  25. pick-up trucks
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  26. It's adventurous. Most adventures include some danger. But as a tourist it's ok , you only do it a very short period of time, if you live there, it's another thing.. the last time I was in the USA was in 2001, and even then I already noticed how shoddy and backwards the place was (California, so not exactly a poor area) I concluded that the US is only a livable place if you are at least a millionaire, so you can buy yourself out the crap
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  27. I gained 10 kgs in 2020 :( I could blame covid, but that's a lie. my job didn't change, I just ate more snacks. Working on walking it off now
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  28. NJB lives in the Netherlands, which has much better bike infrastructure, and not only in city centra but all across the country. So compared to that it's mwah. As for pubic transport, it;s the other way around.. The Netherlands has an ok public transport, better than many other places, (like Sydney) but the Swiss beats that, theirs is even better.
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  29.  @thomaspaine9420  by using more than just bikes.. the name of this channel explains it , and all these videos showcase it a lot better than I could do here in a random comment in a few minutes before I head off to work . and to be fair our Randstad 'metropole' isn't like London or Los Angeles , as said it's dozens of smaller cities grown together so that means it also has dozens of traditional city centers. People from Rotterdam won;t go shopping in The Hague usually because they have everything they need in their own part of 'the Randstad'
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  30. yeah, let's go on our bike to the grocery store in Iowa, after all it;s only 20 miles.... This would only work in a few areas in the US
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  31.  @XEinstein  that's why we live here, save up some money and then take a nice long holiday trip in the USA. That way even using the car (road trip!) can be an adventure instead of a nuisance. 20 years ago I saw my first stroad in San Diego and I wasn't depressed, I took pictures of it because it was so crazy!
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  32. In the land of the blind (NA) , One-Eye (Montreal) is king.
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  33.  @tony_5156  You will stay inside your chosen prison the rest of your life? I am not criticizing making a nice place for yourself, I am criticizing that they don;t care that the world is a craphole as soon as they drive out of their gate. I want to see nice things when I am outside my house too. Not just in my own living room or garden.
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  34. I live in Enschede, a 100K something town. In a neighbourhood without high flats, we have 5 of these trash bin points within 200m. 2 of them are within 75m .
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  35. we are only slightly better. Watersnoodramp -> Delta werken. Corona is another example, experts have warned for this for decades, yet we were very unprepared.
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  36.  @themartinandersson  I never worked there but my eyes were opened when I traveled their in my twenties for MTG tournaments (a strategic cardgame with a 'pro' competition) I remember being in San Diego and seeing all these old pensioners working as parking guards and lift boys... These people were 70+ sometimes close to 80. And not some illegal immigrants, just white americans that needed any little pay they could get to survive.... I also remember we laughed at this long boulevard with 30 fast food restaurants in a row... on each side!. If you were at a Mc Donalds sign you could actually spot the next yellow M on a bright day. And from the wealthy city center, within a few blocks you walked into a shady dirty area. However, the city center was quite walkable and had good public transport , I stayed there a week and with busses and the city tram I could go everywhere easily. And going to the beach in january was amazing. I think this was in 2001 or 2003
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  37. Meanwhile a bazillion Germans come shopping in Enschede every Saturday... (well before corona anyway) And it's not just for clothes and stuff, you hear a lot of German in our supermarkets too. Prices are not that far apart, except on alcohol.
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  38.  @thomaspaine9420  you are right, we have small cities , but we have an area called Randstad that is basically a 5-8 million city , it;s just a dozen of the smaller ones grown together with a little bit of greenery left in the middle . It's about the same size as the 9 counties of SF bay area
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  39. @ you didn't watch the video did you? If you did, try again and this time pay attention to the central theme of the video which is : YOUR car dependant life style IS THE ONE THAT DOES NOT pay for itself, but instead is subsidized by the city dwellers that pay more tax and don;t need all the rural car infrastructure that is needed for big box stores and 5 mile long fastfood stroads
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  40. As for land use, this is the Netherlands, you can 't just say 'hey we have a new station, let's re-develop the surrounding area. All the land is owned, and especially around Driebergen Zeist, owned by a lot of old money on old land with huge estates and institutions (the park you mentioned is part of that) there is no way that they would sell it it put some apartments or more office blocks on it 'because the transport infrastructure now is so nice' Some of the land might also be part of a nature reserve. In Kampen the situation is different. the land would obviously still be owned, but it's farm land / polder. with relative few parties involved. it's much easier there to make a destination plan, and put a whole area as future 'woonwijk' , buy out the few farmers and start planning and building.
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  41.  @KoenPrins  not in Amsterdam, unless you have a highly skilled job with appropriate high salary .
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  42. you can't not have a car in those suburbs, that is the whole american sub theme of this channel
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  43. In europe every country, even the poorer ones, moved to electronic payment with chip cards a decade ago. Almost nobody ever pays cash except tourists who haven't gotten the proper bus card yet. which can indeed sometimes be a hassle to get
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  44.  @-wessel7877  but we must be honest, that is only around the Randstad and a few other large cities. Most of the rest of the country has typical 30 minute schedules for bus and trains, turning to once an hour in rural places
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  45. In Enschede, it's a complete failure in low social class neighbourhoods. Turns out, the 'lower classes' can't be bothered to separate garbage or to use the containers properly, they just dump everything next to the nearest container, full or not. Of course not everybody is that 'aso' but enough are to make it a constant mess.
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  46. I see the same in many Spanish cities, like Malaga.
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  47. Sadly we are already overpopulated and you can only get here easily if you are rich / highly skilled tech worker
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  48. edit: above 1 million it's 2%, above 7M it's 1%+€70,000 and above 10M it's 0,5% +€120,000
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  49. I wouldn't call it meh... it has more water and tall buildings, it's quite nice, but from a totally different angle
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  50.  @tony_5156  and you plan to stay there the rest of your life? As a hermit?
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  51. nou nou, let's not overdrijf.. 4/5 foreign languages? No way! English and maybe a little bit of a 2nd one. Foreign language education is quite bad in the Netherlands
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  52. try Belgium....
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  53.  @beyondEV  NO, not yet, schoolvakantie starts in a few weeks
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  54. Ok, we have a lot of them, BUT can we shoot the person who invented the WIPKIP? Most useless 'play'equipment ever, nobody likes them.
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  55. you underestimate helicopter parenting.. that virus has also reached the netherlands.
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  56. @No Thanks yes, it's called Holland-America line (actually it goes from New York to Rotterdam, but that's almost the same as Amsterdam ) They don;t really have regular crossing lines anymore, but you can book a cruise
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  57.  @jeroen2535  I drove to the North in Germany last summer and I missed my exit (to Groningen) by 40km because it rained so hard I barely could see anything. (I was also distracted by the radio, but mostly just concentrating on safety) Only when I saw a sign Bremen 82km I knew something was wrong and I had to turn back
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  58. yeah I noticed that too lately, it used to be BMW douchebags, but Audis have certainly overtaken the top spot on the asshole list. I sometimes wish I had an old Volvo 940 or so I could just bang into them when they try one of their crazy maneuvers, but then I remember I live in a civilized country.
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  59.  @grassytramtracks  I disagree, British tea is very good, herbal tea isn't tea, it's urine colored water.. redbush extract is horrible. Ok, coffee is ok.
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  60.  @frempy4426  That is how youtube works these days (for years actually) content maker makes video, publishes it for select (paying) audience first and then a day or so later for the general audience. It's a good system as you can't make quality for free
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  61.  @UzumakiNaruto_  change comes from the people. from the bottom. lower and middle class people. They have to stop buying or renting shitty neighbourhood properties so the prices of those go down and the profits too. Of course this is almost impossible without alternatives. your best hope is that somewhere they start building good neighbourhoods, those get so popular and increase in value (while the others decrease) that more and constructors want to build those better ones. and it can snowball from there. At the same time the government must also improve the infrastructure around those good projects.
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  62. One thing you have to remember here is that here in the Netherlands we don;t see Amsterdam as the pinnacle of infrastructure. Not at all, in many ways it ranks low on our national scale. EVERYWHERE in the Netherlands we have equal or better roads and bicycle paths. The only things large cities like Amsterdam do better are trams and metros because those only make sense with a certain threshold of people using them . In Amsterdam you can go car free if you chose, in a small village in Groningen you need your car. But that small village will still have the high quality roads and bicycle lanes. And the people will still take their bike to the grocery store, They just also need a car more for other trips. So yes, our LCOL places do an excellent job on infrastructure.
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  63.  @hirsch4155  dysfunctional government over many decades.. (I mostly blame the Reps, but the Dems are only slightly less bad)
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  64. a few decades....
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  65.  @ToolkiT73UK  no way 10%, more like 1,5% or so. But that is still nice
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  66.  @anthropomorphicpeanut6160  My last visit to Spain was to the city of Malaga and I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the bike lanes. But I understand that it's a top tourist destination and not all of the country has facilities that good.
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  67. Here in Enschede we have underground containers and THEY ARE A BIG FAILURE!!!! They are not free, you need your garbage chipcard to open them (it costs €0,83 for each use) So what do less social people do? They just throw their bag on the street next to the container. This system is nice on paper (less garbage = lower cost) , but in reality its a big fuckup. I hope they revert this system asap. The ungreound containers are fine, but they have to be free to use and paid for with a fixed household fee. Too many people abuse the system
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  68.  @themartinandersson  my point still stands obviously if the US and EU are not exactly the same size... The point was that they are both in the same size category and that the US has produced Harvard, Yale and NASA at one side and 70 million Trumptards at the other side... Your rant is lost on me, luckily I am an EU citizen like you (and also from one of the wealthiest parts) Just don't make the mistake to think that the US is all bad, under all that crap they still have a lot of strengths left.
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  69. I second that. Zwolle has both an old medieval city center and modern city planning like Stadshagen. I think Stadshagen could be a nice topic it seems to be designed with a lot of car restrictions in mind, yet still car friendly. Heck I think this is such a good idea that I will post this suggestion as a direct comment as well.
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  70. you can make sturdy bags that won't crack open easily.. but I have no experience with them, here we went from glass bottles to carton tetra packs, like the good lord intended.....
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  71. No milk today, my love has gone away The bottle stands for lorn, a symbol of the dawn No milk today, it seems a common sight But people passing by, don't know the reason why
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  72.  @موسى_7  Islam is just Christianity 2.0 same bullshit story with a new cover. Wake up.
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  73.  @Toaster172  the netherlands used to have several weeks of ice and snow every winter, on average, up to the end of the 20th century. Of course nowhere near as much as canada or new england, but much colder than the current changed climate . And as the video explains, all major routes with more traffic are asphalt in the netherlands, they didn't abandon asphalt. in the local residential streets you don't need to shovel that much, the few cars that pass by can slowly drive on the snow to the main road which will be shoveled and de-iced with salt. (including all the bike lanes)
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  74.  @critical_always  you can have that on chromecast too, but it requires a bit of programming knowledge..
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  75.  @prazzlerazzle5565  being a small country helps too, it costs a lot of money to build all this infrastructure and one reason we can do it is because enough tax paying people live close together. It would be more difficult to pay for an area 5 times larger
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  76. Münster is very close to the Netherlands, in general the bike infrastructure in northwest Germany is good. I don't think that is a coincidence. We work together in many areas
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  77.  @onlyoneofhiskind  I think that must come from lack of cyclists.. if cyclists are relatively rare, pedestrians think they can afford to walk on cycle paths. In the Netherlands that behaviour is soon quelled , there are so many cyclist that will scold you and (almost) run you over if you walk on their road that you will see your error within minutes. I give them a good scare if they carelessly walk on my cycling lane
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  78.  @TheWampam  Students in Germany can afford cars, just a 20 year old VW Polo or something like that... But since Germany (and other euripean countries) have a so much better public transport system students here don't NEED cars . in the USA they don;t have an alternative... And can buy some beat up old chevy for the same money as that Polo
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  79. English tea is fine, 90% of that chinese stuff is undrinkable anyway....
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  80.  @VictoriaMeira7  they will do it if there are no other passengers that might object...
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  81.  @NLJeffEU  very small car lobby compared to the Germans obviously.. They are the most important car manufacturer in the world together with the Japanese
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  82. google (and other mapmakers) know which roads are being serviced., you can always check the day you have to drive somewhere. All these improvements take 10-30 years to implement in most cities, that's why there are so many large projects going on at all times
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  83.  @ChrispyNut  not a credit card, but a bus (or general transport) card with a NFC chip you just have to wave before a box.
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  84.  @edwardmiessner6502  in the Netherlands we have bike tunnels and tunnels with bike lanes... Havent you watched this channel before?
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  85.  @roberts1677  which is what most Dutch do anyway (biking or walking)
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  86.  @jamesdylan1522  sold yeah.... in a 'I have an offer you can't refuse' kind of way....
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  87. I think (and hope) that most of them are so ignorant and self centered that they don't even know this exist. (hope because if they know it means they are very evil people)
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  88. I'll provide your counter argument. The roads can't be upgraded because of your famous road cycling races. Vive le velo
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  89. no, because everybody would remove or hack those limiters. Unless you also keep thousands of traffic wardens that test all those mopeds all day every day
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  90.  @zilfondel  to be honest, that is what I expected, it being low population, large area, not on the east coast
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  91. high population density and flat area are huge advantages that we have here.
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  92. just go with the flow and install 'flitsmeister' As long as you don;t drive like a jerk, it's ok to be 10-20 above the speed limit, as you notice most of us do. It's not just being rebellious, in many situations it is just better imho. For the general flow and to overtake lorries.
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  93.  @richardmenz3257  €130 a month here, with something like €300 own risk a year (that means the first €300 you have to pay yourself , anything above the insurance pays)
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  94.  @TalesOfWar  I was talking about the US government, not the UK, but I understand from your rant it's not much better in good old England....
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  95.  @kenbob1071  But those cooking shows are right, gas is often better for cooking. (From a culinary point of view, I don;t know about energy conservation and economics)
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  96. But most students still just bike on the Hengelosestraat anyway. (or take any of the routes at the back) I think that F35 is more used by people who work in either Enschede or Hengelo and live in the other city
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  97. you are a brave man, Miguel
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  98. my score would be +20 for A and - 50 for C
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  99. yes and no. some keep cycling, but there is also a large group of summer cyclists that take the bus or car in winter times. let's not pretend we use the bike as much in january as in June . But hey! 8 months of cycling 4 months of driving is still better than 12 months of driving!
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  100.  @nqh4393  with Flitsmeister you can, just be reasonable and only speed in low traffic. we hate aso drivers
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  101. We just call them fietspad, even the bigger ones like you show here.
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  102. This looks a lot like a larger version of Utrecht's central station and surroundings
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  103. Yes there is, but they lowered it and partly replaced it with this 'pay what you use' system, which just doesn't work in low social class neighborhoods because people just throw their stuff on the street. (not saying the rich are any better, but they do other bad things)
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  104.  @themartinandersson  the USA is a big as Europe. That's why it's both a 3rd world country and the leader of the developed world with the best universities and high tech companies
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  105.  @kinmersha  and the best thing is, this is nationwide, everywhere. (although this showcased area is a bit above average, the basic principles in vehicle design and architecture are applied everywhere. It's common for 'bad neighbourhoods' to have top notch infrastructure , the local government tries to use this to lift up the 'bad hoods'
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  106.  @julieana4695  I have only respect for eastern europe. I know where you came from and how tough it is to catch up. Much has been done already. And it's easy to see how it could go all down the drain, we only have to look at Russia.....
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  107. what is a 'shoulder' in this context ?
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  108.  @stormveil  yes, in income they are still a bit richer than us. but as we have demonstrated in other comments, I think we are much richer in quality of life
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  109.  @chybagus  well said. 2000 years of european empires has stripped most of the natural resources, so we have less natural beauty left, but instead we have more cultural (man-made) beauty.
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  110.  @hwitte73  yes, that makes it even worse for them.
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  111. My grandmother used to live in Driebergen and I often used this station. it was ok back then already, but I had to walk to her house in Driebergen, which was also fine, as the environment is indeed quite nice. I could use a bus, but it was not very convenient, so usually I would just hike. No OV fiets back then
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  112. I love guys like you because I know, when the zombie apocalypse hits us, you are our only hope.
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  113. usa is a dystopia
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  114.  @NotJustBikes  please make a video with you and your kids talking in Dutch (just voices, no need for pictures, to protect privacy)
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  115.  @k.vn.k  6 minutes is fine, don;t be overdramatic. Also, Singapore has 6 times as many people as Amsterdam area
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  116. Guys we have a housing crisis here in the Netherlands. Also, a lot of refugees from wartorn places and places with no food would like to live here. Can you please just stay put and join a local version of Strong Towns in changing your own environment? Thank you.
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  117. I couldn't agree more and I live in this utopia called the Netherlands. But still I don;t do it. My lame excuse is that I got a good increase in income last year and now for the first time in my life I have a comfortable car with all the options that are standard these days (AC, CC etc) So I am still to much in love with that car, but hopefully once the honeymoon period is over I will cycle more again.
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  118. and maybe, next time you will have learned how to pronounce 'Rotterdam' :P
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  119. don't get your hopes up too much, cough Heracles - Ajax 0-0 cough cough
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  120. In Enschede we also have tons of those. It works great with one exception. sometimes a biker is slow to get going, so he doesn't make it to the halfway point before the group coming from his left reaches him, then chaos erupts. some try to cut before him, some brake, some try to go behind him. The slowpoke doesn;t know what to do, speed up? , brakes , blocking everybody even more.... But usually it goes fine.
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  121.  @evannibbe9375  that's just small details as far as I am concerned. Both religions are based on collective wishful thinking and delusion. When an apologist of either religion tries his best to explain why everybody but them is wrong I can't help but facepalm.....
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  122. Sorry, but this is nonsense, 95% of Amsterdam is perfectly safe for the elderly, only the tourist zone CS-Dam-Museumplein-Wallen is crazy. But by far most trips on bikes are just people commuting to school or work etc on safe bike paths and people in Amsterdam let their 7 year old use them.
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  123.  @lws7394  what is wrong with those Blauw Net trains in Twente? I actually prefer them over the NS ones ( disclaimer, I only use them for very short rides, not Enschede -Zwolle) But they are usually cleaner than the NS trains and have good seats.
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  124.  @lws7394  ah ok, I see where you come from. I guess since my trip on that train is always just 10 minutes most of the things you say don;t affect me because I don;t sit long enough to get annoyed by those flaws. I do hate the pointless beeps though, everytime the door opens or closes. And the seats are fine, for me. I guess it's a train designed for short trips, at rush hour it is swarmed by (MBO) students
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  125. Yeah, I am Dutch and >90% of our crossroads are ok, but even we can't upgrade the whole country at once, so there are a few problem areas still. It really sucks to be at one of those rare traffic lights in my city that is still having this double left situation.
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  126.  @DarkDutch007  ColindaPieman has a point though, many dutch cities now have major access roads that feel so safe because everything is separated that the 50km limit is totally ignored and everybody drives around 65km there and that goes well in general. I know these kind of roads in Zwolle, Hengelo, Enschede and Eindhoven, but I am sure they are everywhere. In rush hour and at flitspalen the 50km (or slower) is respected but otherwise the majority goes a bit faster than is allowed. It just doesn't feel ' right' to stay at 50 when you are in a single lane with generous green strokes on both sides (so no bicycles). However there are good reasons to limit it to 50, but it doesn't feel like 50.
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  127.  @night6724  yeah it's a nightmare here, better stay away.
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  128. It's not yet so far that I pick my holiday destination cities on the presence of tram lines, but I do recognize that I am always very happy if they are there, the first thing I do when I see it, is buying a 3 day or 7 day ticket (these days that is usually some phone app) , even before I make any plans, because I just know I will use them all the time
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  129. more reason for us to alternate car use with bikes and trams.
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  130.  @Lemmy_Kilturtle  also our houses are a lot smaller on average,
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  131.  @Cl0ckcl0ck  can you write that in german , bitte?
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  132. word of warning: (I live in a sociale huurwoning) In low income neighbourhoods, a lot of people act like aso's and just dump their shit next to the bins, underground or not. For 6 days a week it's a mess around the bins, only on collection day it's cleaned up somewhat, but even then little bits of waste might be left and the smell (stink) also stays on. I really liked the plastic bins people put out on the street more, at least in low social class neighbourhoods.
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  133. with the amount of Rally and F1 champions that's not a big surprise.
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  134. americans are batshit crazy
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  135. You can walk fine in USA cities, I do it all the time. It helps when you fire your Uzi around a bit. Wait, who am I kidding, I usually only run around until I find a nice car to hijack. And now I think about it, you have to climb over obstacles quite a lot. You'd be amazed by the amount of flamethrowers people store in their backyard.....
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  136.  @divat10  that's not school, that's daycare
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  137.  @critical_always  sponsorblock is your friend. get it. now!
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  138. americans are brainwashed miserables, slaves of the 1% who use their tax cuts to buy politicians
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  139. Let's not exaggerate. Small towns have nice stuff, but nowhere near as fancy as here. the most important difference would be the low frequency of transport services. Instead of a train or bus every 10 minutes they will only have one or two per hour.
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  140. nah, most have relatives in Canada
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  141. I am always happy when I see a German car on our roads because I know they are probably a good driver that respects the rules (I am sorry that it's not always the same the other way, Dutch drivers on German roads) One they they will learn to go back to the right lane
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  142. almost everybody has 1 or more cars there, it's not 'a few'
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  143. I would take the NY to Toronto train, but only once, as a tourist experience. If I had to make to trip regularly living in either city, I would for sure take a plane
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  144.  @kaasmeester5903  sometimes they do get caught for speeding , and then the police find €85.000 in cash in the glove box... :D
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  145. say hi to Hubnut if you meet him
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  146. the US reached it;s peak around the Appollo program days... it's kind of stagnant ever since, they really are decades behind modern europe and asian cities in many areas
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  147.  @Azravald  I agree. But I just mentioned that the US are way behind in many ways, especially on infrastructure. which is also still true. I couldn't believe my eyes when I last visited California (5th economy in the world if it was a country) on how shabby everything looked. Stop fighting (2 party war) and get your act together! We know you can do better! We like you|!
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  148. @Galloping Goose if public transport was any good and more people would use it, they would also learn how to use it..
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  149.  @PerfectlyFunctioningAI  you are right. the US is a big 3rd world country, but it also has an advanced 1st world country inside. That part is Harvard, NASA, Silicon Valley etc etc the 2 parts don;t mix really well, the rich live in the elite part (often in gated communities) and the plebs in the 3rd world part.
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  150.  @chriswilliams6568  yes, that is precisely what I said in my comment....
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  151.  @PerfectlyFunctioningAI  I am in NJB country, we have corrupt elites as well, but on a smaller scale and I am happy with my ordinary life. I am thankful for Uncle Sam's army , they protected me too for all my life.
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  152.  @Pteromandias  yeah, I noticed how crappy California looks, despite it being one of the richest States. I like to watch the car show of mr Leno, a very wealthy man, but he has to drive on the same crappy roads around his property with his nice collection of classic cars.
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  153.  @LeafHuntress  I am Dutch
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  154.  @gamingsociety3684  most large youtuber channels have early access to video's for patreons (viewers who sponsor the channel with a few euros a month or so)
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  155.  @TheSimArchitect  You can have a car for less than €100 a month here in the netherlands, I had one while being on welfare (A suzuki Alto) I think it costed me 60 a month (this was some years ago though, so I up I to 100. I now have a job and a better car, yet still relatively cheap. A small Peugeot. But it's good enough for me, it has the basics, AC and CC)
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  156. Maybe a change of footwear would help? I never find it problematic to walk in any conditions in good boots or shoes with grippy soles
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  157. I think the Mercs are more a car for wealthy responsible people now and not for hotheads. Sure Mercedes has a dominant F1 team and the largest racing legacy in history besides Ferrari but I think they concentrate more on comfort than performance.
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  158. adblock is your friend
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  159.  @hendrikdependrik1891  If I was 20 years younger I would go there with a bag full of paint bombs (balloons filled with paint) and bombard those assholes
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  160. roundabouts are good in low density traffic, but there is a threshold where lights are needed and then smart lights are the best.
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  161.  @wclark3196  why would you buy 4L containers for milk in the first place? here we have 0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2 liter varieties only. And most people buy the 1L variant
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  162.  @maarten_zappos9189  slow down even more and block the way for any car that is being pushy.
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  163.  @vaska00762  we don;t have 25/kmh speed limits here for ebikes, many go faster than 30. And we have a seperate class of e-bikes that are designed for 45/kmh , it's those that the speed limits are targeting. (You also need to wear helmets on those)
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  164. I imagine Japan would also be good at this.
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  165. I just installed adblock in 2006 and since then have never seen an ad on youtube (except on my phone, but I hardly ever use my phone for watching youtube, for this reason)
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  166.  @cosettapessa6417  yes, Orange is heavy traffic and Red is closed road
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