When I go to a new city, I find a landmark than take the train/bus/subway towards it but not to it. I get off ~ 3-5 miles away from it, then I try to find on my own navigating the streets in the general direction of it. Yes, it takes a an hour or two to get there, but I get to see things at random which otherwise I would miss.

I have seen people with phones in their hands asking for directions and not knowing how to tell Google Maps where they want to go.

One of the things done at an improv show is called "story in 4".

To do a four-person improv story with random changes, have one player start a scene. Ring a bell or shout "Change!" at random times. When that happens, the last speaker must change their last line, or a new person must jump in to shift the plot, setting, or character traits completely.

It is super fun on stage and very useful in meeting rooms where you might need to pivot quickly.

> We have had generations of terror threats to and attacks on our railway system, trains, railway stations. (And the most long-term and persistent of those threats was Irish republican terrorism bankrolled by Americans, for that matter)

Did it ever cross Britain's mind that the whole IRA debacle is of its own doing? Can't you just leave Ireland for good and let them be?

In the UK if you keep your mouth shut during an investigation, it may harm your defense. There is zero right against self-incrimination. It is also the place where you can be jailed for not providing the PIN to your phone. I could go on.

On the other hand, I never had disk issues because of randon files inside the user directory, nor do I install/uninstall programs that often. And this I would venture to say is the same for most of computer users: Office, IDE(s), a browser or two and some utilities.

I have for example Goland, Postman, Chrome, Firefox and Wireshark. And some homebrew stuff like ngrok & friends. I spend most of the time in Chrome doing emails and using Confluence/Jira, Google Meet.

Same for uninstalling. Move to Trash and poof, unistalled.

There is no standard way to install stuff, so neither MacOS nor Windows deviates from something. For all the bickering about it here in the comments, no one proposed an “ideal” solution to install a program on Mac.

Because taking a bus there is much more inconvenient compared to driving. And not all people take a shower, someone undesirable sits next to you and so on.

The thing is that different countries have different cultures. I live in a country where big cities have public transport and relatively narrow roads. I wish we had bigger roads where everyone drove its own car. I can do whatever I want in my car as opposed to sitting in a crowded bus.

It is going to suck in winter and rainy weather though.

Now thinking of this, you can have landing/takeoff areas and then you taxi on the ground as not to disturb fellow shoppers loading groceries.

- what are the dimensions of a flying car? Double than a car? Triple?

- are they autonomous or need to be flown manually?

Looking at current drone designs, you could get away with a flying car the size of large SUV. If they are autonomous, then you don't have to worry much: Car, take me to Costco.

Amsterdam is very dense because historic reasons. Streets are narrow and houses are the same.

Los Angeles on the other hand was built on virtually unlimited land and could expand a lot. I could say LA County is bigger than the whole of the Netherlands.

Both have their charm, but LA is so much better than Amsterdam.

Yeah, the 405 might suck, but at least the weather is better.

If by flying cars you mean flying robotaxies, then all you need are landing pads. They can be easily accomodated on top of buildings. And regulation for what? We already know how to fky helicopters by autopilot, no need for innovation stiffling with more regulation.

You can build stacked roads a few levels up. Capacity doubles or triples without any significant land use.