To add all the other good comments here…

As a recording artist, it’s nearly impossible to stand out unless you have a marketing machine behind you. That means a record label that can promote your work, get your songs placed on radio stations and streaming platforms, and (in the old days) manufacture and sell physical media through many different retailers.

As a touring performer, you also need a large crew of people working for you: booking venues, marketing your shows, ticketing, managing the logistics of set-up/tear-down/transportation, operating lights and sound during the show, etc.

In both of these scenarios, the musician is only one small cog in a large machine. And there are enough good musicians in the world that they are treated as largely interchangeable.

Are you going to tell us the screenname?

I’ll bet the lane is there purely to satisfy some requirement for including non-car infrastructure, regardless of whether it makes sense in this particular location. It’s the same way we get fun bike lanes like these:

!noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works is leaking

lemme.ee is shutting down at the end of this month.

The admin team is understaffed and suffering from burnout.

You still have a few days to gracefully transition your account to another Lemmy instance.

brrrt!
ping!
ka-chunk
“Ow, my thumb!”

brrt!
ping! …

“To The Department of Energy: DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!! And I mean NOW!!!” he added on Truth Social.

Fun fact #1: The department of energy does not control oil drilling. Sorry Donald, they can’t unilaterally make it happen.

Fun fact #2: Not all oil is equal. Refineries are designed to process certain grades of oil into specific products, and different parts of the world have different grades. Refineries also often blend oils from different parts of the world to get the characteristics they need for their process.

Fun fact #3: Moving domestic petroleum products between the west coast and the test of the US is an expensive pain in the ass. There is a distinct lack of pipelines, so you need to ship it through the Panama canal. But shipping is expensive thanks to the Jones Act. So California, Oregon, and Washington would get particularly screwed in a domestic-only oil market.

“Drill, baby, drill!” has always been an immensely stupid rallying cry, even if you don’t care about the environment.

She might be dead

She’s about to break an ankle running in those heels.

Panic bells, it’s red alert!
There’s something here from somewhere else!
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
When ninety-nine red balloons go by

Nina and Goldfinger did good English versions, but we really need a weird alt-metal cover of this song. I’m thinking System of a Down would be perfect.

Also, I never realized how different the German and English lyrics are.

often a really good option from a functional POV

This right here. Electronic devices are full of plastics because they are often the best, or only, way to make those devices function and remain safe. You’re not going to make a car that meets any modern crash safety standard without plastic materials. Your not going to replace medical tubing with paper or cloth. Etc., etc.

The world can certainly use less plastic, and should use less. But eliminating it completely will require either (a) developing some novel new replacement material, or (b) giving up a lot of useful things humans have developed in the past century.

The Baz Luhrmann movie is definitely worth a rewatch.

Texans will appreciate that you refer to them as Texans rather then American.

And the Ukrainians don’t need no stinking takeoff ramp. 💪💪💪

You try to be a decent neighbor to the Belgians and what does it get you? Invaded by the Germans, that’s what.

“We cannot lend money to each other because of the church’s usury rules. But it’s useful for business, so we need you to run the banks.”

Later…

“Noooo, why does seem like you have all the money???!!1”

Hail to thou, Sol Invictus,
Unconquered, unmatched, and undivided

Poor CGP Grey went down the Tiffany rabbit hole, and made a second video just to vent about the hellish research process he went through.

It depends on your plumbing. If your sink’s waste pipe is large enough, and has enough slope, and you put enough water down the drain to wash all the solids through the pipe, then you can certainly put food down the sink drain.

I think that goes to my point about simple comparisons being difficult. Norway has a high GDP relative to its size, so 4% might be more than enough for their situation. You also have to account for things like the labor cost of teachers, which varies by country.