Ahh yeah I have mine separated into machine and other screws. At least mostly separated.

Context:

In cologne Germany there is a huge carnival culture, historically carnival is sorta anti establishment, but for a variety of reasons in post ww2 cologne carnival is the establishment. So the Karnevalsvereine have shows/plena called Karnevals_Sitzung. Because these events had lost their anti establishment air, at some point a reaction formed called the Stunk_Sitzung (roughly grievance session as opposed to carnival sessions) which re focused on anti establishment satire, both satirizing main stream carnival and broad local to global politics. This event then became the de facto cultural institution in terms of carnival satirical stage show running several shows weekly throughout the entire season (Nov-Feb/March).

Story:

Getting tickets for this show for a weekend close to the end of the carnival season (the season ends with the main parades and festivities)requires ordering tickets in person on the day the tickets go on sale, with the ticket offices opening 9am lining up at 10pm isn’t uncommon, and I have been part of such a line. Although it is also common for the spot in line to be transferable, so I did a shift roughly midnight to 5am at which point I went home to bed and someone else did the last 4h shift and bought tickets.

For the screws apparently what happens if you do it long enough is that you aquire a sifting pan for well sifting through your screws.

The ‘Screamer’ remake of this year definitely has story and progression. I haven’t played it myself but I’ve watched quite a bit of playthrough and for racing games the narrative was downright impressive.

The driving is apparently some kind of twin stick drift thing which seems interesting but yeah I can’t say much about that.

Presentation is very modern gatcha-esque, so some impressive cg plus 2d animation, and a lot of character sprite plus textbox vn style dialogue, fully voiced but with subtitles as default as the characters are voiced in their in universe language. So unless you are a real polyglot you’ll be reading.

There is main and side story’s, several teams with 3 characters each, seemingly real world building, writing that is especially for racing games quite bold and competent, lots of narrative conflicts, with characters having interna. Depending on how you feel it might be a tad edgy or anime for you, but from what I’ve seen it’s not particularly egregious, no high school stuff, only somewhat exaggerated characters, no edge without some story basis…

So it’s definitely big budget, but it seems to not have really gathered that much attention.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2814990/Screamer/

Unsorted screws half broken bike parts and wooden boards of various sizes.

It’s not your or any others singular car forcing anyone to drive. It’s the expectation that an adult person can drive and needs to use a car that forces or at least pushes everything towards driving.

If the design and soundscape of almost any space weren’t impacted negatively by cars I wouldn’t think they’d be forcing anything onto me. But that is reality even in nominally not car dependent inner city Germany. So that’s why I hate cars.

Rolled down 80km of Italian alps today on the Alpe-Adria cycling route. Probably the nicest part of the route. Between Villach and Carnia including some 50+ km of the most beautiful rail to trail I’ve been on. With good weather as well. Honestly amazing day.

Riding road bikes in a group at a faster than I’d move alone speed. It’s a ton of fun even if my entire body is sore the next day.

Only like 3 long weekend rides in the last month and my body already feels significantly stronger than at the start of the season. Specifically I got dropped on the hills 3 weeks ago, now I can mostly keep up.

Slay the Spire without doubt 2.5k on steam plus some switch and mobile.

If you group the Trackmania games those do come close, and maybe Minecraft but I have barely touched that game in the last decade and no way to check hours from back then.

The problem is it’d all work better, be cheaper, more livable … if more of that infrastructure we pay for would not be car infrastructure but almost anything else.

Or coming at it from the other side, just because a lot of the transportation upstream from my consumption is car infrastructure does not make it resonable to allocate the lions share of infrastructure spending on it, especially because everywhere any alternative exists to road infrastructure it’ll be more physically efficient by default.

Arguing for car use for transportation much like continuing to argue for oil gas and coal electricity generation is shortsighted and ignores the problems with car infrastructure, and the viability of alternatives, just because car infrastructure is how transportation currently is conceived of in much of the world.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BdIpfwO1lVU&pp=ygUPdGV0byBhbnRpZmFjaXN0

Kuchengabel

They do this for festivals and construction sites and such in conjunction with the typically fossils generators nowadays. Not everywhere but it definitely exists. Exactly like described: Shipping container, batteries and inverter inside, 4 legs, and 2 Shipping container long solar arrays mounted to a frame. Set the container down anchor the legs put the panel frames up connect some wires and your ready to go.

I’m pretty sure you could just buy that too if you wanted a head start on your off grid cabin.

Not in the spirit of the question answer: Land Base impulses on an Easter weekend: sweet dill mustard gravlachs and bread Real answer: Bicycles as many different ones as possible

Sorting millions of things by some visible (to cameras) feature completely automatically, especially if the cost of a miss is low.

Either the robbery is severe enough for the person who was robbed to assemble a little group to catch the robber or they just let it slide. If we know some info about the robber we could let any institutions in the surrounding area know that this person is to be exiled or at least that his missteps be brought up before he is again considered to be part of polite society.

Local neighbourhood watch /militias could also exist and take over some of the polices current work especially when it comes to groups of potentially violent perpetrators.

None of this is going to be particularly effective but it’s not like currently a robbery, or most other crimes are likely to be effectively prosecuted either so I don’t see the big issue.

There are more watertight arguments made by anarchists, syndicalists and the like that you could read and agree or disagree with. But at the end of the day there is little ability for either of us to demonstrate, to me that the police can be fixed with any proposed method, and to you that society without police would work/ be more fair. So ultimately we are not gonna get much further here.

Cops are a few hundert years old concept why would they be necessary now when most places they barely existed pre ww1.

Your second paragraph is just as pie in the sky as abolishing, specifically because as with every position entailing power over others, authoritarians will flock to it.

The police was created so that wealth and power can effectively use part of the state for physical protection of their assets and lives, and that is still their operating background, the management of the local meat packing factory or the amazon warehouse will have much greater access to police resources than you or your plumber, by design, the law is imperfect and cops are not doing their job, more or less on purpose. And this status quo will not change unless at least some part of this system is entirely redone.

If the greater context in which the police exists, makes normal people scared of consequences, and powerful people immune to consequences enacted by police, why should any normal person argue for their existence.

Certainly this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ke82vnl8_L0