>And where do they get a lot of their oil from again?
Implying that America gets the majority of its oil from Russia is yet another blatant urbanist lie. It was only 6.6% in February 2022.
Of the 7.86 million barrels per day the U.S. imported in 2020, the majority came from its North American neighbors: Canada, with 4.13 million barrels (52.5%), and Mexico, with 750,000 (9.6%). But imports coming from outside North America are significant. Russia, with 540,000 barrels a day (6.6%), was the top non-continental contributor. Roughly 11% of the imports came collectively from OPEC countries, including 520,000 from Saudi Arabia.
source (
a)
And then one month later,
exactly 0%, because Biden banned all imports. (
a) Edit: The amount is not 0% since Russia is just indirectly importing it by selling it to other countries, but it's completely negligible.
>How are we just ok with tens of thousands of preventable deaths in America every year?
The deaths are easily preventable by the road users involved. These people would "fix" the 40,000 deaths to suicide every year by removing all possible methods for one to kill themselves, instead of getting people to not have the
urge to kill themselves.
>At the very least we need actual enforcement of driving laws (problematic because cops tend to be biased, maybe we need AI to do their job?)
And by starting from the premise that police are "biased" you have utterly failed at getting anywhere close to actual enforcement of driving laws.
Also, AI won't help. Not just because it's shit, but also anything that actually enforces laws, such as an unbiased AI, would inevitably and quickly be derided as "racist" no matter what because black people disproportionately commit crime.
Well, Jason did the whole "ACKSHUALLY this is better for drivers because..." thing as well.
I don't know why he expects drivers to trust him when he routinely derides them and calls them entitled, especially in his own country.
But yes, he made a video on how the Netherlands is supposedly the best country in the world for drivers, because the roads are uncongested. Ignoring the claim of uncongested roads, he claims that it's because people are taken off the roads by being provided alternatives to driving. Or it could be that
the cost to get a driver's license is around €3,000, (
a) which he never mentions.
This high cost is the result of several fees, including (
from expatica.com,
archive) €44.65 for an application, €41 for a statement of health, €41 for a theory test (in
Dutch, and an English test costs more), and €125.75 for a practical driving test, plus a huge amount for driving lessons.
Expatica links to nn.nl (
a) which says that the average cost for a license in 2021 was €2,766.14.
So I would be surprised if the roads are still congested if people need to pay 3,000 euros to drive on them!
Oh wait, they are. (
sneed) (
onion)
OP's description of what they're doing:
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It looks like some asshole cyclists trying to pull some shit unsanctioned shit after dark and then pass it off as a legitimate event.
Why do people need to "cork" (block) traffic to wait for the slower people? Can't they just wait for them without doing that?
No, incitement of hatred is only a crime if it's done against a "protected" (privileged) class, such as blacks and LGBT alphabet people. Cyclists are not (yet) a privileged class in this law, mostly because it's widely agreed you can choose to not be a cyclist.
