It doesn't need to be a Fox news black and white argument about personal freedoms. Impose safety regulations that accounts for the people outside the vehicle, and the overall safety of the streets. You don't need to wipe out current SUVs and trucks overnight.
If they took away gas guzzling V8 engines, they can take away unwieldy oversized light pickups and SUVs.
The Korean approach does not account for preconception well at all. It counts the number of calendar years a person has been present for postpartum.
A person's Korean age starts at 1 sal, and increments at New Years. A baby could be born on December and be 2 sal by January. A baby born in January would be 1 sal until next year, and be considered 1 sal younger than the December baby, even though they were only born 1 month apart. Everyone born in the same calendar year is in the same age cohort.
I used to play in bands and go to a lot of concerts without earplugs (mistakes of youth). I’ve had tinnitus for almost 20 years, and I am so used to it now that it’s a non issue. That said, it drove me crazy in the beginning.
I used to play in bands and go to concerts without earplugs too, and one of my favorite pastimes is listening to music on loud volumes. Yet I've never developed tinnitus.
I guess I'm just lucky, or my hearing is just so sensitive that what I consider "loud" is actually fairly quiet. I know that I've had problems actually hearing sounds in band practice without using earplugs - I'd just hear a bunch of noise, and often lose the beat because of the inability to hear other musicians clearly.
30+ years of midwest raves did me in. One sound system had 1MW bass bins - have been to some with ~40ft x ~15ft of bass bins. Only one ruptured ear drum in all of that time (Regis - didn't even seem that loud) - that's the ear that is the worst. Doesn't bother me, other than anxiety about potential neurological effects.
Wait 30+ years of raves? In my mind’s eye you’re now a mulleted 45 yo Java dev at MedLab International creeping out the twenty something hotties, offering them glow sticks and Molly and telling them how you went to see Chemical Brothers before it was hip.
Doesn't it actually help with inflationary spending? The Fed making a play at depressing wages and increasing unemployment is what's keeping inflation in check.
God knows the rich won't ever pay their fair share.
> Somehow in the UK, someone needs to accept that they're worse off and stop trying to maintain their real spending power [...]
You're both totally right that giving people enough money to live might increase the inflation. But that's not an option people are (rightly so) going to be happy with. "Just be miserable" is not a plan.
In addition there also is no skin in the game here, over-hiring or other blunders on core leadership competencies don't matter at all as long as "shareholder value" isn't negatively affected in the short term.
I'm not for crushing the American people to curb inflation either, but that's the play J Pow is making. From an economics perspective, it does help the construction worker if higher wage earners spend less money.
I've been one of the people hurt most by this, and I'm not happy about it either. Software Developers doing mental gymnastics to align themselves with the investor elite instead of their fellow working class Americans is some shit.
Automakers are pushing SUVs and pickups to the American market because it makes them more money and it's easier to meet emissions standards. Cars cost less to buy and maintain, have stricter emissions standards, and don't create an arms race for a getting a bigger and higher seating vehicle, so you can actually see and feel safe when driving around inattentive drivers in giant unwieldy SUVs.
You can't change what people want without fixing safety regulations to account for the people outside the vehicle, instead calling it a day after 45mph crash tests.
Changing the polices that led to the SUV/pickup arms race just so automakers and dealerships can sell vehicles for higher profit margins is not dystopian/fascist. Pedestrians deaths are going up, smaller lower seating vehicles are becoming unsafe, and the climate crisis keep getting worse.
In stark contrast to Milan. Koreans were steadily around 5'3"/4'10" in the Joseon era, 15th to 19th century, then grew 6 inches in the past century. Improved childhood nutrition might not lead to a taller population, but poor childhood nutrition definitely leads to shorter adult height.
If they took away gas guzzling V8 engines, they can take away unwieldy oversized light pickups and SUVs.