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As a former smoker, I think this is a good idea.

Smoking costs the public enormous costs in terms of healthcare.

Like hundreds of thousands of extra per liftime. That the NHS has to pay.

Here’s a study from 1990, add inflation and such https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199710093371506

Yep. Bluesky just got over 500k new users.

I have. And yes they are both pushed by operations carried by putin’s internet research agency.

The main thing they have in common is they are both funded and supported by putin and his troll farms.

Definitely not the case where I lived (rural Niigata prefecture), but I was friends with people who were definitely poor.

we do. But still everything is built for cars and train is a second thought. We have great infrastructure, because in the past this was different. But currently, we’re barely investing in the train system, the infrastructure is starting to bottleneck (the Geneva - Lausanne axis is a disaster already), whilst we are adding more and more highway lanes. The far right party has had control over the transport ministry for a while now, and it is showing.

In the popular perception sure. Having lived in Japan, reality is far different. Anywhere outside of cities has no sidewalk, in places where there would be some in europe. Train stations that are rural have no bus connections at all (having grown up in switzerland, this was hard to get used to). Cars are seen very highly, to the point where they have priority over everything else in planning.

And for tourists, sure the shinkanzen is cheap, because the tourism tickets are affordable, but the average person can barley afford it. And most use planes to get around where could be covered by shinkanzen.

Japan is similar to France, excellent tranit in between cities (fast trains; but expensive), cities have a robust network. But the rest of the country is unlivable without a car.

Switzerland is very car centric too, and we’re less good at high speed trains and comprehensive urban transit. But man, the rural trains + buses means you can get literally anywhere without a car. Japan doesn’t have that at all, despite being extremely dense like switzerland.

Both germany and japan have really strong car culture and fucked up rural infrastructure . The cities having nice public transit ≠ the country.

Teslas range from 40k - 120k +

You can get a cheap EV for 25k ish that works nearly as well. Or get a midrange EV like a Hyundai Kona for 40k ish.

And yes being able to afford a tesla is rich. The average income for an american is 40k ish per year, the same price as the cheapest tesla.

It is though. You’re directly contributing in an enormous manner to his wealth, which he is donating left and right to the Trump campaign and more bullshit. If you’re rich enough to buy a tesla, you can find an electric car from another company that works too.

Ditto

cats live far longer and healthier on average when kept inside. Even most vets (atleast in europe) recommend it.

Also, please keep lemmy civil.