The problem with these structures is usually small marine life - they tend to need frequent maintenance to remove barnacles and whatnot.

Having your smooth walls and turbines lined with barnacles tends to impact performance significantly.

I’m familiar with CAFE standards but US politicians don’t seem to have much intent on changing them.

And it is not economically unviable, it is just not as profitable because every other country produces and sells properly sized cars with a profit (except maybe Australia).

I find the additional weight argument pretty lame considering SUVs and just general size increases have been adding huge amount of weight to cars and noone batted an eye.

Just 30 years ago, the most common cars in Europe, hatchbacks, weighted about 1 ton. Now, the vast majority is SUVs that weigh 1.5-2.5tons, none have lithium batteries.

I have seen several

Oh yeah, like those 500 people that were killed in a hospital parking lot bombing by the IDF, according to hamas but turned out it was a hamas rocket dud and like 5 people died?

Oh so reliable…

Weren’t there some Charlie Hebdo happenings regarding some drawings… Can’t seem to understand why would they have something against some particular group

Hey, don’t bad mouth salt seasoning! Portugal uses plenty of it (due to using salt preservation in the old days) and i think their food is pretty damn good!

I don’t think you can… In majorly Christian and atheist nations in Europe, there isn’t much prejudice against women and people from the LGBT group, unlike in the middle East.

I’m no fan of any religion but some have clearly stopped in the middle ages.

If the religion itself is discriminatory towards the tolerant, why should we be tolerant of them?

Simple really - stop importing people from countries incompatible with western culture, like most muslim countries.

Most of the discourse is around anti Islamic immigration so the people might be somewhat discontent with that…