I have no idea what normal people do, but I avoid ads at all costs. Sometimes I pay premium, sometimes I just don’t watch.

Yeah, that’s probably true of most of them. I haven’t really looked at mine.

In their defense you would think just being against fascism might be enough. Turns out it isn’t.

Why do you keep talking about the US in response to me. I’m not arguing that. But saying that an apple is bad doesn’t make an orange good.

That’s an analogy. Oranges are awesome.

I never said ANYTHING about the US in my post. I’m merely pointing out that Singapore may not be the best example to use as a counterpoint.

Singapore? You ever been there? There’s a saying, "Singapore is a fine city, you get fined for this, you get fined for that. "

They have a 6 day work week.

When I was there a guy made a mistake and left the back of the dump truck up and drove into a bridge causing some damage and traffic jam. They put his face on the cover of the newspaper with a title that said, “This man backed up traffic for hours!”

My mother had a friend there. Her camera was stolen so she went to the police. They kept her there for hours until she admitted she lost her camera, so it would look like there was less crime there.

Efficient? Maybe. But no thanks.

And didn’t France just outlaw women wearing hijabs to the beach?

My dryer is on the right, but the direction the door swings makes it better that way. If it were on the left I would have trouble moving the wet clothes from the washer to the dryer without hitting the door all the time.

I think most elections would have been as if a Kamala Harris ran against another Kamala Harris. In other words, two normal politicians so that the result wasn’t perceived as much of a difference who one. Also, in the past if a politician said things like, “you won’t have to vote again” or called the opponent names, he would have been shredded in the media and probably lost the election due to scandal. I mean a felon has never run for president before. Trump just somehow has different rules.

Pretty sure Trump said we wouldn’t have to worry about voting anymore. It would all be taken care of.

To be honest, I do the same thing. I would vote for a dead person to avoid Trump’s shortcomings.

It’s funny because what you describe is way BETTER than I would have expected. LOL.

Absolutely, but there are a few problems with this. First, I live in the US. Americans do NOT know how to negotiate a roundabout. There is a roundabout near my house. The instructions of how to use it are posted on signs as you approach. They are wrong. They actually have inside lanes exiting across the outside lanes that can continue around. So not only is it wrong but it’s teaching the locals here what NOT to do at a normal roundabout.

Second, they don’t fit at existing intersections.

Third, I think they would be more expensive than just a piece of tech attached to traffic lights that already exist.

I mean the best solution would be some good public transportation, but I’m trying to be more realistic here. That’s for more civilized nations. In the US the car rules. And the bigger, the better.

Timing traffic lights. They could look down the road and see when nothing is coming, to let the other direction go, like a traffic cop. It would save time and gas.

Any question like this can always be answered by asking yourself, who would profit from this?

Not sure that’s the kind of technology purchase to which the OP was referring. I thought you were going to say you purchased some kind of high tech sink and was excited to hear what it did to improve your life. I mean, I can see the point but…

LOL. That was an assumption on my part. Eat at your own risk, huh?

Was so excited to answer this only to find the top post hit virtually every one of my suggestions.

But there is one more. This year I plan to revisit an old classic:

The Lost Boys.

We used to. They were called Vendo-mats. They had sandwiches and cakes and all kinds of things. They weren’t exactly vending machines in the sense that things would fall down. The food was behind a little door you’d open after paying. I’m too young to remember what the stuff tasted like, but it seemed pretty good because the food would always have to be put in the machines fresh every day.

People in North Korea have golf clubs?

Thank you very much kind sir or madame or whatever you identify as. Very helpful.