Chris Wiegman @chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com

So I'm back from the UK and now using a whole heckton of petrol whenever I drive my American car around and it sucks mightily.

Here's a pic from my UK hire car's dashboard after a mix of motorways and winding country roads. It was a fairly big car so didn't have as good mileage as the one I hired last time I was home, but 60mpg is still a pipe dream in the US.

This was a straight-up petrol engine. Not a hybrid. Fast as heck.

This is why I say American petrol prices STILL aren't high enough.

American cars have such crap mileage because American petrol has cost just north of nothing basically forever. They've never had to design a decent engine, or build roads with roundabouts instead of making everyone accelerate from a stop every two minutes. Nearly-free petrol sounds great until you realise that you end up spending the same money because the cars and roads are so crappy you end up using two or three times as much.

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Does anyone have recommendations for places to visit / activities around Zurich, Lugano, the Dolomites, and Innsbruck? I'm planning a trip with the family this summer.

Just woke up from a nightmare. In it, I built a website with a newsletter popup. Gotta take a shower now and cleanse myself of that filth

UK plan to scrap cookie consent boxes will make it ‘easier to spy’ on web users

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/17/uk-plan-to-scrap-cookie-consent-boxes-will-make-it-easier-to-spy-on-web-users

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