“Also, um, I’m not going to buy an EV until I have a renewable power source to charge it with.”

So many “Yea but” people commenting here. Instead of using grey matter to find small ways in which they’re oil hungry satanists, why don’t we just appreciate their effort, congratulate their results and look for ways we could integrate some of their ideas into our own crossover. It’s coming...whether we want it to or…

Exactly. You always get this comment when a country that isn’t the US succeeds at something. In most cases, it’s utterly irrelevant.

That’s what the fifth paragraph was all about. Also, what does population size have to do with it other than there probably would be enough supply for the US to do it yet? Getting 84% of a population to buy EVs is an impressive feat whether it’s 6 million or 350 million people.

You’re damn right that Norway should be proud of their fjords, Slartibartfast won an award for them!

Christ, finally, thank you. This is the issue. If you’re a shipbuilder and you’re down river from a bridge that has X clearance, don’t agree to build a ship that’s X + 5oft tall. Bezos had nothing to do with this.

he’s paying for it to be taken apart and put back together

Here’s a better idea. Leave the bridge alone - temporarily deconstruct the boat, get it past, then reassemble.

Simple really.  He can certainly pay for it and everyone leaves happy. 

I have zero issues with conspicuous consumption. That yacht builder likely used hundreds of workers for years, plus all the suppliers for vessel parts, all hiring people and creating commerce for the region. I’d have a bigger issue if he just built a big freakin vault under his house and filled it with billions of…

Bruh... you will famously NEVER not argue with ANY reply to you, even when they agree.

It’s not possible to disassociate this from Bezos. There aren’t many people who are able to finance this out of their own pocket. If it wasn’t Bezos, this wouldn’t be happening.

If you read the article, it’s pretty clear that ‘1 day’ is a guess. And I know it won’t take only 1 day. You know it too.

He anticipated he would be able to buy off permission to do this. He didn’t get that permission before the shipyard started to build. Oddly, there’s no reason the yacht needs the masts installed there - plenty of ships are partly constructed and then floated elsewhere for final fitting. Masts seem like a no-brainer as…

I can only assume the people defending this would absolutely defend things if a Chinese billionaire did this with the Brooklyn Bridge. 

It’s being ‘temporarily deconstructed’ at the whim of someone with more money than anyone in that city will ever see.

hey man can I come over and dismantle your kitchen wall for 2 days? I need to run my truck across. Don’t worry I’ll pay for it

The less you take something apart, the longer it usually lasts. Damage and wear when you take things apart and put them back together is not negligible. It also disturbs the patina on historic structures, so they sometimes look like crap afterward.

It is more a statement, and you’re the one that made it for me. You deserve all the credit for it.

PLEASE stop using the word “architecting”. We are not supporting Ivanka’s nonsense words here on an article about women’s empowerment.

There’s something wrong with the whole system when an activity needs to be validated as a “sport” to receive the respect it deserves.