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Day 22 cont 📻💰💰💰🏡⚠️

This radio interview was in 2002, 23 years ago!

“As the interviewer, you see the switchboard at your radio station lighting up. Lots of your listeners want to talk to the prime minister. You take some callers, and one of them is named Phyllis.”

“Phyllis: I won't be as aggressive as to shake my fist at you, but I'll certainly shake my finger at you when you say that someone who owns their home has no problem, they're sitting on a nice little nest egg.

We're on a #pension and we would like to #sell our home, go into a #unit or a #townhouse or something.

But we can't do that because if we do, we're going to spend the whole amount just on a townhouse or a unit and we'll have nothing left over if we need to do anything to it. So we're stuck.

PM: Look Phyllis, what I said was that not everybody was sitting on a #NestEgg. I said people had not complained about the #value of their house going up.

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'#Trump Term Burns to Ground'
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No
Trump Term is NOT 'Burning to Ground' at ALL

#United #States
#Institutions
#Democracy
#Constitution
#Rules of #Law
#National #unit
IS >'burned to ground'< by Trump 'administration'

Everything is done according to a precise plan
created by #Heritage #Foundation (#fascists)
with the intent that Democracy Freedom Constitutional principles
and #Rights
Americans had
will NOT return to America in the future.
and > it is working.

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We need a new #unit !
Have you ever felt that motorway signs using a number of km to represent the distance to a destination is somehow pointless ? I mean, what matters for a driver is the remaining travel time. And if a city is 100km away and your car speedometer shows that you drive at 130km/h, you shall compute mentally 100/130*60 to get the number of minutes remaining...

Let's create a new unit for our speedometers that can be more usable. I propose that instead of showing speed (km/h), we use the inverse of speed (h/km). Yet, the number of hours to travel 1km doesn't feel nice. So let's try to scale this unit so that we get something that is more significant for a driver.

I propose that this new unit shall represent the number of minutes to travel 10km. (see attached figure).
I will call this unit "Road Unit", but I don't think it's a practical name so we will need to figure out another one I think.

So here we have something that I think is significant enough ! Look, for instance, if I am on the motorway, 100km away from my destination, and I know my speed in Road Units is 5.45 R.U. (110km/h), I can easily compute that if 10km is 5.45min, then 100km is 54.5 minute (55min30s). And there we go.

Other advantage: I drive in the country side. I would normally drive at 7.5 Road Units (80km/h). But today I am stuck behind a truck at 8.6 R.U. (70km/h). I can mentally estimate that I will lose 7.5-8.6 = 0.9min every 10km. Since I know my destination is 20km away, I will lose a bit less than 2 minutes. So no need to put me in danger by trying to overtake it.

If this idea was convicing enough, please, boost, share, talk about it inside and outside of fediverse. Maybe one day we will have GPS and speedometers that will implement this unit natively! o/
Feel free to react and bring up suggestions, and feel free to propose another name: I don't think that "I drive at 5.5 road units" is... ergonomic... I don't know...

The curve of the function converting speed (in km/h) to "Road Units" (min/10km). Key points : (50km/h = 12 R.U); (80km/h = 7.5 R.U); (100km/h = 6 R.U); (120km/h = 5 R.U)
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