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  • It has a licence plate, which means it’s registered. It’s a custom one but an everyday (not a historic or racing) one. The owner, Norton Igor Tesla Slovák, spent tens of thousands of dollars getting it customized (and likely bribing officials) to get it to pass standards. According to a news report, the major changes were slight curving at the sharp edges, fog light, amber rear turn signals, and a stamped-in VIN.

    The European Council and local cycling clubs wrote to the Minister of Transport but he ignored their concerns.


  • Funny how probably all Cybertrucks in this country are in Prague, the most liberal city (it probably helps that there are lots of chargers and EVs get free parking). I have seen another but I was too slow to get out my phone; it was carrying something like a grill as part of a restaurant’s ad campaign I think. I only took this picture, which is useless (the truck is roughly at 50.082N, 14.418E):

    This water trolling and other shenanigans are bound to keep happening despite the owner displaying a surveillance warning on the dashboard.

    As for public transport in the Czech Republic: Communists luckily kept most trams and regional rail operating, unlike most of the West. Many people could not afford cars and would use public transport because they had to. After privatization, cars became affordable but public transport would not start meaningfully improving until the mid-2000s. Now we have almost world-class transit again - most vehicles are comfortable, service is frequent and decently punctual, and the price lists make sense in almost all of the regional integrated systems (NOT YOU, IDSJMK) but the people (and lots of politicians) are slow to change.













  • Boy, did I like the movie! It’s not 100% historically accurate but close, and it conveys the vibe of the era really well. (No, the lack of TVs in the movie is not an error, they were too expensive for almost everyone back then.)

    Regarding the text:

    a radio station

    There was pretty much just one, Československý rozhlas Praha (CS radio Prague) at 638 kHz (it would use that frequency, or later 639 kHz, between cca 1935 and 2021, and its Liblice transmitter is featured in the movie). So more appropriately, the radio station.