It is a bit confusing at first, but with the adoption of more onlyoffice tools I think it will make it easier on folks to use it.

This sometimes also helps when I need a result from reddit: https://github.com/corenting/eddrit

Can someone eli5 why that is?

That is bananas! The implementation details are worth a read. Plus, all the links to other bananas projects are great.

using drinking water for street cleaning? watering lawns?

It doesn’t help that most people’s Ecological awareness is such a complete total joke that even for those who believe themselves as ecologically-minded ends at the point were they’re faced with, say, walking to take their kids to a school less than 1km away instead of going by car

This tracks. Whenever I visit Portuguese relatives I’m always surprised by how quickly they default to the car. Once, it was literally to just take us to a train station that we could see with our eyes from where we were staying.

Weren’t a bunch of politicians caught in a scandal there recently about deals with fossil fuel companies?