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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The most Linux response. Linux doesn't fit your use case? Clearly your use case is wrong! /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Seems like that should actually be quite a useful task in the Netherlands considering all the polders!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That is the only way the rich and powerful know how to act. Because ultimately, might makes right under capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

So you think we should decentralize cities. Make it so you don't need to go downtown for everything. Everything you need would be within 15 minutes of walking.

... A fifteen minute city perhaps.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The joke is on you. There are places where it already is easier than driving. What do such places have in common? There are so many people that having everyone drive is literally impossible to accommodate. You wouldn't drive in Manhattan, Tokyo, or Seoul. It literally makes absolutely no sense to. In these cities, public transit is faster and way more convenient.

Smaller cities can replicate this effect by just... not outrageously favouring car infrastructure like they do today in North America. That doesn't mean exclusively making driving worse, it means making public transit better at the same time with the freed up funding. And the freed up money is a lot, car infrastructure is super expensive. More routes with more stops at higher frequencies are made possible because of higher ridership, which increases convenience and makes it more likely you will get almost exactly from your origin to your destination.

But the American brain cannot conceive of this. "Communist transportation" fucking lmao. What if we made cities more liveable for humans, not for cars? Nah we can't do that that's communism.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (16 children)

If you make driving easier than transit, more people will drive who previously took transit. The reverse is also true. One of these situations is more desirable for myriad reasons.

As well, additional demand can be created by convenience. People will make trips they otherwise never would have if it's easier to make them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

that's what they want you to think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Man unable to comprehend that words can have different meanings in different countries, and is unable to understand analogy, more at 11

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Or they just have different connotations here. Would it be acceptable for a man to go up to a woman he's never met before and say "I'm in love with you" while she's just doing her job? If you say yes, I have to wonder who of us was really raised wrong.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

person whose entire account is promoting anti-communism "i hate how communism is being shoved down our throats"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

All of these, maybe with the exception of duck and gaffer, if said in North America would be either not seen as gender neutral, or would be especially creepy if a man used it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I don't think you could sustain an electric ship with solar panels, but I wonder if you could appreciably extend the range of this ship by adding solar panels.

Hell, if panels get cheap enough you could slap panels on top of all the battery modules. If they happen to be covered by something else, so be it.

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