postnataldrip
@postnataldrip@lemmy.world
- Comment on Advertising 3 weeks ago:
Visible on Google Maps: 117 Victoria St maps.app.goo.gl/pK5PN4KZdSW7G84E8
- Comment on Every little thing she fries is magic 1 month ago:
Roxanne
- Comment on I heard were doing Beam now? 2 months ago:
I give it a solid 5/7
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 2 months ago:
How Am I Supposed To Live Without You In My Ass
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 2 months ago:
Honestly jealous
- Comment on Achievable goals 3 months ago:
The 911 equivalent in Australia is 000. Just sayin’
- Comment on I always order Popular Problem. 3 months ago:
Glad to see I’m not the only one suspicious of cheese
- Comment on A picture is worth 1000 words 3 months ago:
Gory hole
- Comment on Sevens 4 months ago:
Yeah, nana or shichi depending on context
- Comment on Dystopia 6 months ago:
Sack the horse and bring in one that’ll be stuck just as bad, but will do it cheaper
- Comment on Why Australia's biggest city has a problem with 'forced car ownership' 7 months ago:
But Dr Terrill said the easiest and cheapest solution was to implement congestion charge
This is the kind of thinking that got us into this mess. If you want people to take PT then improve PT rather than making non-PT worse. Don’t punish people for suffering at the hands of a problem that decades of successive governments, the same ones that now want to charge them for it, have created, contributed to, or simply ignored. If someone has spent tens of thousands on something that costs thousands more to register, insure, fuel, and maintain, so they can sit in a stop-start grind for 60-90 min just to get to work, how bad must the alternatives be?
The simple fact is every day heaps of people are trying to get to or from the same place at the same time. PT definitely helps, and would have to remain part of the solution in one form or another, but ultimately it still masks the same place, same time issue. I can’t help but think that getting away from the “CBD” mindset would remove so many issues. And shorter term, stop trying to force people back into the office. Less people needing to go anywhere at all, and those that do aren’t all converging on the same point. Winning.
Of course you also have groups like CBD landlords, car manufacturers, fuel companies etc etc as well as govt budgets that have a vested interest in things not changing, and the safest political move is to just take more money from people who will grumble, but have no choice but to cough up. Rinse and repeat.
Shitting on cars seems popular but imho that is lazy activism, the problem isn’t “cars”, it’s a bunch of things all contributing to them being necessary in situations where they shouldn’t be.
- Comment on We at the Westville Marriott want you to know that we hate you and hope you die. 10 months ago:
Reminds me of some we had at a roadhouse many years ago, that we still talk about from time to time. No idea how long they were on display for (weeks I assume) but we had been driving all through the night and were keen af for a cooked brekkie.
They were like fish eyes surrounded by pencil erasers.
- Comment on More Research grants required. 1 year ago:
Most realistic research sim ever