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- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 20 minutes ago:
Obviously walking, biking, or taking the bus is better. Let’s assume that covers 95% of children 95% of the time.
your words
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 2 hours ago:
Yeah the truth of the matter is, people use cars because they have them. If they didn’t have them things would be a lot different. You can see that by looking at the data on that link as well. 70% of impoverished children ride the school bus. So not only are those kids disadvantaged with money, but they’re disadvantaged with the situations you’re talking about with after school activities as well. Public transit would be better for everyone here. We wouldn’t be funding these school buses that might ride empty, taxpayer dollars would be able to be reallocated to the actual teaching in the school or even better public transit. A small portion of that would go to the impoverished or those that can’t take public transit.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 3 hours ago:
no, I most definitely didn’t. your point was pretty clear.
There is a real requirement for kids to be picked up by cars and removing that option will only hurt the education of the innocent child.
Nobody said otherwise. This thread is about pickup lines for schools full of cars. I guarantee it’s not nearly the same problem you have in the UK. Everyone everywhere understands cars serve a purpose.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 10 hours ago:
Even if they’re within walking range only 25% of kids walk. 50% are driven by private car, and 25% take the bus. So you literally have 50% of kids that are within walking range still getting dropped off/picked up by private vehicle.
For your other use cases, that’s why other countries use public transit rather than publicly funded school buses that only run twice a day. It’s just a massive waste of money.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 10 hours ago:
you’re getting downvoted because your numbers are drastically off. I posted a comment below, but in the US 33% of school kids are dropped off/picked up by car. Not 5%. That number jumps to 39% if you’re including those driving themselves to school. The average number of kids in school is 512 (in the USA) so that’s ~169 kids getting picked up and dropped off each day. Essentially 169 cars, maybe fewer depending on how many ride together. If the number was 5% (it’s not) then that would only be ~26 cars. Which is still a line, but not a long one.
You made up a small number to pretend like the problem isn’t as bad as it is, and now you’re using a strawman to make it seem like we would still need cars for the made up number you gave. The conversation isn’t about needing cars, it’s about having car lines due to so many cars. If it were actually as small a number as that then no, we wouldn’t have lines like this, because that’s about the rate that developed european countries have for pickup/dropoff car rates. And those people are the ones telling you it’s not a problem in their country.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 10 hours ago:
I think the point others are making is that 6% is essentially nothing. In America it’s 39%. That is just percentage using cars to go to school. Not using public funds at all. bts.gov/…/modes-transportation-available-and-used…
So now imagine 33% (car dropoff from that statistic, vs driving yourself) of your students’ parents sitting in a car line outside the school. In a school with 512 students (USA average) that is 169 cars waiting in line. In Britain, with the same school size, that would be 30 cars in line…if a line existed at all, because it looks like in Britain 9 of 10 children using the HTST program actually share the taxi so it’s only ~12 cars in line.
With these numbers you wouldn’t even notice a line, which is why many people in this thread are talking about it like it’s crazy. It’s not that nobody uses cars in other countries, it’s that it’s so insane the number of cars us Americans use.
Notably, those numbers for America don’t actually describe the full picture. If you dig down into that spreadsheet you actually see that 20% of American schools report that over 50% of students are dropped off by car each day. The survey doesn’t go any higher than that, so the actual percentage of students dropped off by car each day actually might be much much much higher than 33%. So in a full quarter of the US we have more than half the school being dropped off and picked up by car each day, and we don’t even know how high that percentage goes! Finally, 69% of schools reported that their students do not have access to public transit, so it’s not even possible to get to a state like Europe has. We do have school buses, but that’s essentially the same thing as your taxis, except even worse cause we’re paying for them for almost 90% of schools! So not only are at least 33% of students getting dropped off by car at school, but we’re still paying for private school buses for those students, even if they’re not used or needed.
So in summary: 6% is really nothing. American’s pay for 90% for school buses alone. 33% of students are still dropped off by car, even though school buses might be available. Finally, 69% of schools don’t even have access to public transit.
The statistics around walking/biking infrastructure is even more telling. 22% of schools don’t even have sidewalks to walk to the school. 59% don’t have crossing guards. 65% don’t have speed bumps or tables. 80% don’t have bike lanes.
- Comment on The Internet's Biggest Annoyance:Why Cookie Laws Should Target Browsers, Not Websites 5 days ago:
Not in any case I’ve ever seen. The reject all button started showing up for US users immediately after GDPR was passed and it’s only gotten more prevalent since then. Trying to figure out a person’s location is pointless cause they could be using a VPN and that won’t absolve you from following the law.
- Comment on YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts 6 days ago:
Yeah i don’t use android though and not gonna spend time on a jailbreak anymore so I’m just using the app.
- Comment on YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts 1 week ago:
I would rather a toggle that permanently disables the button on the bottom so it’s never ever possible to click ever again.
- Comment on The Internet's Biggest Annoyance:Why Cookie Laws Should Target Browsers, Not Websites 1 week ago:
Most people do the same thing: they sigh, their eyes glaze over, and they click “Accept All” with the muscle memory of a weary soldier.
Who the fuck would do this when there’s a “Reject All” button right there. Like, if a contract allows you to opt out of something you should pretty much always do it.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 week ago:
I don’t do the first two, and I wash them weekly. My home assistant stuff never needs maintenance, so no I’d wager that if I set it up locally it would work fine if the software was stable. But you said that’s when you’d do maintenance, at bedtime, which is also not when you’d be making the bed or fluffing the pillows or washing the sheets.
- Comment on ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules — 'full fiber' customers found to have 'last mile' copper connections 1 week ago:
It’s not technically fiber at all. Your connection is copper, it doesn’t matter how fast the internet downstream is, you will always be limited by the copper.
For those that aren’t sure if you have fiber, the fiber will literally run into your “modem” (your Optical Network Terminal or ONT) and it will be incredibly clear that you have fiber. The wire is incredibly thin and they will warn you about bending it too much. If you don’t have that then you don’t have fiber.
- Comment on Abdul 1 week ago:
And I’m begging people to stop with the fucking “nobody” idiocy. It’s just saying the implicit joke out loud. Only kids that don’t understand humor think that’s funny.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 week ago:
Ah dang. I though the nine sleep repo listed the parts but it doesn’t.
Don’t know what version you have but found these photos! imgur.com/a/eight-sleep-pod-2-teardown-hky0334
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 week ago:
You should definitely be able to fix the main unit. It’s just a heat pump. The value is the tech in the mattress cover.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 week ago:
Expensive but super worth it. Honestly best improvement to my sleep ever. More so than any new mattress or pillow or sheets or anything else has ever done.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 week ago:
Why would you need to do maintenance at all?
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 week ago:
Huh? It’s the exact same thing as any other electronic in any home assistant smart house. Put firmware on it that you control. Why would you need to do anything about it at night.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 week ago:
You can flash your own firmware if you want.
- Comment on Anon is forever alone 1 week ago:
That’s just not true. Get a hobby. There are tons of people doing activities all the time in groups all over the world. Climbing, painting, sewing, there’s hundreds of thousands of activities you can do and people in every one of those groups.
- Comment on Inspirational 1 week ago:
Did nobody else notice that they’re pointing the bow lower than 45° but the line is drawn slightly upwards up compensate?
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen their desiccated corpses in spider webs so I’m pretty sure that’s how they’re dying.
Yes there’s a woodworking shop in my garage lol so that would explain it nicely. Though I’ve never seen them on any of the wood.
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 2 weeks ago:
Maybe I should word it better. There are many orders of magnitude more animals outside our garage than in it. The spiders are killing the pillbugs and it’s pretty much all the bugs that I ever find in my garage. There aren’t many bugs in Colorado comparatively, so the few that get in are very noticeable.
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 2 weeks ago:
Well thank you. There aren’t any dead or dying animals in my garage except for other pillbugs 😆. I have to blow it out every few months with an air compressor because there’s so many pillbugs that come in and then die.
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 2 weeks ago:
Great time to ask if anyone knows why pill bugs/rolly pollies/etc try to come into our garage constantly.
- Comment on Deee-lite - Groove Is In the Heart 2 weeks ago:
Man I hate this song with a passion.
- Comment on it's true! 3 weeks ago:
Mosquitos hardly exist in much of Colorado, so that probably helps them.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 3 weeks ago:
Wait. Y’all aren’t taking your phone into the shower with you?
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
That is a common misconception, very often spread all over the place on Reddit. There is no such requirement.
And corporate case law describes directors as fiduciaries who owe duties not only to shareholders but also to the corporate entity itself, and instructs directors to use their powers in “the best interests of the company.”
Serving shareholders’ “best interests” is not the same thing as either maximizing profits, or maximizing shareholder value. “Shareholder value,” for one thing, is a vague objective: No single “shareholder value” can exist, because different shareholders have different values. Some are long-term investors planning to hold stock for years or decades; others are short-term speculators.
nytimes.com/…/corporations-dont-have-to-maximize-…
caselaw.findlaw.com/court/…/13-354.html
reddit.com/…/eli5_what_people_mean_by_saying_a_co…
- Comment on Real easy 4 weeks ago:
Top right is lacquering, not paint. But yeah I thought the same lol
