TanyaJLaird

@TanyaJLaird@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We Ready For Driverless Buses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The advantage of busways is that they’re a lot cheaper to build than trains. You just need some paint on pavement to build a dedicated bus lane. All you have to really build are some nice bus stops. The big problem with trains is vertical and horizontal alignment. You can’t just lay train tracks on top of an existing road system. Cars and buses can handle much greater slopes and perform much steeper turns than trains can.

  For example, you can make a busway over an existing road bridge, without any need to rebuild the bridge itself. But you can’t just slap some train tracks on an existing road bridge, as the train would be unable to make it up the slopes designed for car traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Japan is a country that has been living in the year 2005 since 1985.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ultimately, these mandates are because executives don’t work for the same reason normal people do. Most people work to support themselves. But a single year working at an exec at a major company will be enough to let you retire very comfortably, never working another day in your life. Once you have ten million in the bank, you’re not really working for money anymore.

  Instead, you’re working for prestige and power. Execs and high-level managers work for a few reasons. Some work because they want to have power over people. They get a thrill out of having complete authority over other human beings. And sociopathic need to control others is an itch that simply can’t be scratched by working remote. Others like to mandate in-office because they’re professional shmoozers. They do very little real work. Instead, they just go from meeting to meeting, spend afternoons golfing on the company dime, etc. The company is basically just their own personal social club. Others work because they have a savior complex. They think they’re God’s gift to mankind, and they need the sycophantic praise that can only come by forcing people to work in person. Finally, some are simply sexual predators. For some, the primary benefit of coming into work is the ability to coerce sex out of their underlings. And it’s hard to sexually assault an employee who is working hundreds of miles away.