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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BASED?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Absurdist humour 🤝 Being a trans ally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BASED?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL my wife is a man

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD 137010 b⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Friday night HD 137010 b run boys, who is in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but liver disease is expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I see. Most of Australian cities are actually suburban and have had wider footpaths than necessary, as well as parking buffers. It’s trivially easy to just convert one side into a protected bike lane.

  I still argue that in a lot of urban areas where the road has swelled to its natural limit, depending on the road, it can be good to reduce the road by one lane and add a protected bike lane. But this is situational. Not every road needs a bike lane. But there should be bike lanes every so often, so people can safely get close to their destination without bothering motorists.

  It’s too much of a mental simulation to imagine how reducing car lanes becomes a benefit to those that must drive because of a reduction of traffic and potential improvement to overall flow.

  Fair enough. Although reducing a road by a lane can improve congestion, it isn’t always the case, and isn’t a simple sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They think of it as a zero-sum game

  But it’s not.

  The reason you need more lanes is because of a growing population using a fixed set of roadways. As you add protected bike lanes, more and more people opt for using a bicycle. This means fewer people on the road, negating the need for the extra roadway.

  If you spend limited tax dollars on bike infrastructure, driving infrastructure will not receive necessary maintenance.

  I’m not sure what you personally believe, but this is not true at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Australian, so maybe my experience with cyclists and cycling infrastructure is different. We usually extend our roads and have a green lane for cyclists, or even dedicated cycling ways alongside the footpath (sidewalk).

  People here whinge that these protected cycle ways get built. And I’m just baffled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When car drivers are stupid they get in a small prang and have to pay the excess on someone else’s insurance.

  When cyclist are stupid, they end up in a hospital or the morgue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Aussie, so unfortunately it’s targeted at Australians driving huge American pickup trucks. :(

• Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brand new bag⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  THEN CALL ME A DORK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck is this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to tell my kids this is GMO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re of course right. I was just being silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s not chatspeak, it’s an Assyria reference

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be fabulous⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chill out bro, but I agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be fabulous⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is mastodon these days?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mama!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What if Sol is not our Mama, but our Pied Piper? 🎺

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wet your whistle boyo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your name better be Caleb⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s okay Quinn, I’d give you a second shot :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Overview⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Could have been so good if you used Inspect Element to make this OP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The will save millions for a few quarters, then nose dive into oblivion. Can’t wait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m really not seeing the difference. Maybe someone can explain it to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lamb amongst wolves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes send their numbers, so we know which women to avoid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lamb amongst wolves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I (perfect btw) don’t think this post is serious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨to whom it may concern:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because beans

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hrmmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, thanks for clarifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hrmmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you say “renumerating” what do you mean? Do you mean remunerating, or I this some industry term that I don’t know? It isn’t in the dictionary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is your job boring? This 1960s auto worker says his job was killing him⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh thank you also! It is really eye-opening. I have some additional historical context, that I learned in Business school.

  Under Fordism, factory work was broken into tiny, repetitive tasks. Instead of one worker building most of a car, one might just bolt on the bumper all day. It made production faster and cheaper, but also made workers’ jobs monotonous and stripped of skill or creativity. It was then easy for each role to be replaced with automation, as technology improved.