Nalivai
@Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Jumping in would either give you superpowers or cancer 4 days ago:
Ha, you fucking wish
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 1 week ago:
Maybe it’s iPhone thing? Usually when I see the news like “this amazing innovative feature will be finally available and will change the world”, and it’s something mundane that I was able to use for years, it means that iPhone is getting this feature finally.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
Which country are you talking about?
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
If you’re disabled and on disability income, it will absolutely not cost you 800 euro. You will be put in front of the queue for the free one. That’s why I, able bodied working person with slightly above median income, had to wait. And I think it’s as fair of a system that is possible under the circumstances.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
Yeah, that happens sometimes. But in this case the price of an operation will be drastically cheaper.
I had this situation in Germany, there was a minor operation I needed to have which was not life threatening so the one that insurance covered had a waiting period, so I decided to go pay outnof pocket and it was around 800 euro. The cheapest price I could find in US for it started at 11000 dollars. - Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
Maybe meme should’ve specified personal bankruptcy
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
I don’t think there is a public health system when you are just expected to fork over half a million for an operation. Those insane healthcare prices are uniquely US phenomenon
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
It’s the other way around. Cities are expensive now because there is not a lot of those compared to the amount of people who would like to live in them. If you allow builders to build more walkable cities they will become more affordable
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
Yeah, it is indeed a good approach for Walmart. They get to crush the competition due to their size and the economy of scale, be effectively a monopoly, and convince everyone that it’s not only logical and inevitable, and the result of something normal and good.
The question is, is it good for people who aren’t Walmart shareholders? - Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
No, good public transportation will not eliminate all the misery in the people’s lives, but also it isn’t suppose to, and nothing will. Good public transportation however helps with making it the same level of misery as anywhere else, and usually even more. The particular issue of harassment isn’t an issue in a good public transportation, because there are people there, there are structures, there are authorities and systems that can help. And besides, it’s not like people just decide to harass other people the second they go into metro.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
It’s, once again, comes with infrastructure. When I moved to Germany from the country with no bike infrastructure, I only thought of a bike as an expensive stuff, but here I bought a used commuter for 40 Euro and it’s fucking great. I love it, but if it gets stolen, I would be mildly frustrated and buy another one of those for 40 Euro the next day.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
People might talk about banning privately own cars, but nobody seriously talks about completely banning cars at all. Service vehicles have their place in a walkable city, and taxy and carsharing is part of that, and even the most fuck-cars people are in favour of those.
I mean, there is always someone with a weird position, but those are flat-earthers of the movement, nobody cares about those. - Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
Car-free utopia doesn’t mean, can’t mean no roads and no taxis. Taxis are actually the important part of that car-free utopia. It just means you aren’t expected to own your own car and use it as the prime source of transportation.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
The opposite of that, actually, prolonged sitting on your ass without much movement linked to all sorts of problems down there
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
You just don’t treat it as a competition, but as a relaxed stroll. Don’t care about no buses, just vibe with the flow.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
Hills only the problem if you’re not biking regularly. I’m way out of shape, but after a year on living in a country with good infrastructure hills aren’t a problem for me anymore, really. But first couple of months it was a bit brutal, for sure.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
The reason you’re not afraid of being in public in any other circumstances are in public transportation is exactly, precisely because public transportation in US is shitty and stigmatized and the expectation is that only the poor are using it. This is the source of the problem, and the way to fix i is to improve it so everyone is using it, and the crowd in public transport will be the same as everywhere
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
It’s very weird that it works all over Europe, but for some reason it’s too expansive for America. It’s almost like it’s not an inevitable course of actions really actually.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 11 months ago:
Not really. Where I live, the bike infrastructure is decent, even though it has its flaws. Right now the conditions are the worst, it’s cold, we had a lot of snow recently and even though they removed most of it, there is a lot of ice still. I just have to bike slower than usual, that’s all. Last year I remember like 5 days when biking was all but impossible snow was building up faster than they managed to remove it.
- Comment on Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times' 1 year ago:
If anything could be said about that is that’s most probably an event that happened in time.
- Comment on Please fix Rule 1. 1 year ago:
Isn’t it kind of the point of federated communities? Admins of one particular instance can set whatever arbitrary rules they see fit and good for the instance they operate, and in turn everyone else can organise their onw instance with their own rules.
I absolutely can understand how an admin based in US doesn’t want to answer the questions like “what are all this talks about controlled substances on your server” - Comment on More Perfect Union went to a trump rally. Their criticisms sound very close to that of socialists 1 year ago:
direct action is more effective/important than voting
The important, crucially important part here that there is no either/or scenario. Voting is action, and if you do everything else but not vote, that everything else gets kinda pointless. At least for now, in couple of voting cycles GOP will complete their plan to destroy the democracy, and then the voters apathy will be self-fulfilling prophecy. But for now it’s not there yet. - Comment on More Perfect Union went to a trump rally. Their criticisms sound very close to that of socialists 1 year ago:
If you look at what the administration is actually doing and trying to do, there is a lot of going to the right direction. There is absolutely not enough of that, they probably could and definitely should do more, but it’s disingenuous to say that they do absolutely nothing for the working class.
- Comment on PLEAAASSEE PLEASE COME BACK TO THE OFFICE PLS 1 year ago:
It’s nice sometimes, when you don’t have anything better to do. Sharing the knowledge is a genuine pleasure.
It’s infuriating if you need to focus on something. - Comment on PLEAAASSEE PLEASE COME BACK TO THE OFFICE PLS 1 year ago:
A lot of my colleagues want for everyone to be in office. Their justification is “well, when everyone is in office, I can just walk to a person and ask them for help”. Which is why it’s a bit annoying to work there as a knowledgeable person, everyone always asking you to help them, constantly.
Guess where are all the knowledgeable people going. - Comment on ‘Rick and Morty’ Team Gives Update on Recasting Process Following Justin Roiland’s Dismissal 1 year ago:
Oh no, my imaginary internet numbers, I got negative number this one time, whatever will I do with my life
- Comment on ‘Rick and Morty’ Team Gives Update on Recasting Process Following Justin Roiland’s Dismissal 1 year ago:
Not really a lot of respect to a lot of people who are trying to do the justice in the system but failing at it miserably. US justice system isn’t as infallible and trustworthy as you for some reason think it is.