Nalivai

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes bikes⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨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.