Last line is especially ominous.

If I had to guess I’d say if you got someone actually dying maybe worry less about the cuff blowing up and more about that

is this based on tiktok in any way because I see a surprising amount of lace code stuff

It’s also a rhetorical mistake in that it plays into right wing framing that justifies austerity

why, I want my taxes to go to like social care and building trains. It’s a shorthand for “the state has a limited amount of ressources” entirely removed from the specific system and that’s where I want it to put them

if there is a proletarian motorsport, surely it’s drifting a volvo 240 station wagon with aftermarket turbo around a fireroad

virgin renderite based The Line construction vs. chad actually existing unfathomably large cork

I’m always wary about this because historically it doesn’t really seem to help and you can look at places where it’s feasible to ride a bike now and has been for a while which would save you quite some money and people just still don’t.

I think at this point via revealed preference as per pricing. Basically nobody but people with accountant brain thinks of things as costing fuel per trip. They just have a monthly fuel cost where every trip gets amalgated into “monthly fuel cost” which seems basically unlinked to “how much do I drive my car”. Every time the vibe shift actually happens seems to be related to paying at the point of use, i.e. tolls and parking. This is how Manhattan did it, it’s how Paris did it, it’s how the Dutch get people to use suburban parking lots with shuttle service and anecdotally I can see it happen in my town everytime free parking is turned into paid parking. The costs are, honestly, negligible but it seems to force people to confront that their car trip isn’t actually free. I’m fairly certain if you’d put a “This trip just cost you approximately X Money in fuel!” on the dashboard of cars when you turn them off people would use them a lot less.

Oh yeah and also somebody needs to set up the ford factory for cargo bikes

a lot of that is equity firms, but we’re not building comblocks either so the alternative is legacy housing that’s unobtainably expensive or renting forever. Developers need to be prevented from building that shit, but people don’t have a lot of agency in housing,

well, yes, again, but then also again: how do EVs change the equation here?

there’s like a hundred things that need to happen all at once, very few US politicians are interested in making any of them happen, and in the meantime we might as well have electric cars instead of SUVs.

there’s no in the meantime. All the needed changes I assume we agree on could be done in the now, but they won’t be, and they also won’t be once you exchange every ICE car for an EV because why would you? The system can keep on trucking fine with EVs instead of ICE cars, why change?

because living in the suburbs is miserable even with electric cars?

I certainly think so, but somehow those houses keep getting bought

we need government intervention and central planning for any of this anyway

True, I don’t blame people for buying EV cars. Either you save some money - which is good - or you pay more for the common good of reducing CO2 - also good!

EDIT: Just to be sure; doing the better thing but paying for it is bad, but like good on an individual levle

But like sticking to the US theme, the republicans aren’t going to do it and the last democratic president hooned an 8 ton E-Hummer around and then called it the future of transportation (when he wasn’t busy suggesting everybody not in a car would be required to carry a transponder so self driving cars could happen). So who enacts the change here? The suburbians sure won’t, everything is the same except their car goes MMMMMM instead of vroom now.

i love trains and bikes but the infrastructure doesn’t exist and we’re shitty at building it so I guess everybody in the lurch in the meantime is supposed to starve to death

Obviously yes, unlimited genocide on all the KKKar DriverSS /s

The point is why would you stop building / inhabitating suburban sprawl if the electric car gets you there and back just fine? Like what changes here for it to herald the 2 decades of bike and rail construction?

EVs are a gap filler

are you, by chance, interested in purchasing any number of bridges

Ive put 5 hours into it so far and like another 5 in the demo and I gotta say if you can afford it this is one to buy.

well maybe he runs a bespoke COBOLT consultancy and is the only one who can’t work with COBOLT. It’d be true in that case.

Office politics, i.e. power plays. Having information and deciding who gets it is a massively powerful position in an office. So Senior Manager Butt Dickdong who otherwise has nothing to do with the thing has to sign off on the slides because it allows him information before the rest and the chance to torpedo it or give some favours away. Of course having nothing to do with it, Butt doesn’t really know anything about it and as such needs constant explanation because he thinks if the slides are for an egyptian client you should use Papyrus font like they do over there.

It is also why these things are so hard to get rid off, it’d mix up power structures. I don’t think most of the people doing it are consciously aware of it in the Machiavellan sense but they do know it internally. Also partly why consultants are so common now, it gives the C-Level Suite an excuse to say “oh this is just objectively better” to Butt who can’t really argue against it. Now of course consultants also design the worst shit known to man because they depend on you coming back to them because otherwise they’d slowly work themselves out of a job, which they are accutely aware of and trained on.

After finishing the Yakuza 0 story and I think about 50% of side content roughly I’ve started Yakuza Kiwami and am again, in awe. They’re all so much videogame

I get plastic instead of glass mostly, glass is heavy as shit. What I do not get is plastic instead of paper. Like if you need it to be tight to water, sure, but so much stuff is plastic with airholes, just use cardboard

Esoteric Ebb is due to come out on march 3rd and from having played the demo it’s so far the only thing that really got that DE vibe to me (currently downloading zero parades).

I thought Rue Valley was nice and you feel the influence, but it’s sort of “If you like CONTROL, you’ll like Alan Wake 2”

They hand those out for free

If I hand a bartender 5 moneys I get a beer, if I hand a teacher 5 moneys I get like nothing

wanting a very specific power tool and then spending 1,5 years scouring craigslist or local equivalent for it to get it at an insanely cheap price

woke alex jones voice: they’re turning the freaking frogs carbrained