I think you’re arguing something else now, or I’m misunderstanding your argument. I’m not arguing that if the government had subsidized rail that it would have been better, that’s no question it would have been better. It absolutely should have been prioritized at minimum same level as the interstate and air budgets.

What I am disagreeing with is that capitalism did a great job on it’s own. It didn’t. The companies were going bankrupt, and in rail’s case they were torpedoing it on purpose so they could get out of the passenger rail business. It’s not a “Oh woe is us if only capitalism had saved us”

No, the private sectors failed at public transit. The reason we have Amtrak is quite literally because private rail failed, and it failed because the private companies realized they made more on freight than passengers, so they quite literally enshittified their own rail service so they wouldn’t need to continue it. In NYC the IRT and the BMT were both on the verge of bankruptcy so the state bailed them out and bought them. In the cases of rail, including Amtrak and the MTA, the government bailed them out, and then politicians continued to cut funding over and over, which is why rail in America is so terrible. Because idiots think rail = socialism now.

You are right with the interstates though. Those were purely the government, funded by the taxpayers, but lobbied for by oil and car companies, who also helped governments buy streetcars so they could then rip out the tracks in favor of roads. So now we have taxpayir subsidized roadsthat help private carriers and businesses.

Ain’t no history like a train nerd history knowledge.

You are so incredibly wrong that I need to take an advil.

WHAT IF HE DECIDES TO TALK IN ALL CAPS AGAIN?

Very interesting, first I’ve heard of them. I’d live to hear more, to help diversify my aquisition of Linux isos of course

If everywhere you go it smells like shit, maybe it’s time to check your shoes.

There’s a line between bringing up legitimate points like what you bring up, and ruining people’s fun.

If you make a post bringing up the issues yourself, or bring them up yourself, then awesome. This is important to call out. People may upvote, they may downvote. However, if you notice people having a good time and talking about something they’re excited about and decide to derail a conversation or to make your point on an otherwise irrelevant point, then you’re the “Quit having fun” guy.

Let’s say like Harry Potter. If a new item is coming out, it’s absolutely worth reminding everyone what a garbage human being JK Rowling is and why we shouldn’t give her any new money. If you see people talking about the movies and geeking out about it, having a good time, then it is not the time to bring up those issues.

The line is nuanced and flows. In this case, from your comic and the reaction of other people, sounds like you crossed over the line and deserved the removal. There’s informing people, then there is intentionally trying to ruin people’s fun.

I think it’s finally been rooted out as one of the major causes for a lot of North American’s frustrations. All the talk about gas prices are root caused by not having walkable cities. Big corporations and their enshittification is made worse by main streets closing up with smaller shops being pushed out for big box stores. The lonliness epidemics have in no small part been tied to the loss of third spaces and the isolating design of suburban sprawl.

I’m all for it, let’s get at these problems. The auto & oil industries have been profiting off of the slow decline of our cities, it’s time we push back.

(Note I know all of those issues are complicated and nuanced, but the thing I can guarantee is that they are all exacerbated by dominant car culture)

How does that replace everything?

How does that work?

I think you hit the nail on the head. These celebrities are not on Facebook. Most of the accounts we see are not them. They have firms and people who manage it for them, avoiding scandle and making sure every word is meticulously crafted. None of it is authentic.

Asking them to leave Facebook is basically asking them to uncheck Facebook from a social media manager’s management platform. It’s a non thing to them. The celebrity isn’t on their phone posting things, it’s all corporate now.

The most macklemore may have done was write the baseline to his statement, but a team of PR people smoothed and rewrote it. He then probably gave a thumbs up to it afterwards. If there’s anything I’m 100% sure of, the words we read were not typed out by him.

I lived the movement back in the day, but was always annoyed at how they failed. They refused to name a concise list of demands. Whenever anyone would ask them what they wanted, from either side of the aisle, they would give a rambling incoherent complaint list, and it made all leaders tune out immediately.

Bothered the hell out of me because yes, it was a good movement, but you need to have one, maybe two obvious and easy to digest demands. If their demand was simply “no more corporate campaign contributions” or “pass harsher banking legislation” that is something politicians could have actually acted on.

Same thing with BLM at George Floyd. I knew it would fizzle, it was the same thing. I think BLM posted 15+ things they wanted done? There’s no way our government would ever do 15 things at once. Choose one, rally behind it. If they had all clearly said “demilitarization of police” that actually could have happened. Politicians were sympathetic and open to doing something, and that could have been an easy win. But instead they got incoherent ramblings again.

I’m just frustrated. I hate the system we have, but we are forced into it so we have to understand how to make change. If your demands are nebulus a few don’t really have a clear goal, then they are just going to wait out the protests until everyone goes home. If you all say “do this thing” then you might actually get something done.

Its fine to use AI to find exploits IMO. Helps everyone, even if it does release a torrent of notices. However it’s highly unethical to claim a reward after using AI to find it. The reward is for skill, no to see if you could buy a Claude subscription. Hell if anyone “deserved” the award it would be anthropic, not the person running the Claude session. But really it should just be unclaimed.

Just think if ed would have actually shamed him and actually called his bluff to pull out

Damn that’s how you make a statement right there. Fucking Ed, completely bitched out.

Ed had the opportunity to drop the mic like this right here, saying essentially the same thing. “If being against genocide means that rich men won’t let me play at some stadiums, then so be it, I will not label myself as pro-genocide/pro-child-murder to appease those men. I’m sorry if that means that they cancel the rest of the tour on us, I was looking forward to playing for all of you”.

If he would have come out initially saying that? Hoo damn, more than likely with all the press and the heat the stadium owners would have just shut up about it. All he had to do was direct all of the blame and anger at the potential cancellation at Kraft alone and it would have probably just ended right there.

I’ve seen Ed 3 times live I think, unfortunately that may be the final amount. I love pop music, (hell I run the swiftie community here !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech if your curious), and I know that there is no completely moral celebrity… but holy shit Ed, this was just such an obvious fuck up. Went probably the worst possible route and just pissed off everyone. Congrats, maybe, maybe you keep Kraft happy, but you alienated a huge chunk of your fanbase.

Oracle is circling the drain. On one hand I hate to see layoffs, but on the other… when was the last time Oracle was relevant. And not just in a “haha oracle bad” but seriously, any time Oracle is mentioned in the tech world it’s about how people are trying to migrate off of Oracle - or how Oracle has made it incredibly difficult to do so. If a company is altering their entire business plan on how to force you to stay - not just dark patterns but actual contracts and SLA requirements, you know they’re desperate.

Hell their move to “Oracle Java” and trying to close out the open Java ecosystem was so negatively received for the same reasons that we saw massive waves of rewrites trying to get everything away from Java. I’m pretty sure that’s why we saw Microsoft completely 180 on C# and went full open source.

Oracle has done everything in it’s power to shoot itself in the foot. Refuse to innovate, attempt to push new walls and boundaries to how you use their products, jack up prices, and companies are sick of it. They have a shit name, and no software architect in their right mind would ever use Oracle products now.

Hell, if I was interviewing a software candidate and they seriously told me in their interview that they would use Oracle, I’m pretty sure that would tell me they shouldn’t be hired even. The company has that bad of a reputation.

Standard corporate America right there. You proved our product is a sham and worthless? How dare you we’ll sue you out of existence!

God forbid they step back and rethink their product.

Luckily I’m in an area where there are both… to an extent. I really liked what the person said here, that basically it is stupid to waste fuel and money on shorter trips. In the US though we just don’t have that sort of connection. Our train stations are miles away from airports, and they would require separate tickets, and it’s just a hassle.

Once you see how bad parking lots alone are it’s pretty hard to unsee it. I hear all the time from people “but we have a lot of space”, which is just crazy to hear. We constantly pave over anything that gets in our way to make another parking lot. Then the lots get so big that going to literally the next store over means it’s easier to drive than walk, which then leads to even larger parking lots.

Then it’s just everywhere in all conversations. If we’re building a new neighborhood how much parking will there be? New bike lane? What about parking. New walkable community? Parking?

And then you see the asinine things we’ve built. Malls are just mimicing a true walkable community because we have killed them, and then surrounded them in islands of massive parking lots. Malls literally just solve a problem that the parking itself created.

It’s… just so fucking stupid, and now I get mad whenever I see a stupid parking lot.

I was going to post that not just bikes video! That’s the one that seriously got me.

OP I also highly recommend the Climate Town episode where they talk about parking lots and how utterly stupid they are.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8

If they went straight to legal it means they legit don’t know how to stop it. That’s pretty damning for them.

First step would be to analyze the hack and the patch it so that the bypasses no longer work. I’m guessing the hack exposes a serious flaw.