What if there’s no competing companies, but a monopoly (as is the dream of capitalists) or a cartel (a lesser dream)?

Let’s not forget that these companies aren’t really running on profits from customers. They’re running on venture capital bro driven development. Uber lost money for 15 years.

Is the lesson that conservatives are idiots and scum, and under no circumstances should they be allowed to make decisions of import?

Outside of like NYC you have a car. It’s a bad system economically, ecologically, and socially, but many people are kind of stupid and reactionary. You show them how putting in a bike lane and adding a bus stop will lower car traffic, improve air quality, and increase economic activity and they just go “no because I feel so”. Or, “one time I had to move a refrigerator so we need to prioritize large privately owned vehicles”.

I would prefer basic, subtle, black. I don’t want rainbows and lights. I’m very function over form.

I’d also rather play a game on medium settings where it runs flawlessly and doesn’t make the fans go hard, than at high settings with worse performance.

That’s such a non sequitur I don’t even know what you’re trying to communicate

If calculators routinely gave the wrong answer this would be more compelling.

Dislike:

• poor search engine results
• relatively small

I want it to get to a level where you find the good stuff reddit used to have. Like niche hobbies, detailed analysis, etc.

I’m doing my part, I guess

I knew a bunch of people that were teachers, but left for tech jobs because the pay was twice as high and the work half as much. This is bad for society.

Quality education for children pays tremendous dividends for the future. Having another “we’re AI on the blockchain” startup does not.

All this venture capitalism bullshit needs to go. Minimum wage needs to be way higher, and universal basic income would help, too.

I feel like advertisers and capitalism are so gross, they’ve poisoned the whole concept.

I don’t think there’s anything innately wrong or violent to put up a flyer that says like “I’m starting a frisbee club. We’re meeting Saturdays at Noon in the park”. That’s an ad. But it’s a whole other beast from ads that track you. Or ads that try to make you feel insecure or inadequate.

Oh yeah. Cars are bad on like every metric.

Socially they isolate people. You don’t interact with anyone when you’re driving except to get angry. The micro interactions you have on the train matter. Seeing people that aren’t just like you, also annoyed that the train is delayed, or just having a nice time with their kids, matters. More than makes up for when other people are annoying.

Economically they hurt. It’s much harder to just pop into an interesting looking shop when you’re cruising along at 40mph. All the space dedicated to parking could be used for other stuff- housing, commerce, communal space, whatever.

They make spaces less safe. Other than the direct impact (no pun intended) of people getting hit by cars, or crashing into stuff, a space that has steady foot traffic is generally safer. If everyone was in their car instead, you’d probably be alone on foot with no one to help if something happened.

They’re bad for the environment. Air pollution, micro plastics, whatever.

Drunk driving is way more dangerous than drunk “riding the train”.

The more non-car options are built out, the better it will be for people who need to drive for whatever reason.

Cars culture is trash and if we ever escape from it, it’s going to take years.

I don’t think I know anyone who’s cheated. But I also hang out with a lot of polyamorous people, where cheating is possible but I feel like is less common.

Huh. I don’t think I know anyone who cheats so I guess I got lucky. Your post is plausible

I saw that one too and thought similarly!

games? I found a civilization port for the phone and it sucked up a lot of time. Turn based so you can do it for a few minutes at a time: https://yairm210.itch.io/unciv

learn a language? duolingo and other apps are out there

I don’t think facts and logic enter into it. It’s just emotion

I’m pretty sure Trump could eat maga’s babies in front of them and they’d still vote for him.

Like that anti-vaxxer lady whose kid died of measles and is still anti-vax.

No material effects will change them. Their identity and fragile ego is wrapped up in this.

Conservatives tend to live in an eternal now- what’s good for me now? This explains why they don’t care about hypocrisy.

Funny, because when I go to the suburbs or other sparsely populated areas, walking around without anybody else feels dystopian. Feels like a post-apocalyptic setting, where everyone else got taken by aliens or plague or something.

It’s not always tourists but stopping in unexpected places is a common irritation in NYC. Like, they’re walking on the sidewalk and just stop, and mess up the flow of foot traffic. Maybe to look at their map or to gawk at something. It’s extra annoying and a little dangerous when it’s on the stairs

I think if you’re sick and don’t have paid time off you should be allowed to vomit and diarrhea into your boss’s mouth.

Once that happens once or twice they’ll understand the importance of paid sick time.

Or we’ll learn they have a really unsettling kink.