This, exactly.
You're not sitting in traffic .... You are traffic .
The guy in the OP also gives off small dick energy. Just saying.
MystikIncarnate
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IMO, this would be more ironic if the post was closed automatically by a bot. But that's not the vibe I'm getting from this.
As a fellow old person, former millennial, I agree.
Long term occupancy of the ISS started in November 2nd, 2000. Since then there has always been at least one person Manning the ISS.
So at least one human has not been on earth for every day since then, thus, all of humanity was last on earth on November 1st 2000. The statement is factually correct.
Well, someone needs to keep the lights on in the ISS....
I get it, you're an optimist about it.
Nothing wrong with that. I try to take a more practical/grounded view.
In my experience, most people actively avoid thinking. If it involves any measure of mental effort, they would just rather not.
I see it every day.
Okay, the cross platform part makes it make a little sense. They're trying to push everything over to arm (again!) and having something easy to cross compile would help..... But, you know .... The start menu is small potatoes compared to gestures at the rest of Windows ...
I'll say this: a lot of people using AI, are not thinking or making decisions.
I gave up on Facebook when they banned my account for the second time after providing evidence that I exist in both cases.
Technically, my account is still "under review", for the past 8 years.
I used this name, Mystik Incarnate, because, believe it or not, there are more people who know me by this name, compared to how many know me by my legal name.
I remember that Facebook challenged my name back in the day, like 10+ years ago. I took a form of ID and made it say "Mystik Incarnate" as my name, sent that in, and they unblocked my account for a while. A few years later and they did it again. By then, I was already on the fence whether or not I wanted to maintain a Facebook account... But I submitted basically the same thing and..... Well... It's still "being reviewed".
I do have an account under my legal name, mainly as a collector of messages for people that know me professionally or something that are trying to reach out. I check it every few months at most; but that account has no friends, no connections, nothing. I only keep it so people can message me. I don't use their apps or anything, I only log in on the website and usually incognito so that they can't track me across the web.
Every time I see someone's logged in Facebook account, I'm disgusted by how cancerous it has become. Anyone who reaches out to me on that platform I usually try to have them connect with me by email, or some other chat program that's more trustworthy.
Fuck Meta.
Your experience with rural bike riding is very familiar. I've heard it before.
I would argue that there's no good answer to rural "mass transit". At least not currently. So if you live in a rural area, you're pretty much going to need a motor vehicle, likely a car, as a minimum to maintain mobility beyond your immediate neighbourhood.
In my rural community, we have a bank branch or two, a couple of pizza shops, one grocery store, and a handful of other stores including a dollar store, a few pharmacies, etc. Not a lot, but enough for the essentials. Anything beyond that for work or shopping, you're leaving the local town and driving at least 10-15 minutes through farmland to the next town over.
It's just impractical to live in this kind of place and not own a vehicle. Not if you need to work somewhere that isn't directly in town.
There's a hundred+ other places just like where I live, in my country and it's not changing. Not quickly at least.
Covering the massive distances with public/mass transit options just isn't feasible.
Inside any Metro, or any city with 100k+ people, yeah, it works, but out where I am with our relatively densely populated town (compared to the surrounding areas), having less than 10k people.... It doesn't work so well.
IDK. I do everything in my power to ensure the safety of cyclists when I see them, but it's rare to see any cyclists out this far.
This reads like a Pharma advert.