Living without a car in NYC is pretty great. That's whole categories of expenses I don't have.
Took the train last night to an event, walked to a nearby bar, walked to get some pizza, took the bus home. Easy-peasy.
Someone in the friend group took a car (Lyft) home, but I can't imagine wanting to spend like $30 to save maybe 20 minutes in that situation.
In general, you need to make the right thing to do easy and the bad thing to do hard.
If taking the bus was fast and free, and driving meant you had to file a request to get a day license and drive no faster than 25mph, people wouldn't drive so much.
"steal higher" took me a couple reads. Steal doesn't sound like "still" in whatever accent I speak.
I really would like to somehow convince more people to adopt the idea that, like, Facebook and friends are run by bad people and you can choose not to use their products. Just stop. Find another way. Be uncomfortable for a little while.
But people aren't up to the challenge.
I remember talking to this one woman who was like "I don't get polyamory and non-monogamy. Why don't you just cheat?"
Because I have standards and care about other people, which seems not to be true for many people.
I'm reminded of that post that showed all the people in the "boycott cod" group playing call of duty.
The bulk of video game players seem to be feckless marshmallow eaters.
I'm happy with my linux machine. Consoles would have to be a lot cheaper to be tempting. Or I'd have to make a lot more money.
Yep. Place I'm at is in some sort of "hiring freeze". They're not replacing people who left. They also told the many (probably not strictly legal) contractors that they won't be renewing them. It's absurd.
I remember once at a diner with some friends I ordered pancakes and orange juice without looking at the menu, and was pissed when the orange juice was like $10. Now I always check.
“Most of the time, once people have lived with it, the opposition softens,”
That's because people, even me, are kind of stupid and unimaginative. They don't like change for primitive reasons.
Taking public transport is not something that you do because you are poor,” said López-Aparicio. “It is something that you do for the common wealth of the whole society
If only we could get that idea in people's heads.
Wages are not up. I'm not going to spend that much money on a redundant toy. Pay me more then I'll think about it.
It's one of those self fueling problems. Businesses post on Instagram because people go there, and people go there in part because that's where they found out about businesses doing stuff.
Better options are possible, but the big money is backing this hell. Less money to be made from RSS feeds , web rings, and email newsletters.
I don't use any social media other than this. I find out about bands I like playing from their email lists or bandsintown. I'm on a couple "things happening in the city" email newsletters. It doesn't demand my attention.