vga

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I can imagine a few ways it can go sideways:

  1. People start making perfectly walkable or bikable trips by bus

  2. People start making trips they didn't need to make at all

  3. Public transit becomes dependent on public funding, which may fluctuate with economic downturns -- whereas a private company would be more free to compensate

As a practical example, Tallinn, Estonia introduced free public transit some years back. Oddly enough, it had almost no effect to car usage although public transit use increased.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Radically centrist because they will be fucking fed up with all this fake meme bullshit.

You'll also have to take into account that parents are waking up to the dangers of social media et al, so one possible future is that kids will be less poisoned by it. It's already happening in some places, children are being forbidden to use phones at school, some countries are outright banning social media from children, etc. etc.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
  1. I didn't like Outer Wilds.

  2. Canceled should be typed as canceled also in American English. Because the rule is that words with a stress at the end get a double consonant.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Poor IT security should have judicial consequences.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It was coined by an ecologist (Garrett Hardin), and (answering myself here after finding out) famously rebutted by the economist Elinor Ostrom, who won the Nobel Prize for her work. So tragedy of the commons, while a real phenomenon and can happen, is not inevitable by current understanding.

Like in a lot of things, the devil is in the details.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I recommend Zero Sievert for anyone interested in the genre.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1782120/ZERO_Sievert/

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We test drove a couple Ioniqs and nope. They are pretty good, perhaps good enough to get if you don't already own a Tesla -- but not good enough to warrant the hassle and cost of changing. Not better than Tesla in any meaningful way, and worse in a couple of ways: the general UX of the car and boot size for instance.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Meanwhile nearly 60% of Windows Games now run on Windows.

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