Let this entire thing please normalize remote working again.
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Uhm, excuse me, but how are you supposed to click and type, while you're not situated in a depressing cubicle, after driving 1Β½hrs to get to the depressing cubicle?!
Not to mention the economic terrorism remote workers are performing every day by not going out to lunch and happy hours in dismal chain restaurants concentrated in business districts we call downtowns. Will no body think of the shareholders?!
ime, plenty of people who choose to live downtown if they could afford to. but parasites have cornered housing supply to insure noone will own anything ever again
Not really a thing in Europe. Well, not where I live.
Yeah, it's mainly a US problem. Local governments were structured to rely on sales tax revenue and had massive budget shortfalls when remote work took off. While remote work is better for the environment and employee mental health, but it was detrimental to the local economies, so many cities started mandating returning to office instead of reevaluating how our cities are structured/zones. Currently they're not as much places to live as they are paces to conduct business, then commute back to suburbs to live. It's fucked and our politicians are bought/paid for by the entrenched industries that got us into this mess in the first place. Maybe we'll do better post balkanization of the empire.
I very much am aware. I would just prefer people to respect the Danes and other foreigners enough to not assume their experience is relevant or typical for said group of persons. Foreigners do stuff differently and on r/notmycountry you should preface your experience with context.
I like hybrid option if my team is full of good people. It is nice to socialize with your colleagues.
Depend of the team I think. We changed manager recently and all my colleagues don't eat together, they do various thing during the lunch break. I was eating with the team before, I am eating alone now... Going on site is not for socializing anymore.
That's basically halve the country. Why choose to work so far away? That's not really a common commute for a Dane.
Y'all get cubiclesβ½
One good thing about this shitty timeline. Renewables and biking might get a big push from this. When oil becomes scarce then using it to create long term value instead of burning it for a single use becomes much more attractive.
not in the US. the govt seems disconnected with reality
Even there actually. Lots of states and companoes are suing the trump admin, because they had big plans for solar and windfarms that are now being stopped or delayed because of trump. Capitalists actually love renewables because they are super profitable. Its only the old oil money inheritors that dont.
I thought that renewable energy had at least two problems for capitalists:
- Renewable energy is getting cheaper and cheaper, which makes returns on investment decline over time.
- Renewable energy is easily distributed, working against concentration of wealth (the whole point of capitalism).
Most renewables in the US are still company owned afaik. Solar farms have absurdly small operating cost, so you just invest once and then endlessly milk it for 15-25 years. All you gotta do is mow the grass or let some sheep graze it and do some checks from time to time. Wind is a lot more complicated to maintain, because its mechanical, but the land use is much much lower so you can just pay a farmer to get him to let you use a few small plots of his land to put some turbines up. Its a win win for you and the farmer.
βseemsβ
It lowers global prices for solar panles, wind turbines, heat pumps, electric vehicles and so forth in the mid to long term. That is going to impact the US as well.
Cycling is a local matter anyway.
You're a lost cause anyways. We're talking about saner countries.
Bikes are already at the limit. We need transport options for longer distances that are not a lot worse than a car.
Maybe something on rails to cover large distances between cities and towns, or like a really big car that can fit 50-100 people. If only such things existed....
Not between cities - within a city. If I can't get around without a car once I'm there I'm going to drive my own car. Besides most trips are within a metro, if people only drove between metro areas that would be a big difference.
Both is good. With the exception of NYC, most light rail and bus networks are focused on commuter traffic in the US and trying to go anywhere other than downtown and back home is a struggle. Crosstown routes are rare or require several changes and 2-3 hrs vs 15-30 minutes by car or bicycle.
I'm not against it. However if you need a car when you get there you may as well drive. By contrast if you can not drive near home sometimes you won't (like if your car breaks), and the better the local system is the more likely you are to use it
though the bad options most of us have is one reason not to use it.
Driving a car sucks more the longer the distance, as 130km/h is considered fast for a car, but pretty slow for a train. Trains doing less than 200km/h aren't considered high speed. The longer the journey, the bigger the time advantage of a train should be, plus you don't have to pay attention on pain of death the whole journey.
Most US local governments are borderline dysfunctional and can't build anything. I would love this but I personally see more promise with e-bikes any anything else.
I think the best solution is to allow neighbors to get together and build their own cheap bike infrastructure but that's still considered a fringe idea right now.
Our governments would rather block solutions than implement them.
I truly do not give a shit until the blame for all the cars is shifted from citizens to employers.
I started commuting by bus when this started. The trip takes 10 minutes longer, but it's time I would have spent doomscrolling before work anyways. Now I can doomscroll on the bus instead.
Commuting by train myself. I've picked up audiobooks. Lovely way to start and end a workday. Highly recommended.
When we moved to a developed nation from the US, I started commuting via train. My reading logs for books have gone through the roof. I also get to practice languages and use the time to generally enjoy my day. Driving a car never allowed this kind of living well.
I'm up to about 230 days car-free and it's wonderful.
Unfortunately if I take the bus, trip goes from 30 mins to 2 hours...
Elect better politicians who will improve the bus service, then.
Would if I could. I vote so hard bro.
If there's no traffic, it goes from 10-15 minutes to ~1+ hour (most of which is outside of the buses). Ebiking is great though (~40 minutes and not as affected by traffic - sometimes its faster than driving because of that).
That's great if you can managed not to get blended to death by the 10k lb. monster trucks you're forced to share the road with.
I take the E-Bike and listen to podcasts or blast some music. I know I know, dangerous blablabla. Don't care. I love it the way it is.
Maybe one day we'll figure out how to reduce our dependency on foreign oil, and increase economic stability by transitioning to electric vehicles...
Why not transition to using public transport AS much AS possible instead? Most people literally do not need their own car, if we would have a good public transport system.
I specified "electric vehicles", of all types. Could be electric cars, buses, trams, ebikes or whatever.
if we have to still use oil, i dont see why not focus on buying from norway? dont they still have oil too? or is it just too little?
Because international commodities don't work that way. They're priced according to supply and demand, with cost of production and transportation as a limiter on supply. The supply of middle eastern oil has been drastically reduced to Europe, which means there's more demand for the oil you do have, one major supplier being Norway.
Ramping up production in response to high prices is slow, expensive, and risky. They'll likely slowly increase production if the state of affairs continues for a long time, but it'll be like the situation when sanctions on Russia began
I mean - sure, if you make the freaking public transport at least a decent option, mister minister. When it costs twice as much as a car, and takes twice as much time to get to work then you can fuck off with your sanctimonious pleading. I don't drive the car because I like to.
Do you have numbers to backup the twice as expensive as driving claim?
But no homeoffice, you MUST drive MORE!
Good fucking luck. We are married to our cars.