LwL

Yeah, lots of correct observations, but also lots of wrong conclusions. I'd even argue the very first point about culture is very relevant, because japanese culture inherently puts a small bit of breaks on the aspects of capitalism that spiral out of control (they have tons of hypercapitalist issues too, though).

I think it's correct that having private companies compete has certain advantages in railway infrastructure, if the right framework is given. Imagine someone from here was to start a railway company - they would know about induced demand, about the importance of having frequent service even at times of lower demand to enable rail as primary transport. They wouldn't have to convince rightoids that spending public money on that is worth it, they could just do it and see the results. In general the good thing about markets is that they enable less planning overhead as everyone focuses on their own thing. Loosely some sort of swarm intelligence.

But none of that will ever work when cars are effectively subsidized and even private rail companies would still be beholden to massive political hurdles for building new lines. Though especially the latter is a real question about tradeoffs of benefit for society vs. individual preference with no single correct answer.

2km in 20 minuten ist definitiv sehr schnell für die meisten. Das sind immerhin 6km/h. Das werden meistens doch eher 30-40. Aber dafür gibts im Zweifelsfall dann Fahrräder...

Wenn die da von "wir machen quasi einen shuttleservice" reden, frag ich mich auch, ob da die entsprechende Nahverkehrsanbindung auch existiert. Glaub zwar fast, dass die sich dafür einfach zu gut finden, aber würd mich auch nich wundern, wenn sich da dann doch mal verplant wurde.

Aber wenn die Leute dann über Parkplatzmangel meckern, wenn es trotzdem noch imo ziemlich viele 0.75 Parkplätze pro Person gibt, statt über mangelnden Nahverkehr, scheint das Problem dann doch eher bei den Anwohnern zu sein.

You can even have a child be the abuser. One community I'm in had a case of a 13 year old lying about their age and manipulating MULTIPLE older teenagers. People are just complex.

It can be rather helpful for some things but I've yet to see any actual data supporting it being "substantially faster". To make something that works and is of equal quality, that is.

I mean if you're just making the same slightly different website for different customers or similarly boilerplate stuff, I'm sure it's substantial. But that's not really most of dev.

It's honestly insane that (even as rarely as it's relevant for a european) this thread is the first I heard of "latine". All that discourse about latinx and NOW finally I'm being told that there's been a less stupid attempt at a solution before that. Finally I can stop feeling weird as I'm trying to decide whether to just say latinos as I have no idea what the socially accepted word is in the context I'm in. I can just say latine.

Because it is, somehow, an actually very well made game. One of those things where I first just learned about the anime and just thought that sounds dumb, but man the game is actually fun. Also the recent spinoff anime series (cinderella gray) was actually just a very good sports anime.

For "Trump", I can see how everything turns into the same shit, that's really just how it was taught to some people. But i have no idea where the a, l, and d of Donald are supposed to be. Unless that says Donny?

~~honestly my own signature is far worse but he deserves to be shit on anyway~~

Yaoi is just gay anime/manga stories (including a lot of porn). Usually in a specific style, with archtypes of men. Traditionally more female-targeted.

It stands for cruiser, technically.

Yeah, should be some scheduled thing with maybe a few therapy sessions or something first (so people don't just do it from a random shitty day), but it really doesn't have to be your problem that others would rather you live. Unless you have kids still depending on you, because that's someone you're actually responsible for.