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The effect is similar. It allows OSM-based software to easily pull in timetables from operators.

Signal is at least e2e encrypted, so they can't read your messages. But also, I do complain and refuse to use it for important stuff. Matrix/XMPP are much better.

I use https://f-droid.org/packages/xyz.apiote.bimba.czwek . It uses GTFS data from transit operators and is pretty good

Public transport timetables are out of scope of OSM, there is no good way to enter them, they raise copyright concerns, they would quickly be outdated. So OSM is just the wrong tool for the job…

This is not true. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GTFS#Tags

It probably has worse privacy than e-mail or IRC, because it has the same level of encryption (transport encryption only, i.e. Telegram LLC can read your messages), but it also requires a phone number to use, linking your account to your real identity. In short, do not use it for communications if you desire them to be private.

Even if we ignore the blatant "chinaman bad", this doesn't make any sense. Why would they disappear people? This would still be a great outcome for them even with 80% success rate or something. The only difference between 80% and 100% is a tiny bit of nerd cred in recreational science communities. Even the logistical effort of "disappearing" people, while keeping everyone quiet about it, is clearly not worth the benefit here, let alone the potential international scandal.

I am able to find joy in science and life in general. I will state it in a different way: this is not something the average person needs to worry/think about, unless they are interested themselves.

The original tweet (or whatever this is) has the same energy to me as "are we just gonna ignore ?". For people who are interested: they are likely already aware; for people who are not interested: it's safe to ignore it.

In the grand scheme of things:

• We're turbofucking the climate, even though we've understood the warming effects of CO₂ for 170 years, and had viable solutions to climate change for like 50. And yet we're increasing CO₂ emissions year after year. It's not certain the human civilization as it currently is will survive the next century.
• We're throwing non-biodegradable plastics everywhere, even though we've known for like 50 years that it is devastating for many ecosystems and human health.
• Capitalism is squeezing the global working class ever harder with each passing day, and yet class consciousness is not growing fast enough, despite us scientifically understanding the unsustainability and evils of capitalism for like 160 years.

So yeah, in that grand scheme of things, making models of the larger universe is not actually that important. First we need to make use of the discoveries made way over a century ago.

Wasn't this the main selling point of the cybertruck, almost verbatim?

This is a really cool photo. Thanks for sharing!

Far from the worst shit to happen under capitalism, especially since it seems randomized in this case and not dependent on user's characteristics or history. Using discounts as a way to study consumer behavior has been happening since forever, and I'd argue it would be useful even under socialism. The only issue here is lack of transparency into the whole thing, but it could be trivially fixed by some legislation that requires a price history to be shown for every item, and personalized discounts be declared separately and in an easy-to-understand way. E.g. if this was clearly marked as "eggs are $4.50, but we are offering you a personal discount of $1" this story would seem like a nothing-burger.

To me, it's simple.

Crash out in the evening, be gone in the morning? A bed in a dormitory will do fine.

Stay for a few nights, go out every day to see the city/hike/etc? Gimme a cheap hotel room with a shared bathroom.

A longer stay for a workation/etc? Get a cheap apartment (at least a studio with a bathroom and a kitchen), because going out to eat fucking sucks.