bluGill

Water is very common. Others might or might not work. Most ofthe others are rare. (Amonia is not rare, I have no idea how useful it might be)

Water is extreemly common in the universe. It also enables a lot of useful chemistry that complex molecules need. In turn it is reasonable to expect water is part of all life - not a given but most of the other options rely on something far less likely to occure.

This assumes there is life. Not a debate I'm touching. Although if there is physics is against us ever discovering it. Even if earth is an extreem outlier in taking so long to develop intelligent life and every other star has it in a few hundred years few will never detect another lifeform

Why would you think that? Ukraine is doing okay now but they have a lot of ground to win. Russia has made it clear they don't care about the cost to then and so they will grind on so long as they have any land, and maybe longer

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.

If the bread is good you don't need any of those additives

I mostly make sourdough - instant yeast really is instant when that is your compare.

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.

You really have bought into the echo chamber if you believe that.

There are bad people on both the right and left wing. However the majority on either side are not bad. Most (on both sides) have not thought deeply about the effects of if their ideas really were done in the real world. (A few have and have decided the downsides are worth accepting, but if you are not aware of the downsides and intentionally accepting of those as the least bad compromise you are part of the problem) We can disagree on which downsides are not bad enough to ignore - but everything has downsides.

I didn't realize that about clients. (apparently since I last checked some instances have an algorithm as well). That makes downvotes from just annoying and demotivating to active censorship. There is a large number of people who will downvote anything they disagree with, and if clients or instances use that as a signal it really is harming discussions.

Bikes are already at the limit. We need transport options for longer distances that are not a lot worse than a car.

Problem is you are now in an echo chamber of left wing hate. Oi course the hate of the left wing is different form right wing - but just at evil

There is no algorithyn. There needs to be but the cultrure is opposed and has made downvote not a useful signal. Downvote here means 'I disagree with this insightful comment'. Most other places downvote means 'this is trash just one step above so bad the mods should delete it'

some of the mods (.ml) are famious for their delete anything they desagree with.