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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Does this still happen? The last time this happened to me I think I was about 9 and they couldn't have been much older. I think I was wearing a 311 shirt. And that was in like 1993 when 'poser' was just about the meanest thing you could call someone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I honestly can't stand slowly scrolling and waiting for the text to appear. What a terrible design choice.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we start archiving stuff somewhere that doesn't block firefox?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you ever experienced actual snow? Like, four feet deep with a frozen crust on top? You're not plowing that with your feet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

They won't if you get rid of cars. Good luck plowing with a bike.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Skis would probably be more reasonable at certain times of year, but the terrain between cities isn't exactly designed for skiing.

I know you want American infrastructure to not necessitate some sort of vehicle bigger than a bike, but it literally just does. Wanting it won't make the change, and making unrealistic suggestions will remain just as ineffective as making no suggestions at all.

Accessibility is also more or less non-existent with these proposed solutions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

If you tried to bike in heavy snow here your entire tire would literally be buried. Especially if there were no plows.

There are, in fact, places that get real snow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There's some good information in this article, but I would have appreciated it being a little less of an ad for a podcast.

The title implies that we're going to hear from scientists about their opinions, but all we actually get in its body is a single quote from one scientist as the literal tagline. Talk about clickbait.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

In some places. But if you're in a non-metropolitan area somewhere that it gets cold and snowy, you're going to need a vehicle to bring you directly to your house unless maybe you're downtown, and it's going to need to have four wheel drive or at least enough weight to grip the snow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I just want to, for a moment, shed some light on the mental disconnect here for Ms. Clifford.

This is a person who literally ran CNBC's climate change desk. She is, then, ostensibly aware of all the same information any of the rest of us have about climate change.

And yet, she seems to think we can somehow have a world where everybody can casually fly to Istanbul or some other place they've never been every single year, and that'll be sustainable. Or if she doesn't think it's sustainable, she's still totally fine using her own financial position to do it anyway.

If this is how people who actually focus their careers on climate change think, we're pretty fucked.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Have you not seen like, housing projects? High rises? Run down old apartments? Everybody who doesn't have the kind of money you do doesn't live like they do anyway. Like, in terms of transportation, I spend my whole work day driving people around who don't really have the money to spend on a cab but have the money to spend on a car even less.

That doesn't mean they manage to pretend they're rich anyway, it means they make sacrifices you've probably never once in your life had to think about.

When they do splurge to make themselves briefly comfortable, it's at the cost of more sacrifices that you don't have to deal with anymore if you ever did. And then they get to deal with people rolling their eyes about how financially irresponsible they are.

Meanwhile the same people who make six figures are literally relying on people who make minimum wage in order to make their own lives convenient. And yet somehow that's supposed to end up with everyone magically living like you?

You live in a fantasy world. Not everybody has the time or the money to prioritize spending several hours cooking. Not everybody is left with enough energy by the end of their minimum wage no benefit grind of a day that you expect them to tolerate in order to sustain your hunger for little conveniences like places to go buy fresh food to cook for your family.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Kinda sounds like you're rich. I'm definitely not.

Wanna help? I can probably make an amount of money that you barely sneeze at go absurdly far.

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