Pup Biru

mate, i’m from australia and yall have no idea what distance means… we still have no need for your bullshit tank tanks

yeah that doesn’t exist in australia either… those trailers probably came after the truck: there’s no need… transport 1-2 horses or rent a commercial company to transport them… nobody is transporting horses that often they need that stupid ass truck to be produced at commercial volumes

the upsetting part is that the body would fit under and the windscreen and above - the fragile parts - would get hit by the bulk of the truck… cars are made to crumple on their noses etc - nasty gore scenes ensue

in australia, i make sure to kick and dent every yank tank i see. its not often - we have more of the smaller pickups (though we call them utes)

The first people pay the the roads so everyone can use it

if we reset road costs from right now, the people using the roads have got a lot for free from general taxation… i think it’s fair that their current payment - rego, fuel excise, etc - covers both maintenance and investment… the original investment has already been paid many times over by other people

The first people pay the the roads so everyone can use it

roads exist… i think everyone here isn’t arguing for reparations, just “for the future”

if you a want the fire truck to get to your burning house doing 50mph you need to help with roads

okay but that’s the beauty of currency: the fire department pays for roads like everyone else, and that means the fire department budget gets increased, and probably taxes to match (though overall eliminating taxes to cover roads would probably come out in the wash mostly)… i don’t think anyone here is against paying a bit to ensure emergency services can fulfil their mission, but paying for roads is an indirect way of doing that

what if there’s a cheaper way of providing emergency services? in the case where we are subsidising roads, we’re artificially saying almost that the fire department must use them… to do anything else would be a cost, where roads are free… the fire department like anyone else should pay for their costs, and find the most efficient solutions

Again I’m asking for common sense.

no, you’re asking for status quo… if you took all the money allocated to roads and either gave tax cuts (which would mostly get gobbled up by increases in goods to cover the cost of transport), or redirect to emergency services (which would go toward paying for roads that they use), then people have the choice to buy goods and services that don’t use roads rather than artificially making roads the cheap option

the ROI of public transport is difficult to quantify though… things like social mobility, etc… we shouldn’t be thinking about public transport in terms of ROI - its quality of life improvement for the entire city

i’d tape a screw driver to the battery… the tiny drivers you’d need for modern phones could be tiny: look at the sim ejectors… that, but as a screw driver

Remind me why we allowed this much consolidation of the industry?

because telecom is somewhat of a natural monopoly (cables for sure; wireless less so, but for wireless you still need cables and spectrum)

and this is the key point i think: it would be incredibly easy to transition to this system, because the easy way is simply allowing people to pay extra for a “street parking” version that’s essentially paying extra for road maintenance to “rent” the street spot… nothing changes except there are no externalities, and there’s control over the situation: over time you can disincentivise street parking and eventually drive it down to acceptable levels

you can buy a house for cash every 3 years in the UK from that much money

yeah every 3 years is too much!

… well, tax so

every 5 years then!

… oh right rent he’d pay in the interim

fine every 7 years!

… ahhhh food costs money too!

okay okay every 8 years!

… i guess people do tend to pay bills

every 9 years!

… it’s not reasonable to be a shut in for those 6 years and being social costs money

every 10 years!

that’s it guys! can’t call out people for their negative characteristics any more! positive only from now on! and if you don’t comply you’re ableist! got it? wait… now… is ableist negative? SHIT GUYS SHIT

a helicopter crash in a populated area has a high likelihood of collateral damage

yeah for sure… i get it with apple one because i actively use music, drive, and tv+… certainly wouldn’t subscribe to it on its own, because you’re absolutely right: it’s too much of a hassle

there are many ways to fulfil this “obligation”… i’d argue that he’s increasing alphabet stock price in the short term but long term what the fuck is going to happen when the sources all go out of business?

… oh right they’re going to become a news monopoly… cool cool cool

regardless, i think there’s an argument to be made with all this “we are evil because it’s our legal duty to shareholders” that evil is a bad long-term choice. i think boeing is the prime example: if they weren’t “too big to fail” they’d be fucked because of their short term thinking

it’s a little annoying but i find searching for the article title generally produces the right result in the news app

after using it for a bit, i’d say in most cases i agree: bit of a nothing burger in a lot of cases (to the point where a few times i’ve thought it was bugged and reverted to the old UI style… it wasn’t), but it’s pretty great when it comes to apps where the UI is secondary (content etc)… the diffraction in the UI rather than a blur makes the whole UI able to be ignored much easier, and IMO it’s still about as legible in most real scenarios

feeling sad is literally mental health… feeling overwhelmed is mental health… if you’re sad and need a day to take a breath when everyone else is leaving you alone because they’re working, you should be able to just do that no questions asked…

“feeling sad” can very easily turn into depression and burnout, and depression can very very quickly turn far FAR worse

mental health IS HEALTHCARE, and your emotions - including just “feeling sad” and “i just can’t today” are just as important as having a cold

is it not?… there are several services like this in australia… they even have specialties: we have multiple for queers even

that’s absolutely true too! there are multiple parties who share the responsibility… as always, the world is complex and rarely are things black and white

but also, spending energy on prevention (the publicity) and then when the thing doesn’t occur saying “i guess we were wrong” is the wrong take i think

same thing with Y2K and plenty of engineering things: people were saying “it was no big deal! yall were saying planes were going to fall out of the sky! we wasted so much time and money!”… yeah; it was a huge and expensive effort that’s why the bad things didn’t happen