Lennard @ Lennard @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I think our shared goal is easily accessible modes of transportation for everyone. Sadly cars are quite exclusive (elderly, children, drunk people, poor people...) and have a big negative impact on the environment (pollutants, noise, space required to park them 23 hours per day and much more).

You correctly picked up on the conflict between people living in the city and people living in the suburbs. People driving into the city makes the city a more dangerous, noisier and worse place to live in wich results in even more people (who can afford it) moving to the "quiet and peaceful" suburbs.

That said we can't blame people for making rational choices for their lives. We need to create a society where taking the train or moving near your workplace (in Europe most people live within 5 to 10km of their workplace) is a viable and comfortable option for the individual.

For your specific case it seems that you're best option is to rely on a small, pre-owned, efficient car. That said there are still some things you can do to reduce your negative impact. -Most importantly take part in your local politics. A small grocery store or some form of public transportation would make life easier for many folks in your community

• Buy in bulc so that you can cut your grocery trips in half
• Use park and ride when driving into a city. We would be really happy about cleaner air, quieter streets and more space for people instead of cars

While a country connected by train sounds unrealistic and futuristic for most Americans the exact opposite is the case. The US ran on trains for the most part of its history. Almost every town built before 1940 had a train station at some point in time.

That looks great. Now I'm considering printing my own case 😄

For some people the vocabulary can be helpful to put into words how their feeling, for others it's not.

Don't worry, you're valid regardless of the vocabulary you choose to describe yourself

That's true, but I'm not a programmer and on a GitHub project with 3 stars I can't count on someone else doing it. (Of course this argument doesnt apply to big projects like libre office) With Microsoft I can at least trust that they will be in trouble or at least get bad press when doing something malicious.

While I generally agree, the project needs to be big enough that somebody looks through the code. I would argue Microsoft word is safer than some l small abandoned open source software from some Russian developer

We are definitely off to a good start :D Still there are starting to show problematic signs

In some news communities people are obviously upvoting news article based on nothing more than the headline. This creates an environment where only articles with polarizing headlines succeed, and a real discussion becomes impossible