LovesTha🥧 @ LovesTha @floss.social

A melbournian with many interests:

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@ExtremeDullard thinner first layer (many profiles default to a thicker first layer), colour sequence too.

Those would be the first things I'd try.

@stray @turtlesareneat erecting fences to prevent unsafe crossings is usually done way before adequate crossing options are given.

@TerranFenrir @mondoman712 the strength requirements for rails are much lower on the moon. I would also assume movement isn't going to be driven by the wheels (low gravity gives low friction), so that isn't a driving concern either (pun fully intended)

@kameecoding enjoying and it being taxing aren't really relayed. Driving takes effort that sitting on a bus doesn't

@WaterFoul you don't get all the benefit till all the pieces are there.

@Dalaryous @GlobalLiberty tiny cars only reduce parking space, they take up essentially the same amount of road at speed.

@WaterFoul @TipsyMcGee I think you over estimate how much needs to be rebuilt. Just replacing shopping strips with low rise homes with ground floor retail and allowing for housing in fill around them gets you there. Building an excellent bus interchange in the giant carpark is easy too.

@kameecoding @pineapple yes, spending all your day driving is exhausting. With good PT that day of errands is quite enjoyable.

@WoodScientist @buzz86us I wouldn't advocate doing it in that order, but you are right.

@LvInSaNevL @Malfeasant I'm happy to limit the 'no personal cars' to areas that are 1/4 acre blocks and below. (Remembering that a 1/4 acre block gets back a substantial amount of useful land when you delete the driveway, so blocks all become 'bigger' in such a system)

Places that are substantially less dense than that do benefit from cars. But that isn't that large a % of people, while it is a very large % of the land mass.

@faythofdragons @pineapple shitty PT is not the goal. Yes there are PT systems that are shit, that doesn't mean good PT is worse than good individual car ownership (something I've never heard of), it just means shitty PT need to be less shitty.

@pseudo @jaggedcircle It had a pretty good viewership in Australia too. I think it did pretty well in a lot of countries.

@Ghost33313 @GlobalLiberty And that applies to 0 Cybertruck owners.

@9point6 @scrubbles the $500 a month for a second hand lease?

Converting that to Aussie, we'll call it $800 a month. My wife visits the office twice a week, by Uber at 8pm her one way commute would be $42. That is safely an under estimate as peak traffic makes that much worse.

2 x 2 x 4 = 16 trips a month is $672 a month on taxi's for that commute. A commute that is infrequent, and less than half the distance to the city from our suburb.

Yes that is before other car costs, but other trips too

@RandAlThor Australia first, we are already in the ESC ;)

@Almacca @GlobalLiberty Yep, and someone should be in jail for it.

But also, nothing will happen, Tesla will keep failing.

@culpritus @krakenfury I mean they think that driving a car 4 hours to work is a sane solution.

Yes we need less cars, but leaving cars more dangerous isn't the better interim solution.

While cars have always travelled at speed at night, till modern headlights they were just reckless.

It is another reason cycling infrastructure should be seperated: so headlights can be shielded.

@ltxrtquq @takeda (I can't watch the video, so I'm going off just the image)

Imagine how pissed that driver would be if they were actually following what the driver probably thinks they should be doing: riding single file next to the kerb.

The long queue of bikes would prevent the driver turning onto the road for so long.

@jaggedcircle @TheDrink reliable condition testing of batteries may be a big deal