nivenkos @ nivenkos @lemmy.world

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But in Spain there are not connections to most places outside cities, like most smaller towns don't even have rail connections, nevermind going to the countryside and touristic places.

Yeah, it's okay between cities (although AVE is expensive), but that's my point - it's only cities.

I live in one of the cities with the "best" public transport in the world. But it's impossible for one of my friends to get to her night shift outside the city by public transport. It's like a train for 40 minutes, and then an infrequent bus and then walking - all as a lone woman at night.

Or a 30 minute drive... in the safety of your own car.

I don't see how public transport could ever be "improved" to solve that, it becomes increasingly expensive to cover every destination.

Nevermind the fact that most of the anti-car people are the same ones pushing for rehabilitative "justice", defunding the police and weak sentencing - that's not making walking at night and public transport any safer!

Yeah, a while ago, it even made small national news haha - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-47357564

There were more articles in the Scottish papers but I can't find them now (especially now so much is removed from Google News, etc.! )

I bet you own a car though.

Cars are freedom. You can go anywhere, anytime, without worrying about a delayed schedule or how many connections you'd need to get exactly where you're going.

You can listen to your own music and carry as much as you like, without worrying about someone trying to steal it or altercations with the public.

I agree we need electric cars, but anti-car policy is ultimately just trapping people in cities, allowing the rich to still enjoy their cars from commuter towns, etc. whilst the working class are stuck in overcrowded pod apartments. This is literally the reality in a lot of Spain, Sweden, etc. where you're lucky to get even a 70m2 apartment and parking is extortionate.

Wow, this looks really fun I'd never heard of it. Have you played Octopath Traveller?

Yeah, I keep Slay The Spire installed too.

Wildermyth is fun too but unfortunately the performance is awful.

They might have import tariffs though - like Brazil and Argentina.

Even just paying the extra VAT on imports is painful in Sweden (25%).

I never beat the final boss, like the game is relatively easy up to that point and then it's a huge difficulty spike.

Posing as a buyer to recover my ex-gf's stolen laptop from when our flat was burgled. The sellers were a family and one of them was a clear drug addict, and they kept a huge dog in a cage in the middle of their apartment.

Fortunately they were stupid and I got all the evidence needed, and the police did raid them and recover our stuff (and many other peoples' from other burglaries, and also tens of thousands of pounds worth of drugs).

But that feeling of being scared they'd recognise me somehow once i was inside their flat, and looking at the laptop trying to get the serial number, etc. and hiding my shaking hands - all with a huge dog in a cage a few feet away - was crazy.

Maybe with self-driving cars it'll be more doable as the cars can drive themselves to-and-from their hubs and charging point, etc.

But we're still a while away from that being widely achievable.

In Europe the roads and parking are nightmare in most places, so I'm not really a huge fan of it, but it's really the only option for freedom for the foreseeable future.

Sadly the likeliest outcome will just be governments continuing to make it more and more expensive to get a licence, own and insure a car, drive in cities or on motorways, etc. until it becomes the reserve of the wealthy again, just like they're steadily doing with air fares too (increasing air fuel duty whilst exempting private jets). So the rich can drive their SUVs and private jets whilst the working class are trapped in overcrowded cities, in their tiny pod apartments eating bugs all in the name of the environment.

Just unsubscribe / block those communities and posters.

I do it for all political content.

Spotify works fine on Linux and Android, with Premium you can even use spotify-tui etc.

I don't see any reason to switch tbh, they haven't even ramped up the price like Netflix, etc.

Or drive electric, and minimise your meat consumption - this is much more feasible.

I don't drive and live in one of the cities with the best public transportation in the world, but am still looking to get a car because public transport is still terrible. E.g. if you need to pick up or return something, or to take one of my friends to work who works outside the city and at night.

A car is required to live freely, otherwise you're just trapped in cities.

I'm not opposed to renewables at all, the progress in solar power has been awesome.

But I think the scalability is hard, both in providing a reliable baseload, and also producing all of the solar panels for example. I don't think it's insurmountable though.

Ideally we use all of them - we need more electricity than ever. "Degrowth" is the real enemy.

Literally everything that isn't investing in Nuclear Fusion and electrification.

Also incineration as "energy recycling" - https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/waste-energy-controversial-power-generation-incineration

I'd also recommend Lufia 2, Chrono Trigger, and even Secret of Mana and Shadowrun (SNES version especially) in the same vein.

Do you think not a single Ukraine soldier has not done something immoral or illegal? Yet we support them.

This isn't the winning argument you think it is...

The US should stop playing world police. And usually it was for propping up United Fruit, etc. with dictatorships, not actually helping those small nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos_Erres_massacre

The details are horrific.

All supported by the USA too.

EDIT: The US + Israel provided the weapons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efra%C3%ADn_R%C3%ADos_Montt#Support_from_US_and_Israel

I've had mine since launch, I've used it less this year since my company cut all travel, but I'd definitely recommend it.

Mainly I use it as a home console, since I don't have another console and it's great having all the Steam library right there. I set up Heroic Games Launcher and play Rocket League quite often.

I'd thought of getting an Xbox before as it's also okay with Game Pass for just playing something on the TV to relax. But it seems that's really going to end up like Netflix with the decreasing quality and increasing price, and paying 500+ EUR to be locked into that doesn't seem great.

Then what really sealed the deal was when I visited my brother and we couldn't watch the World Cup on the Xbox. Like you have some of the best hardware in the world, and can't stream video because they lock it down so much. Whereas the Steam Deck is so versatile.