"Accessibility." It mainly refers to computer accessibility (like websites and apps). Ironic that a common word for accessibility is inaccessible to people who don't know what it means
I agree, very weird. I thought i18n was some weird sound thing that I hadn't figured out yet. "'eye-eighteen-ehn' isn't too far from 'internationalization', I guess"
The part about going to your job is totally valid. Some jobs can be worked remotely or partly remotely now, but that doesn't apply to all professions, so that is something to keep in mind.
In terms of not being able to realistically change the current cities, many of the best walkable cities prioritized cars first and then changed. It took decades, but they eventually achieved it.
There's this presentation I found after doing some research on the 15-minute cities conspiracy theory, and it was a really interesting talk about how towns and cities can be changed into slower, more accessible ones. It's an hour long but there's a 5 minute segment where it discusses cases where cities have changed from car-based to a more walkable one, in this case Amsterdam and Pontevedra (in Spain).
I recommend checking it out. Here's a link with the timestamp of the start of the section about those cities:
In the section before this one, he discusses the cost of other transport modes versus cars. Building and maintaining infrastructure for cars is waaaaay more expensive than for other methods, so cost isn't an issue. I've included the slide below.
That's fair enough. I also own a car, but I try to use alternative means of transport (bus, bike, walk, skateboard) whenever possible. It's the prioritisation of cars over all other modes of transport where I have the issue. My city is riddled with car filled streets criss-crossing all over. There's a plan to take one of the most shop focused streets and make it walkable. It would mean that I would be able to get to work almost the whole way on it. I hope it goes through
I get what you're trying to say but anthropomorphic literally means "having form like a man" so it kind of just reads like "every animal made to resemble a human is some kind of animal-human hybrid"
Yikes, I've never seen these ones before but I hope they're confined to the back alleys of the internet and you don't see them too much