zephyreks @ zephyreks @lemmy.ca

Posts

8

Comments

635

Joined

2 yr. ago

It's a failure of neoliberalism as an ideology.

The principle of "I want to make money" already discourages SFH. Unfortunately, that's offset by zoning laws that inhibit the ability to make money.

"We don't have the funding that the US government does... How exactly do you propose Canada will fund the creation of 15 minute cities?"

Do you know how much maintenance and regulation goes into airplane management? All those regulations have been written blood.

Trolley buses do exist...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_buses_in_Vancouver

... what is?

You mean... The US and Russia?

Not even China does this.

How have nuclear weapons helped us against invasive and terrorist actions?

Has it somehow stopped conflicts between major powers (NATO, Russia, China)? No more than would be expected from countries that don't really order each other and aren't pursuing aggressive territorial expansion that threaten each other.

Has it ended all wars? Obviously not, given that Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine all happened.

Has a nuclear deterrent made nations more peaceful? No, but globalization has.

A nuclear deterrent exists solely to discourage other nuclear-bearing countries from trying to cripple you. The only steady-state for this is that everyone who is under threat by a nuclear-bearing country will eventually develop nuclear weapons.

In recent history: the Americans because of the Nazis, the Soviets because of the Americans, the British because of the Soviets, the French because of the Soviets (and, to some degree, the British), the Chinese because of the Americans AND the Soviets (they really got unlucky here), the Israelis because of literally everyone (extra unlucky), the Indians because of the Chinese, the Pakistanis is because of the Indians, and the North Koreans because of the Americans. And of course, today Iran is trying to build up a nuclear arsenal to combat Israel's nuclear arsenal.

All your policy will do is incentivize everyone to develop nuclear weapons.

That's not what the OP said, though. They mentioned war crimes AND tear gas.

Google should be finding searches with "lemmy" keyword, but it isn't at the moment.

Lemmy needs some SEO people.

In theory, the charging cost only needs to be spent on ignition.

It already is, looking at recent flooding.

Real question, why did you take a job that required a 3-4 hour commute?

And, y'know, it's now politically unpopular to accept Chinese money. I guess it's better to just not accept money and not get infrastructure built?

Man's gotta avoid getting run over somehow.

Sounds like something China can pioneer and that the West will adopt a decade or so later after China shows it really does have no major side effects.

Isn't Pichai's compensation mostly tied to stock?

It's... Not really the same thing, because being the CEO of the company ties the hands behind his back if he wants to actually use his stock compensation.

Edit: for any Google SWE making <100k, just move to the US, man. The pay is so much higher it's not even funny.

An 8% raise to bring people back to office sounds like a reasonable cost tbh

Isn't the whole point of dense urban development so that you can avoid going outside for too long?

Even in the US, Las Vegas showed how to connect independent complexes together without forcing people to go outside.

It's insanely bad. Hell, Canada has shown that public transit is viable with the North American development model, but the US simply refuses to invest money into public works.

Vancouver SkyTrain and Montreal REM/Metro are both fast, highly efficient subway systems that are able to navigate single-family housing development. Why can't the US?