anachrohack @ anachrohack @lemmy.world Posts 1Comments 54Joined 2 wk. ago
I think people fear violent death more than they fear accidental death. If american cities want more people to ride public transportation, they need to clean up public transportation. If you've been outside of the US you see how countries with far fewer resources than us do a lot more with their public transportation.
They're cleaner, less noisy, and the police will actually do something about antisocial behavior on the trains. Until we have something like that in thr US, I will avoid taking the bus
Launched his 2028 presidential campaign
I don't know why you're so offended at someone having a different opinion than you
1, other than my home country. I spent 5 weeks in Thailand. Thailand is a great place, I could live there
Sure why not
The federal government can print its own money and therefore can pay for its debt with modest and predictable increases in inflation. The states cannot.
Is charging for online play not common anymore? I was paying for Xbox live last time I owned an Xbox in like 2009.
Because I don't think there's a point to living without reproduction. Everything else is living a pointless life of minor hedonism and disappearing into oblivion at the end.
I don't think doing so is immoral, just pointless
One of these things is not like the other
This is a gross simplification. Public transportation IS full of mentally ill people and the homeless, and lots of women feel unsafe on busses and trains. It's not the rich who prefer personal vehicle transport; everyone does
This policy is called rent control and it doesn't work. New York has it and rent is still astronomical. All you would do is eliminate any incentive to build new housing, which is the actual source of the problem
This doesn't solve the problem, which is the lack of new supply. The real solution is to deregulate zoning
I believe antinatalism is a dire mistake, and the highest thing someone can aspire to be is a parent
Did you expect them to keep 1990s pricing forever?