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Comment Re:Hostile environments (Score 1) 634

I'm often offended by people (and this is likely an army mentality thing) who complain about problems instead of actually dealing with them and I do admit, I think I have used that argument before in such situations as I felt that if it's a real problem worth pursuing, one would do something instead of talking about it.

No. If you only do and never talk you will never understand what other people think.

Comment Re:Why isn't public transport 'free'? (Score 1) 198

Anyways, what you need to do is look at all these costs and decide if it makes sense. It might be cheaper and have more impact to simply subsidize the heck out of plug-in hybrids, or develop a Zipcar style system.

Cars costs a lot, especially in space, that is the biggest subsidize you get. Sure it's a sunk cost for all apartments and houses, but it's still something that we pay a lot of money to maintain and extend. Individual cars will never ever be cheap, it might seem like it's cheap if you think that everyone should have one.

Comment Re: Too bad there's so much car ownership there... (Score 1) 198

And the issue here is pollution, not traffic. These shared cars are electric, so not a problem.

In the spring lots of particles are released from the road, those particles have slowly accumulated during a long period of wet weather. Decreasing traffic reduces the amount of those particles that are launched up into the air, not by much, but hopefully enough to not be fined for it. I guess electric cars help a bit but not enough by a long shot.

There are three ways to solve mobility in cities

1. walk
2. public transport
3. bikes

Trying to use cars for personal transport has failed for all cities that has tried it.

Comment Re:What part of "Consent" Don't You Understand? (Score 1) 311

Who is to define what is and isn't art and speech? You? Me?

This is humiliation. This is malice. This is revenge. This is greed. This is crime. Revenge porn

Then call it these things. Stop trying to make it something it isn't, and admit you consider stopping these to be much more important than freedom of speech.

Should I be allowed to market stuff with an image of you attach to it? Immaterial rights isn't fun but it does extend quite a lot. Lots of countries have freedom of speech without freedom to sue.

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