Imagine if human civilisation got to modern day’s level back then. I wonder what the climate change deniers would say about the desertification…

Or paid their employees properly instead of diverting that funds to shareholders.

You could finance 5 labourers with the salary of one CEO earning €200,000. And with universal and free healthcare and education with affordable housing, €40,000 becomes a lot worth.

Oops, thanks, corrected!

They kind of already exist, see xenobots

He looks like Netanyahu

Most of Houston is parking spots. Unwalkable and unbicycleable, little greenery. Gets scorching hot.

No, that’s socialism - benefit for the community. Under capitalism, it’s a principle of putting profit before people, rather than the inverse.

Fairphone with the necessary hardware to support GOS would be the dream ngl…

if possible they could have two models, one focusing on sustainability and another on privacy

Wondering if ever in the future we’ll be able to reverse brain death…

Where’s the corruption?

Again, that is a policy failure. Do not blame the public transit & pro-walkability/bicycleability organisations, but the car lobbies.

Also, c’mon, a car is more expensive to maintain - it impoverishes you more. You have to pay for petrol/electricity/hydrogen, have to face traffic jams and still focus during travel, find parking spots, waste a ton of your local currency on paying it off, and so on.

I understand it’s a situation people are stuck into in there but still, it’s an abject policy failure from elected corrupt politicians who are deep in petrol and asphalt’s pockets.

And there it hits again: the core of the issue is not the bus agency, but the lack of support for excellent public transit.

Build another car lane, it gets filled up immediately.

Build a bus lane, have buses drive regularly between areas of cities, connect cities with each other by train, and you’ll see it’s much better. Lack of bus lanes, bicycle lanes and paths, trains, is an abject policy failure caused by short-sighted capitalist lobbyists.

But yes, I don’t blame the agency nor you. I however do blame those politicians that claim “there’s not enough funding”. Yeah no, the cars get a lot of funding already. From building and renewing shittons of roads to building gigantic parking spots that heat up everyday in summer, car lease fraud schemes, and more.

What man needs, is much better public transit, actually walkable cities, and bicycle lanes. China can do it and that’s a big country. The EU can do it and that’s not even a country, but many relatively bourgeoise democratic countries that together are as big as the US. Switzerland can do it and that has mountaineous as fuck, rural areas.

Most people do live in cities, yes. I live in a town with like ‘only’ 20k people and yet there’s decent public transit.

Cars and their lobbies are the problem.

A few minutes in a traffic jam? Pah, that isn’t a traffic jam. They last for far longer.

I never need to wait an hour for a bus - at most it’s 20 min and that’s late in the evening. Buses also aren’t subject to traffic jams as they have their own bus lanes.

I think it’s a big sign of societal poverty when people are condemned to cars!

… buses don’t come hourly there. They come far more often. When they don’t come often, the cause is petro-oligarchs and car lobbyists trying to defund public transit by bribing politicians.

A car steals more time and money; having to look for a parking spot, having to focus constantly in traffic, literally indebting yourself to car subscriptions, and so on. Cars and anti-human, stroad-focused infrastructure are a cause of poverty.

Waiting for buses is not poverty. Being in traffic jams and stuck to using a car is, however.

Paypal is dogshit though, it for example doesn’t let you communicate with customer service if you’re unable to log in. And god forbid you cannot call.

Literal skill issue, is what I’m hearing.

I see plenty people biking multiple km, even elderly people. You just need to bike more.

Roads can be salted and cleared?

Inb4 “but muh car can drive anywhere, what about rural shit areas” Yeah no I don’t see a car driving somewhere if it has snowed too much there either.

Also put up a camera ANYWHERE they go. No disabling. Let them face their own consequences.

Private texts? Donations? Stocks? Ok, all of that is confiscated and published.