Spzi 1y ago • 100%
- I don't believe "there is a god".
- I believe there is no god.
Both are atheism. First is weak/negative, last is strong/positive. The first merely rejects the theist's claim, while the last makes a claim on their own.
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
I know that is bs because I haven’t been there in days and I probably added 100 visits a day to their stats. So they’re at least a couple hundred shy.
The article mentions 55.31 million daily visits (average). You decreased their stats by 0.00018%. Even if all new active lemmy users had your level of activity, the other site would still return to normal. There are just so many other users.
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
I know that I am not back. And I won’t be back, and I think a lot of people are staying away as well. That the traffic is now normal seems a bit sketchy.
I'm afraid that's just bubble bias. Most people just don't care or haven't found a viable alternative yet. These +43k active users on Lemmy are huge for Lemmy, but not even a scratch for the other site.
After the initial exodus at the start of this month, you could see more and more comments demanding returning to business as usual.
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
there’s a bug where voting causes all of them to become uncollapsed at once.
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
Thanks for linking! It is 'closed as completed', but I still get it every time?
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
The title made me think it could not fly. It can fly!
The biggest issue from my point of view: They can only transport one (1) passenger at a time.
Even with 100% renewable energy, that is a wasteful and ineficcient way to move people.
Spzi 1y ago • 91%
Utopia (from Ουτοπία) is an impossible Vision of the future, while Evtopia (from Ευτοπία) is the best possible Vision.
Interesting. I never heard of Evtopia, and I also did not understand Utopia as necessarily impossible. Could be possible or impossible, depends on context.
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/utopia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia#Etymology_and_history
I also don't think being unreachable is necessarily a bad thing. Consider an 'Ideal'. Although some ideals may never be fully actualized, they are seen as something good and worth pursuing nevertheless.
But mostly, I don't think the opinions of proponents or opponents of this idea are swayed by wether we call it Utopia or Evtopia. If anything, using the more common term makes it more relatable.
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You’d think if it was all basic biology we would just have a unique gender for every one wouldn’t you?
Nothing in biology is exactly identical between individuums. A common eye color is brown, although there are as many shades of brown as there are people.
It is just practical and how language, or even perception works, that we tend to categorize similarities, and strongly favor common occurrances over outliers.
the doctor is describing your phenotypic sex based on observable characteristics.
Your doctor is assigning you a gender.
Maybe you two aren't even disagreeing?
I'd say the doctor tries to assign the new born into male or female according to biological sex, and gender is inferred from that.
He calls you either a boy or a girl based on your genital configuration
Yes, that's what I mean. A two-step process. First, biological expression is assessed. Next, based on #1, social gender is inferred.
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
Sorry for being unclear. What I meant is:
These actors play nice until they are too big to ignore [as a presence in the fediverse].
When they run the most and the biggest popular communities on their instances, do most of the development, offer the best tools and services in the fediverse, they have become too big to ignore.
If they then start playing dirty, it is too late to defederate them. They will play dirty. Let's not make ourselves dependent.
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
why would I want to keep in contact with the “head in the sand” people
Forget contacts. Imagine Meta has
- poured way more developing hours in their fork than the FOSS community ever could
- the most effective and easy to use mod tools
- the best search tools for finding communities, topics and everything else (by a margin)
- free instance hosting
- every major wish list feature implemented
- a working feed with endless content you actually find interesting
- a vibrant community for every niche interest you might have
- advanced development so much that it feels a couple versions ahead
The more money they throw at this, the more people will feel tempted to join or at least try their service. It offers objective benefits. It would feel like using lemmy 0.09 when others already enjoy 0.18.
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
Many people still miss their niche topics. Some size is required for certain things to become viable.
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
There’s nothing wrong with Lemmy’s user interface design.
The first step is a UX disaster: https://join-lemmy.org/
Only 2 clicks / pages down the road you can start registering an account, and you don't see what the experience might be before that. Instead, you're being presented tech talk about servers.
You might argue it's not actually lemmy but just the landing page. I argue, it's so good at being a scarecrow, most people visiting lemmy haven't seen anything else except for that page.
The inner lemmy is pretty fine, I agree. Some parts are still confusing. For example, most people will not figure out they can search for content from within a specific community by carefully configuring the drop downs in the general search form. Most will look for the search directly attached to the community.
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
If Meta plays dirty, defederate them then. Now is just too premature.
These actors play nice until they are too big to ignore. If you let them gain that much ground, it's too late to isolate them without doing even more harm to your own network.
Also Meta is not a startup with unknown reputation. Meta plays dirty, that's a given.
> Our tracking system is based on data from firms, a publicly available system set up by America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa), which was originally designed to detect forest fires. We have built a machine-learning algorithm that evaluates the location of each fire detected by firms, and assesses whether or not it is related to the war. It consists of 100 separate models built to predict fire activity in non-war years. If at least 95 of these models agree that the number of fires identified at a given place and time is abnormally high by pre-war standards, the algorithm marks these “extra” fires as war-related. Also explained / showcased in this YouTube video: [The Economist - War in Ukraine: Tracking the fighting with satellites](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r-zQx05Rfk)
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
It's the first and only lemmy app working on my old 2015 android phone.
Great to have backwards compatible options. I also like it :)
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
They are, I get results. My worry is they are not aggregated/unified. Some lemmy instances don't have 'lemmy' in their name, and I'm not sure if they would show up in a search "X + lemmy".
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
Ok, but you can only do that if they already joined the fediverse. I replied to "the powers that be must never be allowed to join the fediverse". It's also questionable if everyone will block them.
Spzi 1y ago • 100%
The article is not about single persons who might be trolls or whatever to qualify as a “bad guy”. But about megacorporations like Meta.
Yes, sorry for being unclear. I meant the bad 'guy' Meta. Maybe continuing with 'entity' would have been better:
we can be sure some entities will join
ensure only good entities enter
The best way to deal with them is-in my opinion-to not cooperate and defederate them as soon as they start to enter.
I tend to agree. Still quite new to the topic.
Spzi 1y ago • 80%
I'm worried this will not be enough in the long run.
Imagine Meta provides more original content, a higher user base, more engagement, more activity. That alone would make it interesting for many other users, further increasing their relative attractivity.
Additionally, they could invest in the codebase, and implement some of the community's dream features, some nice mod tools, search engine discoverability and whatnot. On a fork which lives on their instances, of course. Services which work if you federate with them.
They have the resources to rase the stakes higher and higher. The incentives are objective, real, advantages for users, communitites, mods and admins. Isn't it only a question of time / stake height until significant parts of the fediverse choose to cooperate for various reasons?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/831266 > Hi lemmings, > I switched over from Reddit 10 days ago now but I couldn't find a mobile client that I was happy with with an experience similar to the Reddit experience I was used to. So I decided to build my own and I hope you will like it as well! > > Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect > > Features: > - Material U > - Dark and Light themes > - List view / Card view / Fullwidth view > - Filter lists for hiding posts > - Multiple accounts + switcher across multiple instances > - Guest accounts for viewing an instance without signup > - Search and community autofill > - Markdown support + attempt to navigate links correctly (/u/foo will open that user instead of browser kickout. Same for /c/, !, and @) > - Saving posts > - full sort types > - NSFW view options (hide, blur, show) > - copy text and url on all posts and comments > - add comments, replies, and new posts > - comment replies with line indicators > > Here's other screenshots: > >  > >  > > >  > > >  > > >  > > >  > > Future plans: > - Improving the inbox > - Swipe actions > - Multi-~~reddit ~~communities > > Thank you for taking a look. I hope others who are migrating from Reddit like me will find the app useful and I'd love to know your thoughts! > > Edit: Community for the app is here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect >
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/809126 > If you ran Lemmy or kbin locally as a single user instance with no hosted communities and it was not live all of the time would you miss a lot pushed data? Would this data be pulled later? Would this cause de-federation?
There are instance-independent links to communities, for example: [FindAKbin@kbin.social](/c/FindAKbin@kbin.social). The good thing about it is, it will keep you on your home instance logged in while visiting the target. How to make a similar thing to link to specific posts, or specific comments?
Hi :) Since yesterday, I cannot see posts created by me, in neither view nor search. The posts still exist, but they aren't shown to me. Today, I also noticed the two local communities on lemmy.click apparently have 0 posts. Not sure if these phenomena are connected. Does anybody else experience the same? Does anybody know what's going on?
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[Markus Reisner](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Reisner) finde ich immer sehr informativ und sehenswert.
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Ist schon paar Jahre alt aber ich fand's gut gemacht :)
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cross-posted from: https://quex.cc/post/13083 > As seen on [kbin.social](https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/58328/What-is-the-best-way-to-make-sense-of-the#comments) > > Site that shows subreddits mapped to the fediverse
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/164620 > [!privatsphaereimnetz@discuss.tchncs.de](https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/privatsphaereimnetz)
netzpolitik.org
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/164620 > [!privatsphaereimnetz@discuss.tchncs.de](https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/privatsphaereimnetz)
netzpolitik.org
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/164620 > [!privatsphaereimnetz@discuss.tchncs.de](https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/privatsphaereimnetz)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1367812 > 0:23 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=23s > > > But there's one lame excuse that is so common, so prevalent, so ubiquitous, that I want to talk about it and that's ***the excuse that "My country is too big to have trains, bicycle infrastructure, walkable neighborhoods or whatever."*** > > --- > > 1:27 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=87s > > > So when someone new to walkable cities sees an example of a great City and they realize it's clearly better than where they live, their first gut reaction is to grab any difference between the two and make that the reason as to why their city can't be the same. > > --- > > 2:26 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=146s > > > So why is this argument so stupid? Well, quite simply, Americans aren't traveling from Fluffy Landing to Hump Tulips every day. Canadians aren't traveling from Dildo to Spasm every day, and Australians aren't traveling from Chinaman's Knob to Useless Loop every day > > --- > > 2:55 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=175s > > > They travel within their city, so the only thing that really matters to most people is the design of that City. > > --- > > 3:05 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=185s > > > For example, [in the United States, over 45 percent of trips - all trips - are three miles or less](https://files.catbox.moe/0od4as.png) (that's five kilometers for the rest of my audience). These are distances that could be easily done by walking or cycling. So despite the size of the country, and the sprawliness of the cities, Americans don't actually travel that far for most trips, but unsurprisingly, almost all of those trips are taken by car because it's too dangerous to walk or cycle, and public transportation is non-existent, which again is the whole point. > > --- > > 4:18 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=258s > > > The problem is not cars, it's car dependency. We need to give people the freedom to not to have to drive. > > --- > > 4:35 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=275s > > > This is where Americans will claim that America is too big for trains, which is absolutely comical, because America was literally built by the railroads, and so was Canada. > > --- > > 5:01 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=301s > > > Nearly every town, city and village in the United States and Canada had a train station and was connected by rail, with very few exceptions. And almost every city and town had a streetcar line too, with very few exceptions. And every one of those places was built to be walkable, as every one of those places was built before automobiles were common. Again, with very few exceptions. > > > A hundred years ago, you could get a train from almost any city to just about any other city on the continent, and even many towns and villages, too. The reason those train stations don't exist anymore is because they were bulldozed, often to make room for highways, along with the walkable downtowns they were connected to. > > --- > > 5:46 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=346s > > > American cities were not built for the car, they were bulldozed for the car. > > --- > > 6:03 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=363s > > > There are [dozens of city pairs in the U.S that are the perfect population and distance for high-speed rail or high frequency rail](https://files.catbox.moe/3x0wct.png), and [CityNerd has made a video about this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlxohbiQG6Y&t=232s) if you'd like more details. > > --- > > 6:16 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=376s > > > Canada may be a huge country, but about 50 percent of the entire population lives in this little area, which is literally in a line. > > --- > > 6:27 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=387s > > > [This is Japan to scale](https://files.catbox.moe/x3oq3l.png), the country famous for all it's trains. So yes, Canada, you can build a high-speed train between Toronto and Montreal. > > --- > > 6:37 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=397s > > > Here's [China with it's high-speed rail map](https://files.catbox.moe/0weo5j.png). > > --- > > 7:17 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=437s > > > The Schengen zone is not constant and new countries are being added every few years. For example, Croatia was just added in 2023 and Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus and Montenegro plan to join in the near future. But if that happens, will Amsterdam need to tear up all their bike lanes, because the Schengen zone is too big? No, of course not, that would be stupid. Which is the same reason why saying America is too big for bike lanes is also stupid. > > --- > > 7:45 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=465s > > > The fact is, it is possible to build walkable neighborhoods everywhere. They have existed in every country on Earth for thousands of years, and it is possible to connect those walkable places together by high quality public transportation, to make it so that people can go from any walkable area to any other walkable area regardless of the size of the city the country or the continent. > > --- > > 8:18 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=498s > > > Even if size did matter, then [why isn't Maryland covered in bike lanes and train tracks, or Hawaii, or Prince Edward Island](https://files.catbox.moe/w7vvat.png)? > > --- > > 10:22 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=622s > > > [The United States destroys over 750'000 acres of natural and agricultural land every year](https://www.farmprogress.com/business/urban-sprawl-erodes-rural-lands) [*note: the source talks about 1,200 square miles*] to build sprawling suburbs. And Ontario, Canada (where I'm from) [destroys 175 acres of farmland *per day*](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/urban-development-disappearing-farmland-ontario-1.6044620) to build more car-dependent suburbia. That is a *choice*. > > --- > > 10:43 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=643s > > > When Americans say something like "U.S cities are too big and spread out to do - *whatever*" then yes, that's true. But that is literally the problem that urbanists are trying to solve, so it's not really helpful to restate the problem, and then use that as the excuse as to why it can't be solved. > > --- > > 11:26 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=686s > > > The Dutch make great places, while North Americans make excuses.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1367812 > 0:23 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=23s > > > But there's one lame excuse that is so common, so prevalent, so ubiquitous, that I want to talk about it and that's ***the excuse that "My country is too big to have trains, bicycle infrastructure, walkable neighborhoods or whatever."*** > > --- > > 1:27 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=87s > > > So when someone new to walkable cities sees an example of a great City and they realize it's clearly better than where they live, their first gut reaction is to grab any difference between the two and make that the reason as to why their city can't be the same. > > --- > > 2:26 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=146s > > > So why is this argument so stupid? Well, quite simply, Americans aren't traveling from Fluffy Landing to Hump Tulips every day. Canadians aren't traveling from Dildo to Spasm every day, and Australians aren't traveling from Chinaman's Knob to Useless Loop every day > > --- > > 2:55 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=175s > > > They travel within their city, so the only thing that really matters to most people is the design of that City. > > --- > > 3:05 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=185s > > > For example, [in the United States, over 45 percent of trips - all trips - are three miles or less](https://files.catbox.moe/0od4as.png) (that's five kilometers for the rest of my audience). These are distances that could be easily done by walking or cycling. So despite the size of the country, and the sprawliness of the cities, Americans don't actually travel that far for most trips, but unsurprisingly, almost all of those trips are taken by car because it's too dangerous to walk or cycle, and public transportation is non-existent, which again is the whole point. > > --- > > 4:18 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=258s > > > The problem is not cars, it's car dependency. We need to give people the freedom to not to have to drive. > > --- > > 4:35 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=275s > > > This is where Americans will claim that America is too big for trains, which is absolutely comical, because America was literally built by the railroads, and so was Canada. > > --- > > 5:01 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=301s > > > Nearly every town, city and village in the United States and Canada had a train station and was connected by rail, with very few exceptions. And almost every city and town had a streetcar line too, with very few exceptions. And every one of those places was built to be walkable, as every one of those places was built before automobiles were common. Again, with very few exceptions. > > > A hundred years ago, you could get a train from almost any city to just about any other city on the continent, and even many towns and villages, too. The reason those train stations don't exist anymore is because they were bulldozed, often to make room for highways, along with the walkable downtowns they were connected to. > > --- > > 5:46 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=346s > > > American cities were not built for the car, they were bulldozed for the car. > > --- > > 6:03 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=363s > > > There are [dozens of city pairs in the U.S that are the perfect population and distance for high-speed rail or high frequency rail](https://files.catbox.moe/3x0wct.png), and [CityNerd has made a video about this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlxohbiQG6Y&t=232s) if you'd like more details. > > --- > > 6:16 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=376s > > > Canada may be a huge country, but about 50 percent of the entire population lives in this little area, which is literally in a line. > > --- > > 6:27 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=387s > > > [This is Japan to scale](https://files.catbox.moe/x3oq3l.png), the country famous for all it's trains. So yes, Canada, you can build a high-speed train between Toronto and Montreal. > > --- > > 6:37 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=397s > > > Here's [China with it's high-speed rail map](https://files.catbox.moe/0weo5j.png). > > --- > > 7:17 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=437s > > > The Schengen zone is not constant and new countries are being added every few years. For example, Croatia was just added in 2023 and Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus and Montenegro plan to join in the near future. But if that happens, will Amsterdam need to tear up all their bike lanes, because the Schengen zone is too big? No, of course not, that would be stupid. Which is the same reason why saying America is too big for bike lanes is also stupid. > > --- > > 7:45 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=465s > > > The fact is, it is possible to build walkable neighborhoods everywhere. They have existed in every country on Earth for thousands of years, and it is possible to connect those walkable places together by high quality public transportation, to make it so that people can go from any walkable area to any other walkable area regardless of the size of the city the country or the continent. > > --- > > 8:18 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=498s > > > Even if size did matter, then [why isn't Maryland covered in bike lanes and train tracks, or Hawaii, or Prince Edward Island](https://files.catbox.moe/w7vvat.png)? > > --- > > 10:22 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=622s > > > [The United States destroys over 750'000 acres of natural and agricultural land every year](https://www.farmprogress.com/business/urban-sprawl-erodes-rural-lands) [*note: the source talks about 1,200 square miles*] to build sprawling suburbs. And Ontario, Canada (where I'm from) [destroys 175 acres of farmland *per day*](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/urban-development-disappearing-farmland-ontario-1.6044620) to build more car-dependent suburbia. That is a *choice*. > > --- > > 10:43 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=643s > > > When Americans say something like "U.S cities are too big and spread out to do - *whatever*" then yes, that's true. But that is literally the problem that urbanists are trying to solve, so it's not really helpful to restate the problem, and then use that as the excuse as to why it can't be solved. > > --- > > 11:26 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=686s > > > The Dutch make great places, while North Americans make excuses.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1367812 > 0:23 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=23s > > > But there's one lame excuse that is so common, so prevalent, so ubiquitous, that I want to talk about it and that's ***the excuse that "My country is too big to have trains, bicycle infrastructure, walkable neighborhoods or whatever."*** > > --- > > 1:27 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=87s > > > So when someone new to walkable cities sees an example of a great City and they realize it's clearly better than where they live, their first gut reaction is to grab any difference between the two and make that the reason as to why their city can't be the same. > > --- > > 2:26 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=146s > > > So why is this argument so stupid? Well, quite simply, Americans aren't traveling from Fluffy Landing to Hump Tulips every day. Canadians aren't traveling from Dildo to Spasm every day, and Australians aren't traveling from Chinaman's Knob to Useless Loop every day > > --- > > 2:55 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=175s > > > They travel within their city, so the only thing that really matters to most people is the design of that City. > > --- > > 3:05 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=185s > > > For example, [in the United States, over 45 percent of trips - all trips - are three miles or less](https://files.catbox.moe/0od4as.png) (that's five kilometers for the rest of my audience). These are distances that could be easily done by walking or cycling. So despite the size of the country, and the sprawliness of the cities, Americans don't actually travel that far for most trips, but unsurprisingly, almost all of those trips are taken by car because it's too dangerous to walk or cycle, and public transportation is non-existent, which again is the whole point. > > --- > > 4:18 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=258s > > > The problem is not cars, it's car dependency. We need to give people the freedom to not to have to drive. > > --- > > 4:35 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=275s > > > This is where Americans will claim that America is too big for trains, which is absolutely comical, because America was literally built by the railroads, and so was Canada. > > --- > > 5:01 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=301s > > > Nearly every town, city and village in the United States and Canada had a train station and was connected by rail, with very few exceptions. And almost every city and town had a streetcar line too, with very few exceptions. And every one of those places was built to be walkable, as every one of those places was built before automobiles were common. Again, with very few exceptions. > > > A hundred years ago, you could get a train from almost any city to just about any other city on the continent, and even many towns and villages, too. The reason those train stations don't exist anymore is because they were bulldozed, often to make room for highways, along with the walkable downtowns they were connected to. > > --- > > 5:46 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=346s > > > American cities were not built for the car, they were bulldozed for the car. > > --- > > 6:03 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=363s > > > There are [dozens of city pairs in the U.S that are the perfect population and distance for high-speed rail or high frequency rail](https://files.catbox.moe/3x0wct.png), and [CityNerd has made a video about this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlxohbiQG6Y&t=232s) if you'd like more details. > > --- > > 6:16 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=376s > > > Canada may be a huge country, but about 50 percent of the entire population lives in this little area, which is literally in a line. > > --- > > 6:27 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=387s > > > [This is Japan to scale](https://files.catbox.moe/x3oq3l.png), the country famous for all it's trains. So yes, Canada, you can build a high-speed train between Toronto and Montreal. > > --- > > 6:37 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=397s > > > Here's [China with it's high-speed rail map](https://files.catbox.moe/0weo5j.png). > > --- > > 7:17 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=437s > > > The Schengen zone is not constant and new countries are being added every few years. For example, Croatia was just added in 2023 and Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus and Montenegro plan to join in the near future. But if that happens, will Amsterdam need to tear up all their bike lanes, because the Schengen zone is too big? No, of course not, that would be stupid. Which is the same reason why saying America is too big for bike lanes is also stupid. > > --- > > 7:45 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=465s > > > The fact is, it is possible to build walkable neighborhoods everywhere. They have existed in every country on Earth for thousands of years, and it is possible to connect those walkable places together by high quality public transportation, to make it so that people can go from any walkable area to any other walkable area regardless of the size of the city the country or the continent. > > --- > > 8:18 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=498s > > > Even if size did matter, then [why isn't Maryland covered in bike lanes and train tracks, or Hawaii, or Prince Edward Island](https://files.catbox.moe/w7vvat.png)? > > --- > > 10:22 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=622s > > > [The United States destroys over 750'000 acres of natural and agricultural land every year](https://www.farmprogress.com/business/urban-sprawl-erodes-rural-lands) [*note: the source talks about 1,200 square miles*] to build sprawling suburbs. And Ontario, Canada (where I'm from) [destroys 175 acres of farmland *per day*](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/urban-development-disappearing-farmland-ontario-1.6044620) to build more car-dependent suburbia. That is a *choice*. > > --- > > 10:43 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=643s > > > When Americans say something like "U.S cities are too big and spread out to do - *whatever*" then yes, that's true. But that is literally the problem that urbanists are trying to solve, so it's not really helpful to restate the problem, and then use that as the excuse as to why it can't be solved. > > --- > > 11:26 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=686s > > > The Dutch make great places, while North Americans make excuses.
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0:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=23s > But there's one lame excuse that is so common, so prevalent, so ubiquitous, that I want to talk about it and that's ***the excuse that "My country is too big to have trains, bicycle infrastructure, walkable neighborhoods or whatever."*** --- 1:27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=87s > So when someone new to walkable cities sees an example of a great City and they realize it's clearly better than where they live, their first gut reaction is to grab any difference between the two and make that the reason as to why their city can't be the same. --- 2:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=146s > So why is this argument so stupid? Well, quite simply, Americans aren't traveling from Fluffy Landing to Hump Tulips every day. Canadians aren't traveling from Dildo to Spasm every day, and Australians aren't traveling from Chinaman's Knob to Useless Loop every day --- 2:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=175s > They travel within their city, so the only thing that really matters to most people is the design of that City. --- 3:05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=185s > For example, [in the United States, over 45 percent of trips - all trips - are three miles or less](https://files.catbox.moe/0od4as.png) (that's five kilometers for the rest of my audience). These are distances that could be easily done by walking or cycling. So despite the size of the country, and the sprawliness of the cities, Americans don't actually travel that far for most trips, but unsurprisingly, almost all of those trips are taken by car because it's too dangerous to walk or cycle, and public transportation is non-existent, which again is the whole point. --- 4:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=258s > The problem is not cars, it's car dependency. We need to give people the freedom to not to have to drive. --- 4:35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=275s > This is where Americans will claim that America is too big for trains, which is absolutely comical, because America was literally built by the railroads, and so was Canada. --- 5:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=301s > Nearly every town, city and village in the United States and Canada had a train station and was connected by rail, with very few exceptions. And almost every city and town had a streetcar line too, with very few exceptions. And every one of those places was built to be walkable, as every one of those places was built before automobiles were common. Again, with very few exceptions. > A hundred years ago, you could get a train from almost any city to just about any other city on the continent, and even many towns and villages, too. The reason those train stations don't exist anymore is because they were bulldozed, often to make room for highways, along with the walkable downtowns they were connected to. --- 5:46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=346s > American cities were not built for the car, they were bulldozed for the car. --- 6:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=363s > There are [dozens of city pairs in the U.S that are the perfect population and distance for high-speed rail or high frequency rail](https://files.catbox.moe/3x0wct.png), and [CityNerd has made a video about this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlxohbiQG6Y&t=232s) if you'd like more details. --- 6:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=376s > Canada may be a huge country, but about 50 percent of the entire population lives in this little area, which is literally in a line. --- 6:27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=387s > [This is Japan to scale](https://files.catbox.moe/x3oq3l.png), the country famous for all it's trains. So yes, Canada, you can build a high-speed train between Toronto and Montreal. --- 6:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=397s > Here's [China with it's high-speed rail map](https://files.catbox.moe/0weo5j.png). --- 7:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=437s > The Schengen zone is not constant and new countries are being added every few years. For example, Croatia was just added in 2023 and Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus and Montenegro plan to join in the near future. But if that happens, will Amsterdam need to tear up all their bike lanes, because the Schengen zone is too big? No, of course not, that would be stupid. Which is the same reason why saying America is too big for bike lanes is also stupid. --- 7:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=465s > The fact is, it is possible to build walkable neighborhoods everywhere. They have existed in every country on Earth for thousands of years, and it is possible to connect those walkable places together by high quality public transportation, to make it so that people can go from any walkable area to any other walkable area regardless of the size of the city the country or the continent. --- 8:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=498s > Even if size did matter, then [why isn't Maryland covered in bike lanes and train tracks, or Hawaii, or Prince Edward Island](https://files.catbox.moe/w7vvat.png)? --- 10:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=622s > [The United States destroys over 750'000 acres of natural and agricultural land every year](https://www.farmprogress.com/business/urban-sprawl-erodes-rural-lands) [*note: the source talks about 1,200 square miles*] to build sprawling suburbs. And Ontario, Canada (where I'm from) [destroys 175 acres of farmland *per day*](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/urban-development-disappearing-farmland-ontario-1.6044620) to build more car-dependent suburbia. That is a *choice*. --- 10:43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=643s > When Americans say something like "U.S cities are too big and spread out to do - *whatever*" then yes, that's true. But that is literally the problem that urbanists are trying to solve, so it's not really helpful to restate the problem, and then use that as the excuse as to why it can't be solved. --- 11:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=686s > The Dutch make great places, while North Americans make excuses.
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Looking for communities related to the [Unity Game Engine](https://unity.com/). It's a pain to search for, since every comm***unity*** was made with Unity :) Alternatively, can I force tools like https://browse.feddit.de/ to only show 'exact' matches, discarding 'contains'?
1. renewablernergy@lemmy.world (this one here) 2. renewableenergy@lemmy.world I see some benefits of having redundant communities on different instances (resilience), but are there any benefits of having duplicates on the same instance? Since (1) has a typo (***r***nergy), I vote for removing (1) and using (2).
app.traveltime.com
I use this tool when I'm looking for a place to move home. While the maps for walking and cycling look rather unsurprising, the maps for driving and public transports can reveal surprising insights. I don't want to check apartments only to find out they are too far away from my points of interest. And with too far away, I naturally mean *time, not distance*. Traveltime Maps helps with that. So I create a map layer centered around my workplace, a layer for friends, a layer for another point of interest. The common overlap area is the area in which I would be willing to live. By definition, all my regular trips can be done within the time limit I find acceptable. An example for Tokyo, public transport, 75 minutes: 