In my city, the last trolley went through in 1936. Still waiting for the next one.

The population pyramid for Russia is terrifying from a societal stability perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#/media/File:Russia_Population_Pyramid.svg The cliff of a drop for the under-30’s (of both genders) is an echo of a dip in the 50-60’s group, which is a carry over of the 78-82-ish group. Each generation grows a larger hole in the population and that hole is growing with each generation.

Add in a combination of destructive wars, emigration (mostly due to people not wanting to die in said wars), and alcohol consumption and it’s not going to get better. No amount of money or medals awarded to women having children will really change this. It’s a region dying generation by generation to dictators’ abuses.

The next big nail in the coffin is that complete collapse of the pyramid in the 7 and under group. There’s just no children to replace the 33-50-ish group. That older group is essentially the bulk of the Russian workforce right now and as soon as they start to age out shit’s going to get real bad real fast. There’s literally no one to replace them across the entire country.

I’ll definitely have to check out the underpinnings and use of that term. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

“It turns out not burning a bunch of fossil fuels leads to less pollution”… news at 11.

The really dumb part of all of this is that people have just accepted cars as the default mode of transportation for so long that it’s hard to even envision a world without them. They’re normal, despite being expensive, dangerous, horribly inefficient, killing people actively (crashes) and passively (air pollution, plastic in our lungs, parkinsons/dementia, obesity, and more), and directly contributing to isolation in our communities. Every car we can get off the road, especially in our cities, makes the world a better place.

Yeah, our big democracy talk is just like the pirates code from Pirates of the Caribbean: flexible, with a strong vein of selfishness.

When the US tries it’s hand at nation building, and our government diplomats, consultants, and mentors are making suggestions to nascent nations in what kind of republic framework to use, we do not suggest the same Constitutional system we have. We normally try to guide others to a variation of parliamentary systems with a weak president figurehead.

Our own government knows not to use it’s own model for other nations! It’s not that we’re exceptional, just that we’ve beaten the odds so far. We used to try to copy the US system other places, but they kept failing to executive branches that seized power. How the US held on as long as it did is a wonder. That said, it looks like our exceptional run is effectively over. The fox is in the henhouse and Congress is cheering the bloodbath.

Because when I move left in tabs, the cursor isn’t clear which tab I’m on. It also tried to sit off the left edge of a terminal in some editors because it aligns with the right side of the character (the tab), instead of the left.

I do see how tabs are a better option : they allow the one editing the file to decide how wide the indentation is. That’s actually good User Interface design, by separating the data from the rendering layout.

I can see the argument both ways, but I like to use spaces so the visual and editing interfaces are more standard.

Would it be better if I clarified by calling them “ball bearing balls”? Or would that lead to my unpleasant pummeling by steel balls?

Conservatism consists of one core value: there should be laws that protect, but do not bind, the in group while the same laws bind, but do not protect, the out group.

This doesn’t include the horses, mules, and camels people are seeing the filming the Russians using to move around the front.

Last weekend I used a scrubber to delete every post and comment from my 15 year old Reddit account, then deleted the account, so I’ve finally burned the boats on the move. Lemmy is perfectly fine as it is. It’ll ebb and flow for users, but I’ve been happy for a year here now.

In US college football: Washington State University vs. University of Washington. WSU cares about it a lot. UW… has bigger fish to fry.

My city is going to finish a new bus route. They’re hoped for target is September of 2030. They’re just that good.

I love the Berlin transit system. I know I’ve never relied upon it for daily work yet (the longest I stayed was one month), but it’s been so very convenient to get around the city. Normally it’s so easy and quick.

It a major reason I’m currently flying back from multiple interviews in Europe. I’m tired of having to drive everywhere when I can find a city that won’t require it the same way.

I also want my kids to grow up somewhere that has a government who protects them more than the US does. Our whole “rugged individualism” attitude is just an extension of Capitalist oligarchy telling us to sit down and take it while they exploit us for money.

Yes, the US has radicalized me and so I’m working to change my situation and my children’s future situations.

My US city’s downtown area is 35% open air parking lot. Another 25% is road surface.

Our city council keeps bemoaning the decay of the downtown area. We keep sending them letters, speaking at council meetings, and advocating for something other than building more car shit.

What was their big “look at how amazing our city is!” thing recently? That’s right! Freeway expansion so people can get downtown faster. I’m sure that’ll fix it.

I bought a 386 motherboard that needed a patch. Not software, but by soldering a wire between two pads. You just basically figure it out and went from there with a soldering iron.

Build the computer from parts? Sure. Soldered it like it came as discrete components? Also sure.

Tech savvy is often in context of when you were learning in your teens to early twenties and then what of that skill set is still applicable today.

Great work, Seoul! Keep taking space back for people. We need it to live, cars don’t need it.

If my city (not a big one) could reclaim one of the four lanes we have going through our dying downtown, it would be a Herculean effort to even do that much.

I’ve been pondering a very similar design. I feel that if I can fix a mirror down and it completely blinds the car behind me using their own lumens, then that’s their problem.

This is a wonderful article. Great work, Paris!