I remember that the big remedy that free market evangelists propose to replace regulation is lawsuits. So people take them up on that, and suddenly it’s “NO, NOT LIKE THAT”. Go figure, who could’ve seen that coming, etc.

Those tech bros are up to something

I wonder if the investors are happy yet

I work near Yosemite, we don’t need one extra body there in the summer at all.

I tend to agree with you, nature should be experienced as-is, imo. I just don’t think this is that terrible.

This doesn’t seem all that awful to me. The waterfall isn’t fake, it’s just something they do in the dry season so visitors don’t feel like they wasted a trip. It’s not the choice I would make if I were running the park, but it doesn’t seem that bad to me.

I’m starting to think it’s about time we had some meaningful consequences for these bastards, and I don’t mean the journalists.

So this is really where we’re at. Team Biden is really going to take the HRC 16 strat of just fucking giving up on promising anything meaningful and going “what are you going to do, vote for that Bozo?”

That’s a bold strategy, Cotton.

Now what if we went even more granular all the way down to the individual? Like, each person is their own electoral college vote?

And rubber chickens, apparently. The secret service went around confiscating them at Trump’s libertarian party speech.

This. I spoke to our mayor about it at a city council meeting, and he told me that the bus service was set up to maximize coverage for the people with no other choice, specifically at the cost of desirable stops and frequency.

I love 4x games, but playing a game of Stellaris for a week or more just to realize that I’ve inescapably fucked up and lost the game is disheartening. I just don’t have the bandwidth to spend 40 hours per match. Yeah, you can make 4x games run a lot shorter, but it usually feels like you’re doing something crazy to the game.

Okay, but, hear me out, what if we sabotaged the next fifty years of the company’s existence to boost this quarter’s profits?

Been there. Senior dev told me not to write comments, but write self-documenting code instead.

Nooooo, trust me, you don’t need regulations, haha. We’re good people who would never do anything bad, promise. Why do we want those regulations gone? Just because you don’t need them, that’s all, I promise.

Yes

I’m a (western) Buddhist. I air on the secular side, I’m agnostic towards the existence of deities. That is, I acknowledge that they are part of the world view, but as they aren’t central to the core teachings, I don’t mind them one way or the other. I’m pretty sure there’s a community for it, and I’m subscribed; it mostly deals with sharing verses from different Sutras.

I’m perfectly fine with c/Atheism. I visit because I see it, mostly. A lot of the relevance for me is in the context of my living in the US / being a former Christian and facing an increasingly aggressive and deranged Christian Nationalist movement. I believe that religious beliefs are something you choose to follow if you think it helps you frame your worldly experience or be a better person, but they’re certainly not something you force on others.

I comment a reasonable amount, I think.

The only thing I want the atheists to know is that I’m happy to stand with you for your rights and freedoms.

You mean trains, bikes, and good public transit? Because those all mean less wear and tear on the roads overall. Trust an American because we’ve been at this for seventy years. If you guys go all in on car dependency, it’s not only going to break the banks of government from local to national, but it’s going to break your bank and destroy what small businesses you have left.

Source, so I can raise my blood pressure about it?

I really think that car-centric infra is so bad, that once people get a taste of good urbanism and small and medium businesses see how it benefits them, it’ll start picking up a lot of steam. Honest to goodness, the only reason it has such sticking power is that it’s really all we know in the US, and people find it hard so hard to imagine that our infra has been deliberately designed badly that they adopt excuses for why it must not work here. But once they see it working and like it, it’s going to be on like donkey Kong