return on investment.

define investment, who was going to pay the state’s ROI? elon? lol. the jobs these companies outsource to other countries?

seriously spend two seconds critically thinking about your nonsense before you speak it.

Free buses would have a much larger return on investment.

1. movement of the population is streamlined. meaning more people will go more places and spend their fares in a larger variety of locations without having to worry about cost.
2. you save a shit ton of money because you no longer need all that infrastructure for charging people money for fares and the ongoing maintenance related to such.
3. population increases due to QOL improvements. meaning more revenue for the state via property/income taxes.
4. its durable. population based revenue is much more reliable than investment nonsense.

the only difference between the corpo subsidy and free transit is:

• the corpo can walk away for any reason leaving the state holding the bag.
• the corpo concept has a shorter chain of cause/effect: give money to corpo -> corpo fails | corpo gives roi -> $
• vs free buses -> increases desirability of the area & reduces on going costs of infra -> population increases -> more tax revenue.

in short: free buses absolutely would bring a return on investment it’d just be harder to measure the precise return because its part of a non-linear system.

you’ve had plenty of time to figure your shit out. at this point you’re just slow rolling it as cover hoping it blows over.

which it wont… because jordan will keep causing problems for you lol.

You didnt verify shit the only people who know the real number of twitter users is twitter and even that is up for debate given the prevelance of bot accounts. And its in their best interests to lie about the numbers.

And yes i do get to forecast its downfall, people are jumping off soon as their primary usecase is supported by other platforms, advertisers are leaving etc etc etc. its essentially a fascist hell hole walking at this point kept alive via funding by a fascist billionaires.

What i dont get to predict is the timeline because that is unknowable since it depends on a bunch of individuals finally pulling the trigger and that can take years even after a person decides to disassociate from the platform. Each individual having different thresholds for jumping ship etc. but as more and more people leave the faster the rest will follow.

The only thing keeping it relevant at this point is political news and that’ll disappear soon as another platform get sufficient reach.

Your dreamscape is thinking numbers you have no way of verifying in any way tell a story.

The fact is the damage to twitter has been done socially and its on its way out. It’ll take time for people to find their new home and move over but its occurring and will continue to accelerate as time goes on.

Shrug keep living in your dream scape. I dont have to convince you time will take care of it eventually.

you’re just a incredibly dense individual. No worries though twitter will continue to hemorrhage its user base as its slide into irrelevance continues.

Whatever you say champ.

Fuck no. Look son i did it! I used fuck on the internet!

no you’re just overall confused and I dont particularly care to enlighten you on the topic given your current lack of cognizance and you have yet to demonstrate any nuanced understanding at all on how dynamic systems work and how bluesky’s ecosystem will inevitably crash and burn due to the monoculture it has builtin to its very core via the corporation overseeing it (boom/bust cycle).

There are other larger problems within bluesky’s protocol that will prevent it from surviving as well which are intentional to ensure the administrative control for the corporation backing it.

The blocklists have nothing to do with anything besides ensuring a happier user base.

Go read Chaos by james gleick i guess and come back. thats probably the gentlest primer I can suggest.

edit: and then follow that up with reading about anarchist political theories (its related i promise)

i think you’re confused. lol

oh no they’re a statistical normality! the horror! they should feel free to violate this fact at any point. I dont particularly care.

If you actually identified a problem and eposed an alternative approach worth discussing this conversation would be playing out differently.

They’re not sensible. They’ve a narrow world view. Shrug life is to short to waste debunking every moronic idea. Plenty has already been written and studied on this concept for people to read up on and learn. I certainly dont have to do it.

You’re parents did you dirty. Lol

Uhhh, oh you’re a user of .world tracks.

Like i said you’re simply unaware and unwilling. Not our problem. Those example differences are exactly what give rise to diversity of culture.

And yes its unaware since you cant comprehend how they give arise to cultural differences you cant be aware of how they influence such changes. Again not our problem.

😂 sounds like you’re just not aware enough. Take lemmy.worlds stance on advocating violence vs other instances.

Without federation that distinction would not exist. The same types of variances exist for tons of things:
nsfw content.
Ai allowed va ai content banned.
Twitter links banned vs not.
Pro Palestine vs pro genocidal assholes.
Pro luigi vs hail corporate.

The list goes on and on for the variances. Variances that are never allowed to exist on platforms that are not decentralized. See reddit/twitter/facebook.

Hence the statement ‘the instance you pick is important’. Because it can dramatically change your experience.

Anyways im done interacting with you. Nothing interesting will be gained on my end from this conversation.

Think what you will. But the evidence to the contrary is fairly obvious one simply has to look at how various instances interact.

The importance of decentralization is that it prevents monocultures from strangling the ecosystem and causing collapses. AKA it helps prevent the boom/bust cycle in capitalism (monoculture) ecosystems. Which you touch on.

the problem is more that these departments have repeatedly lied about and continued to allow the use of dangerous substances which eroded the trust with the public. This gave individuals like RFK the ounce of truth they needed to undermine them.

‘<minority group X> can totally be researched on without their consent’
‘PFAs are perfectly safe!’ (when used appropriately, and discarded after N years both of which never happen),
‘Mercury fillings are safe!’ (because we can’t actually measure the damage they do accurately enough to decouple it from natural damage, but they’re not actually safe),
‘Weed has no medical uses.’ (because we wouldnt allow it to be studied, turns out its very medically useful).
‘mdma/shrooms have no medical uses!’ (turns out they’re great at treating depression and a host of neurological conditions)
‘artificial food colorings are safe!’ (turns out they’re not and we’ve known it for years)
‘trans fats are safe!’ (they werent).
‘you dont need to wear masks to protect from covid’ (turns out we needed to wear masks)

the list goes on and on. and in each case where we finally got these organizations to do whats best for the american populace at the expense of corporations it has taken a monumental effort despite the data basically being very clear or unambiguously safer alternatives being available.

But each time a person suffers and learns about these things it puts another set of nails in the coffin for whether a randomly selected member of the population trusts them or not leading to people like RFK being able to take advantage of the mistrust.

what you’re seeing now is the end result of these kinds of situations happening repeatedly. The hilarious part is RFK is probably going to accidentally do good over the long term by getting rid of the artificial food coloring finally. and if we successfully avoid this fascist regime from taking root (unlikely at this point given americans passivity) vaccine and such will come roaring back.