biddy

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[–] biddy@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A base 12 metric system is the best of all worlds. 1/3 of a cm is 0.4cm or 4.

Your way seems like the worst of all worlds. What is 0.1 feet in inches? shrugs. If you're going to use a different system to the people around you, why not use normal metric?

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

Only if the wilderness doesn't have strict laws protecting it.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 21 points 2 years ago

No, it's very honest.

When you increase the number of passengers on a train(e.g. rush hour), the volume doesn't increase. The size of the train stays fixed up until it hits capacity.

When you increase the number of passengers on a road, they tend to still have around 1 car/person. Encouraging people to carpool just doesn't really happen. So an "at capacity" road still has most cars with just the driver. This is one of the main reasons cars are so inefficient, people are lugging around capacity for 5 people and tons of cargo, but it never gets used even when the roads are "at capacity".

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Every part of culture has changed over the last 60 years. Why would sex be any different?

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago

Yes. Or even better, just add "asian" to the prompt. It's just a tool and tools are flawed.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

That sounds like an excellent idea. I look forward to it very much.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When everything is built to only be convenient by car, of course it's going to be more convenient by car, and most people are going to use cars. That's the entire problem.

If your local grocery store was 5 minutes walk or bike away in a dense city without highways everywhere and unlimited free parking, you would walk or cycle instead.

We aren't blaming individuals here, the entire culture and built world in the US is fundamentally broken.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

There's an old top gear segment where they host a local radio show, and Clarkson tries to direct the traffic around to reduce it. It doesn't work, obviously, but if the message was "get on the train", it might.

Google maps is now popular enough that it's affecting traffic patterns. At the moment it does a lot of directing cars down quiet streets where they shouldn't be, making the problem worse. If it was corrupted for good that could improve things.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The truth about how I am? Because they don't care. They don't actually want a long infodump about personal details of my life.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 10 points 2 years ago

This visualization is space efficiency.

Obviously cars have terrible energy efficiency. The most efficient vehicle is a bicycle, since exercise is good for you it's arguably negative energy usage.

As for time efficiency, you have to consider car dependent development as a package. Everything spreads out, so overall there may not be an improvement in time efficiency, especially when you factor in the longer travel time of people not in cars. You could even consider the time spent working to pay for the car, or the time lost from people killed by the car, and I doubt cars would come out particularly time efficient then.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

I wasn't commenting on what type of education is better or worse than another. The point is that we need to support people through education.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago

Actually the opposite, suburbs were born out of racism. Look it up.

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