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They're for-profit companies and so far pretty successful without direct subsidies. EU countries usually have subsidies for purchasing EVs (regardless of manufacturer) rather than subsidizing the manufacturers directly - this leaves the consumers more choice and has a similar or maybe even better effect on EV adoption. On the climate side of things as well as public health and equal opportunities for people, transit investments would be better than outright paying BMW and Mercedes to make their EVs cheaper. China, however, doesn't just want EV adoption on their own roads, China wants THEIR EVs specifically to dominate the world. Usually this is seen as unfair, regardless of industry, and is one of the few valid reasons for tariffs in an otherwise free global market.

The funny thing is, if the Chinese subsidize their EVs and the EU tariffs them, the tariff money could then be spent on EV subsidies - bringing all the different manufacturers to equal ground again.

Hmm, actually if I only use the mouse and get a wired keyboard, that might work. Trouble is, I have to forget and re-pair them any time I switch devices and switch back, even though I use the 3 different connection profiles. Not a huge issue for the mouse as I don't need it to reconnect, but I do need the keyboard. So it's kinda hard to use the keyboard to connect to the keyboard over the command line (since no GUI tool seems to work reliably either, I honestly have no idea tf is going on here, I've given up debugging Bluetooth on Linux, I got my BT LE headphones working and now I don't want to touch ANY settings)

I have a thunderbolt 4 hub monitor that I have the Unifying Receiver connected to, and it's connected to my desktop 24/7, plus 2 laptops on demand. It's ridiculously convenient because as soon as I switch video input source on the monitor, my keyboard and mouse switch over to the proper computer. Ideally this is what I want to keep doing, just with a different dongle than the crappy Unifying Receiver for the mouse. Keyboard can get a cable, reduce the 2.4 GHz noise a bit.

Having 7.5x the population means having more funds available for building expensive subway lines. Having more population also necessitates more of the transit to be via subway or rail, as opposed to buses which are slower and have other issues, but way cheaper than rail or subway.

Toronto, having less population, invests less in the most expensive solution that's best for the densest cities, but still also invests in light rail and bus networks.

I was born in a town of <10k. We had buses and nothing else. Capital city of my country has a population of ~300k - has rail and trams in addition to buses. Capital city of the country just north of us a bigger population in the metro area than our entire country - 1.6 million vs 1.3 million. They have metro lines. Slightly over half the population of Toronto, slightly over half the total length of metro lines. Toronto is also building an extra 3 lines in addition to the current 3, nearly doubling total length of lines when it's done.

Now Chengdu vs Toronto: 7.5x the population, 9x the rail lines (by length). Is Toronto really doing so badly? I would say that the bigger you get with cities, the need for high density transport lines actually rises faster than city growth. Maybe not quadratic, but definitely not linear. n log n maybe?

Other comments have pointed out that Toronto also has a light rail system and other solutions. This post shows just the metro systems of both cities. Maybe when there's an order of magnitude difference in population, the exact transit solutions needed differ?

Some of those are valid, some are stupid as hell.

For the covid ones - the cost was complete lockdown, with some people's doors being welded shut (not official government policy, but common enough to make news, as lower level authorities get some decision making power in these cases). Imagine having an emergency and your door being welded shut. And of course we later found out that even multi-dose vaccines don't stop covid 100%, so instead of stopping the pandemic forever, nothing of value was actually achieved. Covid is the new seasonal flu. For a while we didn't even get vaccines for Covid here in Estonia anymore, though now they're back on the table, free if you're in a high risk group.

Electric cars - the cost is mass government subsidies for BYD and a couple of others. BYD doesn't make money if they sell you a car I believe, they make money from the Chinese government if they sell you a car. Even if you're in another country. China wants their EVs to dominate the market and that's a strategy. This is why the EU had to raise tariffs on Chinese cars. Otherwise the European auto industry would simply die.

Brb getting a cat so I can name it Lagavulin

Man I must've been having worries since birth because I've never been able to fall asleep quickly

This could unironically be an OK use case for crypto and NFTs on a low energy usage blockchain?

Website asks you to pay a paltry sum, you get an nft that allows visiting for X days

NFT over cookie because then you can keep using the site on your other devices as long as they’re connectes to the wallet too, and you don’t need a user account for every site.

Not a perfect idea but not the worst?

Parael and Isletine

I think OP is just hyping up Mamdani and his policies and showing how some idiots think that things like free transit and free childcare are bad things. But tbh so many examples have already been posted, it's not exactly news.

Mr Worldwide himself claims to be anti-communist, but I think that's just his Cuban heritage speaking. Dude's been funding an education program for poor kids starting in his old neighborhood that is now nationwide. While it's not communism and it's not even public money being spent, it's very much in the same vein as Mamdani's ideas: The goal is to improve equal access to necessities.

He said back in 2016 that he doesn't support Trump's joke of a campaign and unlike a lot of Latinos, he's pro-immigration (the "fuck you, got mine" mentality seems to be pretty common among Latinos living in America, they don't wanna see any immigrants despite being immigrants themselves). He's also stated that he loves America, but wants to stay out of politics. He just wants it to be the United States, not the Divided States, according to his Howard Stern interview. I went through the painful process of scrolling back to early November 2024 in his Xitter profile and I couldn't see a single political statement. A bunch of disgusting preachy motivational quotes about hard work leading to success, but nothing political.

Long story short, he's got a lot of ego showing in his public persona, his music is very, eh... It's pop music. It's made to appeal to as many people as possible so that's why it feels like it has little personality. But dude himself seems to be very genuine and friendly according to literally every encounter ever described on reddit. The annoying high energy persona is probably just marketing.

Why'd I go through all this trouble? Well I remember some threads bashing him on reddit and a lot of people said he's actually very different from his media personality. Also, a lot of people wouldn't have respected the poll results and given a concert on a remote island in Alaska.

So the entire city will only be owner-occupiers? Sounds like almost everyone living in the city has their problems solved. The city can build more rent-controlled units.

Those are now paid and unregulated lol, the place is a shitshow.