jtrek

There are many, many, people that could be granted good bus service without tearing down and rebuilding the world. The problem is political. Every day and every dollar we put into other lesser solutions comes with a large opportunity cost.

Imagine if we'd focused on buses for the past 22 years instead of waymo. How many people could be served by the $16 billion in funding waymo got?

I'd rather live somewhere with buses and trains. You can get places when old and/or drunk, you build a better world for everyone, and you don't funnel money into shitty privately owned tech companies.

On the one hand, I'm really not a fan of the endless "step-*" porn. On the other, a law banning it is pretty heavy handed.

I think I said this before, but a problem is when someone says "I don't like star trek: discovery" it's impossible to know if they have reasons beyond "i don't like black women". They might not even know themselves! And if they do, they're unlikely to come out and say that. They'll reach for something more acceptable like "I wanted self contained episodes" (but DS9's arcs are cool) or whatever.

There are so many duds online they've poisoned the well of discourse.

Notably, slack doesn't have this problem. Slack pretty consistently behaved exactly as I expected. You have channels organized by topic. You have private messages that are private. You can have group DMs but don't do that. I guess a problem is some people are kind of stupid and don't see why many permutations of non-discoverable chats are a bad idea. My old CEO, who I would not say is a universally smart man, would always create group DMs and I had to tell him if he wants this chat to be canonical put it in the relevant public channel. "We value transparency" he'd say at meetings, and then bork that up.

I have a couple friends who have only ever used Teams and I don't think they realize just how bad it is.

It's kind of infuriating to me that Microsoft can consistently deliver bad products and not die. If a startup released Teams, no one would use it and they would rightfully fail.

I would be more than willing to carry around my own spoon, fork, and more, if it meant less plastic crap everywhere

The NYPD is very poor (arguably net negative) value for the money spent

I used to think "Teams can't be that bad" and then I had to use it for work. It's astonishingly bad. I'm not sure if it's just how they use it at this place, but it's bad.

Everything is a chat. There's no channels. So nothing is discoverable, and if you sort of remember a conversation you have to see if it was in the standup chat, in the planning chat, in a ad hoc chat...

There's no threads. So if you have a chat for say release-123, and someone says "Feature 1 has a bug" and someone else says "Feature-2 has a bug", you can't isolate them in separate threads. It's all flat so they smash into each other.

Living in a walkable city is probably doing wonders for me. I walk about 3 miles several times a week without even thinking about it.

The "and" in the title is key. Humans can currently choose their gender expression, so that part can be stripped out with no changes to the world. Not assigning gender at birth is an interesting thought. Some people are really, from my view, weird about making sure their children perform gender correctly as early and often as possible.

Also I think it'd be neat if it was "genre" in English too. People understand there's more genres than horror and fantasy.

Everyone who supported the Jan 6 insurrection should be ineligible to hold office per the existing amendments, for starters.

I like the idea. I don't want to use facebook or similar, but that's where stuff like "BuyNothing" is most active.

Unfortunately, I don't know much about self hosting (beyond what I've picked up working in software development) so I don't see myself running one of these myself. I'd probably use it if it came to my neck of the woods (NYC)