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Holy moly, it was 49 years old, from January 1976: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angara_Airlines_Flight_2311

That's precisely what I try to bring to every thread I engage with, but it can be extremely frustrating.

It's odd to me to take objection to a post making a bad point by making a sarcastic statement that was open to misinterpretation. The thread invites a discourse about building better cities and yet, in classic Lemmy fashion, it's just about semantics.

While your comment is very amusing, accessibility and congestion are pretty high up on the list of things that make a place "nice." A deep Investment into public transit is very likely to have a positive impact on an inhabitant's happiness.

(Incidentally, it's ironic that you have leapt to the conclusion that one of these cities is "winning" while nothing of the sort is stated in the post, only then to take objection to people drawing such conclusions.)

Reading past your sarcasm, you're suggesting that it's better to have reduced public transit options than investing into them. I'm curious to hear your reasoning to argue that.

What is the required population threshold for investing into public transit? Above 3 million and below 20 million, it seems, but can you be more specific?

The impact of our incessant growth continuously erodes the environment, wiping out ecosystems for development and depleting our finite materials. Our growth mindset excuses ourselves of the "lesser evil" of renewable energy.

Indeed this isn't great for the environment and I'm again disappointed about this community's shortsightedness in refusing to see it that way.

No, they didn't. This community read too much into a blog post that stated "over 1 billion," compared it against an old blog post from several years ago that stated a more precise number of "1.4 billion" and came to the hasty conclusion that they must have lost 400 million users.

Microsoft has since updated their blog post to clarify that it's now "over 1.4 billion."

Edit: downvotes, really? Can't even correct misinformation in this community anymore?

Thanks for providing insights and inviting a more nuanced discussion. I find it extremely frustrating that in communities like Lemmy it's risky to write comments like this because people assume you're "taking sides."

The entire point of the community should be to have discourse about a topic and go into depth, yet most comments and indeed entire threads are just "Nvidia bad!" with more words.

Obligatory disclaimer that I, too, don't necessarily side with Nvidia.

Yes, indeed this was just a copy error. Thanks for pointing it out.