Typing this from Sync for Lemmy. Love it already! Feels right at home.
I do not mind the subscription costs for the premium version. Yes, in a perfect world a lifetime purchase would be nice. But this isn't a perfect world. Lemmy isn't a casual game that can be considered "done" once it's developed. No, Lemmy and the Fediverse are new and unfamiliar and it is likely there will be significant chances to the ecosystem and this development effort for the developer.
Less click bait range exposure? That's be actually good for people.
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De politie zag dat de verdachte een schot loste, en schoot vervolgens meerdere malen op hem. Hij raakte daardoor ook gewond.
Welk leeghoofd gaat nou in de directe nabijheid van politie schieten?
This absolutely isn't uncommon in Europe.
Yeah but these are usually taken to France or Germany where uphill definitely exists.
Not entirely true in my location. Radio also mentions (large) train outages.
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I find cost comparisons between cars and public transport that factor depreciation and tax always a bit disingenuous, if the goal is to get people to take public transport more often.
Once you have a car, you will have this costs regardless of whether you take public transport or not.
Only if you don't have a car yet at all, only then does such a comparison become useful.
What I do always miss here is the cost of parking. Probably Dubai is an oddball again, but at least in European cities parking is a significant expense.
Let's do a comparison from my Dutch perspective. If I go to the city center of my place of residence by public transport (tram) it takes me 24 minutes by public transport, of which 8 are by foot, getting to the tram stop. By car it's 15 minutes, but that is on a Saturday morning with barely any traffic. The tram would cost me €2.08, single trip. By car it's 6.4km. My car runs about 1l/20km, and at current fuel prices of €2.01/l, that's (6.4/20)*2.01 = € 0.64. Including return trip that makes €4.16 for the tram vs €1.28 by car. So far, car wins by a long shot. But now comes parking. This is a whopping €6 per hour. So if I stay just 2 hours, the total variable cost for the car trip amounts to €13.28. Suddenly the car is 3 times as expensive.
In real life I'd probably go by bike anyway, costing me a grand total of €0.
In X-related news: X Japan just released their first single in 8 years!
This was a fun read.
Is this Wednesday's room?