They should have just got ChatGPT to do it for them.

What a bad day to be literate

That really isn't the case. The US tech sector is collapsing at the moment because big tech companies are rapidly cutting costs (driven by shareholder demands) amidst poor product value direction & a tightening economy.

OP really hits the nail on the head, CEO's whine whilst wages have been completely outstripped by inflation. So here we are taking multiple jobs or finding ways to reduce our expenses (like not commuting).

>That's an entirely American problem

No it isn't. We have the exact same issue with all major cities here in the UK.

>If you properly plan a city

Most European cities and so capitals are older than the car, older than the bus, and often older than the pushbike.

Hard to plan for what you can't envisage.

>It's an objectively happier lifestyle just by the numbers

Yeah, your numbers. It's objectively miserable waiting in the rain for a bus that may never come.

>I barely even use my car because I moved to a dense enough city that I can just walk everywhere

That's nice for you but wholly unrealistic for most people.

If we're replanning cities then we need to focus on personal airborne transport, because that'll be the future with some leccy cars knocking about.

Nobody is going back to pushbikes and buses. That's the 1800s and 1900s. It's over and done.

........ link?? 👀 is there a sub for this with a full collection?

You could have photoshopped the pope with the same jacket and gotten the same response

Is that fixable with sufficient energy storage and overproduction (spare renewable capacity)? Similar to maintaining a gas fired peaker that you only need once a day?

Your Restrict act is far above Chinese and Russian laws in terms of opression and censorship, since non of those two jail people for visiting sites or using VPNs. And then your officials tell us to overthrow our totalitarian government, the irony.

I think the idea is that it's more difficult to steal your palmprint than skim your CC.

Carbon capture using renewable energy should be a factor too.

There are some projects coming along here, for example the Danish Greensand project, but it needs to scale up.

Also that country as well as another country will have less censorship and no prosecution for using VPN if that bill passes, making US a sole champion of totalitarian censorship and opression.

Are you talking about the US putting refugee children in cages at the border and having the highest incarceration rates in the world?

How is saying that China is a totalitarian state support for China? Wtf

I am a US Army Veteran honorable. So I will say what I think when I think it and you resorting to personal insults shows you lost the debate.

The United States with the restrict act is building the legal framework for a Chinese great firewall. This is a fact that isn’t debatable.

The United States could have instead implemented the EU GDPR, that actually protects citizens privacy.

Batteries... or transmission (get power from another place 1000 miles away where it is windy right now) or hydro (store up water and use it only when other sources fail), or smart EV's (which charge only when there is spare power in the grid, and perhaps put some power into the grid at times of peak demand), or Heat reservoirs (heat peoples homes with heat pumps when there is spare power, and have big tanks full of a liquid that can store hotness or coolness for release into the home later when desired.

We can use one or all these solutions. We'll probably end up using a mix, decided by market forces.

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That's an entirely American problem. Suburbs only really exist like that in America and a select few places that were ruined by people trying to plan cities like we did.

If you properly plan a city there is no reason to drive around downtown, those areas are reserved for people.

Buses in America are currently unreliable because they are not funded and infrastructure is not made with them in mind. That can also be fixed.

The reason americans don't live downtown (often) is because instead of making our cities dense we have created few homes in those areas and allowed single family home zoning which needs to be entirely done away with. If you just replaced parking lots with more housing there would be no issue. If you want to visit dense areas like that you would just bus in or use other transit. It's not really about what people want right now because Americans have not been exposed to living like that.

It's an objectively happier lifestyle just by the numbers. I barely even use my car because I moved to a dense enough city that I can just walk everywhere.

Can someone please take Gilbert Gottfrieds "The Aristocrats" clip, speech-to-text it and feed it to an artist AI?

I don't see the wisdom in allowing China to operate here in ways they would never let us or anyone else, operate there. Maybe you should go live in China if you think it's such a great place, comparatively. Or maybe you already do? That would definitely explain your position. It's one thing for one's own country to do internal surveillance, but a whole other thing entirely to let another politically adverserial country do it inside your borders, eh?

Gilbert Gottfried? Now that he's past on and become an ex-comedian he'll never be able to make anything real.

>Infrastructure that supports everyone driving cars can be removed from dense cities

It's, I understand that's what you want, but it isn't what most people want. They don't mind standing in the train waiting for a bus that doesn't come.

>Just remove enough streets/parking or create bus route only lanes in downtowns with wide sidewalks and protected bike lanes

Again, I get that this is your utopia but it's others hell.

>It naturally cuts down on traffic by making it more inconvenient to drive

Yes, that is the whole entire problem in a nutshell.

>There's a need for cars in remote locations but no need in an urban center.

That's lovely if you live, work, and don't try to leave that urban center. It's utterly unworkable once you realise most people working and shopping in the center of town don't.

Infrastructure that supports everyone driving cars can be removed from dense cities. We don't have to leave it up to individuals to decide. Just remove enough streets/parking or create bus route only lanes in downtowns with wide sidewalks and protected bike lanes. It naturally cuts down on traffic by making it more inconvenient to drive in than just using a different mode of transport.

There's a need for cars in remote locations but no need in an urban center.

You might prefer walking or taking the bus but most people don't. Cars aren't going anywhere.

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