ssorbom @ ssorbom @lemmy.world

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To be fair, I think it's really more specifically an indictment of his management skills. I doubt he said everything up himself, but a good manager knows how to attract actual experts, not just college flunkies

It's the first I hear that there was even a riot in the UK. I was specifically interested in finding out musks involvement. Since the article was drawing the comparison, it's on them to actually explain what they are comparing properly. And yes, randomly finding an article is it perfectly valid way of trying to catch yourself up on a news story. If the author can't be bothered to post summary, they should at least hyperlink to something that does.

Any article that draws a comparison like that should explain both ends of the comparison. I'm not from the uk, and while I do try to follow UK politics somewhat, there are some things that slip under my radar, like apparently a riot that Elon musk was involved with.

This article is slop. I read it to try to find out what was going on in the UK, and how musk was involved and there were less than two sentences about the event being covered. All the rest was about the US and how we are about to imminently fall. If you're going to make a headline like that at least explain to readers what happened. You can't assume that the entirety of your audience already knows.

You are being willfully obtuse. Atheists didn't choose the definition of the word. Magic is a catch all for things that are not explained by a scientific process. Computing is not one of those things. You don't understand computers because they are a black box. Therefore it is tempting to call the result magic. But you had better sure as hell hope that the effect of computers are reproducible, every single time, because if they are not, the world as we know it ceases to function.

No they aren't. Not all protests are good. It is essential that political disagreements don't capsize the society we live in. Any protests that can't be ignored is essentially mob rule

You might look into prototype projects like cactus. It is for things like blog comments, but there might be adaptations

I thought the whole point of starlink was that it provided cheap and dirty infrastructure basically anywhere. What's the point if they're going to individually license areas??

Correct on both counts.

It’s so weird, do they think handicapped people can bike and walk everywhere or don’t exist?

As a handicapped person myself, it really baffles me how people think car oriented infrastructure is so much better for us. I am a wheelchair user, and I live in a 15 minute neighborhood. Getting around in my wheelchair is a million times simpler there than in my old car-centric suburb, because the same disabilities that make me wheelchair bound also prevent me from driving. Which mean that in a car-centric environment I do one of the following:

a) Rely on the generosity of friends and family to cart me around at their convenience, or b) Utilize shared access rides, which are door to door, but take longer than using public transit, or c) Roll myself to underserved suburban bus stops over badly maintained sidewalk, and pray I make it on time.

None of which are appealing.

Meanwhile, in my 15 minute city:

• The buses often run at 10 to 15 minute intervals (vs 30 to 60 minutes in the suburb),
• Sidewalks are larger
• I have less distance to travel in the first place

I say this as somebody who cannot drive. And I say it with all the love in the world for public transit. Public transit absolutely cannot get you everywhere, at least not if you expect to be there in a timely manner. The vast majority of America is suburbanized, the worst possible environment for buses.

Yeah, but they still have to have enough resources to build a landing pad to get back. I only just recently attained the research necessary to build these, and I realized I don't have any biofuel! So now I have to distill that too.

There's a big difference between identifying yourself to a neutral ISP versus identifying yourself to the government. In general, I'm not that skeptical of government, but this is one issue where I worry about the right wing loonies getting their way. God help us if it's ever criminalized

It is extremely disquieting how one individual is getting away with having that much power over so many aspects of what should be a role played by public institutions. Space exploration should be a public endeavor.

Unfortunately, I say this as a train lover. They require a lot more infrastructure than planes and will always be at a disadvantage because of that. You can set up an airport pretty much anywhere and make it reachable by pretty much anyone. Whereas with the train, you need a dedicated line from point to point that you will commit to maintaining through hell and high water.

There's also the problem that in many countries, we are deliberately neglecting our train infrastructure and not investing in high speed alternatives that could compete with an airline over shorter distances.

All of these factors combine to make individual trips less efficient over train. I had to cross the United States this week. To do so by train would have taken me 4 days. Doing so by plane took me 6 hours. Nobody would choose a 4-day trip over a 6-hour one unless their goal is to look out the window a lot. Which is perfectly valid. But most people don't look at traveling itself as the experience. And in this case, I had a particular event that I had to attend.

To be fair, I think it is reasonable to rate things you have no complaints about as high as possible. If I see a rating with three stars, I assume that it was okay with a few rough spots. I like the idea that all products start out as five stars unless there is something really wrong, and you start knocking points for problems.

I'll believe it when I see evidence that isn't from some s***** underpowered camera held by somebody who didn't even know how to focus the lens properly. Funny how camera technology has improved so markedly, but the quality of UFO sightings remains just as crappy as ever. Maybe that should tell you something about what to make of most of these sightings

To be clear on this, I AM an urban core dweller, and I LOVE it. I am never more than 15 minutes walk from a grocery store, and significant cultural events are right on my doorstep. But there are downsides, and I understand why it is not everyone's cup of tea.

Hate people? sucks for you, your only refuge will be your apartment. Clean freak? get used to some grunge, because there is oderous shit everywhere. Need to get to more sparsely populated areas? Expect to spend double the time on the road using transit, or pay through the nose to keep a garage with a car you barely use otherwise.

S/He is not. Even one blocked sidewalk means that I need to double back on the block if I am using my wheelchair. One scooter is all it takes, and depending on the length of the block, it can easily add 20 minutes to a commute.

As much as I like this article, he glorifies cities too much. They have always been seen as places to get away from. Charles Dickens Victorian England portrayed in books like a Christmas story, and Oliver twist was absolutely a living hell. It's only in the last 50 or so years that cities have actually become pleasant places to live again, and even then, the city dweller makes sacrifices.

Have you ever tried living in the urban core? Be prepared to deal with cockroaches, inconsiderate out of towners who will leave everything from broken glass to s*** in the streets, and graffiti "artists"who believe it is their god-given right to scrawl whatever they want wherever they want it.

When the suburbanite says he wants to get away from the city, there are legitimate things he is trying to get away from. I personally think these things are worth the cost, but will never sell the vision of the city on a lie.

EDIT: to be clear to the downvoters I say this as somebody who currently lives in a near-ideal cityscape. In America at least, you need to be prepared to make sacrifices if this is the life you want to lead.