eluvinar @ eluvinar @szmer.info

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this "idea" came from doing things and seeing what works. My personal observation is whatever you do there's people who feel it's too extreme and offensive, that's the nature of trying to change things.

IDK about community here, don't really participate, don't care who leaves or joins. Critical mass as an idea is much older than any "fuckcars" community.

it's only non-violent until someone in a car drives into it tho (good)

that's a different setup than the one OpenPassageways described.

pretty sure that's true everywhere that has signed the vienna convention on road traffic, so like 86 countries

Trapping people in place isn’t ‘protesting’,

Have you ever seen any protests? How do you think they work lol

FFS we close our streets for less important things like construction, marathons, parades.

There’s a good chance the limitless autobahn is actually part of what makes German numbers so good

There's a chance, but I don't think you argued why would it be a good chance.

It just requires stricter training and policing, stricter TÜV and for people to always check their mirrors before switching lanes.

Changing lanes and overtaking are always some of the most risky moments. It's always going to be much much safer if everybody drives the same speed vs. if you have to dodge because people are going 250 km/h for lulz. If you have the stricter training and policing, you still can improve safety by introducing speed limits.

There's always assholes and they are always making it do bad things, so the distinction isn't even there. If you don't plan for assholes using the tool to try and do bad things, you're making bad technology

I mean it sure looks more better.

Is it actually decent for 2020s? IDK.

1. the signalled pedestrian crossing looks like a waste of time for everybody If this is one way, as the old one was it's still very wide. Are you building for highway speeds? Same goes for curves.
2. Was the right pedestrian crossing moved away from the desired path?
3. Can we see more towards the bottom of the picture? It gets pretty wide for no obvious reason there. How are cyclists supposed to travel from the right side of the intersection to the left?
4. If those are all one-ways, maybe it'd be a better use of space to give cyclists an separated counterflow lane?
5. What's up with bike parking that's separated from the only bike lane with a lawn? That's like the worst possible place for it, far from every possible destination.

Again, it sure looks nicer, but you kind of have to realize it'll stay in that shape for 30, 40 maybe 60 years. So maybe build it really really well, this seems half-baked.

well yeah, nobody is pretending like it's easy to fix on a personal level. Just that it's something we should be able to fix as a society because seriously, expecting people to commute 2 hours for a pear isn't very smart.

people who live in 90% of the least densely populated land on earth are... not that many people in the grand scheme of things.

And if you live close enough to civilization to have utilities like power maybe it's possible to also have a grocery store that's closer than average distance between towns in germany. Might even be beneficial idk.

I'd rather cycle when it rains than get a train, assuming it's not like 3 hours in a freezing temperature watching cars go by while I'm stuck at cyclists-only red light.

yes, sure, but resources, labour and a market isn't enough to elevate you to a global superpower. I'm not proposing EU going full Juche, just why would anyone agree to anything better for russia than being equal trade partners. All those things are great and useful, sure, but you're able to get them elsewhere. If you want special treatment you need to bring something unique to the table. Like the US used to be able to bring.

Futile attempts to destroy it, won’t work

I don't think anybody except maybe putin is trying to do that. At this point everyone would love russia just fucking off and being normal.

Europe seems to need a moment to let go, but if US isn’t forcing them into it, the rest of the world has already been open to Russia and China

I mean, what would Europe need from russia? We're currently more of a "global power" then they are. Only countries seriously aligning themselves with Russia those days are either extremely weak and near russia and so have 0 choice in the matter or try to play both sides for fun and profit LARPing as Tito.

Self-coup would suggest someone is in control and actually wants what's happening. That'd be nice.

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oh yes, the small policing action known as The Cold War that almost ended the human civilization

collaborative and free to access and use

Except GPL which is literally "either join our socialist software revolution or fuck off and make your own software".

and a lot of questionable consent sex situations if I remember correctly

judging by project 2025 they can stop their own agenda by not being able to agree what it is.

But it has been changed a lot?

The most basic immediate execution four operation calculator might still look the same, but that's because it's a very simple thing and you can't really get much wrong. For scientific calculators the UI has changed lots. As have the requirements. It used to be a specialist tool used to do thousands of calculations daily. An expensive thing that had to earn its keep. RPN and stuff like that made sense for people who could easily get back weeks of training in just a few years of being slightly more efficient while working. Now we have the natural order delayed execution thing, because the calculators are mostly for students. Who need the UI to be as easy to grasp as possible, because they won't ever have to do enough calculations to benefit from a faster but harder UI. That doesn't mean any of those approaches to UI is better or worse. Some things require instructions and making everything idiot-proof shouldn't ever be the ultimate goal (check out modern computing for why!).