Glad no one besides the pilot was killed. When you read a headline like that you imagine much worse damage.

Has anyone said they don’t want people in Tibet to have access to modern technology? That strikes me as a very very odd claim.

I strongly disagree. People walking along roads die every day. It is not safe. That exact situation may not have been foreseeable. But when you add up all of the different possible scenarios and reasons people may drive recklessly, it becomes practically inevitable that something like this will happen. If the only route people have to walk somewhere is along fast traffic, people will die. And if we refuse to develop alternatives (which are very affordable for pedestrian infrastructure) then we are choosing to kill these people by our inaction.

Safe pedestrian paths are non-negotiable. Even outside the city.

Easy PTB. It’s dumb to ban ideologies instead of behavior for this exact reason. Just repeating a fact that tankies like to repeat does not prove you are a tankie.

Unsurprising sentiment from the chief of the thought police over here.

I was referencing that my local schools got rid of buses several rounds of austerity ago in favor of free public bus fares for students. And in a more recent round of austerity they also got rid of those. So now it’s drive or get fucked I guess. Gotta teach those kids to support themselves I suppose.

You guys are getting buses?

Intersectionality.

Class reductionism is bad, actually.

Anyway Blahaj is a queer safe space, so they have strict rules around this kind of thing. I’m not a big fan of thought policing but that is sort of the whole purpose of the instance in this case so…

Also the fact that it emerges from the top of his head seems very concerning.

Frankly, despite his claims, all evidence seems to contradict the idea this is cum. It seems to be blood from a very serious head injury.

Nextdoor but less toxic

But today is Sunday and Sunday is better than Friday anyway.

Yeah I think we are largely advocating for the same thing. Central business districts that are all concrete and glass are pretty dystopian. But medium dense cities with car infrastructure replaced by green space would be perfect.

All good points. I was just thinking I probably would not be willing to do any camera-based captcha.

At a certain point if they force me to stop being online maybe that’s not so bad.

Thanks I will check these out. In particular this is like the 10th time I’ve thought that I should read the dispossessed. Love Ursula Leguin.

Maybe… or would your body simply rot away faster since you aren’t using it as much? I would be inclined to think the latter.

I don’t see how any captcha will remain viable for long at this point. The bots are going to win eventually.

I think the issue for space colonization is there’s no real practical reason to do it beyond that it’s cool and interesting. There’s still absolutely tons of largely unused land in deserts, polar climates, and even the ocean that are far more accessible and habitable than space is.

Even for earth this is way too suburban imo. Does not make sense to have everyone spread out that way for multiple reasons.

Solarpunk development in my view should be as green as our suburbs today but much denser to save on cost, keep people connected, and save room for wild nature.