the function never gets called, but the running code reads the source code of this function to extract important constants, and if you delete the function, everything breaks :)

Even our language has been perverted. When we like something, we call it good - a word that is derived from god: we put it in god’s vicinity. Therefore, it is instilled in us that everything we like must be close to god.

Satan isn’t close to god but i still like them. How do i convey that in a single word?

What’s needed is to simplify the government to the point that people can actually understand what it does.

It’s overcomplicated, the laws are written in arcane gibberish that nobody really sees through (if you haven’t studied the laws for 20 years at least), there’s bureaucracy hell, things need to be simpler. that does not mean less government, i.e. handouts should still be paid, but it should happen in a predictable, simple way.

Like, y’all, i’m maximally confused.

How do i even put this …

What even is a good life according to you? Is it one in which you constantly work and that defines your self-worth?

Like, what i don’t get is that i see both people here on this forum, on lemmy, advocating for “communism means workers own the factories they work in” (i.e. workers are solely upheld by their own productivity, example) and “people’s lifes shouldn’t be tied to their productivity” (this comic).

Please, y’all, make up your mind. Do you define yourself as somebody who inherently works hard and out of that draws their self-esteem, or is your self-worth independent of your productivity?

not just any foreigner, a russian. that’s … that’s communism (/s)

it’s not even about being moderate. i believe the stronger vision wins. it’s more like this:

on some policies (like gender issues) you heavily divide the population because people see it very differently. some people will agree heavily, others will disagree just as strongly, and all you’re doing is to divide the population, which is not what we need. if you focus on economic policies instead, people’s agreement is much more even and you get a lot of support from many people, which carries you and the country forward much more, i believe.

(And yes, I am aware that a community like this one which discusses alternatives to fossil-free transportation, might be frequented by poorly-informed people and also be targeted by astroturfing and 10-cent armies directed by the fossil fuel industry… one sees this in every discussion on climate protection.)

downvote for insinuating that i’m a paid bot of the fossil fuels industry for disagreeing with you.

They’ve already priced out millions of people.

yeah because construction costs alone are higher than these people can pay in rent.

does anyone know what the difference between OsmAnd and Organic Maps is?

finally. i’ve been waiting for this for a long time. finally a worthwhile software development project again.

France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands will work to develop open, European alternatives in “key areas” such as AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and – curiously – social networks.

especially social networks are important, as it allows people to connect and exchange messages outside of the influence of US big biased algorithms.

does anybody have a link to the project website, where one can sign up and contribute?

as high as possible

as high as possible without losing customers to competing landlords

Personally I drive 2 cars to work with my left butt cheek in one car, and my right butt cheek in the other car just to be extra inefficient.

i’m not sure whether the whole comment is satire or not.

the problem with bicycles is they are not weather proof. if it’s cold or hot or stormy or hails, bicycles suck. then on top you’re excluding people who are not physically fit enough to use a bicycle for more than 5 minutes. and that includes people with disabilities of all kind.

so you still need public transport options anyway. on days with bad weather, you can expect that at least 90% of people are gonna prefer public transport, so you have to size your buses and trams large enough to carry the full population anyways.

so now you already have full public transport. at this point, why bother with bicycles, apart from the fun and physical exercise people get?

that’s why i conclude that bicycles are only for recreation/sports, not actually for mass transport.

i mean yeah but how much of that energy can you get out of that uranium, and at what speed?

Usually these systems rely on people getting on/off at different stops, rather than one stop seeing full volume. If it’s one stop, chances are it’ll look like a terminus station and you’ll need several platforms and possibly dual-side boarding to each train. It’ll be quite a bit wider than tracks with no station, or a minimalist station.

yeah, on the tram line i typically take, we have like 1 stop where lots of people get on/off, like 30 people per door, and it always takes 1-2 minutes to unload all the people/new people to enter. i think it’s just outright planned-into into the route’s timing plan.

interesting. i think in our city, trams and metro are not clearly separated. parts of the trams’ tracks run on their own lane, while other parts mix with the other traffic.

idk it just seems complicated, with all the keybindings and i think it even has scripting inside the text editor … i never bothered to learn it.

that’s just factually not true. i’ll explain it slowly so you can follow:

rent is determined by two things: cost of construction and profit of the landlord.

cost of construction is more or less constant and wouldn’t change if people have more money to spend. profit of the landlord is subject to the free market, i.e. if renting out apartments becomes overly attractive (as in, landlords make more money with it), then new people will enter the market to also become landlords and rent out apartments. since these landlords are all competing against each other, they try to be more attractive to potential customers by lowering their rent, which means lowering their own profit. that’s how the free market works.

the problem with custom keybindings i have is i work on a lot of different machines (i used 3 different desktop computers yesterday) and keybindings presumably only work on my machine.