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5bicycles [he/him]

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good god even among non leftist spaces the general message of robin hood is agreed to be “You take from the rich and give to the poor”, how the fuck do you arrive at the point he’s just opposed to nobility and clergy

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I don’ think “twitter reply people” does Dr. Janega here justice

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It’s a start up. It’s going to attract millions of dollars, never accomplish anything but buying power from other power sources as an “intermediate solution”, be bought up by someone with more money than sense as all the CEOs dip, then immediatly falter

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Even in cities which are considered to have exceptional public mass transit, like Tokyo, rush hour on trains is awful. Not much you can really do about it from an infrastructure view point since trains are already arriving every 2 mins at peak times and they’re still crammed full.

Yeah, but cars are a different breed there as far as regulations and cost go.

That was my point. You change little else in your typical western nation (which seems what the comment is aiming at with easy regulation), i.e. you keep subsidizing the car to no end at every opportunity and stretching traffic out more will do nothing than get people back into the car because of cost/time/convenience mixed with a good bit of brainworms.

Changing nothing else it’s a policy aimed at making it nicer to go by car and it will function as such.

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There’s also quite easy policies that could make commuting much less awful even without much change to existing infrastructure.

Yeah, create a network of alternative means like public transport, cycling, e-scooters or whatever funky vehicle people wanna by barring cars from certain streets. It’s a sign and a few poles.

Could you imagine if 1/3 of offices started work at 8, 9, and 10am respectively and ended 8 hours after that? Both public and private transport would be so much more pleasant without people cramming in at the same time to meet an arbitrary time.

You’d get more people driving lol

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I’m convinced, I couldn’t think of any other reason why a professional athlete could possibly have healthy hair and nails

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do tell

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as an economist, I am entirely convinced the concept of “eatsa”, an SF based restaraunt, is applicable to the whole country

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I find it incredibly funny that you can put a bunch of pigs anywhere and they just flourish as a species.

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