The bike lanes suck though. They are next to the street, instead of behind the parking and next to the sidewalk. As a result, on the main street in Hoboken (Washington street), there are always cars double parked in the bike lane during the day or drinking hours of the night, because parking in that city is horrendous. It’s common to see an entire block or two full of cars double parked in the bike lane, making it unusable. Also, they redid the bike lane with textured hexagonal bullshit so using any wheels smaller than e-scooter wheels (skateboard, roller skate) is just a super rough ride.

Great that he stopped pedestrian casualties, but he severely harmed personal non-car transit.

Did the writer give me permission to read their book, which I used to learn to write better and sell those works?

Did Michelangelo give every art student that learned from his works permission to learn from his work and then produce works in a similar style on their own to sell for profit?

The average car transports 1.2 people

To anybody that likes this game: check out killer queen.

It is a team vs team competitive arcade game that was inspired by joust. Truly a great game with lots of skill and strategy involved. Only downside is that there are few cabinets and it is relatively unknown.

You didn’t even read my comment.

I wouldn’t defend either. I never said one was okay. Why would I use that defense when it’s not even a defense.

But what I’m saying is if I have to buy one (which many people do), I’ll support the lesser of two evils. And one is far lesser.

Both things are bad but you can’t just equate two wildly different problems or act like the scope of them is even remotely the same.

One is a group of people being exploited in the present day, the other is the near end of life as we know if on earth.

Eh, it’s ambiguous which event he is referring to. Could be either.

It’s not about when the app last updated, it’s if they updated the code to use the modern interface.

They didn’t.

This means the app devs refused to make their app work with modern phones for YEARS. no real excuse there.

Your oversimplification makes it sound like this is just my personal preference, and not a natural tendency of humans or social media interactions.

This is not just “I like X more”, this is “humans on a large scale act like probabilistic decision trees and will converge on lowest common denominator dopamine fountains without careful checks and considerations”

The latter is necessary for high quality networked media and discussion

If an account is upvoted because it’s posting high- quality content, we’d expect those votes to come from a variety of accounts that don’t otherwise have a tendency to vote for the same things.

No, I completely disagree and reject your premise.

Many times really high quality content will be voted for by only a small subset of the population.

In general people will vote for lowest common denominator widely appealing click bait. That type of content will get varied voters because of wide appeal. Discerning voters represent a smaller but consistent subset of the population, and this proposed algorithm will penalize that and just lead to more low quality widely appealing click bait.

What if account B only ever posts high quality content? What if everybody upvotes account B because their content is so good? What if they rarely post so it would be reasonable that a smaller subset of the population has ever seen their posts?

Your theory assumes large volumes of constant posts seen by a wide audience, but that’s not how these sites work, your ideal would censor and disadvantage many accounts.

“why did my rent go up by 400 dollars?” “Because my favorite bagel spot raised prices by a dollar”

When you buy a ticket to see a movie at a theatre, you don’t own the movie.

Correct and not letting you make up definitions or ignore reality just to support a separate point that you agree with?

Sounds like you’re a bad husband.

I never said anything about it being wrong or that anybody was getting hurt.

I just said under current definitions it is illegal. Legality != morality.

According to the law or dictionaries? Yes.

I’m not in that mindset. Doesn’t mean laws and definitions of words don’t exist law. We can say fuck them and that we don’t care, but they still exist.

What does a lack of enforcement, or other bullshit that the government does, have to do with the fact that OPs post made no sense.

I totally agree.

That’s not related to the original post though.