Manhattan has a lot of Office Buildings which brings down the average, people commute in their from over 100 miles away so you can have a lot of office workers in a space with a permanent population that’s much lower

This person is obviously assuming the norms and economic equilibrium of 20th century America is a universal when in reality I was a historical arberation that’s dragging on because the people from that era are still the ones clinging to power. Like yeah I get there was an old socially accepted life script but that is gone forever now, time to grow up and build a better world.

I am however intrigued by the idea of having a couple blocks cordoned off as some 18+ public sex Kink sex toy District, that actually sounds kind of fun

As someone who grew up in Suburbia I can say that higher density would be better since it was more kids to play with nearby. We should make sure that there’s a park within walking distance of dense housing going forward I think, since if you don’t have a private car the park is a reasonable ask, especially since it’s probably going to be even better than some dumb piece of grass anyways

the solution is subways.

basically everything is research scale right now, and we need to do full scale tests to make sure everything works and learn how to optimize things. there’s also non-DAC options to work on too

Yeah the population bomb fizzled (although family planning policy being widespread probably makes it another ozone layer) and upside down population pryamids are a more realistic scenario

I always like to say that the number of cars on the road should decrease by 90%. The other 10% accounts for every Edge case you can think of because if you look at the clogged freeways you don’t see masses of Paratransit Vans or people hauling furniture taking up all the space

Yes, but so is better urban planning to make using a car unnecessary for most trips. Solarpunk urbanism is one of the most exciting things to come out of either solarpunk or urbanism

solar is gonna get us pretty damn close to unlimited clean power for at least part of the day

thank you. I used kbin.social before it went down and only got around to getting back on the bandwagon.

I wish fuel cells were cheaper. I looked into it once and it was over a thousand for even a low watt unit. and that’s not counting the fuel or the tank. it wouldn’t be hard to hot swap a fuel cell into my ebike but a battery is just cheaper

non technical people don’t understand how computers work. for us it’s intuitive that a computer can have a program on it that listens to a port on the network and serves interactive web pages for for most people “app on phone does something” is all they know. their mwental model is shaped by large corpo offerings.

I think our pitch to the tech illiterate should be “hey look at this great website, great content, mods actually do their jobs, users are friendly” let them sign up thinking a particular instance is just like what their used to, then they discover on their own accord that some users have an extra @example.com at the end, and if they ask explain that there are other websites just like that one, and the websites can exchange messages so it all works like one big website. for apps, just tell them “when you launch it for the first time it asks for your server, just type in the domain name, this app supports multiple websites. good, now put in your username and password and you’re all set”

starting new people off in the browser might be a bit awkward on mobile but saving the federation talk for later is probably best. focus on the surface level appeal (a website that is good and doesn’t suck) and they can learn why it doesn’t suck later

we’re all burnt out from life bending us over. I intended to sign up here for a couple months and onlu just got around to it.

Not woke? Go broke

X is ran by a Nazi. Those numbers could be totally fake for all we know

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it’s been made basically illegal for them to do it, so we need to fix that

ideally you would be able to do urban communes. if you can build your dwelling you can have a green roof

I see people being increasingly willing to cut off abusive family to be a very important change in society to end cycles of abuse

at this point very little to none of the economic growth even benefits normal people, it’s all for the rich. in fact rich people having more money means they can corrupt the government more and buy up more land and other zero sum goods we need