Cars and car infrastructure are very expensive. I see that as a growing problem, with resources (budgets) needing to be allocated to more important things.

If you keep “a few” cars, the policy transforms cars into highly desirable status signals due to being luxury products that have some large access privilege. This alone is a huge danger because people in this civilization are raised to be obsessed with chasing status and giving a small minority the huge advantage of cars and car system would probably lead to some type of mafia, political corruption, all kinds of bad shit. And it would maintain DESIRE for cars, and desire is key to creating demand.

The goal should be to eradicate the technology of cars entirely. That’s going to allow for more efficient use of other systems, more efficient use of resources, less pollution, way less class conflict.

I’m not saying that it will eliminate class conflict, because we know that there’s a history of “classes” in public transportation, even in buses. That’s segregation by class (in the US that class system was also mirrored in “race”). That’s a problem we should figure out separately.

Essentially, any time you support the production and use of a luxury, you’re destabilizing society and creating dangerous racing conditions (“race to the bottom”, “rat race”, “arms race”) which means that it’s unsustainable socially and politically.

I am actually from Eastern Europe and in my country, during the “Socialist” regime, there still were cars and they were rare. It drove the people nuts, it was a huge privilege to drive on, to buy one, to fuel one. After 1989 getting cars became a free for all, if you had money, so now the place is almost literally paved with cars in the big cities and most of them are second-hand, with a large number of them being junkers that cause horrible pollution (yes, we are in the EU). I’ve seen it happen, this tragedy. Which is why I say that there can be no stable state of “just a few cars”.

It doesn’t even work industrially, these car factories and car parts factories rely on economies of scale and large production. The lower the production, the more expensive and manual it has to get. Remember, cars started out as a rich people’s dangerous toys.

Similar dynamics apply to car infrastructure. That shit’s expensive. Do you think you’re going to have highways across the land for a fraction of the current car users?

COUCHES THO

No

Rubber tire dust is also toxic to ecosystems, sometimes more than the plastic dust version. As the articles suggest, additives are also a problem, but additives matter to the integrity and qualities of the tires. Best to get rid of cars entirely.

This reminds me of those solar cars. https://wonderfulengineering.com/family-solar-car-stella-runs-completely-on-solar-energy/

it’s safe

but is there time?

Wasn’t she a huge disappointment when she unilaterally suspended/deferred congestion pricing supposedly after divine interventionmeeting an angel some random person in a restaurant? What a piece of shit.

The article is paywalled, so good luck with it. Isn’t “Lemon de” on the conservative carbrain side?

And, yes, speed limits need to be enforced somehow for all motorized vehicles within their contexts. Sidewalks are not for riding fast and bike paths aren’t for riding fast either. Speed limiters are most definitely needed, as is a lot of education. Civilization is 100% not ready for “sharable” scooters either.

Wait till you hear about grazing.

GDP📈

I’ve seen a lot of terrible things.

I hope that when you grow up, you manage to reconnect with your humanity.

The same to you then.

You remind me of the people who complain about talk of gun regulations after mass shootings.

I’ll shut up when we mourn the death and maiming caused by the use of cars.

Writing code is bad!

Writes condensed configurations and properties files in 3 different languages instead. Cloud deployment uses yet another source of configurations and properties.

Doesn’t write documentation for configuration and properties.

Ah, yes, that’s much more readable.

Example reason: https://mastodon.social/tags/FloatingCars

Different study:

Early-life microbiota seeding and subsequent development is crucial to future health. Cesarean-section (CS) birth, as opposed to vaginal delivery, affects early mother-to-infant transmission of microbes. Here, we assess mother-to-infant microbiota seeding and early-life microbiota development across six maternal and four infant niches over the first 30 days of life in 120 mother-infant pairs. Across all infants, we estimate that on average 58.5% of the infant microbiota composition can be attributed to any of the maternal source communities. All maternal source communities seed multiple infant niches. We identify shared and niche-specific host/environmental factors shaping the infant microbiota. In CS-born infants, we report reduced seeding of infant fecal microbiota by maternal fecal microbes, whereas colonization with breastmilk microbiota is increased when compared with vaginally born infants. Therefore, our data suggest auxiliary routes of mother-to-infant microbial seeding, which may compensate for one another, ensuring that essential microbes/microbial functions are transferred irrespective of disrupted transmission routes. https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(23)00043-4

coffee and death metal

I was already thinking of the tree paper mafia and their conflict with hemp.

This better not lead to some Eugenics AI.

I wonder how much of that was the show’s writers.