Remember Aaron Swartz

Really geography has a big influence, it’s all about cost of a cable vs. possible rate of return from subscribers.

Oh yeah totally. I live in a country with lots of island and it’s a logistical nightmare. As a result, the eastern most part of my country still doesn’t have internet. It’s not even because the government is incompetent, it’s because it’s hard. AFAIK at least

Ah, fellow Southeast Asian I see

What?

How is the availability of high-quality internet a first world problem? I live in a developing country and it’s way better than this LoL

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Congrats on the new logo!

Identifying mushroom has always been mysterious to me–how did they differentiate many of the mushroom? Especially I heard that there are so many different mushroom that looks identical

This tellls you so much what kind of company OpenAI is

Wunkus

I just bought it one month ago 😭

Yeah tired of seeing them

I always had suspicion that the name “Erlang” came from a name, as at least in my country the name “Airlangga” (people usually shorten it like “Erlang”) , is a pretty common name

What the fuck is “Lunch Debt”

(im not an american)

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Perhaps there’s starting to be a Lemmy clone/alternative? I think it’s named Sublinks

I randomly found a good VN some time ago and it feels like it finally kicks-starts my passion of reading a book! Gonna start with The Hobbit.

Of all the selling points they have, they decided to uses “With updates built-in”? Brother every browsers nowadays have that smh

:p

Peak journalism

fuckcars folks trying not to be the most annoying person in the room for one second challenge (instant fail)

Look, I love good public transportation infrastructure as much as you. I always try to tell other people and especially the government how much my city urgently needs to upgrade its trains, BRTs, sidewalks, etc (thankfully though there’s now multiple efforts on building MRT & LRT).

But, that doesn’t mean cars are the worst invention in the history of man–you folks always say that and it’s infuriating to me, it’s such a narrow-minded way of seeing the world.

Take Japan for example, the train infrastructure is pretty much the best. I know that cuz I’ve been there, trust me, I can talk about this for hours. So good that, while we lived there, we didn’t feel the need to buy a car. Their bus is pretty good too. Sidewalks, bike lanes, accessibility, etc have been taken into account when they were building their city.

But when you live in rural parts of Japan, it’s inevitable–you need cars. There isn’t just enough demand for public transportation. Sometimes there’s a train going through but the frequency is low, and most of the time it’s only single-track. Or sometimes there are buses going through, but infrequently.

And it’s fine. The city is small, and there aren’t enough car users to make bad traffic congestion.

Different story for big city though. I always thought that living in a big city is a form of compromise: you have a limited space of land to use, but you need to use that land for millions of people. If the city only relies on cars, it’s going to be so inefficient. Too much traffic congestion, bad pollution. That’s why good cities build mass transportation, or in your case, buses.

And the best cities build extremely good mass transportation so good that people doesn’t feel the need of buying cars. Of course cars still exist, like the city I lived back in when I was in Japan. Or rural parts of Japan. Or perhaps people that commute between them. But there are options: cars, bikes, buses, trains, etc.

Here’s my point: the availability of options are the best. It’s okay if you want to ride cars, bike, bus, or trains.

Cause you’ll need cars at some point in your life. And it’s alright.