Yes, and he would like to graduate into being obscenely rich through a successful IPO.

Yes, certainly. Beyond just talking about bikes most new urbanists are trying to encourage walkable cities and transit oriented development. Walkable cities, which also tend to also be bikable, are cities designed like they were a hundred years ago, where it’s possible and even encouraged for most people in the area to be able to walk between home, work, dining, entertainment, shopping, and recreation.

Transit oriented development is urban planning that locates the above destinations in proximity to public transit stops. Furthermore public transit is prioritized above car traffic through the use of separate rights of way so that when car traffic backs up the public transit is not delayed.

When you add more lanes to accommodate more car traffic on a road that gets too many cars, you attract more car traffic until that road is just as congested as it was before. But this induced demand works both ways. If you add more walking and bike infrastructure that’s actually usable and feels safe to get from where you are to where you want to go you’re more likely to walk or take a bike. If taking the bus or train is faster, easier, cheaper, etc than driving a car a lot more people will take that transit.

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I get called BUM, for bargaining unit member. It is better than most alternatives.

I got a similar reaction to idiotsincars. Some oblivious asshole driver would recklessly endanger everyone around them in a video.

Okay, sure, that’s bad. Drivers should be held to a much higher standard of training, driving privileges should be easier to withdraw from repeat offenders, we should encourage dramatically less car-dependent infrastructure that requires everyone to have to drive to go anywhere or do anything, etc, etc, etc.

However the comments you see every day are out for fucking blood. Life in prison, death sentence, beatings, million dollar fines! Like, yo, chill out. Overreacting and demanding extremely harsh punishment is how America ended up with the largest prison population in the world. As a society there has to be a middle ground between doing nothing and the most extreme punishments imaginable. This is especially true if the ultimate goal is to discourage antisocial behavior, rather than just seek vengeance.

By my reckoning it was a reasonably fun spot to shitpost about politics and poke fun at each other, but when The_Donald got banned it seemed to pick up a lot of refugees (oh the irony) and the mods did nothing to stem the tide of sexist, racist, homophobic, etc. garbage. I used to pop in once in a while for a sensible chuckle, but after the change I blocked it.

It’s okay. Nobody’s perfect.

I’m not sure it’s even possible to contain some of the tropes. I still occasionally see people posting “first” on YouTube and similar, and that’s a Slashdot troll meme from more than 20 years ago.

Slightly off topic, but perhaps you can point me in the right direction. I recently upgraded my home router/NAT firewall to one that runs pfSense and it now supports IPv6. I was slightly horrified to find that DHCP had assigned all my devices IPv6 addresses and that they were all publicly routable. Comments online seemed to indicate that in order to protect devices on my local network from being probed by external entities I’d have to create custom firewall rules. I know just enough to know I didn’t want to do that as the likelihood of doing it wrong and compromising security far outweighed any benefit I’d see from IPv6. The only other option was to disable all IPv6 traffic at the firewall.

What am I missing here? Is it intended that regular home users have their printer, which the manufacturer hasn’t seen fit to update since Bush Jr. was president, exposed to the entire Internet? Is it that the IPv6 space is so large that port scanning for vulnerable machines is like finding a needle in a haystack?