A likely silly question
@grimalkina
I don't know enough to know, is this this journal an example of bad psychology or the start of trying to actually support gay and lesbian people (very flawed support no doubt, but an honest effort)?
@lumi @tauon
Yeah, I'm definitely more conscious of who's writing the software I pick and what kind of community is around it now. "apolitical" doesn't cut it
@anarceus
Yeah, it felt like in arcane it was done to avoid any sort of systemic change.
racism, ableism
@flesh
Multiple times I've pointed out to people that they were arguing for eugenics, and explained why/how. Multiple times I've gotten the response "what if eugenics was good this time?" :/
Once the person did realize it was fucked up, at least.
@cinnamon
it's a multiplayer mod! it was mostly stable, except when it wasn't lol. Sometimes reloading the server would work, but if you did it too many times it would start to spawn you in a noclip state
and it was cool seeing where a lot of sound effects and stuff that I've heard for years comes from
@cinnamon
I just played/finished Half Life 2 with the Synergy mod for the first time last month! :3
re: math question
@phseiff @transoptimal
Put some numbers in and try it out. Try with random numbers, and even a, b, c, n = 1. If it works that doesn't mean they're equal of course, there could be still be numbers it doesn't work for. If it doesn't then you know.
@ireneista @kelpana @tedchoward
And a community supporting a game long after the developer stops seems significantly more likely than other software categories
re: nudity, eye contact
@littlefox
was it the cute dragonfox looking at me?
@rinmari68k @lumi
It doesn't require to be running at the same time as your phone anymore; it gets its own keys and can do all the ratcheting stuff independently. But you still need to boot your phone every now and again to re-authorize the desktop client.
@tarix29 @futurebird
my disappointment when "chat" wasn't a group chat full of people with weirdly specific interests and niche trivia
@reece
This is a really weird comment to make when I already mentioned Luxembourg, but I guess you dismissed it is not good enough. Which, compared to Hong Kong or Tokyo, it's not, but is that really because they don't charge fares? And America is the richest country in the world, Luxembourg isn't special there.
You didn't come across as arrogant, but it was frustrating that you typed a long response that seemed to ignore what I said. Especially since you've come across my arguments often, I would have thought you'd have more to say then "that's not how anybody else does it."
When talking about fares there's not a false dichotomy of "Luxembourg can have the 10% of revenue from fares or not", it's will the government pay a bit more than it already is and reduce costs by not needing to handle all the associated costs with charging fares and determining who can and cannot get free transit or a discount.
And I really do wonder how tap to pay with credit cards or apple pay or whatever works, because I genuinely don't know. Are transit agency's really eating the fees of credit cards? That seems grossly inefficient. At a glance at translink's fares this seems to be the case, since the "Stored Value" compass cards that have a $5 minimum have a reduced fee. Convenient for tourists, maybe, but so is not having a fare (and zones!) at all.
@reece
There’s literally no reason that people who can’t afford transit need to pay for it, but at the same time, there’s literally no reason that people who can shouldn’t.
It'd be weird to say health care shouldn't be free because those who can pay for it should. I'm not sure what the difference is here. There are many good reasons for free healthcare, it's harder to take away when it's for everyone, means testing is expensive, and people who can pay already do that with taxes.
Most transit systems the majority of their costs are covered by the government and not fares. Fares definitely do not cover the cost of expansion. The exceptions like Hong Kong and Tokyo might be profitable but it's because of real estate and their stations, not fares.
For transit enforcement is also expensive. Beyond turnstiles, tickets or cards, police have to be paid to stand around to catch inevitable turntable jumpers, and this is not a good thing for multiple reasons. I also genuinely don't know how tap to pay with your credit card works. Maybe transit systems are able to negotiate with debit and credit companies, because normally high volume small transactions don't make sense to do. You lose too much money to the credit card because of the flat fee; this is why you may see bakeries require a 3 or $5 minimum to use a card. This is also why you don't see a competitor to patreon for monthly small donations. Even patreon can't really make reoccurring high volume small transaction payments work.
having fares makes sense as a way of managing capacity and travel demand.
I think this is the strongest argument, but I think most places in the US and Canada we're not in a situation where too much demand is a problem yet, and there is also plenty of room for expansion. Inducing demand in transit's probably not a bad thing.
Also, Luxembourg managed to make their transit free. Seems to be doing well. Maybe it's not, I haven't looked super deep into it, but the reasoning they use makes sense to me. Fares only covered 10% the cost of transit there anyway. I'd be interested if you knew more about this, for sure.
luxtoday.lu/en/knowledge/why-public-transport-is-free-in-luxembourg
(Fare systems that have "zones" also suck to navigate honestly, though that's not an inherent quality of fares.)
@raphaelmorgan
I just don't know a solution that doesn't look like .onion, .i2p, or the widely criticized pgp "web of trust"
@lumi
good to know, I thought it was for garlic
