Cat smol.

Car drivers in the last two years killed about 80,000 people in the US. That is of a similar scale to the murders in Gaza. So your point that this is unimportant is off base.

Most people don’t pay much or any attention to local politics which makes advertising and incumbency very powerful. Most people literally just vote for the name they recognize from TV or mailers.

It would take a large increase in political consciousness to fix this.

Flight requires extreme adaptations that make terrestrial life much more difficult. It’s hard to evolve it and once you do, going back will be difficult. Especially when competing with a bunch of animals that haven’t completely warped their bodies for a totally different lifestyle.

On isolated islands without mammals, many birds do begin to revert to a terrestrial strategy. But the mammal body plan is just better for this, and when mammals have reached such places, flightless birds have almost immediately experienced population collapse.

I feel like most slander is constructed in a way that makes it very hard to disprove. Which could mean this will just turn into pointless bickering.

However, I do hate the witch hunting that happens on here sometimes so I’ll check it out at least.

What? You mean I’ve been doing this internet thing wrong this whole time?

I think we were discussing western prices. Need to compare like to like.

Though, if anyone has experience with electric moto prices in Vietnam, that would be even more relevant.

How much is a normal moto? Is it cheaper?

5k seems extremely cheap to me but I guess I’m used to car prices which aren’t comparable.

I think they’re talking about e-motos. I wish the term e-bike would be restricted to bicycles but people seem to want to muddy the waters.

What makes them trash?

That’s great to aspire for but there’s still an almost total lack of content in many genres I enjoy on YouTube. I don’t even think PeerTube has progressed as far as the Lemmy community in terms of content availability. Admittedly this is probably because text and image content is much easier to create, but as a user I don’t find much reason to spend time there yet.

So if you don’t want a monetized model, there is still a need to have another solution to the lack of content, and I haven’t seen one yet.

Can you give an example? I’ve heard many now that are bearable to listen to but none that really sound human.

Does it though?

For the record, he’s a democratic socialist, not a social democrat. These are distinct, though related movements. The difference between them, which you seem confused about, is that socialists do not uphold the capitalist class, despite your claims. Social democrats want to retain capitalism, while democratic socialists do not.

However, democratic socialists do have differences of opinion with more radical socialists on the best way to achieve the socialized means of production they aim for. They favor reform over revolution.

You are welcome to disagree with this view but it’s not a good reason to view their socialism as false or insincere.

No need to reply, since we already established that you’re not interested in good faith discourse. But I couldn’t leave this misinformation unchallenged.

I know what socialism means. I wanted to hear your interpretation of the facts regarding Mamdani, since this is a contentious topic, and socialism is a broad tradition. But I see now it was a waste of time to expect serious discourse from you.

I guess that’s a yes. I was genuinely curious to hear the case that he’s not a socialist but it doesn’t seem you have much basis for this opinion.

I’m talking about Mamdani specifically though. Or are you just assuming that based on your feelings about the US in general?

He calls himself one, do you have cause to doubt it?

It’s obviously a good thing but it took a lot of effort and there are other more important problems is all I’m saying.

Not overreacting. Driving is extremely dangerous for yourself and others around you, not to mention environmentally destructive. And an increasing number of people are choosing to live a car-free lifestyle for these reasons.

If you live in an area where alternatives like walking, biking, or transit are viable, then I’d definitely consider it. If not, then you may not have a choice. But consider whether you can move to an area where you can avoid driving. Even as an experienced and competent driver, as I’ve gradually decreased the frequency I drive, my quality of life has improved a lot.

Biking especially is increasingly viable in many cities and even suburbs nowadays. However, if you’re forced to share the road with heavy cars and trucks it could be dangerous if you don’t have good situational awareness. But that is something you may be able to develop with practice. As someone who is a regular urban cyclist I feel my awareness and skills have dramatically improved with time.