That’s a good point. I’ve seen bike lanes added successfully with some simple paint even.

Getting enough bike lanes to be useful is the tricky bit, but those bus mounted bike racks mad e a huge difference for me, since I could hop a bus to get through the unbikeable areas.

I would much rather have bike lanes though, and I would have more time to shop at local business is they had bike access, of course.

Neat.

Agreed, on why not both.

I prefer bikes for the independence and versatility.

But I empathize with the logic that for a lot of people, a bus pass is more attainable than buying learning to ride and maintaining a bike.

Plus, buses are crazy efficient for issues like parking and congestion - better even than bikes, which are already pretty great in those areas.

Also, I perceive that bus lines are maybe much cheaper to add than bike lanes. I’m not entirely sure about that, though.

You don’t have the lovely front bumper bike stackers?

We generally put this kind of thing into a chat window and have people ‘thumbs up’ the ones they want to vote for. It’s not elegant, but it’s quick and gets the job done.

I would love to see more lanes, but buses make a lot more sense.

The good news is that buses do lead to better bike access, since it’s easy to carry a bike in the front of a bus.

Nah. Oracle is trying to pivot from “people noticed we hate humans” into “Like Microsoft, we embrace open source now”. I’m glad to see it, but also very skeptical that it represents a long term change.

Edit: Oracle’s stance on basic accessibility seemed really bad, to me, for a long time. I don’t actually think they hate humans…probably.

Except Oracle didn’t create either of those, Sun Microsystems did. Oracle bought Sun, and then made both products worse.

Yeah. I’ve always thought timed open source was probably a sweet spot, but I don’t have a lot of trust that companies will actually follow through on the open license at the end, so it doesn’t buy my goodwill just yet.

Fair enough. I’m just getting a little tired of our monopolist companies buying every competitor while burning through venture capital and then claiming they need to raise prices to “survive”.

All great points. That said, no one should feel sympathy for Disney’s profit margins.

They can and should spend less on anti-piracy measures to become more profitable.

And Disney could be 100% profit, overnight, while paying their actors and writers handsomely, if they just license their content to a streaming service that knows what they are doing.

The goal of AI is fictional, and there’s no solid evidence today that it will ever stop being fiction.

What at have today are stupid learning algorithms that are surprisingly good at mimicing intelligent people.

The most apt comparison today is a particularly clever parrot.

I’m all for having the discussion about how to handle AI when we have it, but it’s bad faith to apply it to what we have today.

Critically, what we have today will never ever go on strike, or really make any kind of correct moral decision on it’s own. We must treat it like dumb automation, because it is dumb automation.

Wilsooooonnnnn!

“At Viridian Dynamics, we build our robots with ethical AI, whatever that means; so that humans and androids can live in peace - we hope.”

Plus on Pixel you can run GrapheneOS.

Have you looked at GrapheneOS? It’s a big change, but it gets the job done.

Disclaimer: I shamelessy advertise it because I use Graphene OS and I want others to use it too so it won’t become abandonware, forcing me back to a slow crappy phone again.

It really is pretty nice.

I went for it, and was delighted by how much more responsive my phone is. I haven’t had a phone this responsive in about 5 years.

The privacy aspect is good too, of course.

These are all very real possibilities.

Here’s another: The big shot billionaire’s agreed over drinks one night that their handlers - the staff that used to make them look smart - were overpaid.

I’m guessing that skill with Cascading Style Sheets is considered wasted time and effort at X, much like media relations, accessibility, and microservices.

I’m not sure, honestly.

Charitably, we could assume it’s just from removing Google and various carriers background apps meant to improve my experience.

Uncharitably, I have my suspicions. For the last five or so versions of Android something always seemed to be using processor cycles and battery when I wasn’t actually doing much with my phone.

But I never saw evidence of usage data exfiltration via Google apps - at least after I turned off the related optional settings.

In any case, switching to GrapheneOs was a startling and pleasant speed boost for me, whatever the real root cause.