xanderstrike

95% of people drive because 95% of transportation funding goes to enabling that choice.

People at large are rational and will make rational transportation choices given incentives. The incentives are all aligned towards driving right now because that benefits the auto industry.

You cannot make assertions about how Americans behave, "culturally," based on their transportation choices because these choices are not happening in a vacuum.

Case in point: when Americans visit Disneyland, or NYC, or Amsterdam, they do not typically insist on driving through those places.

The simple geometry problem of how much space cars take up is arguably the worst now (given tailpipe emissions are on their way out), and there is no solution to that outside of fewer and much smaller cars.

Billions of people all over this planet take trips every day without the use of personal private automobiles.

It's fascinating how, to me, my comment was very clearly "don't use a car if you care about privacy" but that interpretation didn't even occur to you. Car dependency runs deep.

> it's that any cop can access your location history for any reason

This requires the assumption that your location and your car's location are always one and the same.

If you care about your privacy consider leaving the vehicle with tracking numbers on it at home sometimes. It's not just cops that have ALPRs and you cannot prevent this technology from existing.

EVs use more than an average home's entire daily electricity budget to go 50 miles. In an emergency you could run your lights, fridge, and water heater for weeks on an EV battery. It's really not much wear and tear.

Cars are an immensely inefficient platform.

This assumes there's an army of competent mods in waiting that the admins can tap into, who could take over (without many of the tools the previous mods used) and effectively run some of the largest communities on the internet.

This strikes me as unlikely.

By definition anyone posting/commenting/upvoting right now doesn't support the blackout. I don't think it's fair to say these comments represent the opinions of those communities.

> the defining trait of a village is that it’s group of people where the average interaction over time is with people you’ve seen before.

This finally made it click for me why I stopped playing online multiplayer games when dedicated servers were abandoned in favor of matchmaking. All the villages were gone.

Comment · 6 years ago

People have been trying for years to do what you're describing with gaming-centric Android TV boxes.

People don't want to play mobile games on their TV. They want to watch TV while playing mobile games.

Comment · 6 years ago

I've never come across a page on MDN I felt I could contribute to since it's so complete, but if I were to come across out of date docs I absolutely would. I imagine it's similar for a lot of folks.

Just like a parked motorcycle or bicycle right? You can just throw it on your van because it's abandoned.

I also use the web browser for this, it's extremely efficient:

CMD+A,C,T,V,A,X,W,V

I don't even release the CMD key between presses and it's all done with one hand extremely quickly. I've often wondered if Chrome collects usage statistics on this and what it looks like from their perspective. "This user opens a lot of tabs, pastes stuff in the address bar, then gives up before the new tab page is even done loading."

> a touchpad with a size that's actually usable

The touchpad is inferior to the trackpoint, so I'd much rather they get rid of it entirely instead.

I bought a North Face SURGE which advertises this, but at LAX and Heathrow I was made to remove my laptop from the bag regardless. It just ended up wasting time as I tried to run the bag through with the laptop in it both times, and both times they made me take it out and send it through again.

Luckily I was able to return the bag when I got back to the states. It was nice otherwise, but I'd really bought it for the TSA convenience.