Considering you said you’re german, I think the whole Idea of “Ehrenamt” and subsidiaries of it runs counter to the entire system that has been built. If we monetize everything, I think it’s fine that people get paid for taking time out of their day and bodies to do good shit.

Basically, don’t do unpaid labour in this system?

One of the worst things you can do to the environment folks. Don’t bear children. Don’t invite another being into this madness and suffering.

As is continuing to live so why don’t you follow through on that line of thought here

Like me personally or like societally?

I’m like 50:50 on whether I’ll live to see the FRONTEX Iron Curtain because given what the EU is, where do you go from here? I mean you’re not going to un-neoliberal the EU so I’m kind of wondering what the options here are

aero as fuck riding position

It seems largely fallen out of favour but I’m genuinely wondering how Teamspeak is still going and hasn’t succumbed to enshittification

Buddy the other option here is not them managing to deal with it, psych health care in germany is abysmally absent, it’s becoming alcoholics

I switched from Shotcut to Kdenlive as it seemed a lot more feature rich to me, still FOSS obviously

YMMV on the CDU vis a vis being fascists but I’d argue you can look back at Adenauers “Radikalenerlass” (“Radical Decree” or something) that purported to stop extremists from both sides from holding certain important jobs and somehow managed to find 1000 left wing extremists for every right winger in '70s germany.

Doesn’t matter, judiically. The german parliament approves it, therefore it’s fine.

If North Korea brought this case I’d take a similar double-take and ask questions.

What makes you think Nicaragua is similar to North Korea?

Not even international law, but their own civil laws.

Speaking for germany I’m unsure as to what you’re getting at here on a judicial level. Any arms sale has to be approved by the parliament, as such I don’t see much hope for a civil law suit here.

made me realise that this place is a piece of shit with absolutely zero empathy for anyone.

Is every person the king of england or how do you get to this conclusion?

oh, quite understandable. I do appreciate EVs when I’M stuck behind one at a traffic light for not gassing me.

The problem with your point is your reinventing the homo oeconomicus except for transportation. The underlying assumption is that if only the public transit (walkability, bikeability, what-have-you-ability) is good enough, people would not drive their cars.

And there’s truth to it insofar as you take something like Phoenix, AZ or something and just make cars more expensive it ain’t gonna do shit except fleece people. But Paris isn’t that, at some point you have to grapple with the fact that you also have to actively get people out of cars via incentives to do so because there’s a sizeable amount of people who are terribly, terribly car brained and will not change, because they’re not being rational about it.

I mean, much the same, but I’m kind of split whether they’re meaningfully better. Unless it’s smog smog I have some ways to avoid car exhaust, like not standing directly beside it, where I live even the law allows for that. I don’t put down enough watts to transport myself to a stable orbit.

But, just to be clear, this is me arguing against all cars, not pro gasoline cars over electric cars

One electric car is better than one gasoline car, because electric cars don’t fart toxic gases into the air where everyone’s trying to breathe.

Nah, the fart particles are still there though and those get worse with weight

Congestion pricing simply creates a penalty for people without providing them with alternative.

Are you seriously arguing you can’t get around Paris without a car lol?

This is the weird fantasy part I was referring to. It’s like, just nonsense. It comes off like an american attitude being ported to the UK with absolutely no adaptation whatsoever to British conditions. Our conditions are nothing like america. Getting rid of cameras and getting traffic calming measures installed instead is not particularly difficult, it’s about the same. This idea of complete and widespread reinterpretation of public space? It doesn’t make sense here.

I’m german tho.

By American standards it would be considered idyllic.

As such, I do not believe american standards as per roads are anything to go by

Parts of the road already have traffic calming measures.

That’s not really gonna stop anybody from speeding down the remaining lane(s) because they’re still very wide. It’s good for pedestrians, probably, don’t get me wrong, doesn’t really fight the speeding problem at all.

This is very easily expanded upon with the addition of chicanes, which are in wide use (hundreds of thousands) across the country.

These do

There’s no “reimagining” needed here. People don’t need to develop a new consciousness of public space.

Those are very much spotwork as per slowing down cars. They work for that spot, yes. It is however absolutely not hard to accelerate a car again. This is a good idea to slow people down before a busy or a school crossing or something, the third picture especially is just going to lead to slow down / wait -> mash gas pedal

We do not live in a country that is utterly obsessed with cars like america.

True, but also nigh about the lowest bar to clear right after like Saudi Arabia.

There are zero political barriers to this, the only barrier is the profit/revenue barrier of the traffic camera obsessed crowd.

And you accuse me of living in some fantasy reality?

In every town, in every village, in every city. Outisde every school. In every residential area. All over the country.

Same, could find similar features here by looking out my old apartments window. Hell, do you one better than that, we have shit like this

Sorry for the grainy pictures, didn’t wanna spend that much time on google. Now that’s a road you can’t speed on, on account of many chicanes and other built up enviroments, not just the single one and then it’s open road before and after.

Doesn’t mean the rest of it isn’t incredibly car brained and hostile, and as such, transportation by foot or cycling sucks major ass.

If your vision of not being carbrained is “do better than the USA”, yeah, you’re there, but that shouldn’t be the end goal

Meanwhile, in the real world we must be concerned with actually viable change.

Real Zach Brannigan hours here on account of “It might get a lot of other people killed but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”

You are inventing a fantasy reality to suit an anti car obsession. One I share, car reduction is good. However you’re being a tit now.

What part of this is fantasy. Like where do you see the political potential for a nigh nationwide road redesign.