The US has a pretty severe urban / rural divide in most of its states, but I don’t think it’s enough. You’d usually need a pretty clean split along territorial lines for that.
Each totem on the pole is a symbolic representation of one family.
The US has a pretty severe urban / rural divide in most of its states, but I don’t think it’s enough. You’d usually need a pretty clean split along territorial lines for that.
You could argue that China has devolved into a totalitarian state under Xi. There’s a lot of corruption surrounding the party’s Ministry of Railways, which has led to some perverse incentives to invest (possibly way too much) in HSR and urban metro networks across all of the country. And thanks to the extremely centralized power structure, you have a lot of standardized components used to roll out those networks, making construction cheaper and faster due to economies of scale.
Tldr; China’s rail infra is pretty great, especially when so many of its cities are very rough around the edges otherwise. That said, East Asia’s democracies (Taiwan, S. Korea and Japan) also have excellent transportation networks, so who knows.
No. Actors are participating in storytelling, and ‘evil’ characters are just an exercise in symbolism and mythmaking.
Have been listening to Chihei Hatakeyama’s albums a lot while working and studying. Coastal Railroads in Memories is my favorite
I’d only set one up if it were fully open-source and self-hosted. It looks like there are a couple of options out there that meet those criteria (like Mycroft), but I haven’t looked into it enough yet.
Started having the same issue during covid lockdowns. What works for me now is:
I never really ‘got’ Twitter-style microblogging, and still don’t really get Mastodon for the same reason. But I could some use for it if I represented some kind of group or organization that needed to publish regular updates.
Don’t think so. I’m pretty happy with my social life and haven’t touched any of that stuff in 10+ years.
Aren’t Lemmy, kbin, Reddit etc. just web forums?
Social media is a very specific type of product that (at least partially) tries to base itself on your ‘real’ social life.
Left (non-dominant), though I’ve really started to resent having to carry one everywhere. Contemplating ways to replace it with a smartwatch for most situations, if that’s even doable
For sure, every airport needs a good parking lot.
It’s mind-boggling that with a tiny handful of exceptions, NYC encourages car traffic on basically every single street (to the detriment of everyone). Long past time to learn from other countries that actually understand city planning, and start fully pedestrianizing and re-landscaping some double-digit percentage of all Manhattan streets
Will never buy another phone without a headphone jack for this reason.
Nothing against Bluetooth audio, either (it’s very nice to have as an extra option). The expectation should be support for both wired and wireless.
E-bikes work as a car replacement for short-to-medium distances, and it would be a huge net benefit to facilitate that shift for as many people as possible, in as many situations as possible. So to make that happen, you obviously also want to roll out safe, protected cycling networks in tandem with these subsidies.
Dictatorships are (by definition) never amazing. The state exists to serve the public, not to subjugate it
I got one for $200 last year and think it was worth it. Don’t think I’d ever really spend more than that on a gaming device
Think this is what you’re looking for?
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The middle ground (IMO) is local news that’s actionable. For me that means reading up on community meetings in my district, events involving local representatives, proposed zoning or street design changes, small-scale infrastructure projects, funding for schools and libraries, etc.
Ultimately these are things that will affect your quality of life much more directly than anything involving national politics, or whatever irrelevant topic cable news anchors want you to get whipped into a frenzy about.