Also featuring people justifying why trains are bad based solely on their experience of having read about them once in a children's book, and then reinventing a less practical, more expensive, badly specified version of trams/metros/s-bahns/regional trains/high speed rail.
Notices by Anne C.A. Baanen (vierkantor@mastodon.vierkantor.com)
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Anne C.A. Baanen (vierkantor@mastodon.vierkantor.com)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jul-2022 11:12:46 UTC Anne C.A. Baanen -
Anne C.A. Baanen (vierkantor@mastodon.vierkantor.com)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jul-2022 11:12:45 UTC Anne C.A. Baanen And, of course: yes, public transit is safer / cheaper / more practical / better for the environment / doesn't get stuck in traffic / can be much faster than having everyone driving their own car, but you failed to consider one thing that it is worse at: the Experience!
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Anne C.A. Baanen (vierkantor@mastodon.vierkantor.com)'s status on Sunday, 03-Jul-2022 11:12:12 UTC Anne C.A. Baanen Imagine correctly identifying the current approach to "self-driving" cars as dangerously underequipped and irresponsible, and suggesting that we can solve the problems by replacing all these competing standards with one single type of radar reflective pants that all pedestrians should wear.
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Anne C.A. Baanen (vierkantor@mastodon.vierkantor.com)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Mar-2022 13:42:17 UTC Anne C.A. Baanen "free software" is a confusing expression in English so I propose a clearer alternative: "feral software"
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Anne C.A. Baanen (vierkantor@mastodon.vierkantor.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jan-2022 18:54:16 UTC Anne C.A. Baanen @Stoori Confusingly, "denim" comes from the French phrase "d'anime" which literally means "from anime".