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oo1 , to Lefty Memes in Doesn't matter how you try to justify it...

Fought over since before most "commodities" existed , and maybe most religions -at many scales from the world, to countries, to a sopt by the river bank, or the comfy chair in the living room - including by various human and non-human species.
Pursuit of economic and political power though control/acquisition of land just has so much glorious and colourful heritage; it's no mere pleb of a commodity .
Something most everyone could use just a little bit more of.

Not everyone could use more cars and tangerines.
cars and tangerines have a generally more competetive market of sustitutes.
Land doesn't really have substitues.

If i could build a house/farm out of tangerines without any land needed, i'd get your point,

oo1 , to linuxmemes in Toxic linux communities moment:

rtfarchwiki

oo1 , to Fuck Cars in Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless

yeah in europe (obviosly it varies a lot cross-country and rural/urban) but lots of places with high safety standards , and high emissions taxes. Still lots of small cars around .
Mostly due to parking in big-dense-cities though probably.

US does come out badly on deaths per billion pax-km: 8 ish vs 3-5 for most euro countries

So on the face of it small cars dont sem to correlate - but these data look a bit hodge podge, so not sure to read too much into it without knowing the underlying sources.

Other factors like the "stroad" thing might be an issue.
And a lot of European municipalities give the elderly free public transport, and have ok bus service, so many doddery old coots have a viable option.

I remember that southpark episode about senior drivers, with the jaws music . . .
Maybe not as funny when you look at that US death rate. To quoe Father Maxi: "No god needs complex irony and subtle farcical twists that seem macabre to you and me, all that we can hope for is that god got his laughs . . ."

oo1 , to linuxmemes in Windows 10 EOL PSA

skynet

oo1 , to Technology in Does One Line Fix Google? - A “Web” filter that presents what Google used to look like a decade ago | tedium.co

Schroedinger's polecat

oo1 , to Technology in Free-Market Advocate, Elon Musk, Asks for U.S. Government to Put Tariffs on Chinese EV Imports

Yep, capitalism is at direct odds with competetive markets almost by definition.
"free" is the non-specific term tht they use rhetorically. "Competition" is the market feature that might theoretically benefit consumers in some circumstances - and they don't often include that word in their rhetoric.

It's always been about acquisition of market power, this is sort of opposite of a free market.
If any threat of consumer rights / anti-trust / labour rights or balancing of market power arises, their incentive is to acquire political power and influence to defend their power.

It was the same story in western Europe before industry and "capitalism", just the landed class monopolising land vs peasantry (and/or enslaved/indentured labour). Landowners monopolised all the votes and even when suffrage expanded it was usually top down. Until maybe 1789 when something else happened to the top.

Unfortunately I think many of the major progressive changes of the past (that benefit people in general rather than the elites - again in "the West") have mostly followed catastrophic events or political upheaval, or martyrdom.
Peasants revolts, black death, aftermath/stress of major wars, civil war, workers uprisings, race riots, 1929, ww2.

I guess the 1929 and all the FDR stuff and strengthened social policies in western Europe was all widely democratically backed (honourable mention to the banks' major incompetence , to hitler for being such a massive c*nt and a decent 50-or-so years of European imperial decline) .

So maybe there's some hope for the democratic or the MLK/Gandhi type approach - not that it worked out too well for those two individuals.

oo1 , to Fuck Cars in Cycling isn't legitimate transportation...apparently

I'd gladly remove every car from the roads that is not carrying a sofa, table or desk.

oo1 , to linuxmemes in Not a Coincidence

OBGYNU/Linux

oo1 , to Technology in Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option

"micro soft pp"

oo1 , to linuxmemes in `sudo Make me a sandwich`

Sandwich is built entirely out of sauce?

oo1 , to linuxmemes in someone tell them

People need to stop being such noobs, getting software from repo.
It's crazy to trust precompiled software force fed to people by evil-big-foss corporations.
Real pros check every line for malware each time there's an update and compile from source.

oo1 , to linuxmemes in someone tell them

That's how you actually remove edge.
step 1: download bootable linux usb image . . .

oo1 , to linuxmemes in someone tell them

"It just works"

oo1 , to Fuck Cars in Scotland launches campaign "give cycle space", reminding that those riding bike are real persons

In rural Scotland (at least in Fife , Perth +Kinross) I noticed a lot of
60mph-40mph - 20mph - 40mph-60
sort of slow down buffer zone type things around villages.

Much better than 60 - 30-60 we normally have in England.
And noticeably quieter too.

I hope they carry on with that.
I think Wales did 20mph in all rural villages.

Fuck England.

oo1 , to linuxmemes in Debian Thong

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