paaviloinen

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[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

...and even though it's next to industrial zone, this is what downtown Houston actually looks like on a map. Numerous square miles of space just for "letting traffic through". The bill on the upkeep of this kind of wasteful infrastructure must be much more than what it costs to provide housing for all the homeless people in the county!

[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not really outside the city though

[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Soviet Union was bad for multiple reasons but in major cities the housing was not really any worse than anywhere else in the world. I guess you just enjoy spending 3 hours a day in your car.

[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Just checked what I last ordered from Aliexpress and it was YMDK DSA. So far content with those and I'd assume the XDA profile keysets are just as good. YMDK also has got their own direct sales from their website and probably some of your local stores sell them too. Aliexpress and Amazon are in many ways possibly hit and miss, so I get your sentiment toward those. Personally I prefer not to use neither of those, for reasons that are not so much about the quality of stuff on sale there.

[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is also dependent on the layout, but judging by your lingo and question I assume US/ANSI+QWERTY

[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago
[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Fair point. Also a way of classification that I completely omitted inside my mind during previous days.

[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Also how swirly is the bus route you'd replace by tram, light rail or whatever?

[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would argue they're not equal. Bus makes a bad replacement for a tram and tram can't really replace the bus if there are no tracks. The reason why I was asking is because Essen and Mühlheim a.d. Ruhr plus some nearby areas have got sections where trams aren't confined to just the populated areas and do not have many stops and outside the city core they aren't Stadtbahn, but are that and much more outside the urban areas, act part of the way like the good old Strassenbahn but are marked as Stadtbahn. I guess I don't really have a point here, just rambling. But really there's big difference between what you can offer on rails (if you don't make stupid planning decisions and your system isn't falling into disrepair) and by buses. Yes, they're comparable mostly in the way that they're both moving dozens of people per unit. In everything else, how comparable are they?

[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was referring to the numerous options that exist alongside the said rail option in most real world places. But yes, most of the time the bus is the worse option of them two. Less accessible, economical etc.

[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Which then again is too "techy" for the average person. We both are less likely to be the average person, see.

[–] paaviloinen@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Fat-shaming is so commonplace especially in ballet and dancing in general and this is quite a common way to put it - using the allegory of "motivation" even when they refer to shape, so I would argue that this is a justified way of "reading between the lines".

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