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  • I disagree. Cars are not fine. First, when people say cars, they are referring to civilian cars, not transportation cars.

    Regardless, you are committing a fallacy. “In some cases, cars are helpful, therefore, cars are not our worst idea”. A very simple way of showing that your conclusion is false is by just giving an example of having just 2 ideas, 1 of which is obviously worse than the other, even though that worse idea has some pros. Sorry, I know this is pedantic, but I just wanted to point out the fallacy first, in general terms.

    But now to your point itself. Say we never invented cars and let’s also say that that implies no ambulances (which it does not, we could have ambulances in a sort of public transport, ram ambulances, bike ambulances, etc). The amount of deads that cars cause is orders of magnitude larger than the amount of reads that ambulances save. I don’t have data on this, I think everyone agrees with this. So, still, net positive.

    So yes, I will repeat. Cars might just have been the worst idea we have ever had.




  • I love that show. And unless the original, human, “others” are aware of the whole thing, that is, if the humans are trapped in their own minds/bodies, then I think the pluribus effect is a net positive. Pretty much all human suffering has ended. To rollback the whole thing is to create an incalculable amount of suffering.








  • I don’t use mastodon. I think my naming suggestion still works best for tagging on mastodon though. It is still more visually appealing.

    But ya, I still see naming on Lemmy as one of the big hurdles towards getting a bigger userbase. There is just some annoying friction that pisses me and I am sure it pisses newcomers even more. Instances with names such as lemmy.dbzer0.com.

    Another thing I hate is that the UIs don’t show the true name of the community but their alias. For example, we have a community called climate here on slrpnk. However, UIs (both mobile and desktop), show the name “climate - truthful information bla bla”… I find that to be horrible UI. It should show that the post is coming from “climate@slrpnk.net”. I hate hate hate that.


  • I left a comment but it didn’t go through for some reason. Here it is again:

    Sorry for the late reply. I don’t know what a style guideline would entail, exactly. The only thing I can think of is in the naming of communities. And that can be explained in one sentence.

    Communities should be named in an easy to write way, and easy to read. For example, lunar_punk should be LunarPunk. Say there is a community called word1word2. That should be Word1Word2. It is easy to read, thanks to the capitalisation of the words. It is also easy to write, since there are no underscores, just normal characters and one doesn’t even need to capitalise the words for it to be a valid URL.