• GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social
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    More I been thinking about this-

    Huge majority of things presented to the people, are sold to the people, by owners that are reckless & Capitalist mindset of endless need for more, SICKNESS-
    Looks Cool
    &
    Latest Thing, so must be good & must have.

    AI perfect example of this,

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      Sorry, this is a bit hard for me to parse.

      Are you saying capitalists sell us shiny new things so that we always crave the newest and best even if old and boring can be better?

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        so itis not a bit hard to understand after all,

        but you ?conveniently? left-out the extremely important part- “are sold to the people, by owners that are reckless & Capitalist mindset of endless need for more, SICKNESS-“
        It is important to include what these Capitalist are, that is another sales job, making them out to be good & sane people.

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          Sorry, I am only trying to understand what you are saying I’m not trying to manipulate your words.

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            No problem, but it is readable.

            Also that was why ?conveniently? was surrounded by ?s, I did not know for sure, whether you purposely protecting them- maybe, a BOT.

            Plus, as I said, in previous post-

            “the extremely important part- “are sold to the people, by owners that are reckless & Capitalist mindset of endless need for more, SICKNESS-“
            It is important to include what these Capitalist are, that is another sales job, making them out to be good & sane people.”

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      Not like Star Trek, though.

      That’s just a scanner connected to a fancy 3D printer, which murders the original after scanning for no apparent reason.

      Give me something that actually takes me from point A to point B without murdering or harming me in the process.

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    Rich ppl want cutting edge innovation because they can buy everything that already exists while most people want a functioning society with good infrastructure and services.

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        Since forever. To make it more literal, who do you think got the first access to bronze weaponry? Was it the slave laborers or the kings’ armies?

        Can you afford stem cell therapy?

        Mel Gibson, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kobe Bryant, and David Beckham can. I certainly can’t. I can’t even afford good health insurance plans in the US.

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    Where I live, that is a reality. It’s a dream given form. No driving, no hyper-attentive babysitting imbeciles to avoid a crash. I board a train, then I simply set off.

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      Car heads will never understand the bliss of just getting out of the vehicle and leaving without having to find parking

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        I never had a car until I needed one for work. At the first two places I was assigned there was a reserved parking lot with plenty of room for everyone. At the last place I was assigned, there was no guaranteed parking. It was easier to take public transit for 75 minutes than to drive 30 minutes and have to look for parking.

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        Here in Sweden this exists, during rushhour there is a bus every 5-10 min to connect me from my suburb to the Stockhom underground (which also departs every 5 min) so I can get to work.

        During weekends the service is reduced to a bus every 10-20 (somtimes 30) min to get to the local railroad station with similar departure frequency.

        If you need to drive (to get out into the country side), there are few traffic jams, or you can take a bike.

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        Berlin, any EU micronation, Amsterdam

        Tbh, most capital cities in EU either have it or are close to it, just it gets shit when in the boonies

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        NYC is one of the few places in the USA where you can mostly just get on a train or bus and go. It’s pretty great. There’s room for improvement - some lines are better than others, and off peak you can wait half an hour if you just miss it. But mostly it just works

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    I could not agree more about The Best Public Transportation (BICYCLE PATHWAYS, IN PLACE OF AUTOMOBILE LANES), but want SAFE FLYING, self driving, COMPLETELY SOLAR POWERED (through solar panels built into the skins) & Shared/Not Owned & On Call, Not Through Cellphone-App. Vehicles (cannot be called cars-automobiles).

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        Ever been to Berlin? No need for a car, tram is faster anyways and you just go there, the next train usually arrives within 5 minutes.

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          Yeah, possibly. Which is a substantial chunk of Germany. Unless by ‘city’ you mean anything other than the big four, then its still car-centric as fuck

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            There’s more than 4 cities?

            (I know there is, but the way the gov works, you’d think there isn’t)

        • That is a problem with this work, highly skilled labor is only wanted, especially recently with Germany & rest of the Northern countries turning more Farther Right, starting with “Standard/familiar” Right to “Crazy/Nazy” Right. Plus, what is defined as “Highly Skilled”,

          I would love to be in Denmark, right now, being trying for decades, but unless you have “Highly Skills” or family roots you are getting in.

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            Niche is also a good way though, like super-specialist but not actually necessarily needing skill, such as Train Overhead Linesman

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    …comes so regularly I don’t need to check a schedule

    That would be the dream for the bus system where I live if I had the time intervals completely memorized and if they didn’t have delays that leads to me having to wait a full hour for the next bus instead of the roughly 30 minutes it’s supposed to take.

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      so regularly I don’t need to check a schedule

      30 minutes

      Once it gets to every 5 minutes no one checks the schedule.

      Large cities that aren’t run by idiot right wingers tend to invest in public transport and have the numbers to make this kind of frequency economic.

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    But but, wellwell well how do you expect the oil companies to make a Fair Profit??? And the military! Without oil wars, we might have to use that money someplace else!

    And someone think of America’s techbros. They’re just biologically Better Than You. They deserve to get filthy rich while we commute for hours in traffic.

    Read my username, it’s got SNARK in it.