First part absolutely true. Second part problematic, the Republican enclaves of NYC are not the underprivileged areas and Republican-leaning voters can’t participate in the Democratic primary unless they register as Democrat in advance. Underprivileged areas voted Cuomo because they’re conditioned to vote for candidates they see as “safe” - A lot of them are black boomers who’ve seen some shit and feel like they owe their safety to the Democratic establishment - And because of low information.

That is exactly what he was hoping would happen. He doesn’t read the room, he just demands power until his financial backing runs out.

Crater Lake is closing for five years after this season, for renovations. Good call timing-wise I’d say, kind of like going dormant to avoid harsh conditions. Stay under the radar of the people in power looking to wreck anything remotely good about this country.

The US Constitution is littered with similarly anti-democratic gates. Remember that the aristocrats who framed these documents were just as terrified by what free people might do with democracy and freedom as they were vocal in their support for such ideals when it came to rallying people toward separatist war.

When you lease access to information, you literally don’t have any stuff.

People sometimes don’t believe me when I tell them I’ve literally never used Spotify.

Don’t forget to tell them to go to the shows!!

Musicians are real people who very often hold live performances in high-population locations, you can see them directly with your eyeballs, hear them directly with your hearholes, and physically hand them actual cash with your flesh and blood hands!

Edit - To the people complaining about ticket company charges: You need to get into your local music scene and the +95% of bands out there who aren’t big enough to play venues that have ticket company contracts. There is a world of music out there completely free of that system and you’re neglecting it.

It is, but the parts where the people live are midwest-style auto sprawl. Six+ lane surface highways everywhere dividing up isolated sub-developments. And they’re still building completely new highways, right now.

Really depends on where you put them, and if you couple them with other common sense changes like infrastructure redesigns and public outreach.

I’ll settle for a network of inter-city paved uninterrupted car-free “bike highways” between all cities with > 100,000 people. Just a single asphalt lane with no breaks and no cars flying around.

Pretty sure that’s basic-tier shit in many European countries, but it’d be such a huge deal here.

That’s just false, and is also not the message of the article you linked.

The articles point is not that avoiding enshittification won’t make a difference in the amount of enshittification you experience: To the contrary, it affirms that it likely will! The articles point is that personally avoiding enshittification isn’t an effective way of combatting the ubiquity of enshittification in society, ie “consumer activism” and “voting with your dollars” cannot create system change.

Most everyone here already knows this, and I imagine you also understood the article just fine and don’t need me explaining it to you, but you botched the paraphrase in your link thus seeding a lot of potential confusion and frustration absent some clarification. This is intentionally a thread about personally avoiding enshittification, and that does not imply a rejection of the desire to also end it oestebsibly by other means.

The morality of a technology is determined by those in control of it, and look who’s in control today.

It’s also a fallacy that technology always progresses. If technology from 25 years ago serves you better than technology from today, it’s the superior technology.

Yeah it’s been kind of crazy how when it comes to the Ukraine war people seem to not only have zero issue posting straight-up gore on major websites, but also completely neglect to add trigger warnings. Society always cared about these things before but the rules get exempted specifically for this conflict. It could be merely because both sides here have good surveillance technology and a desire to demoralize each via information war but it also feels like a biased exception on the part of my fellow westerners sharing this stuff where there’d normally be a bunch of people reporting and censoring it. Like oh, they’re Russians and Russians are always our nemeses, so it’s OK because it’s personal for us. Or some shit like that. As if that somehow changes or invalidates the hard facts of alienation and trauma.

He apparently hit a landmine on the way and survived that, too, finishing the trip on a second delivered e-bike.

I feel like this is the most remarkable fact in the article, and not the fact that the bike was delivered by drone.

Dude, the guys term is up early next year… Can’t just wait 8 months?

Yeah adding a $30 fee specifically to electrics seems asinine, to the point that I’m hoping that is a misunderstanding on the part of the reporter. I don’t mind new fees, but new fees added to electrics that don’t get added to combustions seems regressive.

As for the per-mile charge, I like that and think it should apply to all vehicles. Flat fees don’t sufficiently or accurately compensate for road use, but a mileage charge does. People who are on the road all day should be paying more than people who only drive to get groceries, even if it’s for their job, because they put equivalently more wear on the system.

IMO Kotek has been mostly a lame duck, but these proposals aren’t bad. I would invert the 50-30-20 revenue split between state, county, and city because it’s almost always cities or counties that are creating and maintaining bike and transit infrastructure, while today the state’s largest initiatives are still highway expansions. Highways are so very money-hungry.

Oh OK, yeah. Good grief Chappelle is fucking intolerable these days. And I don’t think it’s all chalked up to him changing, I feel like cowriters kept him from punching down too hard back in the day.

Yeah I was just being cheeky. I have an account at a US credit union, they probably use my money in investments that touch BlackRock. I work for a US company and the health insurance I receive through them probably comingles with BlackRock assets at some point. I rent in a nice neighborhood, BlackRock’s involvement in rental price fixing has likely affected me monetarily in an indirect fashion.