We’re all in on the culture war now

  • Lianodel@ttrpg.network
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    1 year ago

    New national parking platform

    …if that means what I think it means, it’s probably the worst of the lot.

    Take it from an American: mandatory minimum parking will absolutely ruin your towns and cities.

  • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
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    Letting people travel “how they want” he says while cancelling new train lines for those who wants to use that. The blokes a disengenuious wanker who we can’t be rid of quick enough.

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Poor motorists having only like 99% of infrastructure reserved for them.

    So victimised right now.

    Let’s take away railway sleepers so they can drive on the tracks.

  • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    “I love cars. Therefore we should mandate that EVERYONE drives!”

    As someone who is forced to drive because I was unlucky enough to be born in bumfuck nowhere: fuck you. I hate always-busy traffic. If waiting in line is your idea of fun, go watch paint dry or something. I’m too busy to lengthen my commute.

  • DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    As someone who drives a car in the UK, I’d like to point out that this is a load of old bollocks designed to drum up votes from Boomers ahead of what’s looking to be an absolute embarrassment of an election for the Tories in the next year or so.

    Almost none of these promises have any actual substance to them, and are largely just meaningless slogans designed to rile up the Boomers* who have spent their lives being taught that public transport and bikes are what poor lefties do.

    If Labour have been quiet on these issues, it’s because they know that their best election strategy at this point is to just let the Tories flap on, doling out enough rope with which to hang themselves.

    *not all Boomers, obviously, but they really are the majority of Tory voters

  • Sean@liberal.city
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    1 year ago

    @mondoman712
    Best driving experience in the world? The Netherlands, because when you shift a significant number of people off the roads into alternative transport the remaining drivers have less traffic and higher average speeds than an over-reliance on cars.

    Risak is just committing the same mistake Robert Moses made 80 - 50 years ago, building more roads to “solve” traffic but it just induced more car traffic - - and then repeat again and again.

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      1 year ago

      Do you have a good source? Not denying, just on the lockout for stuff to shove in diehard motorists’ faces that they will struggle to deny with anything coming anywhere close to resembling facts

      • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess's_paradox

        Adding extra capacity to a network when the moving entities selfishly choose their route can in some cases reduce overall performance. That is because the Nash equilibrium of such a system is not necessarily optimal. The network change induces a new game structure which leads to a (multiplayer) prisoner’s dilemma. In a Nash equilibrium, drivers have no incentive to change their routes. While the system is not in a Nash equilibrium, individual drivers are able to improve their respective travel times by changing the routes they take. In the case of Braess’s paradox, drivers will continue to switch until they reach Nash equilibrium despite the reduction in overall performance.

  • diffusive@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Next step: “we are a nation of smokers and millions of us smoke daily. We are making the life of these people easier. Stop to the No Smoking areas. If a pregnant woman is present she can go eff herself. Stop to taxes on tobacco.

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m just taking a moment to remember the massive smear campaign against Corbyn, including the centrists in Labour working to undermine him during their election, and how ultimately it led to this dumbass taking the reins instead.

  • johnthedoe@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    There’s a small YouTube channel I watch of a this dude longboard around London. It’s amazing how pedestrian and skate friendly it is. They’d be doing some proper long term damage if this kind of thinking gets through. With Brexit the Brits might be in for a decade more of rolling back civilisation.

  • prtm@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What a fucking idiot. Has he been living under a rock? He’s going out of his way to remake all of America’s mistakes. Absolute buffoon.

  • Fluid@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Ahh yes, the same PM who has a list of 5 directly contradictory statements as his so-called ‘plan’, that one right?

  • lennier@kbin.social
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    Luckily, these are just the last desperate acts of an unelected Prime Minister, who only got the job because the last one crashed the economy inside a month (who only got the job because the last one was Boris Johnson). He knows that the party will be condemned to irrelevance next year and is anxious to find anything that could possibly resonate with enough voters

    Ironically Rishi Sunak famously doesn’t really drive, and once had to borrow someone else’s car for a publicity stunt where he inadvertently demonstrated that he doesn’t even know how to fill one up with petrol. Sadly he doesn’t drive because hes a gazillionaire, not because he uses public transport