?? What do you mean how is it better to agree to the price before hand? That cannot be a serious question. If it’s too expensive at least you know ahead of time and can just not accept. You cannot be scammed by a driver going around in circles and increasing the price when you’ve already paid. In a taxi, you can. Uber/Bolt are objectively better in this regard, there is no point denying it and expecting to be taken seriously. Even my old parents who can barely use tech prefer to use Uber for that reason.

It’s an outdated system and one of the two main reason they are dying in so many places. The other is service quality - never heard of a cab you can call with an app where it shows you how far it is and how long you have. At least where I live, you have to call for one and just hope they show up.

Uber is still objectively better than cabs. You agree on the price before hand. With cabs sometimes there’s no meter, and even when there is one, good luck knowing if you’re being ripped off when you don’t know the streets.

It’s still miles better than Cabs, I can’t believe this even has to be argued! When was the last time anyone here defending cabs/shitting on Uber actually took a cab somewhere?

The few times I had to/decided to take a taxi, I got absolutely ripped off. And with an Uber, even if it’s expensive, you at least know before hand how much you’re paying. You can decline if you think it’s too much. Good luck trying that with taxis.

The reason breeding is bad for the environment, is because of the impact the average person has on climate. If we lived sustainable lives, breeding would not have that much of an impact.

If you try to live a sustainable life to the best of your abilities, and you instill that same mindset and way of living onto your kids, it’s perfectly fine to have kids.

But if you’re going to drive giant trucks powered by oil, eat red meat every day with a glass of milk, use and abuse plastic for everything, and be a massive consumerist, then sure; having kids is terrible for the environment because they will probably also do all of that.

Stop performimg for an audience, there’s no one else here mate. At this point, if you really cared you could have easily found the evidence for what I’m saying. Even in my profile, like I said.

You’re a damn fool and I’m not wasting more time. Keep screaming to the void and performing for your audience, I’m ignoring you.

I won’t do your homework for you mate. If you really want you can look through my profile where I’ve posted links in the past. It never matters because you always either go silent or just deflect and bury your head in the sand.

Even before we get to nuclear disposal places, there are reactors which can literally use the waste from other reactors, producing more energy and reducing the waste. And once it cannot be reused anymore, it can be safely stored underground, which you cannot do with the waste from fossil fuels. Do you have working solutions for carbon emissions? Because renewables still cannot keep up with the demand, and everyone will tell you need something other than them to jump start grids, base load, and for emergencies.

And yes, it’s vibes. Factually, nuclear is safer than all renewables, except solar. This is a blatant mathematical and statistical fact. I can also link to plane crashes. Are you going to cry to me about how they are more dangerous than cars? And Chernobyl happened very early in nuclear energy production technology, we have improved a lot since, and even the most recent accidents were on plants that have existed for a while.

Where do you think the materials to build renewables come from? Mines. Did you know mines are radioactive, and release radioactive which is not contained? So newsflash: not just coal, but even iron mines release radioactivity due to trace amounts of radioactive material. This radioactivity is not contained. And given how there are people in there, and they are often close to civilization, they are even worse for people than nuclear waste disposal sites which are deep underground and where almost no one goes.

You are ignorant. Period, end of. I’m tired of hearing ignorant and anti-science people spreading missinfo while pretending to care about science and facts. Climate scientists have literally been advocating for nuclear as a green alternative.

This comment is tone deaf.

We’ve invested a bunch in those sectores in the last decade and a half. Not in nuclear. Before then, they were also ridiculously expensive and everyone made the same argument you are making, but in favor of Fossil fuels because it was cheaper. It was shit then, it’s shit now.

If you actually look at data instead of going off vibes nuclear is still the second safest energy source, nearly tied with solar. Wind is behind, and if you think nuclear is dangerous then what the fuck are you bringing up hydro for? By the most dangerous if those, if we go by actual data and not vibes.

And plenty of working solutions for waste have been found, but people just don’t care to listen to them because they already made up their mind: airplanes are more dangerous than cars.

Same. I try to do my best with the time given to me, but there’s only so much you can do when deadlines are constantly being pushed on you. And when you’re done you just get moved to another project. Fast forward some months, they need changes done to the previous project and it takes longer than it should because there was no time to make it right.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with either Uber or Netflix. They are, in theory, good services that people find useful. Greed and capitalism are what ruin it.

I’d much rather be able to request a driver through an app with a pre arranged price, than call for a cab which uses an an easily exploitable system that is often use to rip off people (especially people from outside the area). The only problem is that the driver’s get paid like crap.

And streaming is obviously superior to TV

I was enjoying Avowed a lot but got a bit disappointed after reaching the second area/city, lost a lot of steam and haven’t picked it up again in a while.

I was trying to roleplay a certain kind of character, one who didn’t like the idea of messing with soul essence and agreed with the empire about disallowing it, only to be forced to accept it and take in an expert on the the topic to help her perform experiments. Really dampened my experience.

I generally love old RPGs, but when I tried BG1 some years ago, I got insanely bored and didn’t finish it. I’ve always been embarrassed to admit, so it’s nice to see a fan share a similar feeling haha

Not super old, but I decided to try Mafia III and Watch Dogs Legion. I’m usually very critical and picky, but surprisingly I’m enjoying both of them a lot. I’m still not sure what all the negative reviews are about.

Aside from a couple of graphical glitches, and occasionally funky enemy AI in Mafia III, there’s not much I can complain about. I’m liking the story and gameplay quite a bit, in both games.

I am playing WDL pirated so that I don’t have to deal with the Ubi launcher, so that might have helped.

Capitalism has only been around since the 1800s, and humans have been hating and killing people different from them for thousands of years.

I’m a socialist is well, but I don’t like how many people see socialism as a silver bullet for everything. I think it’s dangerous.

If we take socialism just to mean something like “workers are the ones who own the means of production; they take part in decision making and share the profits”, that doesn’t mean everything else will be solved. Some people will still be bigoted. Those (worker owned) companies will still have ads because they’ll still want to make money*. A lot might still give no fucks about the environment and keep polluting. And if it’s still a hierarchical system, there’s no reason those in power wouldn’t try to abuse that system, try to profit from it, oppress people, start wars, etc.

• Obviously the ads aren’t as bad as the rest, that feels a little out of place. I just mentioned it because I’ve had and seen conversation where people seem to think that marketing and advertising would go away without capitalism.

That’s an entirely separate discussion, I’m just talking about the environmental impact of having kids. The impact of having a kid is just the impact they will have as a person.

I dont think the weather is going to be our worst problem. Its going to be ourselves.

Some places have had more and more frequent heatwaves that lead to deaths in each year. And they are getting worse. Some ares in the world are having trouble growing food, dislocating people, and those areas are increasing in size. I can’t recall the exact number, but I think by 2050 the US will have a very big problem when it comes to growing food.

That is a really skewed stat. Having kids is only the worse thing a person can do, because of the average person’s lifestyle (and therefore that kid’s future lifestyle). How many cows are born each year (and release methane gasses into the atmosphere) just because the average person won’t go without meat or milk?

If the average person didn’t drive and was vegan, then the impact of having kids would be severely reduced.

EDIT: Put it this way, what do you think would be the environmental impact of a hermit dude living in the mountains who grows his own plant food? It might be an extreme example, but the point is illustrated.

Yeah, I’m in Portugal and while it’s true that we still had signal, all I could really use was WhatsApp. Any website I tried to use took way too long to load - just unusable.

Areas around Lisbon also coming back up, not sure how many though.

The Fediverse experience starts with an unanswerable question: what server do you want to be on?

This is such a cop out and makes no sense. A “server” is basically just a website. The only reason we call them servers/instances is because they are are running the same software in the background and can communicate with each other - that’s it. So we put them all under common flags such as “Mastodon” for those who use the Mastodon “template”, and “Fediverse” for all the “templates” that can communicate with each other.

This is literally just a problem with marketing and communication, people hear “instances”/“servers” and they shit themselves because they can’t be bothered to do a bit of research. In reality they are just different websites that can communicate with each other. You have the “shakedown.social” website, the “dads.cool” website, the “bookwyrm.social” website, and plenty of others; they are all Twitter clones (Mastodon) and they all allow you to see the content posted on the others.