The obscurity of the Fediverse is not its defense from enshittification. The fact that it's so easy to move from server to server is.

If lemmy.world enshittifies, you can just move to lemmy.sdf.org without a big loss.

I think that lemmy could use more people.

I think OP believes every town in the US has twice as many homeless people as churches, it doesnt need to be exactly 1 church and 2 homeless people.

But either way, that's probably not true. Since homeless people tend to be in larger cities.

But then again, lots of people become homless in the suburbs and then move to the city to get the social services. If churches in the suburbs housed a few people as they become homeless, it would probably help. It's better to keep people in their communities so they have a better chance of returning to housefullness.

But probably not that much, since homelessness rates are strongly correlated with housing prices, so expensive cities create more homelessness than cheap suburbs.

This can also be achieved by high frequency transit.

I disagree with some of your criticisms of this community:

Netherlands have a GDP greater than every US state except for 4 of them

Walkable cities are cheaper than car infrastructure. Lots of good work was done by Urban3 demonstrates this be calculating the tax income vs tax burden of city blocks. For example, here is their analysis of my city: Eugene Oregon

less land area than 41 of US state

NJB calls this "The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities"

the Netherlands are: unique.

I disagree. Lots of developed countries in Europe and Asia have desirable urban disign. In fact, I would argue that the USA is uniquely bad. Heres a graph from vision zero:

But for the meat and potatos:

If you like spreadsheets presented as a youtube video: you should check out citynerd. Here's a video where he lists cities with affordable, walkable neighborhoods: 10 Walkable US Cities That Won't Bankrupt You. Spoiler: Pittsburgh wins.

I think that parking reforms is the best way to move away from car dependency, and these are being mandated in the state of Oregon, which has also had urban growth boundaries for a long time.

I guess this is a situation where the proper name of GNU / Linux is useful

Edit: Chrome OS is is a GNU/ Linux and a couple of "proper" Linuxes are not.

Yes, so I can probably plan for it.

Linux is often used to refer to a family of operating systems including Ubuntu, Debian, fedora, red hat, ect., which all use the Linux kernel.

However, GNU/Linux may be a better name for this family of operating systems, since they all use GNU components and (to varying extents) embrace the philosophy of the free software foundation.

Android uses the Linux kernel, but not GNU components, and do not embrace the philosophy of the Free software foundation.

Stalman, the man who founded GNU and the free software foundation published his thoughts on this:

https://www.gnu.org/...

It's common to call products dumb when they have the marketing strategy of tricking gullible people into thinking they need it.

Awesome! Looking forward to more American cities joining

I've received the advice that you should always make your charts so that you numbers are proportional to a length, since people aren't good at comparing areas (or volumes).

So the numbers here probably ought to be proportional to diameters

I don't think you have thought this through enough.

Car infrastructure takes up the most space, so making a city for driving necessarily exludes other forms of transportation: think about what multi lane highways and giant parking lots does to a city.

On the other hand, excluding (or just minimizing) cars allows these other forms of transportation to flourish. Busses, trains, biking, scooting, walking, wheel chairs, those golf cart things disabled people use in the Netherlands.

Certainly you understand that many disabled people can not use cars: blind people, epileptic people, elderly people, young people, broke people (though lack of income is not traditionaly considered a disability, it can be disabilitating in a car dependent hypercapitalistic society like the US).

There is no one solution for transportation of the disabled, so it's important to have lots of options. This is impossible if your neighborhood is car dependent

In America, it's 5:1 urban to rural. https://www.census.gov/...

And the threshold for rural is 500 people per square mile. So the 5 minutes to neighbor is at a rare extreme. https://www.census.gov/...

Inheritance is clearly societal ill, and even on a personal level, depending on inheritance might cause family troubles

In the US, we weigh ourselves in pounds. But nutritional information about food is in grams.

Imo, the fact that the numerator and denominator units are incompatible isn't a big deal since the message "eat .08% percent of your body weight in protein each day" is not the intuitive way to think about how much to eat. It's much easier to use a unit in the numerator that is common measuring nutrition and a unit in the denominator that is common for measuring body weight.

Is temporary posts the feature you're looking for?

One weakness of open platforms like activitypub is that it's hard to ensure that your post is deleted. A bad actor can make a permanent copy of data they receive through activitypub.

Since steel frames seem to last forever, Id just get a decades old used bike. Maybe get some new wheels

I've been using Rofi for a few years. I can't think of anything to look out for, pretty much does what it says on the tin.

It also works for me. On macos and linux /usr/bin/env python3 -c "print(chr(ord('🚗') ^ 0x20))" gives you 🚷

Acoustic is funnier than analog, and I'm not sure if it's any less accurate than analog. In analog clocks, the passage of time is represented in an analogous rotation of clock hands. In analog sound, the change in voltage on a wire is analogous to the pressure waves you hear as sound. I don't know what is analogous to what in biking.

Also, the opposite of analog is digital, and ebikes are not digital bikes.

What does that sign mean? It looks to me like a mixed number that would evaluate to car + bike / motorbike