Colman Reilly

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org you have to be nuts to do the things required to get that money, as a rule.

@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @Hex@kolektiva.social I’m going to guess those tramlines weren’t subsidised and probably weren’t allowed develop property? The thing about public transport is that most of the benefits are external to the system. The users don’t get most of them so you can’t charge an economic fare. And the external costs of cars are *huge* but never accounted for or charged.

You don’t win an election under proportional representation unless you get to form the executive. FPTP brain is apparently unavoidable even for journalists who live under PR systems. (You can be the largest party but that doesn’t give you power unless you can form a coalition.)

@gbargoud@masto.nyc @Hex@kolektiva.social this: horses were bad actually. The whole car thing got out of control in exactly the way LLMs are prophesied to: wasting huge amounts of resources to solve problems that was already have better, cheaper solutions to.

@ccferrie@mastodon.ie @yrrsinn@chaos.social which is true of everything including cars. We decided we didn’t want enough cops and we decided we would all just ignore the rules in their absence.

@NinjaDebugger@mastodon.sandwich.net @erikcats@dice.camp @kalos@dice.camp @Urluck_UR@retro.pizza effete foreign carry on. We drink proper Irish tea. (Oh gods, I'm channelling our grandparents.)

@ccferrie@mastodon.ie @yrrsinn@chaos.social getting ahead of the issue seems sensible. Waiting for it to be a real and intractable problem before doing anything about it is how we got *here* on fucking everything. Anyone trying to do the same to cats would be out of power in about ten minutes, as you know well.

@bizette@theforkiverse.com meh, they’ve seen the Bugs Bunny versions so I consider my duty discharged. @mhalila@mastodontti.fi

@CordiallyChloe@tech.lgbt @alice@lgbtqia.space I find the unqualified “men do X stuff” to be often just wrong and awfully close to essentialism, but this one isn’t susceptible to that criticism. It’s a statement that is perfectly applicable to all men. You can disagree with it but you can’t logically not-all-men-it. I think they may be being a bit over emotional.

@highergeometer@mathstodon.xyz @zanzi@mathstodon.xyz @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz @peterwoit@mathstodon.xyz @mc@mathstodon.xyz not everything has to be a competition, not even with oneself. What is wrong with people?

@dansup@mastodon.social remind me how much those people paid you and how much work they did on Pixelfed in the interim?

@bizette@theforkiverse.com @print@theforkiverse.com if you don’t bring your five year old to the Ring — all 300 hours or whatever — how can you call yourself a parent?

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk only 20%? We lose 40% of potable water to leaks because of the now normal gross underinvestment.

@CordiallyChloe@tech.lgbt @alice@lgbtqia.space often. Though I have issues with the idea that men have special leverage to unteach men what their mothers taught them. You see how easily everyone has returned to what they were taught about trans people when they were growing up now that they’ve been given permission? (#notallmothers, obviously)

@dansup@mastodon.social “Pixelfed: for rich techies” doesn’t make a great slogan.

@thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space what did you call it in olden days? Before some guru did a divide and conquer as parr of a mission to tame universities.

@thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space STEM is an appalling marketing term. We should avoid using it.

@brad@1040ste.net I shan’t ruin your peace them!

Long lenses compress perspective and make things that are far apart seem close together. I feel today is a good day to repeat the mantra “the camera always lies”. People’s media literacy is abysmal, even for the stuff that’s been around for ever. #photography

@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie @clickhere@mastodon.ie we were sort of doing a “can we do without a car?” experiment and it turns out it’s not really practical week to week, never mind for the series of funerals down country we’ll have in next decade. Most of our routine travel is done by commuter train, tram and Dart but the exceptions just take too damn long.

@clickhere@mastodon.ie @sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie I’ve been carless for about six weeks due to the my previous tiny 2010 piece of crap keeling over and it’s an utter pain in the arse in suburban Dublin. Took me an hour and a half to do what would be a 20min round trip by car and a trip to the car dealer for a (small) EV replacement took all day. Even being close enough to the commuter train to hear station announcements on a still day only goes so far because the interconnections are still crap.

@stavvers@masto.ai huh? A lot of that stuff persisted in the western empire until my parents’ era. The fear of masturbation was pervasive until relatively recently. It’s not that foreign, it’s was there until Vatican II and still persists in the looney latin end.

@dansup@mastodon.social normally I wouldn’t worry too much about ancient stuff but excluding four year old browsers is a bit much: Tailwind 4 is really for environments where you can control what browsers people use (corporate internal) or don’t care (stupid government departments for example) at the moment.

@cstross@wandering.shop @ed1conf@bsd.network @joXn@wandering.shop @benfry@information.garden @mjtsai@mastodon.social I loved the *roffs: great for script outputs that needed formatting. LaTeX wasn’t a choice: degree in mathematics.

@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie the fear mongering claim was you'd need to spend 1/3 of the value of the car every 3-5 years. Apparently not the case: most manufacturers warrant the battery for 8 years/100,000km now.

@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie @clickhere@mastodon.ie not a spare part, an electric vehicle test drive. In theory maps says an hour and a bit by bike but not on a route I’d ever have chosen to cycle. Probably an hour and a half each way. We had a family cyclist fatality and there’s a certain lack of enthusiasm for it as a form of transport.

@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie @clickhere@mastodon.ie I needed someone to courier me.

@brad@1040ste.net nothing special. 🙄🙄🙄 (I’m assuming sarcasm.)

@GeofCox@climatejustice.social it’s as if it has a fifth of the world’s population or something.

@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie @clickhere@mastodon.ie I tend to move my car about three times a week but I need it when I do. Most of my travel is taking trains to ballet classes.

@dansup@mastodon.social Jesus fucking Christ man. Half the fucking world is using shit androids, which is where I hit it almost immediately.

@spacehobo@teh.entar.net @stavvers@masto.ai sure, but the claim was this weird shit was foreign to western religion. I’m not talking about the recently invented weird USian stuff I’m talking about Roman Catholicism until relatively recently. Why do think this exists? https://youtu.be/fUspLVStPbk

@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie Renault 5 in a nice bright yellow.:-) It's almost as small and cheap as you can really get and as a plus, isn't boring as fuck. And isn't *that* heavy. The predictions of battery death seem to be exaggerated and likely to be more so with a newer car. I didn't want to buy second hand so I'd get the benefit of recent tech improvements. 10-15 years (with reducing range) seems likely and I'd hope that greater availability of charging points would offset the range problem.

@theteapixie@mstdn.ca @amydiehl@mstdn.social should women using the other floors be charged more too?

@davidnjoku@mastodon.world apparently they’re sort of social ramjets: dealing with people recharges them. Very peculiar.

@geffrey@id.geff.re @hdv@front-end.social @Gina@fosstodon.org well, yes. There's a few things I click on that lead to me being surprised where I arrive, but it's certainly less annoying than GitHub.

@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie a replacement should be *much* more. Unless is was a warranty thing where they had to pay an excess.

@woo@fosstodon.org @thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space where are law and economics and business in that?

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @amydiehl@mstdn.social that’s an interesting way of framing it. My wife has used that place in the mixed dorms and not seen a problem.

@thorsheim@mastodon.social because the consequences for their business model would be lethal. They'll be relying on inertia to save them now.

@dansup@mastodon.social on what? Tailwind 4 has shit support for older browsers.

@tonybyrne@mastodon.ie @sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie yeah, getting into a new EV with all sorts of toys after a 2010 Peugeot 207 which was a pretty basic model at the time is hilarious.

@theteapixie@mstdn.ca @amydiehl@mstdn.social dunno. I’ve seen some pretty spikey looking ones getting ready for a night out in the bathrooms. You realise most of the floors are mixed gender?

@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie we ran the numbers on that too and gave up. Small EV over a decade or so, which is how we normally keep cars, isn’t that expensive. I’ve never got rid of a car less than 15 years old.

@clickhere@mastodon.ie @sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie Of course no one in my class ever does such a thing so who cares?

@woo@fosstodon.org @thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space my degree is a B.A. (Mod) in Mathematics. That’s pretty normal in the older universities. The point of the “STEM” branding is to package all those degrees as vocational.

@GeofCox@climatejustice.social sure, but India has its own set of problems.

@triploidtree@mastodon.ie live beside the canal. Though I swear I saw a large dragonfly in Temple Bar a few weeks ago.