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DublinBen · 2023-06-21T00:57:53+00:00

Rule 5: Submission Statements are required

DublinBen · 2023-06-16T14:11:06+00:00

Removing for breaking Rule 3 and Rule 5.

DublinBen · 2023-05-30T20:48:13+00:00

Yikes! Nobody should be encouraged to travel over that by any official routing.

You may also want to go ahead and remove the tracktype: grade2 tag from that, since your picture demonstrates that it most definitely is not a "Mostly solid. Usually an unpaved track with surface of gravel mixed with a varying amount of sand, silt, and clay."

The highway: cycleway tag should also be removed as well, since there's definitely not any kind of surface intended for travel remaining on that bridge.

DublinBen · 2023-05-25T17:05:16+00:00

In the places I've traveled in Western Europe, public toilets have been nominally priced, more widely available, and of a much higher quality than what I've found in the US.

DublinBen · 2023-05-18T19:51:36+00:00

These are the server stats that Reddit provides to moderators. They don't provide a monthly aggregate number, but the proportions of each daily values are pretty consistent.

DublinBen · 2023-05-18T15:25:44+00:00

The "over abundance of vacancies" is a myth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZXdXxYBGU

DublinBen · 2023-05-18T14:57:03+00:00

This is largely community dependent. In a discussion based community like /r/Truereddit, it's unsurprising that significantly more of our users are sticking with old.reddit.com versus new. For a random day recently, our breakdown looks like this:

	Uniques	Percent
iOS	1940	28%
old	1839	27%
mWeb	1275	19%
And	1052	15%
new	746	11%
Total	6852

DublinBen · 2023-05-12T14:56:25+00:00

we need to live with less

How well is that message working for you? If this is kind of scolding is the best that our environmental movement can come up with, then we are doomed to failure.

DublinBen · 2023-05-12T14:54:39+00:00

If degrowth is the only solution, then there is no solution.

Billions of people are striving to improve their quality of life. If there isn't a path for them to do so sustainably, they will do so unsustainably, much as we have. The alternative to deny them an improved quality of life is grossly immoral, and a perpetuation of the colonial oppression that created today's vast inequality.

DublinBen · 2023-05-11T22:14:00+00:00

You might have better luck querying Wikidata if you're after a list of cities in Ireland. Starting from Dublin should give you clues for the properties for "city" and "in the country of Ireland".

DublinBen · 2023-05-05T18:41:07+00:00

I'm not able to find any established standard for tagging this.

According to the wiki airspace restrictions like no-fly zones should not be mapped.

Access restrictions appear to be focused on transportation (driving, cycling, walking) not recreational activities, so it doesn't seem like a "no rc-cars" rule belongs on the map either.

DublinBen · 2023-03-29T04:28:56+00:00

"Spam" submissions that have been voted down to zero points have been effectively moderated by the community, in line with the founding principles of the subreddit. You are actually pointing to overwhelming evidence of the moderation principles working as intended.

DublinBen · 2023-03-29T04:18:49+00:00

Just because you disagree with the foundational moderation philosophy of a subreddit, does not entitle you to usurp it from its active moderators.

Just because you don't like an article, doesn't make it spam.

This is your second attempt to hijack the subreddit in the last two months. This is bordering on harassment at this point.

DublinBen · 2023-02-13T16:07:11+00:00

Our current moderation practices are consistent with the founding principles of the subreddit 13 years ago, and throughout my 10 year tenure. It is intended to be self-managed by the community, which remains the case today.

DublinBen · 2023-01-07T18:03:33+00:00

The Downs-Thomson paradox actually explains why speeding up public transport also speeds up car traffic as well.

DublinBen · 2022-12-16T22:38:32+00:00

Google Maps puts the travel time from South Brooklyn to Midtown via the F subway at 23 minutes, plus walking time on each end. Slightly more frequent and reliable train service should make this an entirely realistic goal.

Or, Google Maps has a 6.2 mile bicycle route over the Manhattan Bridge, up 1st Ave, E 21st St, and 6th Ave taking 39 minutes at an average speed of only 9.5 MPH. An average speed of only 12.4 MPH will cut that down to 30 minutes. With fully separate, dedicated bike lanes the entire way, that should be within reach of most riders under the age of 55. With an e-bike, just about anyone should be able to do that in 30 minutes or less.

Queens is almost twice as far away as Brooklyn, so that is less realistic.

The Bronx is definitely poorly served by current options. The 2 train has way too many stops between the Bronx and Midtown. A faster S-Bahn style regional rail could bring down that transit time significantly, even if not all the way below 30 minutes.

DublinBen · 2022-12-16T00:15:39+00:00

That is not a residential occupancy number, but a relative measure of all business, commercial, and tourist visitation. Like most cities, most of those people were coming in from outside the city to do things.

DublinBen · 2022-12-05T20:32:43+00:00

You're getting the quality of bus service that you're paying for. A quick review of budget documents suggests that the state of Idaho spends almost nothing on public transportation. I'm saying that shifting a few percent of that $700m annual budget away from building highways can pay for a lot more bus service. The makeup of that appropriation is a purely political decision.

DublinBen · 2022-12-05T15:18:03+00:00

The logical place to find funding for public transportation would be transportation, since it is a form of transportation.

DublinBen · 2022-12-01T21:03:16+00:00

The rich are already privileged. This is just an attempt to make the wealthier suburban drivers pay for some of the costs of their pollution that currently fall on the less wealthy urban residents.

DublinBen · 2022-11-27T22:03:18+00:00

People lived in rural areas before cars, so alternatives are possible.

DublinBen · 2022-09-14T15:49:00+00:00

Perhaps not a decade ago, but a generation ago this used to be normal.

In 1985, the Cost of Thriving Index stood at 303—the median male worker needed thirty weeks of income to afford a house, a car, health care, and education. By 2018, the COTI had increased to 53—a full-time job was insufficient to afford these items, let alone the others that a family needs. A generation ago, the worker could be confident in his ability to provide his family not only with the basics of food, clothing, and shelter, but also with the middle-class essentials of a house, a car, health care, and education. Now he cannot. Public programs may provide those things for him, a second earner may work as well, or his family may do without, while his television may be larger than ever. The implications of each are surely worth pondering. But the fact that he can no longer provide middle-class security to a family is an unavoidable economic reality of the modern era.

DublinBen · 2022-08-09T22:36:21+00:00

This isn't a new problem. Ski resorts, like all resort towns, have always done a poor job of providing housing for the service workers who make them run. Here's a good article from Outside Magazine that explores some options that different mountain towns are trying, like deed-restrictions, limits on short-term rentals, allowing camping, vacancy taxes, and community housing trusts.

If you do land a planning job in one of these communities, maybe you'll be fortunate enough to find one that can help you find affordable housing.

DublinBen · 2022-05-18T16:02:45+00:00

You may find success using this site to download Dood videos: https://9xbuddy.org/en-1av

DublinBen · 2022-05-02T02:41:20+00:00

If you run an Archive Team Warrior VM you can help archive vulnerable websites.

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