Other answers are good.

I expect there’s a lot of racism, too. A lot of people don’t want those people to have nice things, even if it means personally suffering.

If you build a nice train system, you might have to see those people on your day to day. In a car, you’re isolated and feel safe.

But mostly I expect it’s because of the massive highway system that was built without corresponding passenger rail.

I was outside the city a couple weeks ago and saw a lot of maga stuff. Maybe I should get like stickers or business cards for this site to leave places like that.

100%. I think a lot about one of my friends when trying to think about that kind of user. Smart lady. Advanced degree. Has her life together. Would absolutely not want to try to install an OS. Wouldn’t even know how to start.

But I’m confident if I handed her a Linux laptop, she’d use it just the same as a Mac or Windows machine.

Right. Inertia is the metaphor I used to express that idea.

I don’t think that’s actually very many people. Not for their personal computers. Most people don’t run much more than a web browser, if they don’t play games.

This doesn’t seem like something private organizations should be allowed to do.

Dude really was a moron, wasn’t he?

A leading hypothesis is management are fucking stupid. Throw them back into the trenches. Let them do some actual work for a few years

Good. Fuck Microsoft. No regrets about running Linux for the past few years.

It’s not the PC games keeping people so much. Proton solved a lot of that problem. It’s inertia.

Most people don’t care about things. They just don’t. Their brains just don’t have the juice.

This could be a fantastic idea, and maybe a hammer blow to the “return to office” bullshit.

Sure, I’ll go into the office. Pay me 25% more to account for the travel time.

My leading hypothesis is “management is stupid”. It explains a lot of this sort of thing.

Honestly forcing them to deal with people who are currently out-group on a personal level would probably help. It’s easy to hate shifting, vague, ideas of Other. It’s a lot harder to hate Raul, who cooks that amazing dish and tells the funniest jokes

I’ve been applying to jobs for like a year. Very few interviews. So much AI slop and froth.

The place I’m at is barely hiring, but it’s like a rotting corpse of a megacorp. They take months to do anything.

I live in NY and I see a lot of pride flags all the time. It’s nice. Earlier this summer I visited some folks in like South Jersey and it was striking, once I noticed, how few pride flags there were. I saw one. I saw a lot of trump stuff.

A woman friend of mine that’s married to a woman said she’s seriously discussed with her wife if they’re going to stop visiting folks there, because it doesn’t feel safe.

Can we make the New York post just… Go away? They’re a net negative on society

Kind of makes sense. To be a Republican you have to have some traits, and many of those are bad. Those bad traits would affect all sorts of things.

Increasing traffic surveillance to automatically ticket scofflaws who block bus lanes, and deploying police officers to enforce rules on 20 daily routes, up from 14.

Good. Anti social assholes blocking bus lanes (and bike lanes) need to be stopped. They probably have a primitive moral reasoning framework, so maybe punishment is the only thing that understand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-gooder_derogation

It’s your subconscious telling you they’re right and trying to protect your ego.

You shouldn’t be allowed to own that much stuff. Simple solution.

I recently reopened Witcher 3, and was kind of surprised by how the graphics aren’t as lifelike as my memory. I remember being a lot more impressed by the bodies when it was new.