You do understand nobody is talking about ripping out all roads everywhere, right?

Right?

Operative word here being "were".

There is no ambulance in this picture, nor do you know if the bikers are "blocking up the road".

Do you always make up stories about barking up imaginary trees in a fantasy forest?

🤦‍♀️ I literally gave you the space requirements of cars vs PT in a city that already has stellar public transport compared to the US, and you still can only come up with this utterly lobotomized hot take. Please tell me you're not developing something important.

Es geht um schlechtes Deutsch, dass direkt aus einer Übersetzung aus dem Englischen stammt, aber im Deutschen so nicht verwendet wird. Das kann in wörtlicher Übersetzung schonmal passieren

Wieso sollte das nicht so verwendet werden können. Beide Wörter haben die gleiche Bedeutung in beiden Sprachen, und darüber hinaus die gleich etymologischen Wurzeln. Machen und Sinn sind durch die Angeln, Sachsen, etc in die Englische Sprache aufgenommen worden.

Warum sollten die Briten jetzt Sinn machen können, aber Deutsche nicht. Wird mir nicht so recht klar. Ist einfach Blödsinn, den sich jemand ausgedacht hat, um sich auf seinen angeblichen Sprachverstand einen runterzuholen.

Taxis are a necessary evil and are okay when they are used to fill in a few gaps. Germany for instance recognizes taxis as public transport.

Uber's role and goal, however, is the same as every other tech platform: rent-seeking, regulatory capture, coercive monopoly, tech-feudalism. Enshittification, as Doctorow called it recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

I'm not a Trump supporter either.

And yet you use the insult "Sleepy Joe" which was coined by your favourite fascist...

One thing, though: "Their guy is as shitty as our guy" isn't the great defense you think it is.

That's literally your "argument" in your top post, dipstick.

They didn’t mimic existing units, an imperial ton is close to a metric ton, and the spelling tonne is just an alternative spelling of ton. In some parts ton means imperial ton, and tonne means metric ton, but it’s not standardized. In German, where the word originally comes from, it’s Tonne (btw the e is not silent, it’s [ɛ] as in let. Or in Porsche (no, it’s not pronounced porsh…).)

And we have no more old people in this country. No more old people. We shipped them all away and we brought in these senior citizens

[…]

Well, I’m getting old and it’s okay because thanks to our fear of death in this country I won’t have to die. I’ll pass away or I’ll expire like a magazine subscription.

What happens in the hospital. They’ll call in the terminal episode, the insurance company will refer to it as a “negative patient care outcome” and if it’s the result of malpractice they’ll say it was a therapeutic misadventure.

I’m telling you some of this language makes me wanna vomit. Well, maybe not vomit. It makes me want to engage in an involuntary personal protein spill.

— George Carlin

They’re using it as a shield, but it’s also much worse than that, it’s textbook toxic manipulators trying to control the narrative: „Look what you made me do!“. They’re trying to guilt-shame the other party into submission.

The utter lack of LGBT content on ~~hexbear~~ whinograd is quite telling, also apparently someone on there took notice and they’re trying really hard to push some pro-trans memes now 😂

Yes, please go ahead.

I will even open a bottle of sparkling wine for the occasion!

Edit: btw, does anybody else have Nandor The Relentless‘ voice in their head whenever somebody is named Guillermo?

Yeah, but statistics is a b*tch.

We had a similar technology for a test run some years ago at a train station in Berlin, capital of Germany and largest city in the EU with 3.8M.

The results the government happily touted as a success were devastating. They had a true positive rate of 80% (and this was already cooked since they tested several systems at several locations but only reported the best results), which is really not that good to start with.

But they were also extremely proud of the false ~~negative~~ positive rate, which was below 0.1%. That doesn’t sound too bad, does it?

Well, let’s see…

True positive means you actually identified the people you were looking for. Now, I don’t know the number of people Berlin’s police is actively looking for, but it’s not that much. And the chances of one of them actually passing that very station are even worse. And out of that, you have 20% undetected. That’s one out of five. Great. If I were a terrorist, I would happily take that chance.

So now let’s have a look at the false ~~negative~~ positive rate, which means you incorrectly identified a totally harmless person as a terrorist/infected/whatever. The population for that condition is: everyone passing through that station.

Let’s assume there’s a 100k people on any given day (which IIRC is roughly half of what that station in Berlin actually has). 0.1% of 100k is 100 people, every day, who are mistakenly reported as „terrorists“. Yay.

Well, it certainly beats how it was before, but there isn’t less traffic now – they just put it in a tunnel.