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China’s road infrastructure is all much newer than most other developed nations. And since it was built later I imagine the materials and civil engineering undergirding them is better.

However, the bill always comes due eventually for reinforced concrete. It’s currently coming due in most of the west now from all the freeway building that happened in the 50s.

China still has a long time til they’re in the same place, and it will be interesting to see if they learned the lessons of not deferring maintenance.

I assume this increase in men being single has led to increases in male loneliness and subsequently the massive chauvinist backlash and rightward shift that’s been happening in S. Korea.

What’s needed here is to sell off the lamp posts to a private corporation and then to rent them back from that same company!

As someone who views prison as rehabilitative and not punitive, I could not disagree more.

Wy’east?

Whether the road space is dedicated to cars or bikes, it’s still dedicated to people.

That accepts the framing that we’re designing for cars/bikes/peds. We’re not. We’re designing for people, whether they’re in a car, on a bike, etc.

In that sense it’s very much not zero-sum.

It’s only a zero sum game if they view driving as an essential and immutable part of themselves, and even then, not really.

Charging adequate prices for street parking, for example, guarantees that you’ll always be able to park easily if you need to, a luxury not provided by free parking.

And then, of course, they could always just get out of their cars and immediately start benefitting from the changes.

The average American commutes 20.5 miles each way to work 🙃

Shouldn’t there be gray in the picture above?

did they install it via an electric car?

Can cats have little a salami?

Damn maybe we shouldn’t be giving Israel bombs.

There will always be people who do not act with regard to the safety of others. I would rather those people be on bikes than in cars.

I’m not discussing the morality of this action in a vacuum. I’m discussing it in comparison to the same person behaving equally as unsafely in a car.

And yet had you collided, it’s very unlikely that anyone would have died.

Those three scenarios you mentioned are all only dangerous because of cars.

sorry. spent all the aid money on pontoons

Somebody tell the most famous Bollywood actor of all time that he’s Persian.

Because game devs have to pay their rent.

If they go off to form their own studio, they probably have to take out a business loan to pay themselves for the time being. Interest rates are high right now, and rent and food are both expensive. It’s a huge gamble to make a game and put it out on the assumption you’ll be able to pay back 6%+ interest on whatever you took out. Games are not a reliable money maker. Especially from new studios.

Even if you get some sort of deal with a publisher to fund your first endeavor, there will still be strings attached to that, and publishers are pretty tight with the purse strings right now.

Which means really the only viable option, assuming you’re not already independently wealthy, is that you have to work another job to work on the game in the meantime, which means it will take even longer to come out.