I live in the UK and my town has not got transport that allows mobility for all. No bike lanes (and if they exist they’re just painted on the road), no bus lanes (buses get stuck in the same rush hour traffic and everyone else which doesn’t incentivise people to take them) and these buses are also unreliable and infrequent....
step 1: give them money.
step 2: make them think you'll give them more money. this may involve repeating step 1 several times.
step 3: let them know that if you don't get what you want, the money stops.
then it's just a matter of whether the money you were giving them is significant enough to make them care.
hmm, interesting! it's been considered "common wisdom" since I was in university, always intriguing to have these unquestioned misconceptions corrected.
Sometimes I will use something and realize I’ve owned it forever. It’s a nice change in our throwaway reality. I think my personal record is a bicycle multi-tool I got for one of my first bikes, ~25 years ago. Still have it, still use it. When it comes to electronic devices I have a Panasonic mini Hi-Fi from ~2005. Never...
a stainless steel, vacuum sealed French press (coffee plunger), which I bought back in... 2011? i think? when I broke my glass one a week after getting it.
The International Cricket Council has become the latest sports body to ban transgender players from the elite women’s game if they have gone through male puberty....
indeed, I think even the top transfem olympian did not rate compared to the top 'natural' (I use that word only to distinguish, not to disparage) women.
realised that maybe other people dont want to just see garfield memes i was posting here and that was kind of clogging it all up so i’ve made a separate garfield comm for that stuff (!garfieldism)
destiny (2, at least) was a mechanically great shooter attached to an abysmal story with awful MMO gear/leveling features and some of the worst company decisions I've ever heard of.
the game would literally be better if their parent company had died the moment they released it.
this puts me in mind of the conservative neighbours I had living out in the country a couple of years ago. need to borrow milk, get your car started, towed out of mud, whatever, they were there to help.
but they quit America to come here because it was becoming a socialist hellhole.
You miss all the shots you don't take [Rule] (files.catbox.moe)
How thr fuck do I force/ lobby my local council to implement acceptable public transport into my town
I live in the UK and my town has not got transport that allows mobility for all. No bike lanes (and if they exist they’re just painted on the road), no bus lanes (buses get stuck in the same rush hour traffic and everyone else which doesn’t incentivise people to take them) and these buses are also unreliable and infrequent....
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What item have you been using on a daily basis for the longest amount of time?
Sometimes I will use something and realize I’ve owned it forever. It’s a nice change in our throwaway reality. I think my personal record is a bicycle multi-tool I got for one of my first bikes, ~25 years ago. Still have it, still use it. When it comes to electronic devices I have a Panasonic mini Hi-Fi from ~2005. Never...
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The International Cricket Council has become the latest sports body to ban transgender players from the elite women’s game if they have gone through male puberty....
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realised that maybe other people dont want to just see garfield memes i was posting here and that was kind of clogging it all up so i’ve made a separate garfield comm for that stuff (!garfieldism)
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