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  1. Comment on Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains in ~transport

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    Cars are only cheaper because you don't account for everything. Did you also count the cost of buying the car, the insurance, the maintenance. Did you count the risk to your and your family's...

    Cars are only cheaper because you don't account for everything.
    Did you also count the cost of buying the car, the insurance, the maintenance.
    Did you count the risk to your and your family's lives?
    Did you count the cost to our health system (unless you live in the US, in which case nevermind) having to help trauma victims, as well as cure various illness from various pollutant (tires are a big chunk of the source of microplastic), noise pollution, air pollution.
    Did you count that building roads is expensive, a mostly invisible cost. Sure, we probably need to build some (not all) roads anyway, but using them more does damage them faster. and we could much more cheaply build smaller, less bituminous roads.

    So yeah, this wouldn't be handicaping cars to make them as expensive as trains.
    This would be making drivers pay for the actual cost of driving, instead of making everyone pay for them.

    When something is subsidized long enough, people feel cheated when they eventually need to pay the actual real price...

    3 votes

  2. Comment on Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains in ~transport

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    They are overestimating the difficulty quite a lot IMO, yes it is kind of annoying to have to buy separately 2 tickets when crossing country borders, but it isn't "impossible"... and there are...

    This report exposes a ‘stone age’ system where major operators often fail to even display – let alone sell – available cross-border connections or cheaper competitor fares

    They are overestimating the difficulty quite a lot IMO, yes it is kind of annoying to have to buy separately 2 tickets when crossing country borders, but it isn't "impossible"...
    and there are apps (ex: Trainline) that can do it for you!
    Not an excuse, making train easier is always good, but this might be a non-problem detracting from better solution:
    To encourage Rail over Automobile and Planes, it would be much more effective to apply an eco-tax. Or maybe even just any kind of regular fuel tax in the case of aviation!

    8 votes

  3. Comment on The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for in ~science

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    I wonder if the writer of the recent "the running man" movie adaptation knew about this when they wrote in the "DNA sniffer"...

    I wonder if the writer of the recent "the running man" movie adaptation knew about this when they wrote in the "DNA sniffer"...

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Chimera plantain in ~science

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    Just found this blog post and found it neat, so sharing with you guys. I am NOT the author.

    Just found this blog post and found it neat, so sharing with you guys. I am NOT the author.

    It was a Hoary Plantain (Plantago media) [...] . But this specific specimen was special. One of its leaves was split almost perfectly down the middle: one half a deep, healthy forest green, the other a pale, luminous cream-yellow.

    Early in the leaf’s development, a group of cells lost the ability to produce chlorophyll [...] . In a sectoral chimera, that mutation follows a strict geometric line.

    This kind of variegation isn’t written into the plant’s full genetic blueprint. It’s a local error, a mutation in a specific layer of cells in the growing tissue. The parts of the plant that produce seeds are usually unaffected, which means that any offspring will revert to the standard, fully green form.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on How are we all feeling about piracy these days? in ~movies

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    I very profondly dislike ads. I hate that we as a society tolerate ads in shared public space (side of the road, bus stop, sponsored videos). I would rather all the thing they make possible to...

    I very profondly dislike ads.
    I hate that we as a society tolerate ads in shared public space (side of the road, bus stop, sponsored videos).
    I would rather all the thing they make possible to finance just not exist at all (but really, they would still exist in some other, better way).
    Most circus ads are the most obnoxious as well, with a loud speaker on a car bothering everyone in the street.

    I do think making a circus commercial should entitle us to sneak in.

    I may be wrong, but I am internally consistent.

  7. Comment on Indie Pass, a PC subscription service for indie games to launch on April 13, 2026 in ~games

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    I'd hope they divide each players time by their total (all games) time playing. 1 hour of play time for a dad suscriber who only plays 1 hour a week shouldn't be worth the same as 1 hour of some...

    I'd hope they divide each players time by their total (all games) time playing. 1 hour of play time for a dad suscriber who only plays 1 hour a week shouldn't be worth the same as 1 hour of some no-life playing 10 hours a day.
    But if they do, they I could see this as somewhat fair... even though not perfect.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on How are we all feeling about piracy these days? in ~movies

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    The way I feel about media piracy (here Netflix stands for any and all media companies) is similar to how i feel about performers in the street. Both need to be somewhat present in the public...

    The way I feel about media piracy (here Netflix stands for any and all media companies) is similar to how i feel about performers in the street. Both need to be somewhat present in the public space to be culturally relevant/make you want to see it, and so neither can legitimately paywall you.

    It wouldn't make sense for a street performer to ask for a fee when I cann't help but see them when passing by. Just as it doesn't make sense for Netflix to ask for a fee for viewing the series they made me want to watch through extensive ad campaign.

    Netflix had to pay to provide the show? well the street performer too!

    This would lower the quality/amount of media being produced? I don't mind slightly less quantity but more intentional media. Also, I'm sure there would be way more street performer if they could extract a mandatory fee from any passerby...

    Netflix worked to make it's IP culturally unavoidable, so now the price is they can only monetize merch and physical copies, not sorry.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Why cheap waste management is key to stopping plastic pollution in ~enviro

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    Then I'm pleased to be wrong on that. Third place in activity today! I'm proud of us guys. This post is worth at least as much attention as JKR or LLM post.

    Then I'm pleased to be wrong on that.
    Third place in activity today! I'm proud of us guys.
    This post is worth at least as much attention as JKR or LLM post.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Why cheap waste management is key to stopping plastic pollution in ~enviro

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    Thank you for posting this, I had no idea. Sad this doesn't make it to the top, even on tildes, fact based policy suggestion doesn't drive enough engagement.

    Thank you for posting this, I had no idea.
    Sad this doesn't make it to the top, even on tildes, fact based policy suggestion doesn't drive enough engagement.

    10 votes

  11. Comment on Anticipating a world where LLM use is widespread in ~tech

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    to add to that, pilots don't actually do very much piloting anymore. and the other example, nurse, was very funny to me. I love all nurses but I really wouldn't rate their accuracy as anywhere...

    accuracy of pilots (>99.999%)

    to add to that, pilots don't actually do very much piloting anymore.
    and the other example, nurse, was very funny to me. I love all nurses but I really wouldn't rate their accuracy as anywhere close to 99%. We just don't advertise that to the patient, it would scare them off...

    8 votes

  12. Comment on Anticipating a world where LLM use is widespread in ~tech

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    This blog post ( not mine ) expresses that even assuming LLM do become reliable enough, both side of any dealings will be using them (customer and companies, administration and citizens). As LLM...

    This blog post ( not mine ) expresses that even assuming LLM do become reliable enough, both side of any dealings will be using them (customer and companies, administration and citizens).
    As LLM are choosen to act in favor of their respective user only, this would encourage all dealings to be maximally malicious in a race to the bottom. And using LLM will become necessary for no (or even negative) utility compared to when no LLM existed.
    This sounds somewhat convincing to me, but appart from some "magical" human touch, whatever stopped humans from being maximally malicious so far could very well also apply to our LLM? Couldn't we see some kind of reputation system emerge to be wary of agents working for humans known to employ unusually "malicious" agent?
    I'm hoping to learn some new perspective here.

    6 votes

  14. Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes

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    I don't think snape was racist after he turned. Lily being "one of the good ones" showed him that he was wrong. He had to prentend to still be racist because he was a mole. Why else would he keep...

    I don't think snape was racist after he turned. Lily being "one of the good ones" showed him that he was wrong. He had to prentend to still be racist because he was a mole.
    Why else would he keep it up after her death. In fact there were both possible outcome : voldemort though that snape reverted to racist after her death, while dumbledore trusted that snape had changed. The story showed dumbledore right.
    He does still tend to be genuinely abusive because old habit die hard, and abuse isn't only done by racist. But I think you're being unfair to snape when you make him a racist for playing the role of a racist in order to help the good guys.

    Now, i have to remind myself that snape is a fictional caracter who doesn't need me to defend him...

    From a litterary perspective, yeah, it's a kids book and doesn't deserve all the praise. I do think the age appropriate theme progression with harry's age are well done. Never read hunger game, didn't enjoy the movie, way too many tropes...

    3 votes

  15. Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes

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    I hadn't noticed the rita skeeter thing, but can definitelly see it now that you mention it. Slight pushback on the voldemort is a man in the girl bayhroom hurting girls, i think it's mostly a...

    I hadn't noticed the rita skeeter thing, but can definitelly see it now that you mention it.

    Slight pushback on the voldemort is a man in the girl bayhroom hurting girls, i think it's mostly a coincidence that it parralleles so well with anti-trans talking point... I mean harry and ron spend plenty of time in that bathroom as well...

    1 vote

  16. Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes

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    Oh yes totally, abusive and all, not fantasy setting angel of good, more complex than that. I really like that the bad guy could flip to good. And through the power of love (unrequited and...

    Oh yes totally, abusive and all, not fantasy setting angel of good, more complex than that.
    I really like that the bad guy could flip to good. And through the power of love (unrequited and obsessive, sure, but solid enough to motivate him decades after her death, he didn't revert back to nazi). It's kind of a redemption story.
    And i really didn't expect it when it was revealed, so I guess the whiplash made me like him more.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes

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    Mostly off topic here, but i like to push back on the idea that you cann't live without a car. Many people do, out of necessity, even in the US. So really you feel like you cann't live without the...

    Mostly off topic here, but i like to push back on the idea that you cann't live without a car.
    Many people do, out of necessity, even in the US.
    So really you feel like you cann't live without the convenience of a car, but you could.
    You could move closer to your work, use a bike or bus and rent a car for those exception where you cann't easely do without.

    but there are no bike lanes, or reliable bus network

    Then lobby for one. But if you don't feel scared shitless everyday with your bike on the road, you probably won't be able to summon enough motivation to do so. Democracies's weak spot is that they tend to react to needs instead of anticipating them. Until enough people NEED to take the bus or the bike lane, none will be built.

    So really you can live without a car, with some inconveniences, just like with consuming HP.
    Just to be clear, my point is that you should do without both!
    Ineffective rant over.

    5 votes

  18. Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes

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    Those are valid concerns. Maybe then a weekly topic were we collectively discuss and build concensus on what message we should use and for which topics. Then the first one on the scene can copy...

    Those are valid concerns.

    Maybe then a weekly topic were we collectively discuss and build concensus on what message we should use and for which topics.
    Then the first one on the scene can copy paste the adequate message and we only vote it up if its the genuine agreed upon message.

    If concessus builds toward a right wing troll message, then tildes has allready been lost anyway...

    I just really like the idea of self imposed norms from the community.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes

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    Fandom is being racist about Snape? How? he turns out to be one of the most selfless and competent character in the end. But now people know he is trully one of the good guys from the beginning,...

    Fandom is being racist about Snape? How? he turns out to be one of the most selfless and competent character in the end. But now people know he is trully one of the good guys from the beginning, how can anyone be negative against him?

    3 votes

  20. Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes

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    I really like the idea of a new norm on tildes that the top post is a disclaimer with short summary of problematic association and mitigating strats... I would rather this wasn't automated. First...

    I really like the idea of a new norm on tildes that the top post is a disclaimer with short summary of problematic association and mitigating strats...

    I would rather this wasn't automated. First one on the scene posts it, then everyone votes it to the top.

    This would give us some kind of positive tradition distinguishing us from other forum, and something to work together to maintain, and it doesn't require any work from deimos who i assume has a life too...

    Plus it sounds like the sort of super woke shit that could keep away the ultra far right but in practice be reasonable enough that reasonable right wing could get behind.

    7 votes