okay I was using a specific example of an unnecessary app I used in the past week. never used the cemetary app, never had to deal with trying to when im outside of network range. still pretty sure it could be a website.
local elections SHOULD matter, but under the thumb of the government anything good you try to do will be banned. BDS stuff, muni broadband, walkable urbanism, whatever, will be banned at a higher level where it's more cost effective to buy politicians.
you cannot win with electoralism alone. maybe it can be a supporting thing in a broader strategy, but it's worse than useless on its own.
you're saying we should give kids cigarettes? or something like cigarettes? maybe kids don't need to be addicted to things?
if you really need to keep this metaphor going, linux is, like, meditation or cognitive behavioral therapy or having friends, because its generally good for you, and doesn't lock you into a bullshit proprietary ecosystem like tobacco or macs do.
see, the thing about lucerne milk is, if im making a milkshake, and I run out of lucerne milk but have an unopened bag of canadian milk, I can pour in the weird-ass canadian milk (spilling half of it because what kind of freaks put milk in a bag?) and it will work and be fine. because its just a company selling milk. all the milk is just milk. milk, in fact, is interoperable, and open if not free. hell, I can make milk if I really desperately want to.
if I have an apple product, and want to make it work with a non-apple-approved product, im going to have to fight their engineers at every step. fuck, getting them to start using FUCKING TCP/IP was like pulling teeth.
asphalt roads in your climate are not practical. the maintenance is CONSTANT. rails would be much lower maintenance. trains work. they have worked. I've told you where to look for examples, for actual history of this working. you are not more remote than a rural village in fucking siberia. you're not more spread out than pre-industrial mexico. I have told you where to look for examples of better, to correct your idea of history without having to believe me, and you're just here arguing your anachronistic propaganized historical fiction at me.
why are you even here, on fuckcars, if you're just so comitted to them and not willing to imagine better?
yeah living rural is fucking inconvenient sometimes. that's part of the point. honestly, it's part of the charm. so you can't go to walmart on the spur of the moment every second of every day. boofuckinghoo. I survived living rural by having a garden, solar, micro-wind, and bicycle backup. I'd have had a battery instead of a shed of janky capacitors, but it was a while ago and I was poor. what the fuck are you even doing out there without that?
cars are unsustainable. not "difficult to sustain", UNfuckingsustainable. cannot be sustained. every second we try to hold onto this shit costs us, ruins what we get next, robs the next generation by another tiny fraction, steals hours from their lives. even if you were right, which you were not, I'd say you're shit out of luck and your way of life needs to end. it doesn't, because you're wrong, but, like, if you weren't.
edit: oh, and there's an indigenous group running their own railroad somewhere in the ass end of nowhere WAY north of you. i forget if its just one tribe or a little bigger, but this is a rural community who decided to service themselves with trains, and they seem happy with it.
okay so why the shit were they using it perfectly fine a century ago? with overhead wire?
why are there all these abandoned towns and grain elevators and farmland scattered over rural america that no longer works now that the trains can't get there anymore? why the shit did it work for the deepest most remote ass end of nowhere villages in rural mexico during the diaz administration? why did it work for the USSR-of all their fuckups; they did make trains to rural areas work pretty damn well.
you're repeating bullshit auto industry propaganda. trains may service rural areas differently, but they can be served, and they can be served well. we know this because it's been done before on I think three continents. do better.
right but can we still have spiders pop out of the phone of anyone who visits our website on an OS other than iOS? or did they put that off until HTML6?
no but see its fine when they do it. raping children isn't pedophilia, only consenting adults having their bodies do things I don't like is pedophilia.
you better only use industrial lube that gives you cancer, and does terrible things to your tissues because it's meant for those massive german coal mining rigs. FTFY
dunno, but they always do it. ask any woman who dates men and has been single in the past five years.