🍜

  • 3 Posts
  • 100 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 6th, 2023

help-circle

  • There was a theory somewhere that this is about power play. If you produce Spiderman 245, power shifts away from the director and towards the production company. Less artistic freedom, more money management. If you let the director create their own movie, they are mostly in charge of how things go, movies become more artistic and less focused on money (alone).

    I have nothing to confirm this and don’t remember the source I have that from except “the internet”




  • Business idea: The mouse manufacturers play the middle man in the click economy. Users can add an extra “click safety” package for $3,99/month, which prevents them from clicking on ads/misleading content. “Good” and “ethical” advertisers can get in touch with the “business communication” office of the mouse manufacturers to buy exception deals, because “their ads are okay”





  • The only little concession you get is that you are allowed to host your own data)

    Nah, that’s not even a concession. You just pay for a portion of their server costs at no gain in influence.

    Problem with Masto though is that the technological leadership is really bonkers, hardly anything meaningful happened over the past 2 years with lots of serious issues not getting fixed



  • udon@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldFebruary 20, 1927
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    28 days ago

    Well, let’s put it differently. Cars are not just about going from A to B. Most use people get out of them is storing stuff and moving it without effort, safely. Public transport doesn’t offer that. “Fucking” here stands more for a bunch of stuff that people do otherwise in cars that requires some privacy you don’t get on trains.

    The point is, trains are the minimum tolerable environment for most people, and already not tolerable for others






  • udon@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldFebruary 20, 1927
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    28 days ago

    Meh, I’m not in for comfortable as in “I have two seats for myself”. More like: It’s fucking awesome to drive by bus, because you can sleep (horizontally!), have a meal together, work/have a video call, have sex, store your gym bag, whatever you may come up with. Luxury for the masses at a higher quality than you can do all these things in cars at the moment. That is what I want to see, not the sad future where we all just sit on regular buses like we do now. I think we need to demand higher standards.

    Japan is experimenting with some of those things much more than European countries. The “luxury” type night buses are quite comfortable if you’re not over 1,80m and thus exceptionally tall. Switzerland has panorama trains to enjoy the alps while having a snack with your friends (even if you’re 80+ and can’t hike anymore).

    That, not the village bus that comes once a day, is full of vomit, girls get harrassed and all the other shit



  • udon@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldFebruary 20, 1927
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    29 days ago

    I agree we need fewer cars and more pubic transport, but these comparisons always assume maximum efficiency in bus use and minimum efficiency in car use. What if we only have 3 people on the bus? Maybe people prefer cars to an extent because they are not all crammed up? We need to make buses/trains enjoyable to use for those people who are now using cars (not me, who is already on the train anyway)