Hikiru

God, what an idiot. He’s not stealing your bank details, he’s politely asking for them.

I’m considering Hamburg, it’s where my friend lives and I’ve heard it’s a nice city

Companies like TurboTax bribe politicians to not pass laws that would require you be told how much you owe

Another interesting thing about futurama‘s time travel is that instead of going backwards in time, they kept going forward until another Big Bang happened, creating a universe identical to their old one. Then they were able to just keep going forward until they reached when they left

I think this is the first time I’ve seen a mastodon account on lemmy

I was planning on Germany, and I’ve recently met a German friend online which has solidified my choice

Germany is what I’m planning on but you need to have 11,208 euros (if I remember the number correctly) to prove you can support yourself for a visa to study there

I plan on moving there as soon as possible when I graduate high school. Real tired of America

The best long term solution for both nicer cities, happier people, and less environmental damage is to overhaul our infrastructure. Don't build trains in car dependant cities, make the car dependant cities walkable with public transportation that will leave you within a few minutes of your destination. The real reason self driving cars are the "future" is because selling cars has a higher profit margin than train/bus tickets.

Or you could have a train that drops you off either close to your home or close to a bus station that drops off near your home. This would require a walkable city, so it's definitely not as simple as just building tracks and bus stations. The issue is that Americans are so used to car dependent infrastructure, that when they try to imagine what public transport would be like, they think of it in the context of where they live. That's why I think so many are opposed to the idea. It's not an impossible task, it's just that it'd require money and effort, so it probably won't happen.

The more people try to "innovate" transportation the closer it gets to going back to trains. Driverless cars, for efficiency have them communicate with eachother, to accelerate and brake at the same time, for example. That's just less efficient and more expensive trains.

Walkable city doesn't mean no cars allowed