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In all fairness, FPTP did create one of the oldest, most successful democracies that ever existed on the planet. Now, I'm not saying it shouldn't be reformed (it should be), but calling it a straight up terrible no good isn't right either

Better question at this point would be 'how many world wars have they seen already?'

YYYY-DD-MM, DD-YYYY-MM, or MM-YYYY-DD

What the actual fuck

'hey man, what date is it today?' 'well it's the 15th of 2023, August'

I'm sure not everyone will agree, but honestly, I kind of stopped caring too much. I've been using Instagram, Google, Android, Apple, and many other service providers for years and none seems to know a lot about me based on the stuff I see being advertised to me.

None of them seem to have figured out what languages I speak (I get a lot of language courses for English and German, but I'm native in both), what my education level is (I get a lot of 'study your bachelor or master here or there or online' despite having two master's degrees), where I really live (lots of British stuff always, but I live out of Europe), or what my hobbies are (lots of mobile games that I wouldn't touch with a stick).

Yeah, it seems they get the basics (I'm male, below 35, I am interested in educational stuff), but that could be anyone... And if I can use their services for tree for them to put me in a category with some 10M others, I'm kinda okay

Sollten wir denn ausführliche Berichterstattung über Malleurlauber haben (die es übrigens gibt, siehe hier)

I'm going to disagree with you here on. The issue with social media, for example tic toc, is that your attention span is reduced to seconds, not even minutes.

The sensory overload is here so large because you have thousands of possible options, with content often only seconds long, requiring no sustained attention. You also have no reason to stay focused on any particular object. If you are not immediately entertained, you can just switch to the next video and see if you like it better, and that's something you start carrying onwards: Don't like the article? Just skip to something else, there are (too) many options.

When we talk about thr work at a pizzaria, we don't talk about seconds (usually), but minutes or even longer - That's nothing unusual for you. Especially 'working and listening for the bell' is probably one of the more natural things for you.

In fact, I would go so far and say that work is probably a counterweight to shortening attention spans because you are forced to concentrate even on am unliked task for longer periods of time.

Ah yes, the fresh news of the day lol

But seems like Lemmy has some issues in general with the sorting algorithm right now, I've seen quite a lot of old stuff in Hot recently

I think freight logistics is another topic though. (Last mile) Deliveries will likely stay on trucks and vans, simply because it isn't feasible to have tracks to everyone's house. Though increased usage of trains would probably still be cheaper and more efficient here.

My point of argument was related to personal travelling (getting to work, buying groceries, ...), as the comment I replied to discussed. Those are activities we could or should probably try to move onto rails or more generally public transport rather than trying to have the same number of cars but just electrified.

Though there might also be regional differences in feasibility. European cities tend to be much more built around public transport and walkable distances, making it much easier to adopt such measures than most of rest of the world (for various reasons).