The mask will still decrease your initial exposure “load,” which correlates with the severity of your infection. Fewer starter viruses means a less impactful infection (as far as COVID is concerned).

Does Framework sell a laptop with Linux pre-installed or do they only have officially supported distros?

I got a framework, which is built around quality parts, repairability, and upgradeability. Theoretically it’s the last laptop I will ever buy.

Okay. Be stays in the road, but I don’t want to be in the road with him, so we still need that public transit.

They will eventually change the default to “on.”

Can I get numbers on that? Last time I looked up crime rate statistics on rural vs urban I found the opposite, that urban areas have higher crime rate per capita thanks to a number of compounding factors. I still think proper, high density design is better, but those were the numbers I saw.

I love this thing too hell and back. This is exactly what I want in a car/truck.

Lumbar can easily get longer than a truck bed.

Here’s the thing, work takes up like half your day. If you aren’t allowed to be a normal human at work, you’re going to be a miserable person. That being said, a normal person doesn’t ask for a phone number after a few sentences. They at a minimum have a conversation long enough to establish that having a second conversation would actually be an enjoyable experience. That’s probably not gonna happen at a TSA checkpoint and that’s fine.

Yeah it would require a significant redesign of some poorly planned areas.

Man, I guess there’s no point in even trying to improve the system if there’s going to be opposition.

I want Approval Votingand Sequential Proportional Approval Voting, but will support any electoral reform referendum or bill.

I will advocate to replace it when I’m in office and a Democrat, against the protests of some of my co-workers. As the other commenter pointed out, Newsom killed an anti-FPTP bill, but that means there’s enough support in the California legislature to get a bill to his desk.

I hold no illusions that fixing one aspect of this flawed existence will fix all the other aspects of this flawed existence.

Fair fair!

I mean, I want to replace FPTP though. Any kind of proportional system is ideal, but Sequential Proportional Approval Voting is ideal.

Depends on if you get into barefoot style shoes or not.

You would probably have a small flatbed for your business, or rent one from a local, as needed. But it sounds like you have enough need that owning a vehicle would be worth it. I would imagine that, in practice, gaining access to a vehicle would be a business perk, kind of like how a lot of micro businesses will be generous with what they consider to be a business expense for tax purposes. Also, sure, in reality farm equipment would probably be exempt.

Anyway, society is filled with rules and design choices that create winners and losers. Right now, with the current motor vehicle standard, many people gain the convenience of having a car or truck for personal use. But it means we have to spend a lot on roads to carry all the extra traffic, lots of people die in accidents, we’re polluting the air, we’re dumping rubber into the soil and water (from tires), we’re living more sedentary lifestyles, etc. Whenever someone purposes a change to society’s rules, it is very common for people to only think of the current positives and the potential negatives, while ignoring the current negatives and potential positives.

Not that this proposal is ever gonna fucking happen.

The town planning and public transit options would be absurdly different, were private ownership of motor vehicles actually outlawed. The bus stop would be a lot closer. There’d be more buses. There would be dedicated, protected bike lanes that got plowed immediately in the snow. The sidewalks would be plowed by the city. Etc.

The US homesteading is not the standard in a lot of places. Loads of places put all the houses together in a little village and the farmers go out to the fields instead of living isolated at their farm. Also, you have to remember that if we actually did outlaw private motor vehicle ownership, commercial transportation would explode. Much, much smaller towns would have access to regular bus and train schedules. Furthermore, the business landscape would change and your standard stores would again be more accessible in smaller towns.

Would there be some disadvantages? Absolutely. Would there be some advantages? Absolutely.

I consider the advantages to be more than worth it, even in the more trying situations.