Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Wie bij alleen al het idee van duurdere brandstof naar zijn gele hesje grijpt, doet er goed aan zich te verdiepen in de Canada Carbon Rebate. Het geld dat de Canadezen hieraan kwijt zijn wordt op de eenvoudigst mogelijke manier teruggegeven aan de bevolking. https://www.groene.nl/artikel/klimaatbonus?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=mastodon

The task of a healthy publicly owned rail company is this:

To run as many trains as possible, within the financial constraints under which it operates

Note trains. It’s not “transport as many passengers as possible on the fewest number of trains”

That 5am train with a dozen building workers on it, or the last train home in the evening *matter for the trust and reliability of the system*, even if those individual trains make heavy losses and are largely empty

I’m sorry but you shouldn’t be expected to go back to work after vacation, it’s cruel

“Racists around Britain have been emboldened by the racism of Reform and Farage in Parliament and Robinson’s 15,000 strong demo in London.
“Both must be held accountable as they whip up Islamophobia and throw fuel on the fire.
“Anti-racists are now committed to breaking racists’ confidence again and confronting them where they attempt to spread hatred and attack Muslims.”

Anti-fascists to mobilise across Britain as racists expected to cause mayhem this weekend.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/anti-fascists-to-mobilise-across-britain-as-racists-expected-to-cause-mayhem-this-weekend

Damn TIL that not only Half-Life 2's eyes are still considered pretty much the gold standard for character eyes in video games 2 decades later, but also unlike almost every other game instead of using 3D eyeballs they're just almost-flat planes with a shader applied to them that makes them look better than the really 3D stuff

https://cohost.org/joewintergreen/post/3081256-dev-scoops-simulati

And I know this sounds bizarre, but a healthy railway system inevitably will have a bunch of empty or close to empty trains running

You can’t ever precisely match your operations to the demand. You can’t only run peak hours service (if you do people whose plans change can’t rely on the train)

So aiming for an ever higher % of your seats full might help a railway company’s bottom line, but won’t help rail’s modal share - and its modal share that matters, ultimately

The publisher that I was on the verge of signing with told me that they have an immovable policy of "no swearing". Why would I work around arbitrary constraints?

They think I've just declined.

What they have actually done is begin an arc that begins with self-publishing and ends with me creating a publishing house that runs them out of business, just because I can sense the weakness in their organization.

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