Fare-free transit just makes sense. We want people on the bus or train instead of driving. So it should be the easy choice. No scrounging for cash or filling up a card, just hop on.
It's more sustainable, it reduces traffic deaths and air pollution, and it makes cities more livable to have fewer cars.
And: there's nothing radical about it. We've got free parking frickin' everywhere even though cities' costs to provide clean well-paved asphalt are far from free.
in light of the news today of pawoo.net being acquired by the “web3” ghouls behind mstdn.jp and mastodon.cloud i would like to share fhe following:
“acquisition” of mastodon instances is, in my opinion, antithetical to the foundational basis of decentralised and federated social networks. Far from normal acquisitions where there’s at least “intellectual property” and proprietary software, acquiring an instance running on open-source software can only mean that the users themselves were sold.
"oh but what if they get hurt"
yeah sure, what if, right? what if you choke on your dinner or fall down the stairs on your way to a doctor's appointment? fuck you
It is just so incredibly telling that there is so much "uwu poor bby who needs help and community" concern about racists' mental health and so little for the mental health impacts of racist aggression on Black, Indigenous, and other users. Like, tell me you don't think BIPOC are fully human without saying it.
22, end of a european colonizer bloodline on stolen Wichita land.
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