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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: March 14th, 2023
  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.nettoFuck Cars@lemmy.world•Every year, Australia spends $714 per person on roads. Just 90 cents goes to walking, wheeling and cycling. English
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    8 days ago

    Yeah but thats not the total cost is it ?They kill 30 a day from transport pollution, vehicular homicide is thousands a year, several more thousand are hospitalised. They health coat alone are enormous and they get away with that for “free”, where as walking leads to lpwer heathcare costa, lower ,.lower raod debays, lower pollution death and better mental health outcomes.

    If you own a car and cycle you’re not getting a reduction, so many cyclists have opportunity costs of insurance and rego for a vehicle they don’t use as much.

    Car Infrastructure costs are more then rego and fuel excise, ao while they pay aomethig they are still subsidised…

    Then we have the whole climate change thing, a tonne of emissions coats about $1200 to remove, that’s not costed in. The enviormental damge from urban sprawl enabaled by cars isnt costed in, whats the habitiat of a Quoll worth exactly ?

    And 100 other costs car drivers dont pay, like tyre and brake dust destroying marine and riparian environments.

    We should be paying people to cycle and making car travel near impossible outside of edge cases.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.nettoTechnology@lemmy.world•Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogynyEnglish
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    28 days ago

    That may be, but you are not all men ? So some have.

    There have been several cases here in Australia where men have been denied access becase they are men and taken it to court… and lost, I suspect that’s sort of what the person posting is referring to. Theres a carve out in the law to allow womens only spaces.

    Now, whether you agree with the ruling of the courts or not, is to some extent ilrrelevant to the discussion (the courts are notionally after all just following the law) because gender equality then isn’t about what’s on the tin and that’s when you get push back.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.nettoTechnology@lemmy.world•Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own AppsEnglish
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    28 days ago

    We are, it’s near ubiquitous. I’d suggest as high as 80% of us. Those folks will still use anything but the store anyway.

    Being generous, most people are overwhelmed with choice … in matters of no inportant (walk down the ceral aisle) , it’s just with matters of importance they are given little choice.

    That said I use Android becase I can sideload, some 50+60% of the apps I use regularly are sideloaded, stand out that aren’t are banking and government. To have that taken off me would be shitty.

    That said, I’m bemused at people that complain of a wall garden but also enable it to occur by being part of sipping at the kool aid.

    My biggest gripe though is governemnt doing it, using Windows, MS Office etc etc and communicating using closed protocols. Maube like Demark and Germany we’ll also move off that toxic shit.