@nprofile1q... My suspicion is that most of the people who made the decisions that have left the US car-dependent weren't *intentionally* trying to boost cars over all else but simply weren't thinking about the negative externalities. Similarly for the people who devised exclusionary zoning in the suburbs (of course, *some* people did have malicious intentions in pushing this kind of zoning).
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
And that stupidity (a.k.a. "car brains") explains why it's so difficult to dig us out of the hole that we've dug. Especially because almost every incremental step will make things worse before more incremental steps make things better.

[BTW, we won't minimize car usage until we get rid of "Euclidean zoning"]

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... How is "Frisk" different from any other Japanese product with a foreign-ish name? (e.g., Calpis).

@nprofile1q... TIL Saigoku33 (for some reason, I assumed you were going around Asuka). A long time ago, I lived near Fujiidera - in Haji-no-Sato, there's a Tenmungu and some kofun. And I enjoyed walking Yamanobe-no-michi but haven't been there in a long time. :(

@nprofile1q...

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Train+bicycle? (It's been ages since I was last there)

@nprofile1q... I was thinking more about how easily people were fooled into thinking Eliza was more clever than it actually was.

And, separately, about WebVan etc al and the grocery (and restaurant) delivery business 20 years later.

@nprofile1q... And I remember Eliza ...

@nprofile1q... If you dictate speech with Android and say "dot dot dot", then you get something like this... Which requires a fix up (this text dictated on a Pixel 8a phone, with manual fix up of "dot dot dot" where "... " was output)

@nprofile1q... Also true of software (I can provide some examples if you wish)

@nprofile1q...
But what if the "executive order" is that federal employees can only serve people who are wearing their underwear outside their clothing?
Or would this be unconstitutional because it would affect the rest of us's sartorial choices (not that freedom of sartorial choice is anywhere in the Constitution AFAIK, but maybe there's an implied freedom ...)

[Although this is obviously weird, I can think of less weird EOs that have nasty knock-on effects, such as non-citizens can only be served between 8:00 and 8:15]

@Blurry Moon
On the off-chance that you're not a troll: “DEI is not lowering the bar, it is widening the gate.” ... "DEI *raises* the bar, since you have a bigger talent pool ..."
https://hachyderm.io/@aronow/113875619118750711
@nprofile1q...

@npub1sys4g... So, point-free and Peano?

@npub1sys4g...
"Context Manager" or "'with' statement" are the preferred terminology?