I keep reading this but I never found the source. Is this actually true?

If you’re talking about the OP image, it’s actually inefficient as fuck. The houses depicted there house the same number of people as one or maybe two apartment blocks. And those apartment blocks can then have a bunch of greenery between them.

Being a lazy piece of shit who steals labor from workers is not mutually exclusive with being miserable. In fact I suspect they are interlinked, a lot of rich assholes also seem to be in constant mental anguish even though they don’t do anything useful. This is not to provoke pity for them, rather to clarify that I think a certain amount of labor is required for a person to live a complete and happy life.

They do, definitionally. They perform a service in exchange for a wage. This service is of net-negative use value for the society, but it’s a service nonetheless. Otherwise we could be arguing that people in advertisement or gambling industries don’t perform any labor.

I think the depiction of the landlord is not exactly correct.

Landlords are usually miserable, constantly worried about missing payments and mortgages and property values and blaming apartment dilapidation on the tenant. I’m yet to interact with a happy and fully mentally stable landlord.

Europe is SO small

Depends on what you count as Europe. If you include Turkey, Caucasus and/or the western part of Russia, it is fucking huge (~7500 km drive from Vorkuta to Cabo da Roca). Even if you only count EU countries, it’s still not that small (~5000 km drive north-to-south). And it’s also way denser than the US so there’s more to see overall, you can’t even explore any single country comprehensively in two weeks time (apart from microstates, of course)

Most expensive military in the world, 50x military budget of your enemy

Advantageous position of a surprise backstabbing attack during negotiations

Kills enemy head of state on the first day in his own house

Commits uncountable war crimes

Still loses in just 3 weeks

It takes a special breed of a fucked up system to suck this bad, they can’t even do imperialist forever wars now.

The MIC is redirecting every cent it can toward profits, and so there’s nothing left for the actual military hardware. The pedophiles in charge can barely think anymore and are high on their own AI-generated propaganda. Truly the century of humiliation hallucination for the USA

I also dislike Iran’s political system, but overall the US has killed, maimed, tortured and ruined the lives of many more people then Iran’s government ever could. US is currently the most evil country on this planet, and has been in the running ever since its founding.

But even then, let’s suppose for a second that somehow Iran’s government is more evil. So what? Bombing Tehran city center, destroying mosques and museums, causing an immense ecological disaster by blowing up oil reservoirs, and double-tapping an all-girls school with tomahawks will not help the people of Iran in any way. It made their lives measurably, verifiably worse for generations.

Scratch that, get people to demand and vote for public transit and cycling infrastructure. It’s much cheaper per person than building&recycling batteries for all the EVs, and beefing up the power grid to support the exploding demand. Much better for the environment and society in general too.

It’s hilarious when you neoliberals of lemmy, post on your communist-built platform, raging about communists on our communist instance… just move. I’ll send you the URL, reddit is dying for people to move there. You and SatansMaggotyCumFarts both.

Yes, it is never complete, but you have to compensate for that. Otherwise you kinda end up with a map of openstreetmap coverage quality rather than whatever you were trying to research.

This doesn’t compensate at all for mapping coverage, which makes it really bad data.

The “establishment” democrats are the american conservatives.

Apple maps used to use OSM for many parts of the world, and still uses it in some remote areas. They even have a team of employees being paid to edit/update it: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Apple

Only if the touchscreen also has a fluffy texture.

Fuck AI companies! There is good faith use and then there’s whatever the fuck this is. For some reason apps that are actually useful (OsmAnd, CoMaps, Mapy, …) all figured out how to mirror OSM data on their own servers so that it’s only downloaded once per app once per month or so, and then users never interact with osm.org. Meanwhile a trillion-dollar industry can’t figure this shit out!

I wish there was a way to subscribe to post comments on lemmy - I was looking for something like this myself.

I did none of this, it’s the devs of transitous/bimba who are the amazing ones :)

But I’m glad I could help you find it!

It uses transitous, which seems to have GTFS sources for Australia: https://transitous.org/sources/

The effect is similar. It allows OSM-based software to easily pull in timetables from operators.