95% of people drive because 95% of transportation funding goes to enabling that choice.

People at large are rational and will make rational transportation choices given incentives. The incentives are all aligned towards driving right now because that benefits the auto industry.

You cannot make assertions about how Americans behave, "culturally," based on their transportation choices because these choices are not happening in a vacuum.

Case in point: when Americans visit Disneyland, or NYC, or Amsterdam, they do not typically insist on driving through those places.

You seem to be implying there is something nefarious about how the incentives were created. Yes there has been efforts to push cars over other options and thats well documented but you can't just ignore that part of the incentive naturally leaned towards utilizing the large amount of available land. Its just human nature to use all available resources if they are available to you.

The simple geometry problem of how much space cars take up is arguably the worst now (given tailpipe emissions are on their way out), and there is no solution to that outside of fewer and much smaller cars.

> it's that any cop can access your location history for any reason

This requires the assumption that your location and your car's location are always one and the same.

If you care about your privacy consider leaving the vehicle with tracking numbers on it at home sometimes. It's not just cops that have ALPRs and you cannot prevent this technology from existing.

I’m sorry, is the proposal here that you remove your legally-required number plates and travel that way (in which case Flock’s “vehicle DNA” feature recognition will quickly reidentify you), or that you buy or rent other cars? I guess starting and ending somewhere other than your home?

Or did you have a different mode of travel in mind that compares favorably to wheeled transportation on public streets?

Billions of people all over this planet take trips every day without the use of personal private automobiles.

It's fascinating how, to me, my comment was very clearly "don't use a car if you care about privacy" but that interpretation didn't even occur to you. Car dependency runs deep.

While billions of people do operate without cars (I’m one of them!), I feel like there’s a conditionality kind of constraint here: of the set of people who would normally be operating cars on local US arterial roads—that is, of the set of people whose privacy this technology impacts in the first place—what proportion seem likely (or able) to do whatever privacy-implicated things they need or want to do without said cars?

EVs use more than an average home's entire daily electricity budget to go 50 miles. In an emergency you could run your lights, fridge, and water heater for weeks on an EV battery. It's really not much wear and tear.

Cars are an immensely inefficient platform.

That seems like a use that Ford is already embracing with things like the lightning.

My comment was more in line with using cars as energy storage infrastructure. I think most car owners don’t want to use their car batteries as grid infrastructure.

This assumes there's an army of competent mods in waiting that the admins can tap into, who could take over (without many of the tools the previous mods used) and effectively run some of the largest communities on the internet.

This strikes me as unlikely.

This assumes there isnt an army of unemployed people with a power fetish using reddit willing to lord over top subs that would be brought back by force. Aside from deleting bad words and over the top vulgar opinions in clean subs what does a mod do besides sit around staring at their screen?

what does a software engineer do besides sitting around staring at a screen, typing and googling? anyone can be a reductive ass. not that i think reddit power mods are good but any forum’s moderators do more than that and you’re just being a dick in bad faith

There will be plenty. Guaranteed.

By definition anyone posting/commenting/upvoting right now doesn't support the blackout. I don't think it's fair to say these comments represent the opinions of those communities.

> I don't think it's fair to say these comments represent the opinions of those communities.

The gaming subreddit, relative to other subreddits, is going to be demographically tilted towards the "anti-SJW" types who find collective action intrinsically distaseful regardless of the validity of the cause.

I've noticed that the "anti-SJW" types are inherently opposed to anything that inconveniences them even slightly, no matter how beneficial it is to anyone else (including themselves). If the entire world isn't focused entirely on them they throw a fit.

anti-SJW love collective action like vandalizing stores and bridgading forums.

> the defining trait of a village is that it’s group of people where the average interaction over time is with people you’ve seen before.

This finally made it click for me why I stopped playing online multiplayer games when dedicated servers were abandoned in favor of matchmaking. All the villages were gone.

People have been trying for years to do what you're describing with gaming-centric Android TV boxes.

People don't want to play mobile games on their TV. They want to watch TV while playing mobile games.

Difference being that those are all severely underpowered devices.

If you combine the existing iOS games (some of which are actually kinda impressive visually) with an actually beefy machine that the AAA titles can easily target (shouldn't be that difficult), you have an offering unlike the others.

I've never come across a page on MDN I felt I could contribute to since it's so complete, but if I were to come across out of date docs I absolutely would. I imagine it's similar for a lot of folks.

MDN has some Python tutorials that are of lesser quality than HTML,CSS,JS MDN docs.

Those could use some work.

Just like a parked motorcycle or bicycle right? You can just throw it on your van because it's abandoned.

how long can you park your car somewhere before it is ticketed and eventually tagged as abandoned and towed away? Almost all parking is time limited. Does the company even care about that?

A while, and then its removed by law enforcement, not the general public. "Theft by Government" is wholly different.