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Get fdroid and download newpipe or alternative if you want to keep an app for YouTube without ads.

Alternative web front ends also exist if you are okay with watching videos in a mobile browser. I use an invidious instance, pick one that's close to you here. Other front ends also exist.

Alternative video platforms such as LBRY also exist and I've found a few youtubers I watched on it.

Absolutely take it as an opportunity to reduce your video content consumption. I like the invidious solution because I don't get notifications and it takes a bit more effort to manually open the link in the web client so I tend not to watch videos I'm only half interested in.

Edit: froid => fdroid

But as you said public works are slow. If we build it now, people benefit from the change while we figure out how to improve beyond our current thinking/physical situation. If we wait everyone has to deal with the current issues potentially forever since we should always wait because there will always be a better idea further down the line. Yes it'll never be a perfect solution but its still objectively better than the status quo.

Also yes there my be unforseen issues caused by our implementation but there will be unforseen benefits as well. Is the glass half full or half empty....

There is also semi-related known benefits like in the case of major public works and investment in infrastructure, they are usually pretty good for the economy.

I understand your point that there is no such thing as a magic bullet solution. However you saying that in response to proposing well done cycle infrastructure as a solution is a perfect example of "perfection is the enemy of good".

Apologies if I ended up just listing things you already knew. I think your reply annoyed me as your conclusion that we will know even better 20 years from now while correct can be used as an excuse to wait till we know better. If I have to wait 20 or more years to get pedestrian/bike first infrastructure where i live, when there's plenty of examples of it working elsewhere I'll be fuming.

Hindsight is 20/20 does not make a good argument here. Cars are bad for people, we have the studies and the research.

• they kill a higher number of people than other modes of transport.
• on average car drivers are more unhealthy and die earlier than people who self propel/use public transport
• fumes and particles from cars lower the air quality in cities and are responsible for more deaths than just collisions
• even if you go full electric particles from the tyres released at speed are terrible for people
• car parking is a massive waste of land in city centres
• commerce benefits more from cycle infrastructure than car infrastructure because more people are likely to get off their bike to go in to a shop they didn't intend to go to than car drivers who have to find a parking space

There are definitely more examples of why cars are bad in urban settings. Banning cars in city centres is the very easy solution that would make everyone's lives in the cities better today. It's also not a super crazy solution, cars didn't always occupy space in cities.

Also car drivers are not the majority in cities or even some contries but somehow the whole population is beholden to them.

I mean without researching I know that Tolkien was pro-car and then flipped to really anti car early on (I think either 10s or 20s). There was no doubt others that saw that car infrastructure was bad for society. I think you can probly blame a really strong car lobby for how bad we ended up.

Its's also not that crazy to undo, look at the Netherlands. There is at least one example where they got rid of canals for motorways, realised it was terrible and put the canals back. Amsterdam also was a mess of roads and it only took 20 years to get to what it is today.

Outdated? The things that people are now advocating for are things that used to be commonplace:

• being close to shops, work, and third places
• large areas of inner cities left for public parks
• roads not yet dominated by cars
• majority of people relying on decent affordable/free public transport or walking

I mean the overarching problem being talked about here is not having well planned cities (ie 15 min cities) that provide housing for everyone.

The solution mentioned would absolutely solve or go a long way to solve all the problems mentioned in the meme.

• cost of living - can be solved if its social housing provided by the government and/or assigned by need and/or there is a restriction that the properties can only be owned by individuals.
• traffic - if everything is a walkable or cycleable distance traffic should be alright even with poor public transport. Although if we are trying to right the wrongs of bad urban planning you'd like to think public transport, green spaces, utilities and amenities would be well planned out in this scenario.
• homelessness - homelessness is not directly related to cost of living, its more related to lack of a social safety net and social services. The cost of living rising just exacerbates the issue.

You think Guess is going to let their flagship London store go over some shoplifting?

Spaces do not allow the viewer of code to choose how wide the indents are, this is dictated by the developer.

Most IDEs allow users to customise how many spaces to display tab indents as. Doing so the other way around may cause issues with languages based on whitespaces such as python.

Yeah Ithinks we fundamentally disagree with what hexbear is. I believe it to be a broad left instance, and yes that include tankies. I do not believe tankies make up even close to the majority of hexbear. I also believe that hexbear is the left on Lemmy and to cut ourselves off from them alienates all the leftists(in the anticapitalist meaning) on this instance.

I consider myself an anarchist so i disagree with tankies but I also disagree with equating tankies with fashists. It's a false equivalence that ignores their ideological differences.