Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@benni It's adorable that you think they're that polite.

When you engage with someone in good faith and read responses like "Oh, of course you'd say that, you're on XYZ.server ", it's hard not to get a little defensive. ...and that was a nicer example.

@ZachWeinersmith The only real one I can think of off the top of my head is "Bangor", which I know of in Maine, but there are apparently more of them.

That said, I have a totally unsupported hypothesis that it may have roots in Indian / middle eastern names, which cemented themselves as "foreign sounding" names for the English language sometime between the crusades and the era of the East India Company.

A quick look at Google Maps does appear to show many names ending in "<vowel>r" in those regions.

@jeffowski Back in the day (like, early 20th century), all stores were full service. You'd give your list to the guy at the counter, he'd go through his stock and fill a bag with your goods and ring you up.

By the logic in the OP meme, just walking through the store and filling your cart is "killing jobs". But time moves forward.

Also, maybe we should consider whether these jobs are worth saving. Being a cashier sucks. You're treated like a machine anyway, at best. Let's get rid of all jobs like that and create more careers that are actually fulfilling.

@keeffyg@mastodon.social Unlikely. As I understand it, that increased risk is caused by the impact being above the pedestrian's center of mass. In a normal car, they hit below the center of mass, so the pedestrian just falls on the hood, minimizing injury. With an SUV or truck, the pedestrian is either run over or punted instead.

@helenczerski The issue with cities built around cars is that everything is spread out. You may need to go miles before getting to a main road. (This is more of an issue in the US than the UK for obvious reasons.)
So, even if you add biking infrastructure, the services and places you need to be are too far away.

@gpowerf I'll wait a couple weeks to see how many get frustrated and abandon it before calling that.

The transition isn't as easy as many seem to hope it is.

@CptSuperlative Pretty sure that's one of many features that were excluded to try to prevent the "piling on" behaviour so common in Twitter. It is, for example, why there are no quote toots.

@helenczerski Well, yeah, but that works a lot better in places where the roads descend from ancient footpaths.

But in cities built around cars, it would just be a nightmare.