The word “unironically” also seems to be serving a similar function

Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est

If that happens you can just create an account on another instance and move your data over. Thats the beauty of Lemmy’s federated design

Lemmy will never betray you like this

Is weed still illegal in the US?

Yeah seriously that article paints a really dark picture

This is true. Ontario made online sports gambling legal and now the rest of Canada is inundated with online gambling ads whenever there’s a hockey game, and it’s causing an in increase in the number of people who say they have a gambling problem. In principle though it should be possible to ban the ads while keeping the service legal still

I know Elon Musk has a lot of kids. Are there any other billionaires with a lot of kids?

It’s also legitimately impossible to fully regulate this (besides shutting them down altogether, for which I’m totally on board)

This might just push it to the black market. It’s been pretty hard to shut down online gambling for reasons like this. Of course making illegal will dissuade some users but it won’t stamp it out entirely

18 seems like a crazy high age for this

Is there any difference in the quality of the search results?

How does Startpage compare to DDG?

Meshtastic does seem very cool

What can I, as a regular guy, do to help make this happen?

Makes sense

That makes sense. I can see the hesitation about replacing the lenses of an otherwise healthy eye

though where I grew up it’s very unlikely to see anything close to horizon-distance without being at a beach

It would be interesting to see if people who live im these sorts of areas have higher rates of myopia. I’m not aware of any data that’s been collected on this though

Okay so I guess we’re actually in agreement then

Other countries have done it. The size argument is bullshit, China is able to do it and has equivalent landmass. No excuses. The entire point of trains was to traverse these vast expanses. Trains are what drove the Westward expansion of American society. So arguing that trains can’t handle those distances is absurd.

China has good rail service, but China still uses cars / transport trucks to get to many rural places. Source: I’ve been to rural China. I’m not against trains I just don’t think we can make it the primary means of transportation between rural towns

People used horse and buggy to transport goods between towns.

This is what I’m talking about. How do we do this without cars? I was discussing this with someone else in this thread so I’ll just quote what I said there:

To put things in perspective, Denmark is 42,947km2, and Canada is 9,984,670 km2. That means that you could fit almost 232 and a half Denmarks in Canada. Despite this about half of the population of Canada in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor, which is only 1,150 km-long, and about 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border. That means that the vast majority of Canada is totally rural, and there are often vast distances between towns and First Nations. It is simply not economically feasible to build rail lines to connect all these places, let along sending out regular train services to these places.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for car free infrastructure within towns, but I just don’t see how we can transport goods between rural towns without cars. Willing to have my mind changed tho