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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • I want to see something that works similar to (the way they claim) YouTube premium works.

    Get a bunch of these journalism sites together and use a single sign on that catches what I actually view and pays out my single $5-10/month rate to the sites that I visit based on proportionality.

    I realize that a privacy-focused community like this isn’t going to love the idea of some company tracking all the news/journalism sites they visit, but it really does seem (to me) like the best way to balance the fact that these journalists deserve to get paid and also the fact that I’m not going to give even $2/month to 20+ different sites, just because I refuse to keep track of all of those.

    I mean I guess there’s always things like Patreon if those sites want to offer a like, $1-2 tier for full access, but they don’t because they think their stuff is worth more.
















  • Yeah, I’m not completely getting this. The article reads as if the study was done just to waste time and really they wanted to propose their “if rideshare is done sustainably” suggestions.

    I live in a place where a car is basically required for normal life. As such, my experience with ride-share services is exclusively when I’m traveling and thus don’t know the area super well. Ride-share rides “replace” a transit ride, yes, but in that it’s theoretically possible to have taken a different option, but does that mean that the public transit option is good or reasonable at that time or place?

    Like, if my party and I have been out drinking for a while and are leaving, could we theoretically walk to a nearby subway station and figure out a couple of changes and get back home? Probably. Is it a lot easier to go “Hey Lyft/Uber please pick us up and drive us home while I wobble drunkenly in the back seat”? Yes. Does this count as a “replaced” ride? If ride-share didn’t exist, I would have had to take the public transit option (which is assuming that normal taxi’s didn’t also exist). If I knew I wouldn’t be able to ride-share home though, is there a serious chance that I would have just not done what I wanted and instead done something else while staying sober so that I could public transit home? Yes, definitely.

    Ride-share to me just opens a new list of possibilities. If I know I’m relying on ride-share and I’m not worried about the cost, the list of things I can do goes up. It gives me more options for my evening. Are we saying here that that’s a problem and that people should feel limited to what they can access via public transit? I mean, fair argument but I don’t agree with it.