The absurdity of the proposal is already in the title, and shows how motonormativity is spread all over the world.
Berlin has a very good public transit system, and a few 30 km/h zones cannot be that bad.
I would love to hear opinions from someone who lives there!
crossposted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/114732266280428499
I can’t speak to Germany specifically, but a lot of people don’t think very much at all. They feel things, and make up words to justify their feelings. (We all do this to some extent, but for some people it seems like that’s the only process running)
Right… and now they have magical eightballs that can justify with plausible sounding strings of words (LLMs) any feeling they might have.
We’re doing great as a species! /s
Alien 1: “The humans appear to be sacrificing their whole species for their god.”
Alien 2: “Which god? Yahweh? Abraham? Krishna?”
Alien 1: “No, it appears to be called ‘Money.’ Even their so-called atheists worship it, perhaps especially so.”