jtrek

You'll participate whether or not you desire to. Knowledge will better equip you to engage with the world, good and bad, as it is. But it's your choice. I'm not your professor.

Have you ever been on a train? It sucks, a bus 10000% more, buses fuckin suck so much, I’m sorry for you to hear this in the echo chamber which features ‘fuck cars’.

Have you?

Trains and buses, when funded, are fine. Millions of people take them every day.

I work from home but I used to daily commute by train. Walk to station. Wait a few minutes. Get on. Arrive at destination. I read so many books and finished so many games.

I was curious so I tried to find average sizes in NYC. The Internet is full of slop and I hate it. anyway, I found

Average apartment sizes in NYC in 2026:

Studio: 400–550 sq ft (37–51 m²)
1-bedroom: 600–800 sq ft (56–74 m²)
2-bedroom: 850–1,100 sq ft (79–102 m²)
3-bedroom: 1,100–1,500 sq ft (102–139 m²)

But at least in the city you get a walkable living place with mass transit. Very few goats, however.

Unfortunately, most people who supported Republicans in the past won't learn any real lessons. They'll vote for the same sorts of policies again.

Are you trying to say acclaimed book "Dying of Whiteness" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness ) is invalid because of your personal experiences?

I'm sorry but there's a large body of evidence that many people in the US are deeply racist. Not always in a "wear a hooded costume" overt way, but in more polite and dressed up to look inoffensive ways as well.

You can also read the new Jim Crow and "the color of law".

Do you have the same fear about trains?

Get rid of privately owned cars and you might be on to something. If the state owned a fleet of self driving cars you could rent at the car library, that would probably be better than everyone having their own car they park somewhere most of the time.

Building walkable living spaces with mass transit would be better for more people environmentally, economically, health-wise, socially...

Many people are weirdly helpless about computers. If you've ever tried to help someone with tech, you've probably encountered the

• "it didn't work"
• what did it say?
• I don't know it just didn't work
• but what did the error message say specifically
• I didn't read it

Kind of user.

Recently my lead hypothesis is that many people would rather personally suffer and die if it means that black people have it worse. I read "dying of whiteness" recently, and it's haunting. "It's socialism" is just a coded way of expressing that.

I tip generously at my local bar and in return they sometimes give me free stuff. Got a whole sandwich recently.

It also kind of sucks for labor, and most people labor.

Maybe you produce more good stuff and get paid the same. Feels bad.

More likely you produce more slop infused stuff, and you have the much less enjoyable task of fixing it. Cory doctorow wrote a whole metaphor about that with reverse centaurs.

Interesting. We used the free localstack at a previous job and it kind of sucked. Mostly we were trying to do S3, and it made adding a lot of files kind of painful. Looks like this has better support for "I need to load a bunch of files into S3 when I start working".

Can you map a directory and subfolders to S3 with this, or so you need to make calls to "upload" everything?