Snapz

You shouldn’t have to defend this, it was clear.

“I need people to point at while others see me point at them. When nobody is here, I’m just pointing at nothing while nobody sees me do it…”

Wikwok is one of them

f-droid.org/…/com.github.terrakok.wikwok.androidA…

I think there is also one just called wikitok, can look later

Start by asking yourself honestly if you need an Instagram replacement or if you really just need a substitute to replace the dopamine you get from a behavior - meaning basically, you probably just want a new infinite scroll for when you feel bored, restless or awkward and need a diversion.

If that’s the case, look at some of the stumbleupon clones or maybe the wiktok kind of tik tok style wrapper for wikipedia type apps. But if you truly need Instagram specifically, the good news is that pixelfed is mostly there, hard part is that you now need to convince many to come use it for it to “feel” full and fun

You seem in good spirits, so not assuming you are a troll, but you realize that the 10 minute estimate instantly doubles because that’s both on and off for each panel. And the people who estimate work at scale never actually do the work, so add at least 5 mins per panel and multiple that by thousands per stretch of track to be regularly maintained.

And all of this ignoring that you now have an order of magnitude more potential failure points for both the panels, the tracks and the trains riding them. All as you assume that every single bolt, bracket and gasket will be properly reinstalled while workers do this mind numbing, repetitive task for days and weeks on end.

As a fun side benefit, the trains of course cannot run during this constant maintenance period.

You know what really effectively ends the the most painful forms of cancer… Death.

Be careful blindly submitting to headlines or titles of papers. Some get tunnel vision on solving one problem, their problem, while ignoring other problems (not my problems) or creating new sub issues from their “solutions”. As others point out, significant problems do still exist here.

Also, you were maybe reading about solar roadways, which would be different than this implementation.

“In 1952, Greenspan met the right-wing novelist and social philosopher Ayn Rand, whose views were to have a profound influence on him.

She called him “the undertaker” because of his liking for dark, sombre suits.

But the young economist came to support her belief that society functions most efficiently when people actively pursue their own self-interests, to the exclusion of the interests of society as a whole.”