Couplqnd

@Couplqnd@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One way I thought of to encourage long form content and high quality, is to limit the number of short form content from users.

  I imagined every week users would be granted 14 comments that are limited to 250 characters and unlimited long form content. You could also grant more short form comments with every long form comment or with every new oc post.

  The only issue would be that long form does not mean high quality and with chatgpt it’ll be easy to create long form posts. Maybe an AI system that evaluates the quality of the post could work but then gaming the system would happen.

  Just a thought I had, the numbers about the length and amount of posts could be optimized or use an AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  More than 20 years, peak car ridership occurred in the 1970s which was close to 80% of urban transportation done by car. That number is now down to 19% of all urban transportation done by car.

  Amsterdam also had backing from the public to transition to bike and public transportation.

  Absolutely we should invest in public transportation! And you are right that cities have decided to create public transportation, and then did! But it took a decade plus to plan, build and implant the new system. That’s also ignoring the millions and billions of dollars needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure! But that’s not a silver bullet.

  Decarbonization is a multi-prong solution and switching everything over to public transportation would take decades. It takes time to create the infrastructure and generations to change minds. Investing in public transportation, bike infrastructure and electrifying our cars are all necessary for our goal to lower green house gasses.

  Perfect is the enemy of good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fishing for math⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I always say this to annoy my math and science friends

  Engineers live in the real world Scientists live in the ideal world And mathematicians… live in their own world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police raid WorldCoin cryptocurrency warehouse in Nairobi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, in 2019 conspiracy theorists We’re advocating to wear a mask to thwart facial recognition software. Now wearing a mask is being part of the world elite!