There is a freekonomic episode about how the easiest way to murder someone in US is to run them with your car. There is a reasonable chance you'll go free. US is so car-centric that it's a dogma that car accidents are unavoidable part of life.

So "for bike lane" seams very reductive.

There is an argument that more people will die because lack of protest like that than during those.

This hypothetically raging lunatic don't disappear when you are alone, trying to survive on the infrastructure build without any consideration that you exist. If he's a danger here, he's a danger there. Where you are alone.

(Also, where I live protest like those are coordinated with police. Why is no one protecting nor serving here?)

With a gentle half-smile: Honestly? It was a blast.

Both of those seems very rational in term of maximazing value.

But that's just inconsistent with the state of of current scientific knowledge.

Being poor makes you less likely to make a long term decision, not the other way around. In societies where income varies from season to season, you literally have less smokers when the money situation is good and more when the situation is bad. Long story short fighting for survival is extremely cognitively tasking. Thinking and planing is, literally, harder if you burned those resources on "what to put on the table... today", problems.

It walks, sounds, smells and looks like a bullshit. I wonder what could it be?

It doesn't. Mostly becouse it doesn't have to. Your online behavior is easier accessible and a better predictor... (pretty bad over-all, but still better. Digital Marketing Bubble is bursting!)

Whaaaaat...?

Are you 100% sure, that you're not the one who's toxic?

One part of the problem, that he's completely missing is that those are are not fairly competing free market prices. Many of those hegemons like Google gain their positions using what basicly is dumping pricess. They are loosing moment or Gmail, Maps, Drive, Gemini (AI), and many more "free or cheep". Competitors are buried, bought on, copied, or starved as they need to.compeat with someone who is willing to burn millions. So many services that are leaders in their fields didn't deliver a single dollar of profit yet. Their literal business plan is "we will take it all back once no one will have a choice anymore"

"Just find a way to compete" is basicly victim blaming at this point.

You're describing my Facebook wall.

If you have this, you should have a sing-along blog as well.

Gold.