Really need to start taxing wealth, and not just income.

The majority of my time isn't spent writing code; it's reading code, reviewing changes, and thinking about code.

It doesn't actually need to make money at the moment, just drive value for shareholders.

Nothing can justify genocide.

I mean, I wasn't even talking about cottaging, yet you insisted on bringing it into the conversation. You seem to want coverage for specific "edge cases" but I don't think you're open to any actual things that address those.

Solutions that cover a majority of use cases are better anyways. These edge cases are minor problems that aren't relevant to the majority of transportation needs.

Going to a cottage once a year doesn't require you own a car for the whole year.

There's a difference between "I have a cottage that I visit 2 times a year" and "I live in the middle of nowhere and can't possibly survive without a car!!" that a disproportionate number of people claim.

Over 80% of Canadians live in urban areas, yet much more than 20% seem to think they live in such a rural environment that lowering car usage is impossible.

It's all about the right tool for the job. Trams work well for shorter trips, and can be a serious upgrade over buses.

However, there's a bit of a trend in North America to use low-floor trams in somewhat inappropriate places; building expensive tunnels, guideways, and stations in less than appropriate places. Which basically results in a metro, but worse (slower, more uncomfortable for riders, and still often interacts with traffic) for something that still ends up being expensive.

Took me too long to realize that I've always loved transit, but just never had the opportunity to use it

Because they provide very few, if any, actual solutions to the problems created by car-oriented society.

Gild all the 'fuck /u/spez' comments while you still can.

Radial graphs are a bit of a meme where I work as one of the C-suite managers despises them for precisely that reason.