It's attitudes like that let that stop any and every public transport being built.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s86kEUxxak

I don’t understand how you could possibly get that take away from my comment.

Not maintaining existing public transportation and making it dirty, difficult or dangerous to use is what prevents the construction of more. Voters vote against throwing more money into what seems like a lost cause or at least something they wouldn’t use if they had any other option. In the US any class besides the lowest classes typically does so they avoid public transportation and use cars and so it gets worse.

The transportation must be somewhat appealing to the middle class in order for it to be scalable and sustainable from a tax-policy perspective.

I am very pro public transportation! Would love it if ours and the rider behavior on it was held to the same standard as Amsterdam.

Sorry, man. Misread your intent.

Tangetially related but I found it funny ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXy8mQeuObk

>I'm looking for some specific examples of where we've actually consciously, as a collective society, altered the course of technological progress for the greater good

CFC banning to protect the ozone layer.

AI on chess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz5EFsSbQ7U

On the other hand, too many tourists is a thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMYbYuhKFdw

Tokyo trains are the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dKiEY0UOtA

Tell that to the parisians.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp84sRpM1Js

If you missed it ~ https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/

Here's an opinion about bicycling in Paris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI-1YNAmWlk

Paris is changing fast for the better; it's a great video but I feel it's already out-of-date.

But Microsoft says that it's ok: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-com...