Yeah, we definitely need both of those to become viable alternatives. But I’m even more excited about the possibility of a solid state battery E-Bike tbh.

This represents a dramatic improvement if they can get this working. Like improved capacity and charge times are the main thing, but SSBs are also lighter (reducing tire particulate emission,) require less rare metals (like cobalt,) have dramatically reduced fire risk (which is a huge factor for some people,) and have potential applications in other fields (e.g. smartphones and stuff.) It looks like the tech Toyota is going to be using to make these (presumably for way cheaper than everyone else) is hella patented (they’ve gotten OVER 8000 patents since 2020.) They’ll probably still be piloting these things at way too expensive for everyone, but it’ll be interesting to watch this, cause if they can get a fully SSB EV in the price range of a reasonable consumer, that could represent a serious tipping point in the car market.

I am ashamed to say that I didn’t even see that. That’s lithium (or possibly cobalt.)

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Yeah, the main advantage of cars is that they do a lot of things (kinda badly.) We need to do a lot of work to replace cars, and that work definitely doesn’t start with ignoring why cars are so prevalent. We need to empower people through other avenues a lot before most people will switch over.

This has already been posted here I think

Yeah, reducing car usage would be much better for all handicapped people (those who can drive get better traffic.)

They require federal permits for the installations even if its on private property.

In places where the golf is on the edges of cities, absolutely. It just depends on where the course is and what’s surrounding it. Obviously not all courses are in places where all (or even most) uses make sense. I feel there’s a lot of debate here on what exactly the best use to replace golf with would be, and the answer is always that it depends on location and surrounding context. I think the vast majority of us agree that golf is a waste of space, energy, and water, which serves an almost entirely exclusionary function, and all most of us disagree on is what the best use is to replace it.

Since before we use it for other purposes we need to reclaim it from golf, I think almost everyone in this thread agrees on all policies (about this matter) relevant for essentially the entirety of the foreseeable future, which I think sometimes gets lost in this conversation (and others.)

Golf sucks, we should eliminate it. Recycle the land into multiple uses, e.g. housing, green/park space (which it currently isn’t), commercial space, and if the course is located in such a place where it makes sense to put a solar farm (not too close to dense housing), solar. It need not all be one thing. Realistically, this won’t happen in most places without a lot of other stuff happening first. But if we see it, that would be frickin’ awesome. For normal people, just start to de-normalize it as a pass time, disk golf is a good alternative that requires less space and usually coexists with nature.

I see a lot of people saying build up not out, but you still need a place without houses to build denser housing (parking oceans should be place #1). I would keep way more of the green space than they do (and add in some community gardens?), but this might be a good option depending on the surrounding (sub)urban context. Its certainly not a good option for every (or probably most) golf course, but its going to be the best option sometimes.

Yeah, special commercial zoning, if we can’t eliminate restrictions on small businesses in neighborhoods entirely, which should be the end goal. But yeah we desperately need anything we can get.

Yeah, banks aren’t amazing, but from what I’m seen, whatever bs they pull is like the thing least wrong with the American financial system. It at least makes sense.

I just checked that one out, I’ve been trying to limit my social media to only computers, so no apps is almost a plus, at some point I might move my main over to piefed. Mbin seems mostly confusing to me rn.

Thank you so much. This helps a lot.

Ok, yeah, that would be the ideal end point. Such a software would have to be able to process data from all our current softwares, and so far my usage of mbin (which only tries a few things) has been mostly confusing. Making one that works and is usable would be an extreme challenge. I think it will happen eventually, but it’ll be a while. Would be killer though.

I’m new here (the fediverse in general), this is exactly the type of thing I want to see. Everything seems much better here, but its harder to navigate (as in to find stuff appealing to you.) I will be looking through some of this stuff.

I’m trying to set it up so that I don’t create too many different accounts and stuff. Is there a good reason to go make an account on a piefed instance as well as Lemmy? Because it looks like Lemmy and Piefed instances can be federated with each other.