trolling or just willfully ignorant?

Heck no, you ain’t a carbrain in my mind if you support transit and bike lanes. I don’t see being a car enthusiast as an inherent fault. And although I was forced to buy a car given the circumstances of my city, I’ve really come to love my little Honda Fit :)

What kills me are the people I talk to seemingly every other day who make the worst excuses for why we “need” another highway lane, or who vehemently oppose bike lanes and city spending on transit despite the fact that these things literally benefit everybody.

I’m doxxing myself a bit here, but this just happened in the last mayoral election in my city (I’m in Canada). Amazing progressive candidate had a solid following but the opposition ran a smear campaign focused on tearing them down over “expensive bike lanes!!!” and how they would cost too much and increase traffic. This is despite the fact that the progressive had a much more airtight financial plan focused on increasing city revenue by improving public transit among other things. It was a wildly successful smear campaign.

Fast forward a bit and the guy that won has been begging the next tiers of government for money and slashing transit. Suburban carbrained NIMBYs don’t care or don’t realise the reality. Bike lanes are the devil to them.

I don’t know about playtime based payment, but maybe % of sales for paid games and paywall generative content in free2play games (with a significant % of purchases for “voice unlocks” going to VAs)